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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

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” Blue-bearded Bee-eaters seem to have a pretty clever hunting strategy. Please bear with us while this update takes place.” ” Been bearing with them for quite a while now. A giant squirrel, actually. Which sounds like a species name taken from a science fiction novel for children.

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Africa’s Barbets

10,000 Birds

Well, the answer is that the moniker Red-headed Barbet was first given to the South American species that still bears and thus it had precedence to retain the name. He discovered numerous new species for science including this barbet and was the first person to confirm the existence of both Gorillas and Pygmies.

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