The Li men jostle to sell me supper, all of it live: white-breasted waterhens, little egrets, a black-crowned night heron and a spot-billed duck, the only duck where male and female look alike.

• 黎族人争相向我兜售晚餐，全部是活的：白胸苦恶鸟，小白鹭，黑冠夜鹭，斑嘴鸭，这是唯一一种雌雄看起来都很像的鸭子。