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Birding Balangshan, Sichuan, China (part 1)

10,000 Birds

Mid-May to Mid-Jun is the best time to see some of the most exciting species here, as this is the prime breeding time. Still, not a bird that merits flying 2000 km from your hometown. Posing on the – surprisingly numerous – ruins of buildings here at this altitude gives them a bit of an aura of extras in a Vietnam movie.

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Edward’s Pheasant

10,000 Birds

It has not been seen in its small home range in central Vietnam since around 2000. Concern for the future of this species is such that the WPA and BirdLife International-Vietnam Programme are working together to organize immediate action. Conservationists searched intensively in 2011 but found none.

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