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Birding crème de la crème: Asia – Corbett to Taman Negara

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Other than these, in the wider region at the moment only Papua New Guinea has one 300+ hotspot, but it belongs to the Australian and not the Oriental region. Other wildlife includes Asian Elephant , Tiger , Leopard. Indian Rhinoceros in Kaziranga, photo Anuwar Hazarika/Wikimedia Commons.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

10,000 Birds

That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes.

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