This is sad, but I think I should still post the photos of captured wild birds in Bac Ha market (a famous tourist place in Lao Cai province). Some of the smaller birds are sold for VND10,000 ($0.5) each and I saw people buying them for their children to play for fun.
Ha Hoang
BirdLife Vietnam
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| Lots of Hwamei are also sold, but they were said to be imported from breeders in China. |
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| Eurasian Wryneck Jynx torquilla |
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| Chestnut Bunting Emberiza rutila (first winter male) |
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| Blue-winged Minla (Khướu lùn cánh xanh) Minla cyanouroptera |
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| Spectacled Barwing (Khướu đuôi vằn Vân Nam) Actinodura ramsayi |
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| Four to the right: Whiskered Yuhina (Khướu mào cổ hung) Yuhina flavicollis constantiae |
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| Black-throated Laughingthrush (Khướu bạc má) Garrulax chinensis |
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| Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler (Mi đất ngực luốc) Pomatorhinus ruficollis |
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| Right: Red-billed leiothrix (Kim oanh mỏ đỏ) Leiothrix lutea |
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| Mountain Bamboo Partridge Bambusicola fytchii |
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| Silver-eared Mesia (Kim oanh tai bạc) Leiothrix agentauris |
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| Common Kestrel (Cắt lưng hung) Falco tinnunculus |
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| Grey-faced Buzzard (Diều Ấn độ) Butastur indicus |
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| Merlin (Cắt lưng xám) Falco columbarius |
I've been looking at these raptor photos with a friend. Any chance that the last bird is a juvenile Shikra, and the one above it is a Common Buzzard of some plumage? Cheers.
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