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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). With regard to their music taste, the research results were inconclusive. ” Full iteration!

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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. Some brief mating scenes from a nature documentary may come to mind, but most people just aren’t exposed to this subject more than that. This is just a small slice of how birds get it done.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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Most scientific research really just proves the obvious. This one seems to wonder about whether eating flies is the right lifestyle choice though. A study on Black-tailed Godwits found that flying against the wind is harder than with the wind. As probably remarked before, most of the work scientists do is to prove what seems obvious.

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