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Birding Balangshan, Sichuan, China (part 1)

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And it is a great place for birding. This makes these sections ideal for birding, with a much-reduced risk of being killed by a passing truck. Still, not a bird that merits flying 2000 km from your hometown. Among my favorite birds at Balangshan are Giant Laughingthrushes. A juvenile.

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Edward’s Pheasant

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It has not been seen in its small home range in central Vietnam since around 2000. If this bird did become extinct, it would be the first pheasant species to have been lost in the 400 years since proper records began. Conservationists searched intensively in 2011 but found none.

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Big Ticks; What Was Your Last New Family?

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I often poke fun at listers I perceive as being more interested in ticks than birds. But there is one kind of tick that I genuinely do enjoy, and as I do more and more birding it becomes harder and harder to get; new families. Getting entirely new families is easy when you start birding.

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