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Birding Wawushan, Sichuan

10,000 Birds

So, all this makes birding this place an occasionally less than pleasant experience. The disadvantage is that this is not a typical parrotbill at all – it is a bit like the old joke of searching for your keys not where you lost them, but where there is plenty of light to facilitate the research.

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Birding the Wolongshan area in June 2023

10,000 Birds

And of course, birders (at least me) do not care too much for Giant Pandas, which are the main attraction of this area, despite their pathetic habits. At some point, a Chinese researcher had a brilliant idea: Let’s prepare a paper on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Grey-backed Shrike!