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Birding Nanhui, Shanghai in October 2021

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Oriental Scops Owls are quite possibly my favorite bird at Nanhui. in psychology from the University of Buffalo. Chinese Grey Shrike is now monotypic as the larger, much darker Tibetan Plateau species Giant Shrike has been split off. Bird-shaped cuteness. Of course, this would probably get me a telling off from Mark J.

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Happy New Year?

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There are also certain psychological advantages. Most of the birders in the audience for this blog, and certainly those who record their year lists here , use the Gregorian calendar. It is common and widely recognized and for those very reasons, to most of us it just feels right.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors – A Book Review

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I’m not going to try to explain why people are fascinated by hawks; human-to-avian psychology is not my specialty. A quick comparison of how raptor species are depicted in Eastern Birds as compared to the photographic images in Raptors shows that each title has unique images. It’s a Bald Eagle, a hawk.