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Birding Nanhui, Shanghai, in September 2021

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Being a bit older myself now, I have to point out that young human males usually do not look that good, at least to me. Then, I was not sure whether this was the right thing to do. For example, the main article states that “At Lac de Grand Lieu, W France, birds commute 2–38 km between colony and feeding territories.”

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A Corn Crake in New York State!

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… Have I seen a Corn Crake… maybe in France? No, I’d remember that, I didn’t see that many birds in France. The bird was right there, they said, pointing vaguely north. Instead, I stare at my phone while my brain goes through something like this, “Corn Crake? Is that even possible? Or by a cat!

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Weddings and Birds

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She has lived in Maine, California, France, New York, and currently makes her home in Virginia Beach Always bringing her camera along, Erika is building her life-list by trying to check off at least one new species each week in her field guide. Hopping almost right next to me, I later identified it as the Boat-tailed Grackle !

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The Dry Tortugas – off the Bucket-list

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Now that’s probably the equivalent of humans trying to eat bark to survive. Rose-breasted Grosbeaks flaunted their gaudy colors like topless sunbathers on a beach in the south of France. A fresh westerly wind had grounded a significant biomass of birds and I felt overjoyed at the prospect of exhausted and dying birds.

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Birding in the Blossoms

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She has lived in Maine, California, France, New York, and currently makes her home in Washington, DC. Despite all the people, the birds were incredibly active, rarely shy, and a reminder that natural wonders like the cherry blossoms interact with more than just us humans. I wanted to bird among the blossoms.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556. Early research suggested that “Fragmented distributions and population bottlenecks due to human activities appear to have increased genetic differentiation among populations” (Leberg 1991).

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Come See Birds and…Everything

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For years now, Victor Emanuel Nature Tours has included among its birding excursions a group of tours that acknowledge the breadth of birders’ horizons, taking full advantage of both the natural and the human richness of some of the birdiest destinations on the planet.

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