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Birding Thailand: Doi Lang

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Thailand also has a site where birders go for very much the same reason that Americans go to Bentsen-Rio Grande State Park or the Chiricahuas. It is called Doi Lang, a mountain with a winding road that flanks the Burmese border in far northern Thailand that has affinities to the Himalayan foothills further north and west.

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What is a Merganser?

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One of the sweetest subsections of the duck family has to be the sawbills, formally known as mergansers. Mergansers are a family of diving waterfowl in Merginae , the seaduck subfamily of Anatidae. Ironically, only one of these seaducks is truly a seafarer, the others favoring rivers and lakes.

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A Look Back at 2012

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This is mostly because I started the year in tropical Queensland and ended the year in Thailand and the UK. In one insane day in Thailand I added 96 birds to my year list! That day in Thailand was all the sweeter for not having done much birding over the year, like a long cold gulp of G&T after a hot dusty day.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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This is the home of the Rusty-naped Pitta , admittedly one of the less glamorous of the family, particularly the subspecies found in Yunnan, but still a nice sight and still a pitta. No doubt, the Lesser NLT will be relieved not to be bossed around by its erstwhile bigger family member anymore.

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24 Hours in Bangkok, Bang Poo and Muang Boran

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Also known as the Flyeater, this tiny bird is the only representative of the Australasian warbler family found in mainland Asia, and very similar to my own Grey Warblers in New Zealand, even their songs. Then, among tall grasses, a flock of Bayan Weavers, the first representative of this family I had seen in 8 years.

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Some Birding News about Birders in Costa Rica

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Local guide and birder David Mora Vargas has been spending much of his time at his family’s farm in the Sarapiqui lowlands. At another site in the northern Caribbean lowlands, another local birder has been doing bird counts at his family’ private reserve, Las Arrieras. Check it out: Juvenile Tiny Hawk Show in Sarapiqui.

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Best Bird of the Year – 2013

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When all of you are settling in inside away from the snow for family, food and arguments, we’re all getting our travel on. But the news isn’t entirely gloomy, as numbers of Asian Openbill Storks have recovered in Thailand after crashing. Greater Adjutants are even rarer.

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