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Not enough Woodpeckers

10,000 Birds

Or would be, had I encountered more of them – so far, I have seen only a very small share of the approximately 233 woodpecker species, and got decent photos of an even smaller number – not much more than 10% of all of them. So, writing a post about them is easy. Supposedly, they smoke less than the Brown-capped ones, too.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

10,000 Birds

The species name athertoni is derived from Lt. Atherton (1797-1827), a naturalist (whatever that means exactly) and a member of the British Army in India. Unfortunately, there is not much literature on the species except for the inevitable analysis of the mitochondrial genome. This is not a putdown, just a statement of fact.

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