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Three Hokkaido Woodpeckers

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A Japanese book on Hokkaido birds lists 6 species of woodpeckers – I saw three of them, presumably the most common ones. The most interesting of the three (at least to me) is the Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker. Give researchers an expensive toy such as a Scanning Electron Microscope, and they will use it on anything at hand.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

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And of course, some Chinese researchers worked on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Greater Coucal. Are these the paper mills one occasionally reads about in relation to Chinese research papers? Sepilok is a good place to see a number of woodpecker species. I think they just got what they deserved.