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    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    Here's one that's quite unlikely: a friend of mine has seen exactly two Western Sandpipers his entire life, yet has that species in four different countries. We watched one together in Jan 2017 on a sandbank in the Putumayo river that marks the boundary between Colombia and Peru (AFAIK, the...
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    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    It's now a time-honored tradition on Linosa that we find some of the very best birds when we've given up on birding and are heading out for a swim. Top birds found this way include Blyth's and American Pipits (both firsts for Italy), and Desert Whetear on the very rocks we were planning to dive...
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    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    Same with me, five Tiny Hawks and a Semicollared but no Bicolored. And while I heard Slaty-backed Forest-Falcon only once, I did see that bird, yet I have heard Lined Forest-Falcon on double-digit occasions but have yet to lay eyes on one
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    Your silliest/most entertaining/unlikely birding accomplishments

    I was one of the original finders of that Kelp Gull... Not sure if this is stretching the intent of this thread a bit, but my two craziest lifer combinations are my life Razorbill and my life Vermillion Flycatcher on the same day on the eastern shore of MD/VA, and seeing my life Fork-tailed...
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