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Birding Ruoergai, Sichuan, China

10,000 Birds

Godlewski’s Bunting is an attractive bunting species with a rather broad distribution in Russia, Mongolia, China, and other countries. A thousand of our soldiers would be enough to subdue all Asia from Lake Baykal to the Himalayas … Here the exploits of Cortez can still be repeated.”

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Review: Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper

10,000 Birds

Most readers here will be familiar with the plight of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper , a critically endangered wader that nests on the Russian tundra and winters in Southeast Asia. Said team of experts brought along a video camera. Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper is the result.

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