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Asia’s Deadliest Bird: The Brown Prinia

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Additionally, this split would mean that birders need to cut their time short in prime habitats to allow for sufficiant time in degraded, littered shrubs that hold little else that is of interest to them – just the Brown Prinia. Just don’t try this with a Brown Prinia, unless you have life insurance and a family in need.

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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. For comparison, here is a photo of the same species taken at Nanhui, Shanghai, far further east. Instead, it is a member of the family of fairy-flycatchers, which sounds vaguely homophobic but probably is not.

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