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Three Hokkaido Woodpeckers

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Give researchers an expensive toy such as a Scanning Electron Microscope, and they will use it on anything at hand. One study on Hokkaido found that 47 out of 110 old woodpecker holes were used by renters, which in the biological world are called secondary cavity users.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

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Anyway, one of the babblers of Sepilok is the Bornean Black-capped Babbler – the result of a split of the Black-capped Babbler (well, at least from a human perspective – the birds themselves are probably quite nonchalant about it). Are these the paper mills one occasionally reads about in relation to Chinese research papers?