Final Tally. Ended the year with Antarctica & S Georgia, with Emperor Penguin, SG Pipit, White-headed Petrel; Madagascar, with Helmet Vanga, Short-legged Ground-Roller; Brazil, with Elegant Mourner, Red-billed Curassow, Striated Softtail, White-winged Cotinga, Dwarf Tinamou, Brasilia Tapaculo, Campo Miner, Swallow-tailed Cotinga; Bolivia, with S Horned Curassow, Blue-throated & Red-fronted Macaws, Rufous-sided Pygmy-Tyrant, Ocellated Crake, Ash-breasted Tit-Tyrant; Gabon, arguably my top Africa trip EVER for rarities: point-blank Grey-throated Rail, 20 mins with Oriole Cuckooshrike, Sandy Scops- and Maned Owls at day roosts, Lyre-tailed Honeyguide displaying at <50m distance; Central and SW Mexico, with Short-crested Coquette, Sumicharast's Wren & Sparrow, Rosita's Bunting, Lesser Roadrunner, Dwarf Jay; all Cuban endemics except Zapata Rail; Guyana, with CRIPPling Crimson Fruitcrow & Rufous-winged Ground-Cuckoo; first 2006 bird Black Harrier at home

Updated 2 April 2007. Finally did six overseas trips last year - Kenya, Venezuela, China, Uganda, Australia and Argentina plus some birding in the UK. Sorry to be so late adding the final total!

Australia additions: In the Northern Territory Gouldian Finch, Yellow Chat, Rainbow Pitta, Red Goshawk, Purple-crowned fairywren & White-quilled Rock-Pigeon. In eastern Oz: Southern Cassowary, Golden, Satin & Regent Bowerbirds, Victorias & Paradise Riflebirds, Albert's Lyrebird, Blue-faced Parrotfinch, Noisy Pitta, Painted Honeyeater, Chowchilla, and a stunning pair of Spotted Quail-thrush. Also a load of good nightbirds including Marbled, Papuan & Tawny Frogmouths, Australian Owlet-Nightjar and Powerful Owl. In Tasmania: Little Penguin, Scrubtit, Pink Robin, Flame Robin, Dusky Robin and Cape Barren Goose. Some of the latest additions in southern Ecuador were Jocotoco & Watkins's Antpittas, Elegant Crescent-chest, Plumbeous Rail, Grey-headed Antbird, Henna-hooded Foliage-gleaner, Black-crested Tit-tyrant, Pale-browed Tinamou, El Oro Parakeet, Ochre-bellied Dove, El Oro Tapaculo, Long-wattled Umbrellabird, Bay-crowned & White-headed Brush-finches, Tumbes Sparrow and Piura Hemispingus. Tanager Finch, Peruvian, Giant, Yellow-breasted Antpittas, Rufous Potoo, Orange-breasted Fruiteater and Harpy Eagle in Ecuador; Fiery-tailed Awlbill, Black-girdled Barbet, Hyacinth Macaws, Great Rufous Woodcreeper in Brazil; Bearded Helmetcrest, Vermilion Cardinals, Gray-naped Antpitta, Bronze-tailed Thornbill and Rufous-browed Conebill in Venezuela; Bornean Bristlehead, Blue-headed Pitta, Black-crowned Pitta, Everett's Thrush, Bornean & Black-throated Wren-Babblers in Borneo; Banded and Garnet Pittas in Malaysia along with Rail-Babbler; Chinese Monal, Golden & Lady Amherst's Pheasants, Firethroat, Sichuan Jay, Wood Snipe, Crested Tit-Warbler, Grey-hooded, Golden, Spectacled, & Three-toed Parrotbills in Sichuan, China. Australia up next!

Need to update my list, just back from a nice weekend on Vlieland, with e.a. dotterel and red-breasted flycatcher

Northern Peru..fabulous !

Updated 22 Oct.Sweden,Vietnam,Tanzania,Morocco,China,Ecuador

So far this year, February in Japan (Short-tailed Albatross, Herald Petrel, Oriental Stork, Japanese Scops Owl, Thayer's Gull, Japanese Waxwings, Pine Puntings etc), Tanzania (Beesley's Lark and Grey-crested Helmetshrike), Western Mexico (Rosy Thrush-Tanagers, Aztec and Grayson's Thrushes plus c60 endemics), Taiwan (all endemics, potential splits etc including gripping views of both pheasants and the partridge and also Fairy Pittas!), Alaska (where highlights included mega views of all 4 eiders, Red-legged Kittiwake, Emperor Geese, Bristle-thighed Curlew, 13 species of alcid and Snowy, Great Grey, Tengmalms (Boreal) and Northern Saw-whet Owls), Uganda (well over 580 species recorded including stunning views of African Green Broadbill, Green-breasted Pitta and Shoebill. Yellow Penduline Tit may have been a first for Uganda and East Africa!!), French Polynesia where highlights included the stunning Tuamotu Sandpiper, the critically endangered Polynesian Ground Dove and the superb Polynesian Storm Petrel as well as a load more globally threatened endemics and 518 species in South Africa in October!

Vietnam in February, Tanzania in March, Hawaii in April, Ecuador in September + Europe (Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Serbia)

southern Brazil (1 month), Israel (1 week), Turkey (2 weeks), the Canaries (1 week) and the USA (Chicago and DC for 10 days; largely not birding). At last saw Dryocopus (Celeus) galeatus and Picumnus nebulosus in Brazil! Back in Brazil for a few months...(currently in Rondonia)

81 species in Costa Rica on New Year's Day included Spectacled Antpitta and Black-and-White Owl. 224 in England but only rarities so far Lesser Scaup (three times), Long-billed Dowitcher, Lesser Yellowegs and Two-barred Greenish Warbler. 228 in Sri Lanka including all the endemics. 119 in eastern Bulgaria including fantastic numbers of geese and a Gt Black-headed Gull. 362 in Ghana including the first Ortolan for the country. 135 in four days in southern Poland. 362 in Ecuador/Galapagos. 112 in Sardinia/Corsica. 210 in southern Turkey. 445 in NW Venezuela.

Re-entered 3/10/07

Finished the year in Vietnam with a trip to Burma prior to that. I don't think this is too bad given I am restricted to the Asia/Australia region - so far this year Sri Lanka, South India, Cambodia, Thailand, Assam, Bhutan, China, Borneo, Malaysia, Palawan & the Northern Territory. Major highlights have been Bornean Ground Cuckoo, Giant Pitta, Black-breasted Parrotbill, Palawan Peacock-Pheasant, and a bucket load of other goodies!

updated 9 October; a lot of great stuff in Ecuador over the past month incl Baudo Guan in Cotacachi-Cayapas, Red-legged Honeycreeper at Kumanii Lodge, Zimmer's Tody-Tyrant and hundreds of other birds at Kapawi Lodge, Spotted Puffbird and young Harpy at Gareno Lodge, and Yellow-throated Spadebill at WildSumaco; a few bits and pieces during family holiday in Spain and Belgium; great week in Tanzania where highlights included Silvery-cheeked Hornbill, Taveta Golden Weaver and Gray-crested Helmetshrike; loads of other goodies in Ecuador earlier in the year, including singing Tropical Mockingbirds in Chota Valley (first tape-recordings for the country), several range extensions near San Lorenzo, Scarlet-and-white Tanager at <2m, Short-tailed Parrots about 10 km N of Zamora (1st record for SE Ecuador), Beautiful Jays during lunch with my kid at El Pahuma Orchid Reserve, great close-ups of worm-fed Giant, Yellow-breasted and Moustached Antpittas near Mindo, superb scope views of Scarlet-breasted Dacnis, Rufous-winged, Emerald and Blue-whiskered Tanagers at canopy tower in Silanche reserve, Spot-fronted Swifts overhead in same area, first Little Cuckoo for Mindo Cloudforest Reserve, Riverside Tyrant near Sacha Lodge, perched Crested Eagle as well as Ornate and Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle from Sacha Lodge canopy walkway

31 December. Brasil (MT, RJ, RO); India (N and Assam); Bolivia (Beni); Mexico (mostly Veracruz).

Costa Rica- Uniform Crake, White-crested Coquette, Yellow-billed Cotinga, Purplish-backed Quail-Dove, Great Green Macaw ------- Brazil - Fiery-tailed Awlbill, Crested Eagle, Dark-winged Trumpeter, White-browed Hawk, Cryptic Forest-Falcon, Chestnut-throated Spinetail, Spotted Puffbird, Kawall's Amazon, Long-tailed Potoo, Rufous-sided Pygmy-Tyrant, Swallow-tailed Cotinga, Tawny-browed Owl, Gray-hooded Attila, Russet-winged Spadebill ------- Ecuador- Bicolored Antpitta, Crescent-faced Antpitta, Olive Finch, Jocotoco Antpitta, Long-wattled Umbrellabird, Sulphur-throated Finch, Dusky Piha, Barred Antthrush, Semicollared Hawk, Scarlet-and-white Tanager

Oct. 27th Giant wood rail in Buenos Aires; Oct. 1 - In Wyoming last week on business, picked-up two lifers, black rosy finch and sage grouse; Aug. 1st - Home from Uganda - Pel's Fishing Owl!; June 2nd - back from business in Thailand - 8 species of hornbill; April - Oooo! Just back from business in Hong Kong - Nordman's Greenshank!

Updated 13 November. From trips to Belize, India, Syria, Portugal, Turkey, Mongolia and Brazil.

UK, Zambia,Peru & Ethiopia

Cone-billed Tanager - Brazil

Added 400 species in NW Venezuela Nov 2006. Added 20 on Biscay trip including 5 species of shearwater. Added 200 species in USA in Montana, including goodies such as Harlequin Duck & Varied Thrush. 385 species in Uganda with 4 at stopover at Addis Ababa airport, rest in UK

Peru June/August 930 species, Israel march 1 week with my wife, Denmark and Southern Sweden. Peru is stunning, Manu Road+lowlands simply the best birding I have ever seen and in pristine habitat.

Last upd: 16-Nov-06: Visited Australia (Sydney), New Caledonia, Cook Islands, Samoa, Vanuatu, Tanzania, Thailand (Doi Angkhang and Pai), Yemen (Socotra), India (Cobett and Ranthambhor) and Oman (Muscat)

Green Violet-Ear in Iowa, Western Reef-Heron in New Hampshire. Much less traveling than last year - one big trip to central Peru with 6 new cotingas and more. Started the year with Sulphur-rumped Tanager & Tacarcuna Bush-Tanager in Panama

Harpy Eagle, Rufous Potoo, Greater Scythebill, Moustached, Giant, and Yellow-breasted Antpittas in Ecuador, Scallop-breasted Antpitta and Plain-flanked Rail in Venezuela, all but 1 of the Jamaican endemics, Dupont's Lark and Balearic Warbler in Spain, Wallcreeper in France, Red-breasted Goose in Holland

Oct 25 Cackling Goose Monkton, Maryland

Giant Ibis, Blakiston's Fish-Owl, Philippine Monkey-Eagle, Whiskered Pitta, Palawan Peacock Pheasant, all five Madagascaran Ground-Rollers, North Island Kiwi

Puerto Rico;Oaxaca&Chiapas,Mexico;West Papua, Indonesia

3 jul: Peru only; 59 species of birds of prey: 1 Crested Eagle, 4 Harpy Eagles, many other eagles, 5 Orange-breasted Falcons

Spoon-billed Sandpiper Thailand.Black-necked Crane, Ibisbill, Rufous-necked Hornbill in Bhutan. pale-capped Pigeon, Bengal Florican, Pallas' & Grey-headed Fish Eagles , Greater Adjutant, Black -necked stork in Assam. Oilbird first bird of year-Caripe, Venezuela. Black & White Eagle, Tody Motmot, Yellow-eared Toucanet, Black-crowned Antpitta, Brown-billed Scythebill - Panama

N.A. (ON, WA, AK), India, Mexico

Last update 02-08-2006: Uganda (Pel's Fishing Owl, Shoebill, Green-breasted Pitta, Grauer's Broadbill), Holland(Black Woodpecker (as usual), Green Heron, Slender-billed Gull) and Costa Rica (Quetzal, Flame-throated warbler, Great Currasow)

Ibisbill; Grey-winged Cotinga; Trinidad Piping-guan, Bearded Bellbird; Oilbird; Taita Falcon, Blue Swallow +UK and Finnish birds. Seen only records.

Final update: Spoon-billed Sandpiper in Bangladesh and Black Stilt in NZ, Grey-rumped Treeswift in Singapore, Long-toed Lapwing and Double-banded Courser in Kenya. Stone Curlew England, Middle-spotted woodpecker in Germany, Capercaillie and Great Snipe in Karelia, Russia, Arctic Redpoll and Hawk Owl in Finland and Serin in Geneva, Corn Crake in Germany, Arctic Russia with Snowy owl and King Eider, Penduline Tit on Helgoland, Surf Scoter England, Steller's Jay in Alaska, Saunders Gull in Japan and Banded Kingfisher and Spoon-billed Sandpiper again in Thailand

probably few more, 150+ species in Malaysia, 531 up to now in Australia and few more in the Netherlands

England based. Latest 23/7 Ecuador totalling over 520 ticks for year. Over 800 for year now (need to confirm total)

UK, recce to southest Brazil with 116 lifers of which 41 were endemics, northern India with Indian Bustard, recce trip to Japan with Steller's Sea-eagle and five species of cranes, Israel with a first for the country, Lesser Flamingo, Georgia & Armenia with both Snowcocks, Caucasian Grouse, Radde's Accentor & White-throated Robin and Kazakhstan with Relict Gull again

Venezuela, SE Brazil, Britain and Ireland.

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Vietnam,Thailand,Singapore,Pen Malaysia,Netherlands and France

Trips to Spain, Oman, Brazil

UK,SouthAfrica,Bulgaria

20.2.06. All in Ecuador, mostly northwest. Highlights include White-faced Nunbird, Semicollared Hawk, Foothill Elaenia, Imperial Snipe, Tooth-billed Hummingbird, Black-tipped Cotinga, Ocellated Tapaculo, Giant Conebill, Rufous-bellied Seedsnipe...

Saw-billed Hermit, Black-hooded, Serra and Restinga Antwren, Long-trained Nightjar in Brazil and Solitary Sandpiper in Holland.

Costa Rica for 2 weeks, Maine for 4 days. Rest are from Massachusetts. (Last updated 3/5/07)

ABA Area (Indiana, California, Illinois, North Carolina), England, and Tunisia. 2006 Lifers: Black-footed Albatross, Laysan Albatross, Northern Fulmar, Herald Petrel, Black-capped Petrel, Cory's Shearwater, Flesh-footed Shearwater, Greater Shearwater, Levantine Shearwater, Audubon's Shearwater, Wilson's Storm-Petrel, Band-rumped Storm-Petrel, Ashy Storm-Petrel, Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel, Red-billed Tropicbird, Northern Gannet, White-headed Duck, Marbled Teal, Purple Heron, Eurasian Spoonbill, Black-shouldered Kite, Lanner Falcon, Barbary Partridge, Spotted Redshank, Long-tailed Jaeger, Common Murre, Pigeon Guillemot, Rhinocerous Auklet, Little Owl, Green Woodpecker, Fieldfare, Song Thrush, Whinchat, White-tailed Wheatear, Black Wheatear, Red-rumped Wheatear, Black-eared Wheatear, Eurasian Treecreeper, Zitting Cisticola, Sedge Warbler, African Desert Warbler, Western Orphean Warbler, Subalpine Warbler, Spectacled Warbler, Dartford Warbler, Fulvous Chatterer, Bar-tailed Lark, Thekla Lark, Temminck's Lark, Desert Sparrow, Eurasian Siskin, Trumpeter Finch, Sage Sparrow, Painted Bunting

Goliath heron, Painted snipe, Spotted honeyguide, Black francolin, Cyprus wheatear, Sooty falcon Holland, Gambia Senegal, Israël, Egypt, Jordan and Cyprus also 200 species in South Africa. I visit a lot of countries, most of the time as a groupleader and not much time for birding.

Updated May 15, excl heard-only's (which included Cheer Pheasant!). Birded the Netherlands, N India, a day in Denmark and a weekend in Norway. Incl displaying Capercaillie & Ptarmigan (Norway); Hawk and Pygmy Owl (Dk); Marshall's Iora, Indian Skimmer & Courser, Koklass Pheasant, Collared Falconet, Tawny & Brown Fish Owl (N India); Short-eared & Tawny Owl, Waxwing, Red-breasted & Lesser White-fronted Goose; Solitary Sandpiper; Slender-billed, Iceland & Mediterranean Gull, Firecrest (NL).

Jan-Guatemala, rest Chicago USA, weekend home in Tewkesbury, St. Lucia (all endemics) updated June06