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Birding Ruoergai, Sichuan, China

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The poster bird of this area is the near-threatened Black-necked Crane. The HBW even mentions the importance of Ruoergai for this species: “Key sites for migrants include the Ruoergai Plateau (China), which is also an important breeding area” Common Mergansers also seem to use these wetlands as breeding area.

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Stamps in a Weathered Passport

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Birding was tougher. There are no trees throughout the landscape, so it is either looking up for birds passing overhead or stomping through the scrub to flush hiding birds. I have seen documentaries of yak herders in Mongolia, but I never thought I would see something similar with my own eyes.

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Birding Inner Mongolia

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Second note: Inner Mongolia has a land area larger than that of France and Germany combined, and I only spent one week there. So, to claim that I birded Inner Mongolia is a massive exaggeration. Let’s move to the birds). Like many other species, the Chinese Nuthatch is expected to be affected by climate change.

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Exploring the Uncharted Bird World

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Birders follow different patterns of bird migration and their local activities and travel accordingly. It illustrates the bird richness per country. It divides countries into categories, where the next category has 200 more species. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands.

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Black-tailed Godwits around Broome

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The Black-tailed Godwits that we observe here in Australia breed in east Siberia and Mongolia. The migratory shorebirds are now returning to the Broome area and the numbers of birds on the beaches of Roebuck Bay are rapidly increasing. Both the female Black-tailed Godwit and Bar-tailed Godwit are larger than the male of the species.

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A Field Guide to the Birds of Mongolia

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A Field Guide to the Birds of Mongolia by Dorj Ganbold and Chris Smith (2019) offers more than 500 species in one neat edition. A Field Guide to the Birds of Mongolia by Dorj Ganbold and Chris Smith (2019) offers more than 500 species in one neat edition.

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Namibia’s 15 key birds

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people per sq mi) of any country in the world (Mongolia has the lowest). Over 700 bird species occur in Namibia, many of them range-restricted and highly desirable southern arid zone species. This species is also known as Peach-faced Lovebird. It has the second lowest population density (6.6

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