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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

10,000 Birds

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. However, they sometimes claim to be the national bird of Germany due to their black-red-yellow color combination – this is not true. So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks. Nest building: a good activity for a rainy day.

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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

10,000 Birds

In contrast, the females need to make sure not to get duped into raising actual cuckoos – the buntings are a targeted host species ( source ). As it is critically endangered (there are only about 100 left), I think it can be forgiven for killing the occasional Pale Thrush (which is listed as Least Concern).

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. The Russians began by breeding a group of foxes according to one simple rule: they would walk up to a cage and put a hand on the bars. Others lashed out and were killed. Ones that came up to the scientists did.

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