A Buddhist Monk Saves One of the World's Rarest Birds | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine

A Buddhist Monk Saves One of the World's Rarest Birds | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine: "“Rrrrrr, Badgers!” Tashi Zangpo says, cradling the remains of a bird nest in his hands on a mountain slope nearly 14,000 feet above sea level. For weeks, Tashi, a Tibetan Buddhist monk and self-taught conservation biologist, has scoured these mountains in China’s Qinghai province for nests of the Tibetan bunting. Now that he’s found one, he’s discovered that a badger has beaten him to it and devoured the young."

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