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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

10,000 Birds

As this book was published in 1913, it is now freely available online and you can read sentences such as “The Burman has no head, and succumbs at once to a comparatively small quantity of liquor” without violating any copyright laws. The species is also hunted for local consumption in Meghalaya (India), according to the HBW.

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Queensland’s First Nordmann’s Greenshank

10,000 Birds

Nordmann’s Greenshank photographed hunting on the Cairns Esplanade [Ken Cross]. I would be away from my family for a time and my visiting in-laws from Tasmania….Perhaps I already had Nordmann’s on my life list from a single sighting of two birds in coastal Thailand back in 1995. This would really be an I.D.I.O.T.

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