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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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Given that according to the HBW, the species prefers dense primary and secondary montane forests, the note that the bird also forages among kitchen waste (in the same HBW entry) seems somewhat incongruous. Specifically, we are all particularly interested in the microbiota of birds living in a mining area.

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Pygmy Wren-babblers on Java

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The pygmy wren-babbler is a tiny babbler that looks like a wren, making it a bird well named. Seriously, it is much nicer to blog about a brown bird with a descriptive name than some other bird whose common name references an ancient ornithologist none of us have ever met. Then, however, it becomes interesting. Very, at 7.5

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Birding Napo, Guangxi, China – part 1

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Napo is a county in the West of Guangxi, bordering both Yunnan and Vietnam. Apparently, she supported the research of a Romanian team on ectoparasites of birds from Meghalaya (India) – and for her troubles, the team thanked her by naming a species of feather mite newly discovered on Large Niltava after her. hour flight.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 1

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Nonggang is a rural place in Guangxi with a nice landscape somewhat reminiscent of coastal Northern Vietnam (well, it is not too far away). It is listed as Vulnerable, as its range is rather restricted, though it has been found outside of China as well, e.g., in Vietnam, though the HBW does not seem to have read that paper yet.

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Birding Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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Frankly, Ho Chi Minh City is not a place you would go to specifically for birding. But if you are there anyway (at the start of a longer birding trip) and have an afternoon to spare, then why not? This indicates that the bird is aware of where the predator is looking.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

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According to the eBird description, it is everything I am not: a “neon-colored, noisy, highly social bird” Shudder to think (not the bird part though). Next, this post has a long section on babblers, a very ill-defined category of birds. But some of them look pretty interesting.

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