Yunnan 2007 Part 5

Part 5 starts in the Yingjiang area, but then moves on to Ruili on the Burmese border.

Species featured in the Yingjiang area are buff-barred warbler, scarlet minivet, yellow-cheeked tit, grey sibia, grey-cheeked fulvetta, very brief golden babbler, fire-breasted flowerpecker, rusty-capped fulvetta, red-faced liocichla, the call of a very well hidden cachar wedge-billed wren-babbler and mountain bamboo-partridge.

Species featured in the Ruili area are rufous-necked laughingthrush, plaintive cuckoo, Burmese shrike, female grey bushchat, Oriental magpie-robin, a mixed group of rufous-necked and white-browed laughingthrushes then just white-browed, collared myna, red-whiskered bulbul, river lapwing, greater coucal, nutmeg mannikin, plain prinia, something too brief to identify, Oriental white-eye, rusty-fronted barwing and a rufous-backed sibia at dusk.

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• bird
• birding
• yingjiang
• ruili
• yunnan
• china
• expedition