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Birding Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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Resource partitioning is basically the term for liking different things, which makes it easier to live together (think you eating most of the meat and your wife eating most of the vegetables of a shared dinner). The first bird I saw in Saigon was less exotic though – a Eurasian Tree Sparrow.

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Birding Shanghai in October 2022

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And yes, sparrows in areas with polluted air are less healthy. People apparently catch and eat Yellow-breasted Buntings because they think its meat has aphrodisiac properties ( source ), which leads to it being categorized as Critically Endangered. Thank god that this does not apply to humans.

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