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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

He published a number of books on birds of India and Burma, making me wonder how hard all these overseas civil servants really worked in their day jobs. It seems this species is shy even by pitta standards – the HBW calls it a “very shy and secretive pitta, easily overlooked” and says that it is “very rare in China (S.

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