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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan (again)

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’ The Beautiful Sibia is beautiful even in Mandarin Chinese (Li se qi mei, “Beautiful babbler”) … … and of course in science (scientific name pulchella , “little beautiful”). . … Traill did this enough times that Shirley began to hide the scale.’

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 2)

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I agree with eBird that the Asian Glossy Starling is “fierce-looking” Appropriately, it is an invasive species in places such as Taiwan, where some papers recommend reducing the population. There is a lengthy description of how these rules – after much deliberation – came to be accepted.

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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

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A study found that for Plain Prinia , egg characteristics in a mainland China location with many cuckoos make it much easier to spot cuckoo eggs than in a Taiwan location with few cuckoos ( source ). But then, maybe not – it seems to be the nature of science that the more you know, the more you want to know.

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