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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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But maybe bringing up a cuckoo brings good karma, who knows … After the initial posting, Andrew Bailey informed me that after a split, the babbler above is now Grey-hooded Babbler. Yes, you can get that information! And of course, some Chinese researchers worked on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Greater Coucal.