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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

10,000 Birds

If you have always wondered what the minimum anesthetic concentration for isoflurane and sevoflurane for the Crested Serpent-eagle is, science has an answer. As you can easily judge from the dullness of this information, it is not something I made up but rather an appalling example of nepotism in the naming of birds.

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Birding Shanghai in October 2022

10,000 Birds

They are also raised commercially for meat and eggs, as described in that beacon of ornithological knowledge, the World’s Poultry Science Journal. Sounds a bit like inbreeding to me, but the bird I saw had only one head, so it should be ok. They can also learn phonetic categories ( source ).

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