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Celebrating a Waxwing Winter

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Secondly, much of the appeal is that this is a bird we don’t see in the UK very often, for Waxwings are an irruptive species, and in most years only a few ever reach our shores from their breeding grounds in the boreal forests of Scandinavia. At the time I was writing about cars, so I recall we travelled in a road-test Porsche.

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Birding Shanghai in December 2022

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This is a rather photographer-friendly species, staying on the same branch for quite a while and even returning to it after catching some insects – you can see this on video here and here. Azure-winged Magpies fail to pass the mirror test, a test commonly used to determine self-recognition. But then, who can be sure?

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