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Birding Wawushan, Sichuan

10,000 Birds

The authors speculate that “human disturbance (i.e. The Great Parrotbill recently unsuccessfully petitioned to be renamed to Giant Parrotbill, citing the panda example as proof of the benefits of having this name. By 2013, this ratio had increased to 7.2 ( source ). In 1980, an American without a high school degree was 2.6

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Birding in the Dark

10,000 Birds

It’s either that or the Hindus are right, that our existence is a continuing chain of lives through re-birth, a system of action and reward, and Corey Finger’s former life was that of a panda bear whose biggest mischief was eating bamboo, while I was Pol Pot. Either way, it just ain’t fair !!!

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