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The popstars are back: Paradise Flycatchers in Shanghai

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The Japanese Paradise Flycatcher usually arrives in Shanghai a bit earlier than the Amur one, as it still has to travel on to Japan. Of course, for countries with mostly moderate climates such as the US, China, Japan, or Germany, it is always easier to claim that the winter range is the problem (i.e., not their own).

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Some Hokkaido Winter Passerines

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One website states that only 15% of the birds that hatch make it to become first year breeding adults, 6% make it to the second year, and 3% to the third year. Other species – such as starlings or t**s – stealing the nesting site of Eurasian Nuthatches is one of the major reasons for breeding failure.

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How to find the Ural Owl in Serbia

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The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely seen to the south, only here and there, in the Carpathians (Slovakia/Ukraine/Romania/eastern Serbia) and Dinaric Alps (Croatia/Bosnia/western Serbia). Two years ago I screamed “UralOwlUralOwlUralOwl!!!”

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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According to the HBW, when breeding, male birds do most of the incubation and parenting while females often leave the nest up to one week before the eggs hatch. Where it is not – for example, in Japan – it will have difficulties finding a partner to mate. End of side note. To female readers then: the Pheasant-tailed Jacana.

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Birding Nanhui, Shanghai, in September 2021

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Being a bit older myself now, I have to point out that young human males usually do not look that good, at least to me. Breeding in Northern Japan and wintering in the Phillippines, some seem to take a migratory rest stop (and slight deviation) at the Shanghai coast. A juvenile male. The real thing: an adult male. ” Hm.

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Birding Shanghai in March 2024

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Population, excluding Japan, numbers less than 10,000–25,000 birds, and probably decreasing” Grey Herons flaunt their beauty quite openly (I am still thinking of Gustav Klimt when seeing the patterns on the wings) … … while other birds like Black-crowned Night Herons show their beauty a bit more carefully.

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Birding Nanhui, Shanghai in November 2021

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Humans, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. I have to say that the pattern suits the buntings much better than humans, though, and hopefully, it is also more pleasant for them to wear. This species is listed as vulnerable – similar to the Yellow-breasted Buntings, it is trapped on a large scale.

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