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Some Chinese Pheasants

10,000 Birds

The Latin species name of the Kalij Pheasant is leucomelanos , meaning “white” (leukos) and “black” (melanos, both Greek words). thesis on the “Social Behavior and Cooperative Breeding of Kalij Pheasants” in a place with much nicer sanitary facilities than where I saw the bird (in rural Fujian).

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How much bird is there, anyway?

10,000 Birds

But if you look at a bit of prairie in South Dakota during the dead of winter, you may see very few birds and a lot of bison. The clifftop habitats along rocky shores of the North Atlantic (on both sides of the pond) abound in bird biomass during breeding bouts, for instance. Sources Laden, Greg. Oxford University Press.

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