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Birding Shanghai in June 2024

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This Large-billed Crow seems to be chewing on some “unknown mystery bone” (The Burning Hell, “Amateur Rappers” ) – maybe a rabbit? A Light-vented Bulbul collecting nest building material – or is it for nest renovation already? The Amur Paradise Flycatcher is another species breeding in Shanghai.

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Songbird-parrot link strengthened in new study, with implications for vocal learning

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Now, you collect the nine pieces of paper from the last generation of copiers. Person 3, however, adds a word somewhere in the page and then passes it on to three other people. You will be able to tell who copied from Person 3 because their papers will contain the inserted element.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales. As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.

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Durban Botanical Gardens

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As well as being an excellent location to try the local variants of curry (bunny chow is not a curry with rabbit but a curry served in a hollowed out bread loaf – better than it sounds) it’s a good place to pick up a few coastal species. A Grosbeak Weaver collecting nesting material. Some young Egyptian Geese.

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Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

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I took home a few of the pellets and found that the owls were feasting on grey squirrels and cottontail rabbits. He’s one of the managers of the specimen collection and loves a good dead bird mystery. He asked to take the pellet downstairs to do some comparisons to the collections.

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Quintas das Arcas: Bicudo Vinho Verde (2017)

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Tolkien’s The Hobbit , the cantankerous Tawny Owl ( Strix aluco ) Old Brown from the Peter Rabbit tales by Beatrix Potter, and Kehaar, a Black-headed Gull ( Chroicocephalus ridibundus ) who was one of the few non-leporine characters in Watership Down by Richard Adams. I remember the talking (Song?) It all seemed too fantastical to be true.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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It is a book with a careful infrastructure, however (even though it doesn’t have an index), with references to one section from another, enabling the curious reader to go down structured rabbit holes, pursuing information on nesting or skeletal systems or feather structure throughout the book. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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