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Birding the Eshowe area, South Africa

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At vulture family gatherings, it is always a bit of a bother for the organizers to cater to the needs of the Palm Nut Vulture. There are actually much nicer photos of the Purple-crested Turaco in another blog post of mine, Birding Mkuze. But the text was last updated in 2015 while the DNA research was done in 2018.

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The Birds That Audubon Missed: A Book Review

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Their discoveries, writings, art, and lives are woven in and out of chapters focused on bird families (thrushes, shorebirds, warblers), places (Florida, Texas), significant points in North American ornithological history (Wilson versus Audubon in Philadelphia), and the big topics of taxonomy and conservation.

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Birding Ruili, Yunnan

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Perhaps the middle section of blog posts should be relatively boring in order to get rid of the more casual readers. For some reason, the Mandarin Chinese name of the Scarlet Minivet translates as “Red Mountain Pepper Bird” I do hope a Chinese reader of this blog can explain the origin or meaning of this name.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 3)

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This post starts like every birding blog post should start – by showcasing some bulbul species. According to the highly successful book ” 7 Habits of Highly Successful Birding Blog Post Writers”, only about 50% of birding blog posts should start with bulbuls). Yes, I am joking.

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eBird and Urban Planning: City Green Spaces

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Birders who submit their checklists to eBird likely know that their data may be used to conduct research on avian migration, range, or population. It has also been used by researchers from other fields, such as economists. I emailed the Dr. Lopez and asked about this research and the use of eBird data.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

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The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. And of course, on a rather rare occasion for this blog, an almost perfect link to the next bird (my favorite transition is still the Monty Python one: “And now for something completely different”).

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Not enough Woodpeckers

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The HBW entry for the Downy Woodpecker (Reno, USA) illustrates a common phenomenon – apparently, the more a species is known, the more subjects for further research pop up. The main point of having self-imposed rules when writing a blog is to break them whenever desired. Kind of like a diesel version.