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Stamps in a Weathered Passport

10,000 Birds

I have seen documentaries of yak herders in Mongolia, but I never thought I would see something similar with my own eyes. Rock Hyrax Stuart provided a wonderful field lunch alongside a stream with samosas, a field-standard hard-boiled egg, and other snacks.

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Birding Ruoergai, Sichuan, China

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Godlewski’s Bunting is an attractive bunting species with a rather broad distribution in Russia, Mongolia, China, and other countries. Finally, the Azure-winged Magpie raises a hen-and-egg question: What was first, the color of the bird or the color of the Tibetan prayer flag?

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Flying Dinosaurs: A Review by a Triceratops Fan

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I probably missed the fossilized remains of a nesting oviraptorid found in Mongolia in 1994, located in the hallway leading to the Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs. These fossils are seen as proof that some dinosaurs brooded over its eggs. Like birds. The book begins with the discovery of Archaeopteryx in Germany in 1861.

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