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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

10,000 Birds

It’s a bit of a sore thumb, a well-known essay by a famous writer-who-is-also-a-birder in a collection of essays by new and experienced-but-as-well-known-as-they-should-be writers, and I wish Rogers had given some background on its placement here.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 1

10,000 Birds

The Nonggang Babbler ‘s claim to fame is having only been discovered in 2008 (as a meaningless reference, it should be added that the first iPhone was released in 2007, one year earlier). On the morning of day 4 at Nonggang, I had a sore throat but a covid test was negative, so birding continued …

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