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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

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Of course, the same applies to pizza services for humans. Please bear with us while this update takes place.” ” Been bearing with them for quite a while now. The bees pursue the bird until it settles down somewhere, try to sting it, and get eaten ( source ). The species name athertoni is derived from Lt.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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.” And after separating all the parts of the boluses and presumably weighing them, your conclusion would have been that “the most regularly occurring food items recorded are fish (63%) and insects (33%)” (the other 4% are the few remaining bits of chocolate and gummy bears brought to the chicks by their grandparents.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

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The Blue Whistling Thrush is presumably named for its loud human-like whistling, and possibly for being blue. The Crested Serpent Eagle is another species bound to suffer from a naming error in perpetuity. “It is not deep enough yet! The Kalij Pheasant is not very good at denouncing typical avian gender stereotypes either.

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