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Sighting a Swinhoe's Pheasant

Sighting a Swinhoe's Pheasant

Kent Chuang　/　photos Kent Chuang　/　tr. by Phil Newell

August 2021

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Swinhoe's Pheasant
Ecology／Conservation Animals Photography Tourism

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