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Birding Yancheng, Jiangsu

10,000 Birds

Apart from the crane, some Long-eared Owls were the highlight of this short trip for me. Even though I am pretty sure eyes like these cannot be real and have been taken from some oversized teddy bears. I recently watched an online advertisement for The Economist.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. The clay consumed at the colpa contains chemicals that bind with these ingested alkaloids thus neutralizing their toxicity.

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