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Asia’s Deadliest Bird: The Brown Prinia

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The prinias are a group of around 25 Old World warbler species found in Africa and Asia. Additionally, this split would mean that birders need to cut their time short in prime habitats to allow for sufficiant time in degraded, littered shrubs that hold little else that is of interest to them – just the Brown Prinia. Yes, indeed.

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Picathartes – Africa’s strangest birds

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They are also believed to be related to the Rail-Babbler of Tropical Asia. Gray-necked Picathartes foraging in leaf-litter on the forest floor in Korup National Park, Cameroon. However this classification is no longer widely accepted, and in my opinion quite correctly so. They also occur in Liberia, Ivory Coast and Guinea.

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Baihualing – The Sequel

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Scimitar babblers use these long downcurved bills to work through the leaf litter – they are rather terrestrial birds. The scimitar gave the name to a group of birds, the 17 species of scimitar babblers (claims that these birds were named after the Scottish naturalist Edgar Scimitar, 1755-1806, are plainly wrong).

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My Top Ten Birds of 2016 (or, Let’s Remember the Good Things about 2016)

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Greater Adjutants are huge birds that were once widespread across much of Southeast Asia; today there are two small breeding populations in India and Cambodia. Seeing this giant, awkward yet majestic bird walk through the densely littered landscape was a surreal experience. (4) 3) Greater Adjutant. 4) Small Pratincole. 6) Garganey.

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Who Doesn’t Like Birds, Tigers, or the Taj Mahal?

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Even better, three litters of tigers were born there last year, so tiger cubs may be seen. Destinations Asia India' This is exactly the kind of birding trip I love best, rich with nature, culture, and cuisine.

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Birding Gunung Gede on a weekend without suffering a mental break-down, part 1

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Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park, which comprises the twin volcanoes Gede and Pangrango (with gunung meaning “mountain”), surely must rate as one of the birding highlights of Southeast Asia, and is arguably the most important and well-known birding site on the island of Java.

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