Editor's note: "Hidden World of Birds in City" is about exploring a world of birds that usually goes unnoticed in urban spaces. This episode features photographs from Wang Xiaobo, who has been bird-watching near his residential community in Beijing for the past eight years.
As the first mass bird migration has drawn to the conclusion, the number of Wang's observed bird species dropped sharply, too, but there are still some of the unexpected that brings the joy to this scorching summer. For example, the daurian starling, the species that is even rare to see in Beijing appeared in the community this year.
Daurian starling
A magpie is trying to chase away a grey heron.
Grey heron.
Chinese thrush.
Arctic warbler.
Two-barred warbler.
Yellow-breasted buntings bathing in the lake in Wang's community.
More from 'Hidden World of Birds in City':
Hidden World of Birds in City: Parenting
Hidden World of Birds in City: New life, new hope
Hidden World of Birds in City: Aiming to create a new record high
Hidden World of Birds in City: Peaks ended but migration lingers
Hidden World of Birds in City: New migration peak
Hidden World of Birds in City: Beauty captured on the way
Hidden World of Birds in City: Catching the train of late spring
Hidden World of Birds in City: Welcome back
Hidden World of Birds in City: Birds in blossom
Hidden World of Birds in City: A busy pond
Hidden World of Birds in City: Highlights
Hidden World of Birds in City: Air predators
Hidden World of Birds in City: Migratory birds
Hidden World of Birds in City: The birds awaken
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