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Birding Kota Kinabalu, Borneo: Rice Paddies

10,000 Birds

Continuing with the topic of singing, apparently, Zebra Doves are highly valued for their singing, particularly in parts of Southern Thailand. ” Maybe better to be caught by a Brahminy Kite than to die in a cage of a researcher … though small birds make up for only a small part of the diet of these kites.

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Birding Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

10,000 Birds

One paper – describing research conveniently done at the university campus of Chittagong University, presumably close to the canteen – looks at resource partitioning between this bee-eater and another one, the chestnut-headed bee-eater. Still, it was worth it for seeing several Asian Green Bee-eaters alone.

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