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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan, China in 2017

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I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan again (but maybe for the last time)

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If being hunted by evil humans was not enough, Ashy-throated Parrotbills are also hosts of the parasitic Common Cuckoo. Different from many humans, they tend to be quite polite – in a study , male wrens avoided overlapping their own song over the playback of another male by timing the start of their song accordingly.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Lewis’s Woodpecker – Melanerpes lewis. Red-headed Woodpecker – Melanerpes erythrocephalus. Cerro Lodge. 08 Mar 2016. Oak Run Road.

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Combined Beats’ List, May 2016

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. US-NY-New York-Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center – 40.6603x-73.9325. Lewis’s Woodpecker – Melanerpes lewis. Reserva Ribera Norte.

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Combined Beats List – June 2016

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. US-NY-New York-Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center – 40.6603x-73.9325. Gila Woodpecker – Melanerpes uropygialis. Reserva Ribera Norte.

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Combined Beats’ List – July 2016

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Lewis’s Woodpecker – Melanerpes lewis. Red-headed Woodpecker – Melanerpes erythrocephalus. Hairy Woodpecker – Picoides villosus.

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Combined Beats’ List – August

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Lewis’s Woodpecker – Melanerpes lewis. Red-headed Woodpecker – Melanerpes erythrocephalus. Hairy Woodpecker – Picoides villosus.

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