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SICHUAN, CHINA - APRIL/MAY 2006
32 bird photos + 1 scenery shot.This was a fascinating trip, and surprisingly good for photography. We visited a variety of habitats, from subtropical forest in the lower latitudes to the still snow-covered Tibetan plateau in the north. I also enjoyed the whole experience of visiting China - seeing the culture, enjoying the great food, though I was certainly alarmed by the insane rate of growth and development. I had borrowed the company's SLR for this trip, but at the time we only had a heavy, unstabilized 300 mm f/2.8 lens. It grabbed lots of light but was very hard to hold steady even with a tripod. However, one of my all-time favorite shots came with that lens, the Golden Parrotbill which was published in HBW12. Surprisingly, the White-browed Tit, which is a rather mediocre, grainy, digiscoped shot, also was published in HBW12. It is a rare, local, and endemic species, and it's possible that, at the time, it was the best image in existance of that species.
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| Gray-faced
Buzzard Butastur indicus (D3) |
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| Black-necked
Crane Grus nigricollis (D3) |
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| Speckled
Wood-Pigeon Columba hodgsonii (D3) |
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| Large
Hawk-Cuckoo Cuculus sparverioides (D3) |
Long-tailed Shrike Lanius schach (D3) |
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| Songar
Tit Poecile songara (S3) |
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| White-browed
Tit Poecile superciliosa (S3) |
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| Green-backed
Tit Parus monticolus (D3) |
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| Ground
Tit Pseudopodoces humilis (D3) |
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| Ground
Tit Pseudopodoces humilis Fledglings. (D3) |
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| Black-throated Tit Aegithalos concinnus (S3) |
Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus (D3) |
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| Aberrant
Bush-Warbler Cettia flavolivacea (D3) |
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| White-browed
Tit-Warbler Leptopoecile sophiae (S3) |
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| Rufous-faced
Warbler Abroscopus albogularis (S3) |
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| Fujian
Niltava Niltava davidi (D3) |
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| White-throated
Redstart Phoenicurus schisticeps Male. The white throat is not visible from this angle. (D3) |
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| White-capped
Redstart Chaimarrornis leucocephalus Male. (D3) |
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| Plumbeous
Redstart Rhyacornis fuliginosa Male. (D3) |
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| Plumbeous
Redstart Rhyacornis fuliginosa Female. (D3) |
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| Grandala Grandala coelicolor (D3) |
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| Giant
Laughingthrush Garrulax maximus (D3) |
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| White-collared
Yuhina Yuhina diademata (D3) |
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| Brown
Parrotbill Paradoxornis unicolor (D3) |
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| Golden
Parrotbill Paradoxornis verreauxi (D3) |
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| Robin
Accentor Prunella rubeculoides (D3) |
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| Rufous-breasted
Accentor Prunella strophiata (D3) |
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| Godlewski's
Bunting Emberiza godlewskii (D3) |
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| Dark-breasted
Rosefinch Carpodacus nipalensis (D3) |
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| Gray-headed
Bullfinch Pyrrhula erythaca Male. (D3) |
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| Gray-headed
Bullfinch Pyrrhula erythaca Female. (D3) |
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| Yellow-billed
Grosbeak Eophona migratoria (S3) |
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| Balan
Shan mountains after an April snowstorm This photo was not taken in black-and-white! This is really how it looked - one of the most amazing mountain vistas I have ever seen. (P2) |
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