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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

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The Rose-ringed Parakeet naturally occurs in two isolated areas: a thin strip across Africa just south of the Sahara, and south Asia where it is mostly found in India with smaller ranges in adjacent countries. There are other more isolated populations, e.g. in Hamburg, Berlin, Rome, Paris, and Barcelona.

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Birding the Wolongshan area in June 2023

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The Latin species name of the Slaty Bunting is siemsseni , after Georg Theodor Siemssen (1816-1886), a German merchant born in Hamburg, my favorite German city. He spent the years from 1836 to 1858 in Asia, first in Indonesia, then in China, partly as the consul of the city of Hamburg in China.