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Bunny Love

10,000 Birds

We always see one or two of them about town in the spring, this year they are in groups of six or seven. In the evenings as we take our drives, we often find small groups all along our route. Foraging, napping, fighting. I’m a messy eater. These herds range from 30 to over a hundred individuals.

Rabbits 230
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Asia’s Deadliest Bird: The Brown Prinia

10,000 Birds

The prinias are a group of around 25 Old World warbler species found in Africa and Asia. 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.

Burma 164
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Baihualing – The Sequel

10,000 Birds

The scimitar gave the name to a group of birds, the 17 species of scimitar babblers (claims that these birds were named after the Scottish naturalist Edgar Scimitar, 1755-1806, are plainly wrong). Scimitar babblers use these long downcurved bills to work through the leaf litter – they are rather terrestrial birds.

Litter 240