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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

10,000 Birds

In this case, the correct one (according to the HBW) is Sir Herbert Thirkell White (1855-1931), a British colonial administrator in Burma. He also wrote some books on Burma, one of which (“A Civil Servant in Burma”) Wikipedia calls a classic. hardwickii and C. hardwickii and C. malayana had been collected.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

He published a number of books on birds of India and Burma, making me wonder how hard all these overseas civil servants really worked in their day jobs. It seems this species is shy even by pitta standards – the HBW calls it a “very shy and secretive pitta, easily overlooked” and says that it is “very rare in China (S.

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Asia’s Deadliest Bird: The Brown Prinia

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It inhabits rather dry areas within a region notorious for being one of the rainiest parts of the world, and is thus patchily distributed from Burma through Laos, Cambodia, parts of Thailand and south China, all the way to Vietnam. The Brown Prinia is an Asian species with a very peculiar range.

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