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One More New Bird • Into the Light Adventures Daily Adventures

One More New Bird – I wasn’t sure what this bird was. A duck or something else. It took awhile to find it in my bird book.

But it is a Clapper Rail, it looks half duck and half something else. Even when I looked up information on this bird, this is what it says.

This bird is a member of the rail family, Rallidae. The taxonomy for this species is confusing and still being determined. It is a large brown rail that is resident in wetlands along the Atlantic coasts of the eastern United States, eastern Mexico and some Caribbean islands.

One More New Bird

Source: One More New Bird • Into the Light Adventures Daily Adventures

Rebels push over 600 junta personnel out of Myanmar-Thailand border town — Radio Free Asia

Rebels push over 600 junta personnel out of Myanmar-Thailand border townA Myanmar National Airlines plane carrying family members of the junta on the night of April 7, 2024.

Myanmar junta forces, pushed out by rebel groups at the border township of Myawaddy, have requested to be evacuated with their family members through a Thai border town, Thailand’s foreign ministry said on Monday.

“After receiving the said request, and upon considering the urgency of the situation and the possibility of an evacuation of Myanmar personnel and their families to safe areas, a decision was made at the government level to approve the request from Myanmar on humanitarian grounds,” said the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement.

Around 617 personnel have requested evacuation, including 410 soldiers and 207 family members, according to Thai media.

Source: Rebels push over 600 junta personnel out of Myanmar-Thailand border town — Radio Free Asia