10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2023

If you are thinking of studying ornithology because you – like me – enjoy the beauty of birds such as this Streak-breasted Scimitar-Babbler , take a look at the titles of three relatively recent papers on the species: Unravelling mitochondrial capture of the Streak ?

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Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2010

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2012

A songbird was found on a flight between Taiwan and Los Angeles and authorities believed it escaped from the custody of someone trying to smuggle it. The bird was not identified to species, which is kind of frustrating.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2023

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.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2011

It was rather nice to get a report about 10 days later of one of those Great Knot feeding on a mudflat in Taiwan! We recorded a lot of individually marked birds that afternoon and had two flocks of Great Knot head off on their northward migration.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2016

The Collared Finchbill is found quite commonly in Taiwan, N Indochina and S China, but being present in Beijing would extend its range by over 450 miles to the north and eBird were keen to get some additional details when I tried to submit the sighting.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2015

I had only just written about the observation of a Little Tern flagged in Taiwan last week when another flagged bird from overseas placed itself in our path! The Little Tern was also blue and white flags, but it was a white flag above a blue flag on the left tarsus and that indicates it has been flagged in Taiwan.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

I have taken refuge on the high ground as Irene batters the east coast of North America and Nanmadol swamps the Philipines, Taiwan and east China, but my thoughts and best wishes are with anyone who has been affected by the storms.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The bird “spent five months on Mindoro Island in the Philippines during the non-breeding season and migrated through Taiwan, the Chinese east coast, and the Korean peninsula” and on to the Russian Far East (indicating a certain lack of solidarity with Ukraine). This is the dark blue adult male (also shown on top of this post).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Apparently, this is part of a broader trend – it has also been observed in Taiwan ( source ). The Black-winged Kite has (at least in my impression) become more frequent in Shanghai in the past few years.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

A throat swab sent to the Taiwan Centres For Disease Control helped scientists identify H6N1, a subtype of avian flu that has been spreading in chickens. Earlier this spring, the Taiwanese woman came to the hospital with flu-like symptoms and a shortness of breath.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 13, 2009

Bark Busters has grown into the largest and most trusted dog training company in the world with trained therapists helping dogs in Australia, the United States, New Zealand, France, Belgium, the UK, Japan, Israel, Taiwan and Canada. The company’s Canadian website is www.barkbusters.ca.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A study found that for Plain Prinia , egg characteristics in a mainland China location with many cuckoos make it much easier to spot cuckoo eggs than in a Taiwan location with few cuckoos ( source ). For those who think evolution is a wrong theory, these differences may well have been created by god.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2016

In fact we are still observing our Grey-tailed Tattler that was flagged in Taiwan on 4th August 2012 and returns to Broome each year in the non-breeding season! Grey-tailed Tattler are the species that we observe lying on the wet sand after the tide has turned more than any other species and most often at the back of the flock!

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

A fine example of site faithfulness in shorebirds can be shown by the Grey-tailed Tattler “35” that was flagged in Taiwan in August 2012 and has returned to our local beach during the non-breeding season for five years now.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

We have seen most of the individually marked birds that have been seen in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China this year back in Broome, so that is encouraging to both us and the overseas observer. We get reports from overseas of our individually marked birds heading our way, but basically they are just suddenly back!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

I have observed a Greater Sand Plover carrying flags from Taiwan and a Red-necked Stint marked in the Bohai region of China and they have flown a long way to be with me on a beach in Broome. The majority of the shorebirds are Greater Sand Plovers , but among them are Red-necked Stints, Sanderling and even Oriental Plover on hotter days.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2012

The rest of the birds had been marked locally, but we still took down the details as the next time they are observed may well be in Taiwan, China or Korea. We scanned through the flock thoroughly looking for individually marked birds and we had a Red-necked Stint that had been flagged and banded/ringed in Bohai Bay, China.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2014

In Taiwan there are also migratory shorebirds passing through and they also upload photographs of individually marked birds on their website and detail the history of the birds. Everyone is encouraged to report any of the migratory shorebirds that they observe that are carrying individual markings onto a website. Eastern Curlew.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2014

I also have a Grey-tailed Tattler that visits us and was marked with a plain white and an engraved blue flag “35″ in Taiwan in August 2012. It has about 25% of its breeding plumage now and will soon head off once again and we will eagerly await its return later this year.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

They bred on a number of islands near Japan and Taiwan, and ranged widely and abundantly from the Aleutian Islands south through California. They are often present on Laysan Island and Kure Atoll as well; a female-female pair on Kure Atoll have yet to involve a male in nesting activities.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2016

The shorebirds need to consume as much as they can before they set off north with their next stop likely to be several days later in Taiwan or China. They feed ferociously and running as they get caught out by the occasional wave.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea in future weeks.I It was a great experience. And, Donna, no, there were a couple non-birders there who were really taken in by the spectacle. Autumn colours Mar 20th, 2011 at 7:01 am [.] really can not compete with Corey and all his great photos of ducks, so here is a photo of my favourite duck door stop!How

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

I am currently busy entering data on a voluntary basis for about 3500 shorebirds, so everything is up to date when I get reports of these birds in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea in future weeks. One highlight was 276 White-winged Black Terns being individually marked in one catch as so little is known about their migration.

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