A time when I faced a significant challenge was when I traveled across Los Angeles trying to find a rare Blackpoll Warbler during its largest eruption in decades. My first trip was to a tiny park where it had just been reported that morning. Although it was one of their biggest years, they were still […]
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Recently, I wrote a new article in Chinese about three meadowlark species in the genus Sturnella. These yellow-bellied grassland birds are similar in appearance, but each has its own unique field marks, voice, and habitat preference. In the article, I compare their identification features and share field observations from my birding experiences. If you read
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Over the past half year, I’ve embarked on an exciting and fulfilling birdwatching journey. I visited 5 states in the US for birding; went on a trip to Dongzhai, China and Texas, US; and completed more than three hundred checklists. During birding, I take lots of pictures, which makes keeping fieldnotes for the program harder.
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If I am the First Pioneer to Settle on Mars By Miles Wang If I am the very first pioneer to settle on Mars, I will make it a huge area for helping endangered birds on Earth in different ways, because I love these lovely creatures, and we should stop them from disappearing. First, I
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(This article was previously published in my WeChat Publication on February 3, 2025) By Miles Today is the sixth day of the first lunar month of the Year of the Snake, and another year has unknowingly passed. Over the past year, I have ventured into the world with my binoculars and camera and experienced an “important
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(This article has been published inWrentit-Feb 2025) (The WRENTIT is the newsletter for the Pasadena Audubon Society.) By Miles In the fall of 2021, I learned about birdwatching in my natural science class in Beijing, China. A few months later, on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, my father and I took our
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