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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 1

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According to the HBW, food brought by Siberian Blue Robins to nestlings in Japan was 36% adult insects, 28% insect larvae, 18% spiders, and 18% unidentified (I suspect the last mostly being unhealthy fast food with the discriminating labels ripped off). People who love moths may want to refrain from watching it though.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

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Tianmashan bonus mammal: a Raccoon Dog – though it looks a lot like a raccoon, it is actually more closely related to foxes than to raccoons. Like fast food, but free and likely more healthy. The White’s Thrush will keep pretending to be a reptile. The non-goth version of the spoonbills is called Eurasian Spoonbill.

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The Kerkini Lake, Greece: Dipped One, Got One

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The next morning is for the Kerkini Lake, one of the youngest national parks of Greece, protected only ten years ago, in 2006 and inhabited by 11 amphibian, 27 reptilian, 44 mammal and 312 bird species. Eurasian Spoonbills are foraging, some of them literally running through the water chasing some fast food.

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