Hong Kong: Indochinese Yuhina
Malcolm Peaker (noreply@blogger.com)
AJP spotted this bird in the New Territories at the end of winter there. In our time in 1960s Hong Kong it would have caused a sensation amongst the birdwatchers for the simple reason it remained unrecorded there for at least another two decades. The latest Field Guide to the Birds of Hong Kong and South China (9th edition, 2022) describes it as “mostly an irruptive and uncommon winter visitor increasing, scarce and localised in summer’. This bird is just one example of the vastly increased numb