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Birding Tan Phu Forest, Vietnam (Part 2)

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In this second post on the birds of Tan Phu Forest, let’s get the bulbuls out of the way first. Even for a bulbul, it is a “bulky, very noisy, conspicuous” bird (HBW). Even for a bulbul, it is a “bulky, very noisy, conspicuous” bird (HBW). Three seem to be particularly common here.

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Birding Balangshan (peak area) in June 2023

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In June 2023, I again went to Balangshan, a mountain about 3 hour’s drive from Sichuan’s capital Chengdu – and again with Alpinebirding , fortunately no longer for them to partly deal with confusing covid restrictions but only to help me find birds that I am too incompetent a birder to find on my own. ” Full iteration!

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. One of the central papers, Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds (Jarvis et al. Open Jarvis et al.’s

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

2, 2009 The writer is dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University. Birds need only a fraction of the food that cattle do to gain a pound of meat. Toney Union, N.J., Stephanie Jenkins Highland Park, N.J., Indeed, in Ms.