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Birding Wolongshan, Sichuan, China

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With travel restrictions still in place, going on a birding trip outside of China is still not a practical option. Fortunately, China itself has a large number of bird species and habitats. The first stop was Wolongshan, a place known more for its giant pandas than its birds. Bird photography for extremely lazy people.

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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan

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It is a well-known birding hotspot, though access to some of its parts may be tricky without a local guide. There is quite a bit of construction going on, so in the future, the park may become much more accessible to tourists, and at the same time much less attractive for shy birds (and their birder followers). Birders, less so.

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Now That’s What I Call Line Dancing

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Tired of watching the National Zoo’s panda ? We’ve got your birding fix right here. Stuck inside with the blizzard? Male Blue Manakins dancing for the love of a female —as entrancing as the falling snow. Make a big steaming mug of cocoa and get your finger set on “replay”! Image via Wikimedia Commons).

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Click a Button, Save a Parrot

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Yes, rhinos, red pandas, chamois, and other charismatic creatures also deserve help, but this is a birding site so you know which way we’re voting!

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Nest Cam Welcomes Arctic Tern Babies to the World

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Clocking more than 50,000 miles per year, the birds appear to have cornered the market on the world’s longest annual migration. And that’s just the birds–you can spy on everything from panda bear cubs to beluga whales. Birding Birds terns video' You may already know how awesome Arctic Terns are.

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Laughing at you, not with you

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Presumably, in the early days of ornithology, some scientists spent most of their time transcribing bird calls. The Black-faced Laughingthrush (Longcanggou, Sichuan) is a real beauty, though this photo does not fully do the bird justice. A beautiful bird though. This post shows some of them. It’s the eyes, I guess.

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Birding in the Dark

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Mike invented Corey a few years ago to firstly promote the idea of a multi-authored bird blog and secondly so he could make up extremely productive birding trips to make the blog more exciting to read. ” Upon my return to the digital world, I checked 10,000 Birds to find this post by Corey.

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