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Monterrey Meetings

10,000 Birds

We met Marilyn and Leonardo at a non-descript fast-food joint’s parking lot and within 10 minutes we were in Parque Nacional La Estanzuela. Light broke and after Couch’s Kingbird I spotted my 2000 th lifer: Crimson-collared Grosbeak. A very good celebratory bird.

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Birding Balangshan, Sichuan, China (part 1)

10,000 Birds

Higher up on the Balangshan pass, Yellow-billed Choughs (Alpine Chough) benefit from the local fast food available for sale there, along with the limited environmental consciousness of some of the tourists. The chicks do their usual thing of just being pesky and clamoring for food … … mostly successfully. A juvenile.

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