Asia Breeding Research 
10,000 Birds
APRIL 1, 2024
in northeast Asia.” It seems to be impressed by the species: “The Verditer Flycatcher ( Eumyias thalassinus ) is a strikingly beautiful bird found in South Asia.” ” While range-restricted, it is apparently common on Ryukyu Island – but a rare sight here in Shanghai.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2016
It’s a bang-up breeding year for super-endangered birds! The species, which migrates from the Russian Arctic to Southeast Asia, is down to about 200 breeding pairs in the wild, due to habitat loss and poaching. For the past several years, getting the birds to breed has been an exercise in futility.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2022
Around this time of the year, the first few waders are back in Shanghai from their breeding grounds far further up north. Generally, being back here early is not a very good sign – it may indicate a failed breeding attempt, as suggested for Asian Dowitchers in a paper on their presence in Lianyungang somewhat further north of Shanghai.
10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2015
I’ll start off by naming the univerally accepted species, the House Sparrow propper Passer domesticus , the Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus and the ill-named Spanish Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis , which occurs from Spain all the way to central Asia and is rather difficult to find in the former.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2015
Recent research however has shown it to be more closely linked to Ardea -herons. You see, the Great (White) Heron/Egret is a polytypic species with four subspecies: alba in Europe, egretta in the Americas, melanorhynchos in Africa, and modesta in Asia and Oceania. But we’re far from done with the confusion.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
Most readers here will be familiar with the plight of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper , a critically endangered wader that nests on the Russian tundra and winters in Southeast Asia. One of the great difficulties with a captive breeding program is how to avoid making things worse. Also, there’s a bear!)
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2022
” Fortunately, most of these researchers could be taken off their antidepressants after proper sound recording was invented. ” As well as in Southeast Asia, there are also Spotted Laughingthrushes (photos taken at Longcanggou and Wolongshan, Sichuan) at the San Diego Zoo.
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