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Birding Kota Kinabalu, Borneo: Rice Paddies

10,000 Birds

Apparently, the Malaysian Pied Fantail has only recently been split from the Philippine Pied Fantail. I was wondering whether it is still politically correct to use the word pygmy, as in Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker. There are quite a few synonyms for pygmy – maybe in the future, we will have to talk of the Sunda Undersized Woodpecker?

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