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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

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Then we are both hopeless … Anyway, the paper tests whether small roads in a forest are a hindrance to birds – are they reluctant to cross? malayana had been collected. not because of the waiting time as the study does not actually involve tiny traffic lights, unfortunately). hardwickii and C.

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A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

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In the former, a female lays her fertilized egg in the nest of another species, in the hopes that her offspring will be raised by the unwitting hosts. The authors tested the idea that brood parisites benefit, in terms of fitness, by targeting species with the helper-at-the-nest strategy. They looked at fairy-wrens and cuckoos.

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Best* Bird Books, Binoculars, Bottles** of Booze, and Backpacks of the Bygone Year

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We review what the publishers, distillers, or manufacturers send us, or what catches our collective eye, or what we have time for. “I don’t know anyone else crazy enough to try 12s,” Dragan’s friend said when he was told that Dragan was about to test the Swarovski NL Pure 12×42 binoculars. Donna). ==.

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