Paul's 2024 World List (1 Viewer)

[Paul Chapman]

A couple in the last two days...

686. Mistle Thrush Kingston Seymour, Somerset 7th April
687. Pied Flycatcher Clevedon, North Somerset 8th April

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

A couple of additions in the last two days:-

688. Yellowhammer Walkern, Hertfordshire 16th April
689. Western Yellow Wagtail (Blue-headed) Clevedon, North Somerset 17th April

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

One addition today:-

690. Whitethroat Clevedon, North Somerset 18th April

A pleasant sunny walk.

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

A couple of additions today in another pleasant sunny walk:-

691. Lesser Whitethroat Clevedon, North Somerset 20th April
692. Whinchat Clevedon, North Somerset 20th April

All the best

Paul

 

[Owene]

Like the shades of yellow on that wagtail. Lovely bird

 

[Paul Chapman]

An addition on today's walk:-

693. Short-eared Owl Clevedon, North Somerset 23rd April

A few pics since Saturday.

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

An addition on today's walk:-

694. Reed Warbler Clevedon, North Somerset 24th April

A few pics from today.

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

A few additions over the last couple of days with the first three courtesy of a lunch meeting in Wales:-

695. Redstart Llanbedr, Gwynedd, Wales 27th April.
696. Cuckoo Llanbedr, Gwynedd, Wales 27th April.
697. Bullfinch Llanbedr, Gwynedd, Wales 27th April.
698. Hobby Kingston Seymour, North Somerset 28th April.

A few recent pics since last post.

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

Another addition with a flythrough on my morning walk:-

699. Pink-footed Goose Clevedon, North Somerset 30th April

Pics from yesterday & today.

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

Another addition today with:-

700. Sedge Warbler Clevedon, North Somerset 5th May

It was two hours into a cold walk so I failed to make the effort to get a pic but a few from May attached. Birding currently on patch and on foot but getting itchy feet... It must be the damp weather.

All the best

Paul

 

[martinboer]

If I purchased my wife a present, having entered a "no presents binding bilateral agreement" in 1993, which has been observed for 31 years, after a trip to Thailand, it would cause a whole heap of unmerited suspicion!

Krabi - 15th March
679 - Green-backed Flycatcher
680 - White-bellied Munia
681 - Ferruginous Babbler

Current tallies - expected to be final:-
Trip - 550
Heard - 18
Photographed - 466
Lifers - 239

(Maybe some common photography tomorrow morning at our Bangkok Hotel before our flight thT may add to the photographed....)

Thai List - 622
Thai Heard - 10
Thai Heard but Seen elsewhere - 1
Thai Seen Only not photo'd anywhere - 32
Thai Seen Only but photo'd elsewhere - 15
Thai Photo'd in Thailand - 564

Only a couple of pics this morning - Blyth's Paradise Flycatcher, Green-backed Flycatcher & Ferrruginous Babbler.

All the best

Paul

I'm very impressed Paul. I got to bird in and around Bangkok in March for a day (with a guide) and a half (myself) and only got 104 species. But it was absolutely magnificent - and I was very happy to see two spoon-billed sandpipers, as well as a load of other lifers.

 

[martinboer]

I am very conscious that I am unable to judge regional endemics and specialities. I have been to most localities once only - other than in a Western Palearctic context where there is very limited biodiversity and endemism in any event - so it is interesting beginning to understand some of these concepts.

Our guide had an excellent understanding of distributions and indeed population dynamics and likely future taxonomic changes so all credit goes to him. I am beginning to have an understanding now as to what may come in the future if I start targeting things more specifically.

The Merlin Birdpack has 950 species for Thailand. It is an unusually comprehensive pack. What I would expect as our guide was engaged in its production. If I flick the switch to exclude species that I have already in my eBird list, that reduces to 231 species. (There are one or two more maybe not in my eBird yet but that is about right.) I do intend to look at a few South East Asia trips and the next analysis will probably show where we tried and dipped key targets in Thailand. I think that there are some such as Rusty-cheeked Hornbill but as said, I know that I cannot really make that judgement yet!

We did plan this itinerary in the immediate aftermath of our first Thailand trip.

All the best

Paul

The Merlin birdpack is an excellent resource for this. I was in Colorado Monday-Tuesday and as I moved around it could quickly tell me what I'm likely to see - in order of probability - and then you can remove the ones on your lifelist and highlight the lifers. An amazing resource.