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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan

10,000 Birds

Like many of the largest species within bird families, the Great Parrotbill looks somewhat plain, at least in the weather I encountered it. Given that red is the color of communism and that the Red Panda is much cuter than the Giant Panda anyway, this animal should be the one utilized to promote Longcanggou.

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Laughing at you, not with you

10,000 Birds

Not bad given that the 5 families in the inner circle of the laughingthrush family have a combined number of about 68 species. 36, if my counting is right and there has been no very recent split or lump. This post shows some of them.

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Birding Wawushan, Sichuan

10,000 Birds

The family has about 37 species, but that includes several fulvettas – only 21 of the species have “parrotbill” in their names (and frankly, the bills of fulvettas do not look like those of parrots at all). A paper on breeding of the species was actually researched right here at Wawushan. Never fails to startle them.

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