10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

T he Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tengchong, China) is a tiny bit bigger and looks much soberer. A point in case: the Crimson-breasted Woodpecker (Tengchong, China). So, more than my usual maximum of five photos per species for the Eurasian Wryneck (Nanhui, Shanghai, China).

Woodpeckers 245

Woodpeckers South Africa China Singapore 245

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

Identifying White-eyes in Australia is easier than here in China, as the Silvereye is the only family member present in most parts of the country. This makes the marketing of a Queensland vacation home as Silver Gull Court a bit questionable. I am pretty sure I would not have liked him.

Australia 147

Australia Birds Parrots Ostriches 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2023

After she died, William decided to stick with the family and married the widowed daughter-in-law of Sarah Amherst and like Sarah, a dowager countess of Plymouth (it took me a while to figure out what this means, but then my parents always had difficulties explaining to me at family gatherings who was related with whom).

China 245

China Research India Zoos 245

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Said Blue-throated Barbet – maybe lacking an altimeter – indeed could be seen very close to its family member at Tongbiguan. A paper on the Chestnut-vented Nuthatch titled “Nest-Site Features and Breeding Ecology of Chestnut-Vented Nuthatch Sitta nagaensis in Southwestern China” has 8 authors.

Birds 189

Birds China Woodpeckers Breeding 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

As this book was published in 1913, it is now freely available online and you can read sentences such as “The Burman has no head, and succumbs at once to a comparatively small quantity of liquor” without violating any copyright laws. melliana from alleged contact zone(s) in northern Laos and possibly south-western China.

Burma 206

Burma Birds Vietnam Laos 206

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

But once you passed ‘the Pale,” you were outside the authority and safety of English law, and subject to all the savageries of rural Ireland. Like this bird family b. ‘Beyond the pale’ then became a colloquial phrase meaning ‘outside the limits of acceptable behavior or judgment.’

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

This is a bird I had been looking for for a long time – it is not actually particularly rare in China (in fact, I have heard its call many times and also use it as the wake-up call for my mobile phone), but somehow I had never seen one, to the point of writing frivolous comments in eBird-Lists (“Collared Owlet. A Collared Owlet.

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 245