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AUGUST 5, 2024

Still, due to the unofficial and cruel rules of a heartless blog editor (a German, of course), I have to write a post about birding Shanghai this month. July is the least interesting month for birding in Shanghai – it is too hot, and there is pretty much no migration. Just remember that this does not mean you actually… Source

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Of course, there was conventional classroom time spent on topics such as mechanics of flight, metabolism, digestion, nest building, egg production, and so forth. And, of course, many colleges and universities have undergraduate and graduate level ornithology courses. But once a week, they were “out the door by 8:05 a.m.

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JANUARY 13, 2024

While I have visited a few birding sites around the Netherlands during the course of my Bachelor studies, I did not go birding a lot around the city where I lived, Maastricht. After continuing to cycle to the southern edge, I finally picked out the Great Northern Diver after a long search.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2021

We have had some very strong winds recently and there may well be other bird species blown off course, so we will have to keep an eye out! A few days later another individual Orange Chat showed up, which was female or immature at a nearby ephemeral lake.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

There are of course a few more which I intend to get to in due course. There is a recurring theme of threes within the multitude of bird species in T&T, you can see for yourself in some previous posts I made. We have three each of hermits , antshrikes , resident warblers , manakins , trogons , and spinetails.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Of course, this would probably get me a telling off from Mark J. Population conjectured to have been in the order of 100 million birds in 1980s” The reason, of course, is the usual one: human beings. Bye-bye, Yellow-breasted Bunting … Common birds can also be very beautiful, of course. Bird-shaped cuteness.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

Of course, it should include an offer to join the ABA, perhaps at a discounted rate. Of course, anything that resonates with more birders is good, as the ABA needs additional members to address its financial problems. Such articles are fine, of course, but not at the expense of all content for beginning and intermediate birders.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Of course, you can just recklessly say that you like music – but that would be foolish and almost guarantees you will have to listen to a mix of local folk music (preferably modernized by some electropop elements) and Celine Dion. I am not sure there is a good answer to the question above. Indeed, I fared a bit better this time.

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APRIL 17, 2022

You’ll note the sky was still pretty dull, but of course it was still around 30c. Of course he continues to put up excellent photos of birds despite being in lockdown and for that we are all grateful. Brahminy Kite on streetlight. The pair of Brahminy Kite in the header photo were photographed a couple of hours later close by.

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JUNE 8, 2021

Of course, there are many other possible definitions of “ birder ” so accurately estimating the overall number is more art than science. Of course, this information is not perfect. Of course, eBird is now ubiquitous in birding and some fraction of all birders are eBirders.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Over the course of the morning, I would see multiple Berylline Hummingbirds (shown above), Mexican Violetears , and Blue-throated Mountain Gems , and a newly arrived migratory Allen’s (or, just maybe, Rufous ) Hummingbird. Of course, not everything interesting is a bird.

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But of course, this means to look at the question from a general, not a birder-specific perspective. How to answer this question from a birder’s perspective? My hunch is that most birders are more on the introversion side of the whole spectrum, though I am sure there are many exceptions to this (hello Peter!).

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Of course, that means that the birds I saw on September 30 are now somewhere in blogpost limbo, not having appeared in the September post but also not legitimately belonging in the October one. Of course, the female is even more subdued-looking. The male, of course, I am afraid. How exciting.

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JULY 8, 2021

Tianmushan is a mountain in Zhejiang province – not very high at about 1500 meters, but of course offering very different birds from flat Shanghai (where confusingly, the highest mountain with a height of 100 meters is named Tianmashan – the difference between the a and the u is one of 1400 meters in height.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Mexican Whip-poor-wills , of course, have a Spanish accent! (As As, of course, are Vermilion Flycatchers. Fortunately, I knew that Cuerporruín is the local name for the Mexican Whip-poor-will. In fact, it is a perfect name, since this species has a clearly rolled “r” sound in the middle of its call.

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

Corey spent his weekend upstate visiting his folks, picking apples, and, of course, looking for birds. My weekend was actually pretty slow from a wildlife appreciation angle, but the bare husks of coneflowers in my garden are still drawing curious American Goldfinches.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Of course, the events are geared to professional ornithologists, so the material can be technical and assume a background in the subject. But I also dabbled in topics such as Snowy Owl eruptions, urban ornithology, window strikes, and eBird (of course). Grames — What can Ornithologists Tell Us About Global Insect Decline?”.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Of course, the adult male also got angry with people discarding their trash. Of course, in terms of weirdness, the Grey Nightjar scores a similar number of points. I am not sure what the point of the gorgeous light blue color of the immature male is (practicing his dark blue?), but it looks as nice as the dark blue of the mature male.

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JULY 21, 2021

Of course, I also go there several other times each year; I have, after all, seen 160 species at this endemic-rich site. Not that I measured him, of course. Twice a year, in February and July, I make a pilgrimage to the Hot Country ( Tierra Caliente ) thorn forest zone around Paso Ancho, Michoacán.

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MAY 19, 2021

Of course, plenty of non-endemics also turned up to have their picture taken. Of course, to say they are “different” is incredibly generous of me. But the Golden-cheeked Woodpecker (in this case, a female) is a strictly Hot Country species, replaced by the closely-related Golden-fronted Woodpecker up where we live.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Feel free to insert your own French joke here (though of course in the US, restaurants now serve Freedom Frogs rather than French Frogs). Of course, hearing about this immediately makes me think I have to show the photo of a Yellow-eyed Babbler below. This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video.

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JULY 30, 2024

Of course, these profiles also allow interested readers to contact them directly. We will also have two additional series of posts: One features profiles of bird guides from all over the world, explaining their background, their regions, and their favorite birds.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Of course, there are things that we hate about birding, as per Kai Pflug’s blog of August 15, 2024. But, I think there are so many pluses. Otherwise, why would we be getting up early, baking in the sun or shivering in the cold, to get that one special bird? Spending time with the nice birders.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Of course, for even the biggest listers among us, it’s not just the number of species, but also their beauty and personality. Of course, you go birding, and you see other beautiful things. It was a smart choice, resulting in a one-day total of 104 species for the four of us.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Fortunately, other spots in the same area offer similar birds, which of course I would not have known without our guides. Of course, for me, the decision has never been in much doubt. Of course, scientifically this is an overinterpretation. There are some Azure-winged Magpies , which can also be found in Shanghai parks.

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APRIL 8, 2020

No photos, of course… and no second chance for years, until last week! The Lesser Roadrunner … running on the road, of course. The only birds big enough for me to ID with the naked eye on the way back up the hill were one large Red-tailed Hawk , an unmistakeable Russet-crowned Motmot , and a lifer Lesser Roadrunner.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Of course, this requires some luck – the trash has to serve as some kind of vessel and contain some water. In order to deter real estate speculation, residential birds deliberately use ugly materials as part of their nests in order to prevent a local real estate boom. Trash as a vantage point ( Striated Heron , Nanhui, China).

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APRIL 18, 2021

We’re still far from peak passerine passage, but getting closer every day… I had to move my bird feeder from its perfect position this weekend, because of–of course–squirrels.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

But we make plans to have them dashed, of course. . Not that I would have a choice, of course. The first time, we booked our flights with a five hour daylight window (during which I had planned to do some serious birding before catching my next flight). I only had an hour and a half to take a walk and see some birds. .

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

The severe drawback of course being that the birds were covered in heavy fog too. Of course, just when we were leaving, the fog cleared up. Apparently, the location was the scene of a fight between Tibetans and Han Chinese a long time ago. The remaining crumbling walls make for some interesting scenery when half covered in fog.

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OCTOBER 17, 2021

Of course there is always something interesting about bowers wherever they are, but especially amongst human habitation. It is amongst some quite dense bush, but the white items make it stand out. It is quite an achievement as always and the items around and in it continues to increase. Great Bowerbird bower and stolen nails and screws.

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JUNE 30, 2024

Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata – almost half the birds turning up on the Azores are Nearctic but none breed there I often hear comments that the birds that reached the Macaronesian islands were trans-Saharan migrants that got drifted off course and settled there.

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

Black-breasted Buzzards are a lot more distinct in flight with their wing panel pattern than on the ground, unless of course they spread their wings! They may well have all been from the same family. Black-breasted Buzzard interaction. The post Black-breasted Buzzards and their wing panels appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

One can only hope 2021 gets more exciting–in a good, healthy, and interconnected way, of course–in the coming months. Can you believe that we’re already one-twelfth of the way through this year?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Not to say, of course, that there’s no point in getting out to see birds this time of year–any day is a good day for birding. Mid-November holds the dubious honor of being one of the most mundane birding periods imaginable in most temperate zones.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Of course, we humans tend to give slightly elevated terms to our motives – but that does not generally mean that they are really different from those of other animals. However, three reasons so far have mercifully kept me from actually making this joke, the least important of which is that the joke is of course quite bad.

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