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Birding Yibin, Sichuan

10,000 Birds

Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900), a director to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, whose study of bird fossils led to the discovery of tropical birds such as trogons and parrots from prehistoric France. In one group, they added a blue egg to their nests. In the other, they added both such an egg and a peanut half-shell.

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A covey of Greys

10,000 Birds

You’d be lucky today to find even a pair in Hungary, while according to the European Breeding Atlas 2 , it “has almost completely disappeared from S, central and W Italy, Switzerland, Norway and W Austria”. Northern France is another area with a strong population. I guessed that his mate was close by, incubating her eggs.

Hungary 154