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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

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. Wikipedia reports that he “was an excellent tennis player and an enthusiastic big game hunter. His obituary was published in Nature.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Some were taken of birds and mammals in zoos or aviaries, others were taken in the wild, often in remote places. Yangtze River Dolphin in captivity, 1988, Wuhan, China, p. Fuller’s astonishment at locating this “grail of extinct-bird photograph hunters” is contagious. ouli, and Mamo (also known as Hawaii Mamo).

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