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Asia’s Deadliest Bird: The Brown Prinia

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From a birder’s perspective however, this is both a shame and a blessing, as I will show below based on my observations of the species on the island of Java in November. The prinias are a group of around 25 Old World warbler species found in Africa and Asia. The Brown Prinia is an Asian species with a very peculiar range.

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My Top Ten Birds of 2016 (or, Let’s Remember the Good Things about 2016)

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I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. Seeing this giant, awkward yet majestic bird walk through the densely littered landscape was a surreal experience. (4) 7) Piping Plover.

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