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Birding Wawushan, Sichuan

10,000 Birds

A paper on breeding of the species was actually researched right here at Wawushan. The authors speculate that “human disturbance (i.e. The Great Parrotbill recently unsuccessfully petitioned to be renamed to Giant Parrotbill, citing the panda example as proof of the benefits of having this name.

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Laughing at you, not with you

10,000 Birds

36, if my counting is right and there has been no very recent split or lump. Not bad given that the 5 families in the inner circle of the laughingthrush family have a combined number of about 68 species. The Giant Laughingthrush (various locations, Sichuan) is not really that much larger than the Spotted Laughingthrush.

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Birding in the Dark

10,000 Birds

It’s either that or the Hindus are right, that our existence is a continuing chain of lives through re-birth, a system of action and reward, and Corey Finger’s former life was that of a panda bear whose biggest mischief was eating bamboo, while I was Pol Pot. Either way, it just ain’t fair !!!

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