night herons at Ba Be
April 25th 2017 Almost a day's travel north of Hanoi is the Ba Be National Park, protecting a large but skinny lake surrounded by limestone mountains with remnant forests. Birders go here for just one reason, to try and see white-eared night herons. This is one of the rarest species of herons and is largely restricted to southern China. Until 2008 there were only two records from Vietnam, a specimen from 1975 and
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