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Asia’s Deadliest Bird: The Brown Prinia

10,000 Birds

It inhabits rather dry areas within a region notorious for being one of the rainiest parts of the world, and is thus patchily distributed from Burma through Laos, Cambodia, parts of Thailand and south China, all the way to Vietnam. Just don’t try this with a Brown Prinia, unless you have life insurance and a family in need.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

10,000 Birds

… [They] have long, downward-curved bills, used to work through the leaf litter … They are typically long tailed, dark brown above, and white or orange-brown below. melliana from alleged contact zone(s) in northern Laos and possibly south-western China. They have strong legs and are quite terrestrial. hardwickii and C.

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