If you listened to the last episode, you know that I'm on this big trip through Asia,

starting in Vietnam, then going to Cambodia, China, and so on.

Well, right now I am in China.

I'm in a town called Bar-Cam, which is in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture,

one of them anyway, way up in the mountains on the Tibetan

plateau. I think I'm at about 8,000 feet in terms of elevation right now. I'm sitting in a nice

hotel room and I finally carved out a little time to record the next podcast episode. So this is another

From the Field episode.

I'm just doing this from an outline.

I don't have a script.

I'm doing it again in a hotel room,

which is less than ideal,

but this is the only way I can do it

while I'm traveling.

It's a big trip,

and so I wanted to keep the podcast rolling.

And so here we

are in bar cam China but the episode that I'm going to be presenting to you is not about

China we're going to roll back a little bit and I'm going to talk to you about my

experiences in Vietnam and Cambodia about the birds in those places as well as my experiences of those

birds. And then later, hopefully, I'll do an episode on my experiences with the birds in China,

because so far they've been pretty amazing. But Vietnam and Cambodia were awesome as well,

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