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- noun a
passerine bird of eastern Asia in the Old Worldbabbler family,Timaliidae
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At least 60 proposals on different species will be discussed, including those to place the Asian urial, a wild sheep; the coelacanth, a unique living fossil fish; the hwamei, a songbird and the Chinese happy tree on CITES 'Appendix I, which forbids all trade.
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I observed the custom with a tinge of sadness; the cages were very cramped and the hwamei are caught from the wild, not bred in captivity.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The birds were hwamei, a species of laughing thrush.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The hwamei (a species of laughing thrush) and two species of bulbuls were compared and Weir found that whilst the former remained on average no more than 50 m from their feeding territories during a 10 minute gut passage time, bulbuls wandered about twice as far, thus functioning as effective seed dispersers for trees in Hong Kong's fragmented landscape.
The annotated budak 2008
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