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Birding Shanghai in August 2023

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It looks at factors determining the presence of Black-winged Kites on Taiwan, where the species is a new resident. When looking for papers on bird species, it is always a thrill to find very recent ones – a paper on the Black-winged Kite was just published in May 2023. You figure it out yourself.

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Back to the beach!

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They have only once successfully raise a chick on Cable Beach in the territory they have chosen and that was incredible to follow the fast progress of a small feathery bundle to a flying juvenile. They don’t usually maintain their territory outside of breeding season and they have never successfully raised a chick yet.

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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

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In contrast, the females need to make sure not to get duped into raising actual cuckoos – the buntings are a targeted host species ( source ). A challenge for the males is getting cuckolded by members of the same species – which required strenuous mate-guarding ( source ).

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Comebackers

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They bred on a number of islands near Japan and Taiwan, and ranged widely and abundantly from the Aleutian Islands south through California. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. We must fight to save every species we can, every ecosystem, every niche.

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