10,000 Birds
AUGUST 5, 2021
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. The same does not apply to the Blue-fronted Redstart that is quite common at Balangshan. A juvenile.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2012
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.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2011
I got my first Emus ( Dromaius novaehollandiae ), family Casuariidae, in West Australia back in 2000. Sometimes you gain armchair big ticks, like the White-tailed Blue-flycatcher I saw in Uganda in 2005 which later turned out to be in the Stenostiridae, a recently erected family.
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