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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

10,000 Birds

It is mostly a question of economics – raising just one is troublesome enough given the resources required to feed and educate the chick. 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.

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

10,000 Birds

Having earned both a Master’s Degree in Engineering and in Law, Germain works as a manager for the construction industry. For the Chinese New Year 2022 holidays, my girlfriend and I decided to visit the remote areas of Guangxi in the South of China, at the border to Vietnam. Germain has lived in East Asia since 2014.

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