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    Hubei, China: Yellow-billed Chough?

    OK, I agree. Thanks for the input. I see blackbirds everyday, so it's hard to swallow that I can misidentify it. However I was on a slope, which makes distance harder to estimate. I'm going to go with the stance of the bird contributing to the confusion, and the name of the site "Red Cliff"...
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    Hubei, China: Yellow-billed Chough?

    Apparent size can be deceptive, but my impression at the time was that this bird was much larger than a blackbird, even taking into account that the Chinese blackbird is a bit heftier than their European cousin. The stance of the bird didn't seem very thrush-like either. I agree that a blackbird...
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    Hubei, China: Yellow-billed Chough?

    At Chibi (~120 km west of Wuhan, China) on June 16th this bird was perched on a pine. This is at only 100 meters of elevation, near the bank of the Yangtze river, in a spottily forested primarily agricultural area. I think it might be a Yellow-billed (Alpine) Chough, which would be a first...
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    China 2010

    Not that I'm keen on confronting shovel wielding mist netters, but where are these rice paddies on the Wenyu river? I live in Chaoyang and would like to check the area out. I've got a car (at least at those times when my wife relinquishes it to me), and any directions you can provide would be...
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    tit in Shanghai

    Thanks for the links. The bird certainly feels like a coal tit, but I know of the regional variability of these birds, and still harbor doubts. Is there anything definite that can be said about the Shanghai area, such as coal tits rarely present a crest here? If not, I'll resolve to get a...
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    tit in Shanghai

    While in Century Park (世纪公园) in Shanghai (Pudong) this weekend I found an ecumenical flock foraging in the leaf litter among saplings by the edge of a pond, consisting of tree sparrows, bramblings, vinous throated parrotbills, a few common moorhens, and one tit. The tit seemed slightly smaller...
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    China observations

    Thanks Gretchen for the information, I was just to post a second to Terry's plea for more information. I'm based in Beijing, but have yet to make a trip to Beidaihe. I'll be there this weekend for just one or two days, but hope to be able to use much of it looking for birds. Do you have...
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