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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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Quite possibly, this laughingthrush is now locally extinct in Switzerland or at least in Basel. It is a bit worrying that while the Basel Zoo is listed by Google as having a page on the Red-tailed Laughingthrush , that page itself does not seem to exist anymore, and the species is not listed among the inhabitants of the aviary of the zoo.

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Serbia self-drive birding tour planning

10,000 Birds

It turned out Raphael Nussbaumer is a keen ornithologist who just completed his PhD in Lausanne (Switzerland). I usually go through this phase for each species listed in phase 1, with more effort on the first two groups (endemic and target). Here is how he prepared for his tour of Serbia: Guest-author : Raphael Nussbaumer.

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