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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

Below is a quotation directly from this paper by the Monitor Conservation Research Society: “Trade data from the range countries of Thailand and Vietnam and from Indonesia and USA, both non-range countries, revealed 10,841 Black-throated Laughingthrushes in trade, across 762 visits to 51 markets between 1966 and 2019.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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With a picture of the then-queen of Thailand on it, if I remember correctly. The Oriental Darter is classified as Near Threatened – the reasons are the usual ones: habitat loss, hunting, and pollution. of its hunts are successful. Back to birds. Humankind, you did it again, congratulations. Then, there are raptors.

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What Exactly is a Pardalote?

10,000 Birds

Insofar as they relate to other bird families, they are perhaps closest to the thornbills, another family that is mostly Australian but reaches as far as Thailand and Fiji. They do need older trees, which host more lerps, and they can suffer due to some land use types.

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