1 month ago | By 10,000 Birds
(Boring bureaucratic note to dissuade casual readers: This post covers birds seen in Shanghai in January 2023, except for those seen at Tianmashan - these are shown in a separate post. If you are still reading this, maybe you have too much time on your hands. End of note)
Probably the most interesting bird in Shanghai this month was a Barred Cuckoo-Dove choosing a small downtown park to feed on berries.
I tried to get a better idea of what exactly the definition of cuckoo-dove is but am still not very clear about it - Wikipedia only offers the rather formal definition “any of several...
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