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Flights of Passage: a book review

10,000 Birds

Only recently was it discovered that one group, which breeds on the Shetland Islands, flies across the Atlantic to winter off the coast of Ecuador – ten thousand miles away from its cousins who breed in Scandanavia and western Russia.

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Birding Balangshan (peak area) in June 2023

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But fortunately, they make no efforts to restrict the lifestyle of the accentors, ban their books, or prevent them from educating their chicks about sex. Being monogamous, this large rosefinch presumably frowns on the polygynandrous Alpine Accentors living at the same altitude.

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