10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Of course, I need to pretend not to brag about it, but the HBW page on the species still uses the photo of a China-based German photographer as its main illustration. There is also the usual article about the first sighting of the species at a new location. How exciting. It is actually much better than the photos shown in this post.

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Birds Deer China Owls 229

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2022

At this moment, Baihualing is the eBird hotspot in China which has by far the largest number of species – 486. Scimitar babblers use these long downcurved bills to work through the leaf litter – they are rather terrestrial birds. So, it is certainly justified to cover this spot in more than one post.

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Litter China Species Abandon 222

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

But today, Lady G was off with her ladies that letch and I was on my way to the Great Wall of China with a colleague. Oriental Greenfinches used the wires to perch and a Plain Laughingthrush picked through the leaf litter on this cold November morning.

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Obama Litter China 2014 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

… [They] have long, downward-curved bills, used to work through the leaf litter … They are typically long tailed, dark brown above, and white or orange-brown below. melliana from alleged contact zone(s) in northern Laos and possibly south-western China. They have strong legs and are quite terrestrial. hardwickii and C.

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Burma Birds Vietnam Laos 200

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

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. Then there is a gap of around 2,000 km (or 1,200 miles). A small brown bird.

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Burma Laos Birds Indonesia 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2013

We did have the good fortune of finding an individually marked Bar-tailed Godwit that was marked in Yalu Jiang Nature Reserve in China last April 15th and was last seen there on May 11th 2012. The absolute highlight was when I heard leaf litter being thrown about. It appears to work very well and the birds were relaxed.

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Birds Cattle Litter 2012 151