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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

Hongbenghe is directly at the border to Myanmar – before COVID-19, it was easy enough to walk across the border on foot, but now a monstrous long steel and barbed-wire fence separates the two countries. George Rippon (1861-1927), a member of the British Army in India and Burma. Note to those readers who do not know Wham!:

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