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Baihualing – The Sequel

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Scimitar babblers use these long downcurved bills to work through the leaf litter – they are rather terrestrial birds. Confusingly, while there are more than 50 species in the fantail family, the Yellow-bellied Fantail is not one of them. Two of these birds are relatively easy to see at Baihualing.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

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… [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. malayana had been collected. According to Wikipedia, “scimitar babblers are rangy, medium-sized, floppy-tailed land birds with soft fluffy plumage.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales. Superb Lyrebird by John Burgoyne ©2020 .

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Kermie

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My imagination conjured a frog desperate to return to his home and family, but trapped in a surreal world of artificially-cold air, very little dirt, ostensibly no available water, and precious few bugs to eat. Based on whatever data she collected, she’d alter her course and continue her search.