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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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Quite possibly, this laughingthrush is now locally extinct in Switzerland or at least in Basel. Wikipedia reports that he “was an excellent tennis player and an enthusiastic big game hunter. Some like Charles Vaurie have considered it so unreliable that they even suggested the destruction of his egg collection.”

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A covey of Greys

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Conversely, many American hunters refer to the gray/grey bird as the Hun, a shortened version of Hungarian, for Hungary was the source of many of the birds introduced to the Americas. I guessed that his mate was close by, incubating her eggs. These are hardy birds – they have to be to survive a Canadian winter.

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