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“The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia”

10,000 Birds

Low Bing Wen is a terrestrial ecologist and a keen birdwatcher with more than 20 years of field experience in Southeast Asia, India, China and Australasia. Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom. I do not think it is possible to pack more in a single volume, without turning it into a coffee table book. Book information.

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Best Bird of the Year 2012

10,000 Birds

This bird spent the 2011-2012 winter at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in northern California, migrated someplace exotic and distant in February, and returned to the same pond at the beginning of this month. It was a heart-pounding scene straight out of Jurassic Park, an odd experience for a laid-back pursuit like birding.

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