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Bird Butts and Other Matters

10,000 Birds

The local Bald Eagles are getting busy, I suspect there is an egg in the nest. There is a bit of science news. The zoo has already identified several species like the huge monkey-eating Philippine eagle that are at once distinct, endangered, and suffer from lack of attention. All I see are their buts. Also written up here.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

10,000 Birds

” Blue-bearded Bee-eaters seem to have a pretty clever hunting strategy. The Spot-breasted Parrotbill suffers a bit from having a contradicting scientific species name, guttaticolis , meaning “spot-throated” or “spot-necked” rather than spot-breasted. A giant squirrel, actually. Or something like that.

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