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Birding Ruili, Yunnan

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When I last visited the town almost 10 years ago, it had a Wild West feel, and Wikipedia claims that it is “an important location for trade with Myanmar, in both legal and illegal goods and services” but it seemed pretty tame to me this time. Not a great situation given the chronic housing shortage in suitable environments.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 2)

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Honeyeaters are a large bird family (190 species) with a strong presence in Australia. According to the HBW entry for this species, it “has been claimed that loss of native mammals after European settlement created shortage of nesting material, explaining this species’ penchant for taking hair from humans.” ” (HBW).

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 1)

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Contrary to alleged preferences among humans, the golden-headed cisticola has a shorter tail during the breeding season ( source ). Like many humans, the species is “socially monogamous but sexually promiscuous” ( source ). The Australasian Figbird is a member of the Oriole family despite not being yellow.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

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” The website www.jwcpheasants.com seems to endorse polygamy for this species despite this being illegal in the USA for other animals such as humans. The site states that in captivity, “two hens can be paired with one male.”

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The Struggle to Save the Birds of Honduras

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Everyone talks about human rights and there exists so many groups that are either governmental or non-governmental who work toward that cause. Many birds around the world in the Robin family ( Turdidae ) are favorites due to their musical songs. On top of being illegal to capture and sell birds in the country, it is also immoral.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 4)

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Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. The Black-faced Monarch is a relative in the same bird family, the Monarchidae. When going to Australia, one of the two birds I wanted to see most was the Tawny Frogmouth.

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Landon

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“Landon was raised illegally by a man who imprinted her and then released her. Both were wooed by Landon… Becci spent countless hours with our three crows as their human toy, entertaining them and giving head scratches. Crows are so social, and like us, have close family units. In return, I would tug her beak gently.

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