In Khao Yai National Park, Thailand

The banded broadbill (Eurylaimus javanicus) is a species of typical broadbill found in Mainland Southeast Asia and the Greater Sunda Islands. It inhabits a variety of forests, mostly in lowland areas. A striking, large-bodied bird, it is mostly purplish-red, with yellow-streaked black wings, a bright blue beak, a blackish face, and greyish chin and upper breast. Females can usually be told apart from males by their lack of a neckband. The species mainly eats arthropods, but also feeds on snails, lizards, frogs, and figs. Breeding occurs during the dry season on the mainland, from March to November in the Greater Sundas, and year-round on Java. Nests are built over clearings or water bodies and have clutches of two or three eggs. The banded broadbill is sometimes split into two species, E. javanicus and E. harterti, including by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which classifies E. javanicus as being near-threatened and E. harterti as being of least concern. (Full article...)

Bakhshi in 2022

• ... that Surinder Singh Bakhshi (pictured) led the successful containment of smallpox in the community during Birmingham's smallpox outbreak in 1978?
• ... that the 2022 U.S. Open Cup Final was the first in 14 years to feature a non-Major League Soccer team?
• ... that Pietro Badoer was banished twice, poisoned one of his three wives, but declined an offer for a coup to make him doge?
• ... that college debates in the United States were originally conducted entirely in Latin?
• ... that despite entering politics as part of a right-wing party, Betty Tejada was later elected president of the Chamber of Deputies as a member of the Movement for Socialism?
• ... that Britten's Five Flower Songs, part songs composed for a couple's 25th wedding anniversary, premiered at their estate Dartington Hall?
• ... that when Rain Pryor drew a picture of her friend Skeeter the unicycling clown in school, her teacher said that there were no Black clowns?
• ... that British logistics in the Western Allied Invasion of Germany involved buffaloes, ducks and weasels?

Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba

• In Malang Regency, Indonesia, at least 125 people are killed in a human crush at an association football match.
• In Burkina Faso, a coup d'état led by Ibrahim Traore deposes interim president Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba (pictured).
• Russia annexes the partially occupied Ukrainian oblasts of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson after widely condemned referendums.
• Hurricane Ian impacts Cuba and the United States, leaving at least 87 people dead and millions without power.
• After the general election in Nauru, Russ Kun is sworn in as President.