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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

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Tianmashan bonus mammal: a Raccoon Dog – though it looks a lot like a raccoon, it is actually more closely related to foxes than to raccoons. Pat Fish was the creative force behind a band called Jazz Butcher – he died in October last year. The White’s Thrush will keep pretending to be a reptile.

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When Feeding Birds Runs Amuck

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Granted, the law is written poorly, but the man was given several warnings and insisted on feeding birds on the ground and attracted huge flocks of ducks and no doubt raccoons at night.