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Our Best Birds of 2020

10,000 Birds

It bears an iconic name associated with insanity and betrayal, but also with time and seasonality. Predictably, it contained few surprises (and no lifers either) as Germany took lock-down regulations seriously and travel, even locally, was next to impossible throughout most of the year. I saw the Cuckoo the second day of its visit.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

10,000 Birds

Particularly the latter – Nabang – would in the past easily have merited its own post, but recent developments there that now make the place a bit like the former border between West and East Germany changed that. ” Blue-bearded Bee-eaters seem to have a pretty clever hunting strategy. But not to bees.

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