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Birding Balangshan (peak area) in June 2023

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The best female strategy seems to be to mate with as many of the males as possible, as this means more help in feeding the chicks by all the potential fathers (I guess the fathers do not have easy access to paternity tests). They found that the species is diurnal (well, using cameras, would they even have seen nightly activities?),

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Bird Love Week: How They Get It Done

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Within the bird world, so many different strategies and methods of mating and reproduction have evolved, it simply boggles the mind. Greater White-fronted Geese are one of many species that mate for life. This is just a small slice of how birds get it done. Other infamous brood parasites include cowbirds and Old World cuckoos.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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While the species favors forested hills at moderate elevations ( source ), there are no hills at all here at Nanhui, so maybe these individuals are outcasts or just eccentrics. Chestnut-winged Cuckoo: This could be your host species! In the HBW, there are about 40 species with the word “plain” in the species name.

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