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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 1

10,000 Birds

The Nonggang Babbler ‘s claim to fame is having only been discovered in 2008 (as a meaningless reference, it should be added that the first iPhone was released in 2007, one year earlier). Spot the reference? ) On the morning of day 4 at Nonggang, I had a sore throat but a covid test was negative, so birding continued …

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

10,000 Birds

It’s a unique title; twitchers and naturalists interested in migration will find it fascinating reading and valuable for future reference. Here’s the kind of woman she is: when she got home after her first day of roller derby bootcamp, she was so sore she had to crawl up her stairs to get into a hot bath, where she cried for an hour.

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