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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan (again)

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’ The Beautiful Sibia is beautiful even in Mandarin Chinese (Li se qi mei, “Beautiful babbler”) … … and of course in science (scientific name pulchella , “little beautiful”). I am not sure how many tourists this pool attracts, but it certainly attracts a Tawny Fish Owl.

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Birding Shanghai in January 2023

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My standard joke – that nobody ever seems to find funny – when being asked if I am interested in fishing is to answer that I do not fish because I would be too afraid of catching a fish). There actually is a study on the effect of wind farms on Chongming Dongtan (where these photos were taken) on Little Egrets.

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Serbia self-drive birding tour planning

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He enjoys combining his passion for birds with computer science background to model nocturnal bird migration. The mapping exercise works particularly well with birds confined to a specific habitat (Baranda fish farm S49396968 and Pecena slatina S49396887 ). A Moustached Warbler at Baranda fish farm ( S49396968 ).

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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

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Pel’s Fishing Owl, where were you? The Black Heron – besides looking rather cool, though not really very black – also has an interesting fishing technique. In a 1946 paper , it is called “under-wing fishing”, while nowadays the term “canopy fishing” seems to be preferred.

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Collaborative List – November 2019

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African Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus vocifer. McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm. McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm. McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm. McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. 26 Nov 2019. 26 Nov 2019.

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Where to watch shorebirds around Belgrade, Serbia

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Quarter of a century later, I jumped at an opportunity to study environmental sciences, and guess what awaited me there? Technically, it is a part of the Baranda fish farm, but being a complex of nowadays brackish oxbow lakes, they are not used for carp production and the access is not restricted. But I made it, nevertheless.

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Use it or lose it?

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I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. It is easy to make the argument that one, extractive (hunting, logging, fishing) is bad and the other (birding, diving, hiking) is good, but to my mind this simplistic black and white view point is completely wrong.

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