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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

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. George Rippon (1861-1927), a member of the British Army in India and Burma.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

10,000 Birds

Hill ranges in eastern Myanmar and western Thailand are also suspected to be the intergradation zone between C. The species is also hunted for local consumption in Meghalaya (India), according to the HBW. There are also reports of individuals with intermediate characteristics between the very different taxa C.

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