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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

Quite possibly, this laughingthrush is now locally extinct in Switzerland or at least in Basel. Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information. Some like Charles Vaurie have considered it so unreliable that they even suggested the destruction of his egg collection.”

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Baby Bird Books, Little Bird Books

10,000 Birds

The boys knew what Owls looked like, they saw Screech Owls (and Barred and Great Horned Owls) at a local wildlife park, and we photographed Burrowing Owl families every year at Brian Piccolo Park. Some might contest this, saying that Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hatches An Egg precedes Eastman’s book by twenty years. Random House, 1960.

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