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Birding Balangshan, Sichuan, China (part 3)

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High up at almost 4500 meters, some Alpine Accentors were posing in the sunshine, justifying the description in the HBW as “large, attractive accentor” (though eBird seems to disagree, instead characterizing the species as a “stocky, stout, and unobtrusive bird”). I still do not like monkeys very much.

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Thai Police Rescue Monkeys Bound for Restaurant

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Thai Highway Police in Sa Kaeo province have rescued 24 baby crab-eating monkeys, arresting a Thai driver and five undocumented Cambodians attempting to smuggle the endangered species to Cambodia, where they were destined for cooking pots in.Chinese specialty restaurants in Cambodia.

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US a Hub for Eatin' Them Endangered Species

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And here I've been yelling at China all this time. (Be Be warned there's a horrific picture of a cooked monkey head in this article.) Tags: wildlife trafficking us endangered species. From Alternet.org. The United States is one of the world's largest, if not the largest, consuming nations for wildlife products.

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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan

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These are the tradeoffs of modern life in China. Apparently, Longcanggou is a great place to see a variety of parrotbill species. I can only partly confirm this, with my sightings restricted to two species. ” Always a good property in a bird species, from the perspective of a bird photographer.

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Does it Count? or Is This a List I See Before Me?

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Regular readers to the blog may have noticed Redgannet’s post on some delightful finchbills he saw in China. I have seen two species of woodcreeper in Central America, the Ruddy Woodcreeper and Tawny-winged Woodcreeper. I have seen tens of thousands of birds in my life, and probably around two thousand species.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 1

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It is listed as Vulnerable, as its range is rather restricted, though it has been found outside of China as well, e.g., in Vietnam, though the HBW does not seem to have read that paper yet. Some ornithologists are so desperate to add papers to their resumes that they write about new records of Black-crested Bulbul subspecies within China.

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Hong Kong Trip Report: February 2014

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I was fortunate to spend time scanning open fields, wetlands, and the inlet separating Hong Kong from China with this large group of friendly and avid avian observers. Mai Po Nature Reserve : world famous locale for shorebirds, waterfowl, waders, and wetland birds; wintering grounds for certain endangered species. SPECIES LIST.

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