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Pink-headed Duck: The Search is On!

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Presumably, only the swamps and reedy rivers of Myanmar hold the answer. About four years ago I first wrote about the Pink-headed Duck , a charming species related to the pochards (although how, exactly, is up for grabs, like so much duck taxonomy.) Maybe they’re extinct. Maybe they’re not.

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Birding Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China

10,000 Birds

Menglun in Xishuangbanna is less than 50 km away from the Chinese border to Laos and Myanmar, and it has a big botanical garden. One day at Xishuangbanna, I made the mistake of trying some rainforest birding again, at a nature reserve called Wangtianshu. What more can a nature lover want. Birds, maybe?

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