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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

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Europe has one species (Eurasian Spoonbill), the Americas have one (Roseate Spoonbill), Australia two (Royal and Yellow-billed Spoonbill), and Asia has two as well (Eurasian and Black-faced Spoonbill). The benefit for the wasps is that they get to keep a beautiful pet. But this is too interesting a bird not to show.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

and Europe. In some cases, their research suggests that our pets are manipulating us rather than welling up with human-like feeling. The Russians began by breeding a group of foxes according to one simple rule: they would walk up to a cage and put a hand on the bars. Other facilities are operating in the U.S.

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Birding Shanghai in January 2023

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Some of the lazier Common Moorhens apparently try to pass the arduous work of raising their chicks on to other species -a paper describes how Little Bitterns are utilized as surrogate parents. However, the authors call this a “new breeding tactic”, which seems to mix up the discovery of the tactic with the use of the tactic.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

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I am not sure about the security situation in Iraq these days but at least some people do ornithological research there – resulting in papers such as one titled “Breeding observations of the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines , 1789) in Iraq” Impressive. Fortunately, they are quite common in Shanghai.

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