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Species Spotlight: The Javan Blue-banded Kingfisher

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Maybe this kingfisher should have chosen another island to live on – according to one paper on the species, Java is the most densely populated island in the world and has suffered extreme anthropogenic pressure, resulting in the loss of over 90% of its natural forests.

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Keep your Taxonomy out of my Field Guide!

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I also know the field guides I use very well, and I know where to find which bird species in the book. You see, the species in my field guides, as in the vast majority of field guides everywhere, are in taxonomic order. I suffered, I lost birding time, and I made the most stupid mistakes imaginable.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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Given that according to the HBW, the species prefers dense primary and secondary montane forests, the note that the bird also forages among kitchen waste (in the same HBW entry) seems somewhat incongruous. Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information.

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Savanna Nightjars prove that growing old is a process of becoming increasingly disillusioned

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Here, I show you a few images of Savanna Nightjars , a Southeast Asian species I was able to observe nicely and commonly on Java and South Borneo in 2012 and 2013. Here is a further series of images from another typical day-roost of the species: roof-tops. Birds Indonesia nightjars' Legs: The Expendables 2.

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Birding Shanghai in March 2023

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Its mood is not helped by the ambiguous review on eBird: “Although not actually pale, this brownish songbird is one of the plainer thrushes in its range” The Latin species name of the Dusky Thrush is eunomos (I guess that is Greek, but whatever) – meaning well-ordered. One page is dedicated to the Long-tailed Shrike. (yes,

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The Oriental Dollarbird

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Strangely, the Oriental Dollarbird seems to suffer a bit from an image problem. I hope the love life of the authors improved after the publication of the paper … So, one of the 47 species with seasonal variation in abundance was the Oriental Dollarbird, a summer visitor (as fellow blog writer Clare can attest as well).

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Birding Gunung Gede on a weekend without suffering a mental break-down, part 1

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Indeed, during my short time spent at the park, I have encountered all there is to get below Air Panas, with the exception of maybe two to three species (the laughingthrush and the hanging-parrot and maybe something else I have forgotten). The Mountain Tailorbird was a species I completely overlooked during my first stay in April 2012.

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