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    South America: Where?

    ‘I think altitude sickness is rather unpredictable.’…….. ‘Happy Tea’ helps 😉…….
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    South America: Where?

    Hi Re Palominos….difficult to say exactly as it was part of our total package for Peru ( doing the touristy bit plus some birding where I could….my wife is not a birder) but looking up very similar trips they appear to run between £40-60 pp. BTW you don’t have to swim with the sea lions!😬but be...
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    South America: Where?

    Was at the Palominos Islands in October (morning boat out of Callao, just southwest of Lima airport). Penguin readily seen, along with many of the Peruvian coastal specialties. It wasn’t a dedicated birding trip, more a ‘swim with the sea lions’ thing (not my cup of tea) but fortunately the...
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    Visiting Mauritius

    Indeed. Black River Gorge NP will get you most, if not all, the endemics. I did use the Wildlife Foundation service to get the Olive White-eye (which I missed at BRG) on Ile aux Aigrettes.
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    Visiting Mauritius

    Try this organisation: https://www.mauritian-wildlife.org/whatwedo They also run ecotours to some spots around the island….
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    Costa Rica Gateway

    Hi Chris We did a tour with them in 2020: I don’t know about recent reviews per se but we had a well organised and successful trip with them, if 4 years ago is not too far back. Costa Rica Gateway’s facebook page has recent tours highlighted so assuming all is operating well for them. Regards
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    Estonia.

    You could try Kadriorg Park
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    Madeira

    Monte palace gardens for firecrest and chaffinch The Zino night tour will get you silhouettes and calls (one skimmed my head 😳) and the hike back to car park was (k)nackering ! The only place I got the pigeon was on one of the Madeira windbird tours (who are great btw) to the east of Funchal at...
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    Bat. Costa Rica

    Many thanks: much appreciated
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    Bat. Costa Rica

    Wondered if anyone could id this bat? Near Cope’s, Costa Rica
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    Lesser Antilles cruise

    https://stluciawildlife.com/component/k2/itemlist/category/7-our-tours These do ‘cruise ship specials’ on St Lucia. I used them for a morning’s birding (Vision was my guide) and got all the endemics in an hour and a half, but we were staying on the island for a week. I’m sure their cruise ship...
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    What has happened to BUBO

    Perhaps this thread? https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=371920
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    Last 3 ticks whats yours?

    Barred warbler (!) Mauritius Olive White-eye Mauritius Fody
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    California info

    Yellow-billed Magpie to the south of Morro Bay, though I didn't note the exact location, on our way south towards LA. This was in May. Might be Los Alamos Country Park, where they hop around your feet
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    Norfolk birding

    As at 15:20 today: Council now agreed to remove some of it at the upper sections. Still some issues re length and materials used, apparently
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