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Laughing at you, not with you

10,000 Birds

At least they seem to understand that raising chicks is hard and annoying work and have found at least a partial solution for this problem: “co-operative breeder, up to four individuals attending chicks at one nest, at least three seen to feed chicks” (HBW).

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

10,000 Birds

Alas, one would be wrong – I immediately mixed it up with the rather similar-looking Rufous-bellied Niltava (not shown here). In providing this information, they quote extensively from an ornithology book that was published 3 years before I was born (and I am not a young man).

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