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The following link will take you to 40 pages of bird watching logs from my book 'Bird Discoveries' covering my trips abroad since 1971. The data is necessarily brief, however if visitors would like further information by all means contact me on kendall.nigel@gmail.com.
Here is the link, BIRDING TRIP REPORTS, and below is a brief list of the visits plus page numbers. | |
North Eastern Spain September 1972. Page
1: 13 days, 133 species. Some nice migratory birds but the weather was lousy! | Morocco,
July 1996. Page 18: 6 days, 68 species. Two Bald Ibis circling low over Agadir has got to be a real incentive to visit this area. North Western Greece, July 1997. Page 19: 7 days, 83 species. A really excellent bag for only 7 mid summer days, but a car is essential. Kenya, March 1999. Page 20: 9 days, 273 species. This casual birding trip consisted of only about 30 hours of serious bird watching. For photographs see the link below. Cyprus, June 2000. Page 23: 7 days, 41 species. A brief holiday in the height of summer, but the birds weren't as hard work as I had expected. USA, August 2002. Page 23: Five weeks, 85 species. The purpose of the trip was medical help for my daughter, but I managed some birding as well. Canada, September 2003. Page 24: 21 days, 103 species. A family trip to Ontario. The birding was terrific! Kos, May 2004. Page 25: A week, 85 species. An excellent time of year to go birding in the eastern Mediterranean. New Zealand, October 2004. Page 26: 21 days, 80 species. Little variety but excellent quality birding. Canada, May 2005. Page 28: 14 days, 101 species. Spectacular falls of warblers and a couple of local rareties. Andalucia, Spain, April to May 2006. Page 29: Two months, 145 species. A beautiful spring in the Andalucian mountains. The raptor migration was spectacular. Pyrenees, Spain, July 2007. Page 32: 10 days, 114 species. The Spanish Pyrenees. Very dramatic and some great birds. Gambia, December 2008. Page 33: 6 days, 268 species. This trip was amazing, but also exhausting. 42 degrees heat! Greek Macedonia, April 2009. Page 34: 7 days, 125 species. A week of superb birding and hard work! Ontario, Canada, March and June 2010. Page 35: 2 months, 106 species. An amazing spring's birding! I was early enough to catch some wintering species and late enough to get plenty of migrants. I hardly went any further than the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Extramadura, Spain, March 2011. Page 37: 3 days, 111 species. Just a short trip but the species were amazing! Spanish Imperial Eagle made the trip. Tamil Nadu, India, January 2014. Page 38: 16 days, 103 species. Awesome variety of species in mature woodland and wetlands. Travel was very restricted but new species were seen every day. Cyprus, November 2018. Page 39: 7 days, 21 species. Some interesting winter species. Finsch's Wheatear and Armenian Gull headed the list . Huelva, Spain, May 2019. Page 39: 7 days, 50 species. A super stay among the Cork Oaks of Southern Spain. New Zealand, March 2020. Page 40: 3 weeks, 71 species. My second trip back to New Zealand and full of wonderful birdlife. A birder's paradise! |