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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan

10,000 Birds

Calls include nasal wheezes, squeals, cackling and churring; combinations of rather high nasal “u-err”, quick high nasal “ii” and rolling “pwaaowa” calls uttered by groups of two or more individuals. Finally, getting to the slightly annoying but somehow obligatory mention of mammals seen at Longcanggou. Fortunately, they are not.

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Birding Wawushan, Sichuan

10,000 Birds

Most of them had brought kids along as well (probably among my least favorite mammals), which were pulled on gaudily colored skiing sleds by their hapless parents, creating a constant raucous noise. times more likely to be married within his or her own group than random matching would predict.

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