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Birding Inner Mongolia

10,000 Birds

A bit reminiscent of the fable of the hare and hedgehog, with me as the hare (I guess) due to my use of planes etc., In other words, a hedgehog should always take care that his wife is also a hedgehog, and so forth.” This applies even more so to the Eurasian Tree Sparrow. Always nice, for some reason.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

But hedgehogs? The first to do so was the humble House Sparrow, which was brought to help control caterpillars but soon reached such numbers it was the subject of control itself. What is surprising is quite how many species did end up here, and how economically unimportant they were. Greenfinches? What exactly was going on.