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Birding the Danzhou Bay area (Hainan, China) by day

10,000 Birds

While not on the scale of bird migration, it is routinely and somewhat lazily described as the biggest annual migration of humans in the world. million words in books published in 1800, by 2019, its usage was down to once every 5 million words, according to the Google Books Ngram Viewer).

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

10,000 Birds

The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. Apparently, some bird photographers think that any human artifacts shown on a bird photo immediately spoil the whole photo. This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video.

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