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

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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. In these rural areas, public transportation is still mostly based on rather old-fashioned modes. The Spring Festival – or Chinese New Year – is a big period for traveling in China.

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Birding Acapulco

10,000 Birds

It originally served as the port of entry for goods brought from Asia by Spanish galleons. These goods, purchased with Mexican silver, would then be transported overland through Mexico City, and shipped from Veracruz to Spain. Acapulco is built around one of the world’s most beautiful bays.

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The Vulturine Storks

10,000 Birds

European Storks are majestic, they’re graceful and stately and all of the positively connotated adjectives that are applied to birds to which humans have a long and pleasant history rooted deep in our western cultural heritage. In fact, there’s hardly a bird in the world that has such a venerated relationship with us.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

A housecat in Buenos Aires got its start in Africa, a sheep in Australia to the Middle East, a chicken in Ireland can trace its origin to the jungles of Asia. Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting.