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Birding Singapore
3 days ago - By 10,000 Birds
Writing this post, I have been in lockdown in my Shanghai compound for 60 days. The only bird-related activity I can think of is looking at bird photos I took in Singapore in 2015, and adding some irrelevant comments to them.
Presumably, birds living in Singapore do not understand German. This is a big advantage when they listen to Tocotronic's “Crash” - enjoying the song sounding sort of how I would imagine The Smiths to sound today, in a good way - while not having to understand the fairly awful German lyrics.
For once, eBird gives a good description of the Asian Glossy Starling, calling...
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