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First, that new pair of bins for testing arrived, of which you will be reading in a due time, and two days later, the Global Big Day. While my Big Day was already over by mid-afternoon, it did help my mood and provided a lot of opportunities to test the new binoculars. And then things got a bit faster. Where to go?
After testing both Swarovski NL Pure 10×42 and 12×42, I – a self-confessed lover of smallish full-size binoculars, felt the urge to try the latest 32 mm NLs. Although I did test them thoroughly later, I knew from that first sight, this pair was made for me.
After the first 7 days dominated by daily compound-wide Covid tests and being locked down inside the compound, I went outside on the compound grounds on days 8 and 9.
I recently birded the Tualatin River NWR near Portland, Oregon, and made that my test case for a deeper dive into the Mobile Track. The track appears in the upper left corner of the online checklist, and it has intrigued me since it started appearing.
Covid turned out not to be too much of a hindrance – I had to show a negative PCR test upon arrival on Hainan from Shanghai, and while many Chinese hotels currently do not accept foreigners, I could leave this issue to my guide. Fortunately, they are by now fairly used to dealing with a mediocre birder like me.
A little annoyed at myself for squandering that opportunity, I sat with my coffee and breakfast and made a few test images using a few of the ever-cooperative Bananaquits on show. I photographed this female Red-crowned Ant-Tanager before I even checked my camera settings. The Red-crowned Ant-Tanagers never returned, of course.
Although I did test them thoroughly later, I knew from that first sight, this pair was made for me. [Dragan]: The very first time I held Swarovski NL Pure 10×32 binoculars, the very first look through them, I just knew: this is it, this is the pair for me.
This means its parents did not abandon the incomplete nest, as they do when a potential predator is nearby: “Grey Fantails desert incomplete nests in response to the attention of predators [which we tested] by placing a mounted Pied Currawong (Strepera graculina), a common nest predator, near fantail nests that were under construction.”
Regarding the Covid, the usual measures were in place, and no one got it, at least no US, Canada, or French participants who did the mandatory testing at the end of the tour, as required by their home countries. I didn’t get it either. But travelling in the time of Covid puts you in strange situations.
Thankfully, there are alternatives to what I ended up doing, taking down the feeders, and they are detailed in the second part of the book, where we learn about the development of bird-safe sheet glass and the use of patterns or films on already installed glass windows.
Azure-winged Magpies fail to pass the mirror test, a test commonly used to determine self-recognition. While the source does not say so directly, it hints that this means the species is not as intelligent as Eurasian Magpies (which pass the test).
One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. In the classic test, an animal is anesthetized and then marked on an area of the body the animal cannot normally see. I wonder if the color blue has some politically incorrect associations.
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