TEST Asia Related Topics 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
The indoor workshop started with a Covid self-testing (where everyone was negative), followed by lectures on the Swarovski company, its ethos and products. And, expectedly, the advice was: you should significantly lower your prices and move production to Asia. The next day we had an outdoor workshop and a chance to test the toys.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2014
In fact, I had, and still have, a half finished post on the absolute delights of birding the amazing island of Borneo in Asia. Those of you that pay attention may have noticed that I haven’t been posting my rambling and incoherent thoughts much lately.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Covid turned out not to be too much of a hindrance – I had to show a negative PCR test upon arrival on Hainan from Shanghai, and while many Chinese hotels currently do not accept foreigners, I could leave this issue to my guide. Fortunately, they are by now fairly used to dealing with a mediocre birder like me.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2016
The Azure-winged Magpie is a pretty member of the crow family found in Eastern Asia, from Siberia and Japan down to Hong Kong. As well as the population found in East Asia, another smaller population also occurred in the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain and Portugal. I’m back! And what a bird I have for you today. Azure-winged Magpie.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2013
New World Vultures are their own family, Cathartidae, that has moved around a bit with the proliferation of genetic testing such that for a while they were thought to be allied with storks, but is now pretty well within, but not too within, the other diurnal raptors.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Dragan]: The best birding in Asia is not even on the Asian mainland! Although I did test them thoroughly later, I knew from that first sight, this pair was made for me. Yes, this is a shameless plug, but it’s also true.].
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2015
I was still telling the truth when I mentioned the four subspecies, species, taxa, forms, you name it, of the Great Egret: modesta (Asia), alba (Europe, Asia), egretta (Americas) and melanorhynchos (Africa). Well, I must confess that I’ve been lying a bit in that post for the sake of a punchline.
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