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2026 Nature Watch Festival on the Tibetan Plateau
I am now back in Beijing from the 2026 “Nature Watch” in Nangqen, Yushu Prefecture, and my batteries are fully recharged. ⚡ There’s nothing quite like watching people celebrate nature in a place this special. Over three days, 16 teams of young people from across China partnered with local herding families for a “bioblitz” –…
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Introducing the new Interactive Status of the Birds of Beijing
For anyone who watches birds in Beijing, particularly visitors to the city, one question comes up again and again: is this a good record? Is this species a regular visitor, a scarce migrant, or something genuinely unusual? Until now, answering that has meant piecing together scattered sources — old provincial avifaunas, China Bird Reports, personal…
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Nocturnal bioacoustic survey in the mountains of Beijing, spring 2026
Every spring in Beijing, the hills are alive with the sound of music! This year I set up a sound recorder on a forested hillside in Mentougou District at an elevation of c1,700m asl. The idea was to capture the sounds of spring, including nocturnal spring migrants and summer breeders. It was also a chance…