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Finding Dippers in Berlin

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This special place in a birder’s heart or on a list of best birds of the year certainly pertains not only to their extravagant lifestyle but also to the fact that most birders – particularly visiting birders – often struggle with finding them. Any dipper, any continent, any birder. Ridiculous really, but there you go.

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Birding Balangshan (peak area) in June 2023

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Being lazy, a bunch of researchers used camera traps to investigate the species rather than following the birds directly (which would have had some health benefits). 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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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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If the animal then touches or investigates the mark, it is taken as an indication that the animal perceives the reflected image as an image of itself, rather than of another animal. Interestingly, Black-winged Stilts display laterality – that is, they preferentially use one eye (the right one) to find prey.

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