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Nanhui, Shanghai in late autumn

10,000 Birds

Would probably wear heavily patterned fisherman`s wool sweaters if turned into a human. While Long-tailed Shrikes are the second hand car dealers of the Nanhui bird world, some of the other members of the shrike family are a bit more subtle. Male and female Japanese Thrush , rather elegant members of the family.

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Costa Rica’s Signature Parakeet

10,000 Birds

Bird in southern Asia and there are mynas and magpie-robins. You’ll probably hear them first, like so many others of their family, they aren’t shy about making some noise. As if in defiance of the dominant human presence, they roost in large palm trees, even in urban parks and along noisy, busy roads.

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

10,000 Birds

If you had your choice of one bird family to pursue, to seek out and observe and photograph and kvell over, which one would you choose? A passion for one bird family is also very useful. I’m surprised that the book doesn’t include images reflecting some of the hummingbird and human history Dunn writes about in such detail.

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Birding Ruoergai, Sichuan, China

10,000 Birds

Europeans must use these to come and bear away in the name of civilization all these dregs of the human race. A thousand of our soldiers would be enough to subdue all Asia from Lake Baykal to the Himalayas … Here the exploits of Cortez can still be repeated.”

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Birding Acapulco

10,000 Birds

The third weekend of January, I travelled to the coastal city of Acapulco to give a seminar on family finances at a church there. It originally served as the port of entry for goods brought from Asia by Spanish galleons. And my one lifer for the trip was a family of Rufous-naped Wrens that apparently live in the same garden.

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Nyala, Southern Africa’s Stunning Antelope

10,000 Birds

I’m a big fan of the antelopes, a group that is most commonly associated with Africa but which also occurs in Asia and, if you stretch the term to be cladistically meaningful, Europe and North America. By this I mean applying the term antelope to cover all of the family Bovidae, which would include the sheep, goats and ox.

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The Hidden Qualities of House Sparrows

10,000 Birds

To us on the traditional side of the Atlantic, they’ll always belong to the family Iznogoudae , the birds who want to become warblers instead of the warblers. These subspecies can be divided into two major clades, the domesticus group and the indicus group, with the indicus group occupying south and parts of central Asia.

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