10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2024
He published a number of books on birds of India and Burma, making me wonder how hard all these overseas civil servants really worked in their day jobs. George Rippon (1861-1927), a member of the British Army in India and Burma. Wikipedia reports that he “was an excellent tennis player and an enthusiastic big game hunter.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 21, 2014
It inhabits rather dry areas within a region notorious for being one of the rainiest parts of the world, and is thus patchily distributed from Burma through Laos, Cambodia, parts of Thailand and south China, all the way to Vietnam. The Brown Prinia is an Asian species with a very peculiar range.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2024
In this case, the correct one (according to the HBW) is Sir Herbert Thirkell White (1855-1931), a British colonial administrator in Burma. He also wrote some books on Burma, one of which (“A Civil Servant in Burma”) Wikipedia calls a classic. In my opinion, eBird is a bit unfair to the female Rufous-bellied Niltava.
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