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Alien species – Rose-ringed Parakeet.

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Their original home is Northeast Africa, The Middle East, India and Myanmar. Apart from the awful noise, they are cavity nesters and dominate the available nesting spaces to the detriment of indigenous species. Nonetheless, this week will be chock full of invasive species. Birds Invasive Species Week rose-ringed parakeet'

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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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. Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

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Interestingly, these juveniles look more similar to another species, the Pale-billed Parrotbill, than the adult babblers – and they sometimes are part of the same flock. If you want to see how this species builds its nest, see here.) These roads are much less of a hindrance for the Pin-striped Tit-babbler , a mid-story bird.

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Hornbills of Yunnan

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China is not that well-known for its hornbills, but in Yunnan province, on the border to Myanmar, some species can be found.

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Pink-headed Duck: The Search is On!

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About four years ago I first wrote about the Pink-headed Duck , a charming species related to the pochards (although how, exactly, is up for grabs, like so much duck taxonomy.) Presumably, only the swamps and reedy rivers of Myanmar hold the answer. Maybe they’re extinct. Maybe they’re not.

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“The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia”

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This guide describes the 125 best birding sites for both common and rare species, covering Myanmar, Thailand, Laos (officially Lao PDR), Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines and Timor Leste. The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia, edited by Yong Ding Li & Low Bing Wen.

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World birding from a Schrödinger’s house

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Will the threatened species make it through if there are no birding tourists to make those birds and their habitats valuable to local people just the way they are (as opposed to tropical timber)? Here’s an example: in 2015, American birder Noah Strycker broke the global Big Year record with 6042 recorded species. Myanmar 1112 16.

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