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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information. Interesting too was that the prices were highest in the USA and lowest in Thailand, and that prices in Indonesia indicated high demand and increasing scarcity.” ” Even more strangely, the U.S.

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Raptors of Nanhui, Shanghai

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And in my customary environmentally friendly approach to recycling bird photos, I have collected some of them in this post. Apparently, soloensis stands for “Discovered in or native to the Solo River valley” (Wikipedia; the Solo river is a river in Indonesia).

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

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Apparently , since the release of the Harry Potter series in Indonesia in the early 2000s the popularity of owls such as the Buffy Fish Owl as pets has increased, leading to more birds being caught in the wild and then sold at local bird markets. It deserves a lot better than being caught and locked in a cage.

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The Pelican is not a New Zealand Bird

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Dipping for fish An extinct endemic form of pelican in New Zealand would have represented another family lost, like the odd form of owlet-nightjar and New Zealand’s lost members of the hawk and eagle family. And the fossils themselves were vanishingly rare. And, sometimes, New Zealand.