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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan

10,000 Birds

Calls include nasal wheezes, squeals, cackling and churring; combinations of rather high nasal “u-err”, quick high nasal “ii” and rolling “pwaaowa” calls uttered by groups of two or more individuals. Due to massive use of Lightroom on my side, you can even see some of the red color of the animal. Fortunately, they are not.

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US Groups Fight to Save Polar Bear Hunts

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Supposedly, environmentalists and animal rights activists have "unfairly made the polar bear into 'the panda bear of North America.'" Now that the species is listed in the US as "threatened," hunters can't import the dead body parts (aka hunting "trophies") in from Canada. insert crying baby picture here.)

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The Golden Pheasant

10,000 Birds

Here is the result of the first few websites that a Google search brought up: A-Z animals : Not included in the top 10 The Mysterious World : Included and taking the No. I guess in China, there is always money for research related to Giant Pandas. 3, so, yes. gallinarum ( source ). ” Sounds more sophisticated, right?

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