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Three Hokkaido Woodpeckers

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While the name suggests an endemic, it is not – it can also be found in Northeastern China, parts of Russia and the Koreas (though I would probably advise against a birding trip to North Korea). The most interesting of the three (at least to me) is the Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

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Anyway, one of the babblers of Sepilok is the Bornean Black-capped Babbler – the result of a split of the Black-capped Babbler (well, at least from a human perspective – the birds themselves are probably quite nonchalant about it). Fortunately, barbets are fairly common in Yunnan, China, so it was not a particular disappointment.