10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2024
Hongbenghe is directly at the border to Myanmar – before COVID-19, it was easy enough to walk across the border on foot, but now a monstrous long steel and barbed-wire fence separates the two countries. Wikipedia reports that he “was an excellent tennis player and an enthusiastic big game hunter. ” ( source ).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2022
Hongbenghe is a very small village in Yunnan, right next to the border with Myanmar. Even better, there is a wooden, unguarded, slowly decaying bridge over to Myanmar – so while I do not have the passport stamp to prove it, I can honestly say that I have been to that country as well.
Critter News
AUGUST 22, 2010
The Spoon-billed Sandpiper, one of the world's most threatened birds, is rapidly heading towards extinction because young birds are being targeted for human consumption. Really sad. Spoon-billed Sandpipers nest only in the far north-east of Russia.
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