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More Birds Than Bullets: a book review

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As McMullan tells it, birding goes pretty well with the military lifestyle, at least for himself and a select few others. More Birds Than Bullets: My Life With Birds is his account of the centrality of birds in all of these endeavors, and in his life.

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Fancy Pigeon Blues

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Introduced as they are over much of their range, they’ve nevertheless become a crucial part of the urban ecosystem, recycling discarded french fries into tasty meals for falcons in a way that surpasses human ingenuity (although there are few stats on the rate of clogged arteries among the falcons in question.).

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Birding Singapore

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For once, eBird gives a good description of the Asian Glossy Starling, calling it a “Fierce-looking, large songbird” As are humans, this species is fairly urbanized – it “sometimes enters urban areas to roost, e.g. in Singapore” (HBW).

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Birding Wawushan, Sichuan

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The authors speculate that “human disturbance (i.e. And for many of them, it worked- they rehabilitated themselves, adapted, and gave up some of their grandiose postures and lazy lifestyle as well as their aristocratic black-and-white appearance. A paper on breeding of the species was actually researched right here at Wawushan.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. Among humans, there is a tendency to dress very young humans up in the most colorful way possible. Humanity is not very human.

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The Most Interesting Gull in the World

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And what about lifestyle? Gulls are generalists, as a group, and unfortunately that does not get a lot of respect from humans, even though we’re the greatest generalists of all. The Swallow-tailed Gull aforementioned has that edgy look, with its red eye-liner and eccentric bill.

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Birding Balangshan (peak area) in June 2023

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If such human food is not available, the Yellow-billed Chough goes back to its original diet of (at least in Europe) grasshoppers, as described here. 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.

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