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Birding Shanghai in October 2023

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If you want to pretend to combine learning Mandarin and learning about this species, watch this video. The Grey Nightjar is not really affected by real estate prices (always an important topic in China) as it does not build a nest – the eggs are simply laid on leaf litter or bare ground. How exciting.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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Ackerman surrounds each individual story with background facts and studies on other birds who mimic, play, parasitize nests, engage in complex cognitive routines, parent in unusual ways–presenting a complex mosaic of avian behaviors amongst bird families and the scientific histories of trying to understand them.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

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videos (see Birding Hongbenghe part 1 to understand this obscure and not very good joke). Unfortunately, juvenile White-hooded Babblers do not look cool and hedonistic enough yet, so they are usually excluded from these videos. They have strong legs and are quite terrestrial.

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