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Birding around Xining, Qinghai

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So, I asked around and was told that Qinghai is the place to go to for birds in China in August. Similarly, the Alpine Leaf Warbler is one of the more attractive species in an otherwise almost indistinguishable family of identical leaf warblers. (“But the difference in wing bars, Kai!”). A Snowy-browed Nuthatch.

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Getting sentimental: Birding at Baihualing, China

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On the other hand, another species – the Red-tailed Minla – is not a member of the Actinodura family. It likes to be in its own family, confusingly named Minla (of which the Blue-winged Minla and the Bar-throated Minla are not members). The Maroon Oriole thus is not as much of an outsider as I thought.

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