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The Elusive Goal of Bird-Safe Skyscrapers

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” That’s because an American architecture firm is planning what’s billed as the “world’s first invisible building” in South Korea. Or perhaps I should say “illusive.” Hat tip to Pat O’Donnell for the story; the image above is by GDS Architects, via CNN.)

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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If you are a person who enjoys analyzing the stuff regurgitated by bird chicks, you probably wish to have participated in a study looking at the diet of Yellow Bitterns in South Korea. It concludes that human activity influences the breeding activity of the lapwing. How efficient. How surprising.

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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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When you think of invasives, you think of the birds that have been helped by human beings to get where they are, such as House Sparrow or European Starling. They have expanded their range through Indonesia and into Australia and is found in post breeding dispersal as far north as South Korea and Japan. ibis and the eastern B.

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Ruppy the glowing puppy

4 The Love Of Animals

They do their work at the Seoul National University in South Korea. The team of scientists are hopeful that the creation of fluorescent puppies will help aid further research in human diseases. Lee was also part of a team that created the first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005.

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Best Bird of the Year 2011

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Hoopoe was my Best Bird of the Year despite all the new birds I saw in Busan, South Korea. On Seymour Island, my group witnessed a very human-like interaction amongst three boobies , one female and two males. Pacific Loons by Clare Kines The other Clare, Clare Morton, chose Upupa epops. You can read all about it here.

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Busan to Broome

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Birds are no doubt in decline in all cities around the world as human populations increase and feral birds thrive, so we should all appreciate what we see every day wherever we are. Some birds you see every day and others you only see once, but they are all special in their own way as they survive within the boundaries of such a large city.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2023

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It seems to me that the Red-billed Starling is getting more and more common in Shanghai (and apparently also in South Korea, see here ) – not bad given that it is quite an attractive bird. … One sub-adult male caught the bird when it ran into him, and at this time, the other hunting males stopped their chase.

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