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Birding Shanghai in January 2023

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A paper starts as follows: “Dongtan (or East Tideland) on Chongming Island in China is an important wintering site of Grus monacha ( hooded crane )” This is exactly where these photos were taken. But I may well be wrong. The global population of the Hooded Crane is about 8000 individuals – it is listed as Vulnerable.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

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was responsible for maintaining the universe, judging the dead, and for writing and science ( source ). Nice to encounter a quail that is not as shy as the ones here in China! The Sacred Ibis was seen as the incarnation of the god Thoth, who (with gods apparently better at multitasking than humans) was (or maybe still is, who knows?)

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Technically, I Graduated

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contributors include schools from Australia, Japan, France, England, India, China and more. My opinion (not this publication’s) is that this is old and outdated as a topic for school, including all the focus in high school (one-third of the reading portion of the ACT test is on poetry). Outside the U.S.,

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Birding Balangshan (peak area) in June 2023

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The best female strategy seems to be to mate with as many of the males as possible, as this means more help in feeding the chicks by all the potential fathers (I guess the fathers do not have easy access to paternity tests). Being a management consultant, I am well-versed in the science and art of b *g. ” Full iteration!

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The Golden Pheasant

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I guess in China, there is always money for research related to Giant Pandas. Those readers with slightly morbid interests might want to seek out a paper in the Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences describing the case of heavy mixed infection of Golden Pheasants by Heterakis isolonche and H. gallinarum ( source ).

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