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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

Quite possibly, this laughingthrush is now locally extinct in Switzerland or at least in Basel. Wikipedia reports that he “was an excellent tennis player and an enthusiastic big game hunter.

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A covey of Greys

10,000 Birds

David Tomlinson If you are American then you will no doubt know Perdix perdix as the Gray Partridge , an introduced game bird now widespread on the prairies of Canada and the northern states of the USA. These are hardy birds – they have to be to survive a Canadian winter.

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