China Eggs Hunting 
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2024
It seems this species is shy even by pitta standards – the HBW calls it a “very shy and secretive pitta, easily overlooked” and says that it is “very rare in China (S. Some like Charles Vaurie have considered it so unreliable that they even suggested the destruction of his egg collection.”
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2014
Karen studied graphic design in London and has illustrated a number of books on Asian birds, plants, and wildlife, including the mammoth A Field Guide to the Birds of China (co-authored with John MacKinnon, Oxford Univ. Browsing this field guide is a visual pleasure. But, I couldn’t help wonder why there is such a range of illustration.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2023
The last time I birded Longcanggou, a national forest park in China’s Sichuan province, was in November 2021. Today, the national forest park is open to tourists – which in China means large groups of people in similarly large buses. Some individuals even rejected their own eggs when they were in the minority.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 9, 2023
The Bar-backed Partridge is a species of partridge found in southwestern China and Southeast Asia. The Bar-backed Partridge was also one of four focal species in an investigation into illegal bird hunting in Southwestern China. If I can give you some advice: Better not be a bird in China. Unsurprisingly, it is.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2024
Kind of an innocent version of tropical China, but I guess that is a rather naive view … Most birders coming here presumably do not have babblers as their main targets, even though there are quite a few species here, and some of them are quite attractive as well. My way of squeezing more blog posts out of my birding trips.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2024
In Grey-backed Shrikes (at least those breeding on the Tibetan plateau), the eggs laid during one breeding attempt get larger with time – presumably an attempt to at least partly overcome the disadvantages the last chick faces ( source ). melliana from alleged contact zone(s) in northern Laos and possibly south-western China.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2022
Like a bad boyfriend not changing into nicer clothes for an evening out, the Brown-cheeked Fulvetta gets chided on eBird for not making any efforts: “an unapologetically drab and unmarked fulvetta” The Chestnut-headed Bee-eater apparently digs nest-burrows in which to lay its eggs. “It is not deep enough yet!
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