I believe this total (3110) is the second-highest Year List of all time. (James F. Clements had 3631 back in 1989 as a planned Big Year.) It is worth noting that I barely left my apartment for the first two months of the year, and my total for the ten months March through December was 3105! I did not think of doing a Big Year until August. Although I only have one small trip planned for January-February 2008, my best-twelve-months list (March 2007 through February 2008) is likely to exceed 3200. Regions and highlights for the year: California (Snowy Owl), Borneo (Bristlehead); Cameroon (Quail-plover); Venezuela (Scissor-tailed Hummingbird); Papua New Guinea (Shovel-billed Kookaburra); Fiji (Orange Dove); Ecuador & Galapagos (991 species, 711 year birds, 93 hummingbirds, 12 antpitta species seen plus another three heard, Crested Eagle); South Africa (both rockjumpers [of course!]); Mexico [& one day Texas] (Nava's Wren, Rose-bellied Bunting).

Seven trips so far, Sunbird tours to Kenya (Sokoke Scops Owl, Sharpe's Longclaw, etc.), Venezuela (Scallop-breasted Antpitta, Rufous-winged Ground-Cuckoo and White-fronted Tyrannulet), Point Pelee (American Woodcock & 36 species of wood warbler), Papua New Guinea (Superb Pitta), Australia (Golden Bowerbird & 4 Cassowaries), Argentina (Red-faced Guan, male Lyre-tailed Nightjar) and a private trip to Sumatra & Java (Sumatran Cochoa, Graceful Pitta), plus a bit of birding in the UK.

Finished the year with an excellent trip to Northeast Brazil where highlights included many of the threatened endemics such as White-collared Kite, Araripe Manakin and Forbes's Blackbird as well as newly described species such as Sincora Antwren and Diamantina Tapacula, an as yet undescribed species of Myiornis and other favourites such as Little Wood-Rail, Eastern Striped Manakin, Great Xenops etc etc! Pechora Pipit in Wales was a nice Autumn bonus. Prior to that, just back from brilliant tour to South Australia and Tas where goodies included Letter-winged Kite, Grey Falcon, Plains-wanderer, Malleefowl, Black-eared Miner, Red-lored Whistler, Painted Honeyeater, all Tas endemics inc. Masked Owl, 5 spp grasswren, etc etc Also saw Regent Honeyeater and Sooty Owl before the tour! In Sulawesi & Halmahera in September, saw nearly all hoped for species seen as well as goodies such as Scaly Kingfisher, Red-backed Thrushes, Matinan Flycatcher, Sombre Pigeon, Moluccan Cuckoo, Asiatic Dowitcher, Aleutian Tern, Oriental Plovers and a surprise Elegant Pitta! 574 species in Uganda in August including Orange-cheeked Waxbill and Yellow Penduline Tit, both national rarities! In Japan in May/June, highlights included Fairy Pitta, Okinawa Rail and Woodpecker, Amami Woodcock and Thrush, Gray's Gropper, Blakiston's Fish Owl, Bonin White-eye, Bonin and White-necked Petrels and Tristram's and Matsudiara's Storm Petrels! Earlier tours to Colombia and Eastern Venezuela had too many highlights to list but Yellow-eared Parrot, Gold-ringed, White-capped and Multicoloured Tanagers and Rufous-winged Ground-Cuckoos stood out!

29 Dec. SPOON-BILLED SANDPIPER plus other goodies in N Vietnam; Palau endemics; Golden-backed Mountain-Tanager, other Unchog endemics and point-blank Undulated Antpitta WITHOUT playback, Yellow-scarfed Tanager as my World Life 7000 at Carpish Tunnel; White-bellied Cinclodes at Marcapomacocha; Buff-throated Treehunter, Black-throated Tody-Tyrant, Black-backed Tody-Fly, Red-and-White Antpitta on the Manu Road; EMPEROR PENGUIN colony at Snow Hill Island, with chicks on feet, creches; Red Lark, Black-headed & Protea Canaries in SA; Barlow's Lark and Dry West endemics in Namibia; Black-cheeked Lovebird, Chaplin's & Anchieta's Barbets, Bar-winged Weaver, Bamboo Warbler, Black-and-Rufous Swallow in Zambia; Bolivia, with Scimitar-winged Piha, Hooded Mountain-Toucan, Hooded Tinamou; Bhutan, with Ludlow´s Fulvetta and 3 spp new for Bhutan; ship cruise across Indonesia from east to west, with smattering of small island endemics; Oz, with Masked & Barking Owls; also Ethiopia, Borneo, USA

Started year off in Nagaland and leading first British group to see Naga Wren-babbler and other goodies included Mountain Bamboo-partridge and Striped Laughingthrush. Then over to Arunachal Pradesh for Bugun Liocichla, Ward's Trogon, Black-necked Cranes, 11 Fire-tailed Myzornis in a day, Sikkim Wedge-billed Wren-babbler etc. Bharatpur and Kanha followed before going to Costa Rica and getting 548 species of which i suppose Three-wattled Bellbird and Resplendant Quetzal were the highlights. 610 species seen in Kenya in early June was followed by a family vacation in Florida where i had a few year ticks like Barred and Great Horned Owls before going straight to Lake Baikal in early July. A good bunch of much-wanted birds included Stejneger's Scoter, Siberian Accentor, Rufous-tailed Robin, Siberian Meadow Bunting, but my favourite were the flocks of White-throated Needletails. A trip to Peru logged 664 species seen. Had 26 endemics including Great Inca-finch, Rufous-webbed Brilliant, Coppery-naped Puffleg, Bearded Mountaineer, Puna Thistletail and Masked Fruiteater. Tons more great birds like Lanceolated Monklet (but not a year tick!), Cream-coloured Woodpecker, Rufous-breasted Wood-quail, Curl-crested Aracari etc. Nepal in late November produced Himalayan White-browed Rosefinch, Spotted Wren-babbler and Himalayan Cutia. For trip reports see www.birdseekers.co.uk

Western Venezuela for one week at the start of the year: Vermilion Cardinal, Maracaibo Tody-flycatcher, Rusty-flanked Crake etc. Mexico for seven weeks in spring; Tufted and White-throated (amongst many other) jays, Cape Pygmy-owl, Short-crested Coquette, Sierra Madre Sparrow (the rediscovered Durango popn), Greater Swallow-tailed and White-naped Swifts, Aztec Thrush, Thick-billed Parrot etc. A few days in C Spain mid May. After a summer in the museum and at the computer, time to get to the field again...starting with Mato Grosso, Brazil (100s of Black-and-tawny Seedeaters at Vila Bela de Santissima Trindade, the usual Pantanal birds, plus Zigzag and Agami Herons, Cryptic Forest-falcon, Purple-throated Cotinga, Kawall's Amazon, Yellow-shouldered Grosbeak, Ocellated Poorwill on the nest, and loads of other neat but equally regular stuff at Alta Floresta), the Serra dos Carajás, Pará (the usual great birds: Black-chested Tyrant, Peruvian Recurvebill, Black-and-white Tody Tyrant, Blackish Pewee, Guianan Red Cotinga, Black-faced Hawk [one of six new species for the area], Opal-crowned Manakin, Black-bellied Gnateater, Rufous-necked Puffbird, Chestnut-throated Spinetail, Short-billed Leaftosser, Orange-breasted Falcon, etc etc, and Jaguar), SE & C Brazil (Planalto Foliage-gleaner, White-bearded Antshrike, Buffy-fronted, Temminck's and Blackish-blue Seedeaters, Salvadori's and Marsh Antwrens, Brazilian Merganser, 10+ Cherry-throated Tanagers, Black-backed Tanager, Brazilian Laniisoma, Kaempfer's Tody Tyrant), Ecuador (Rufous-bellied Seedsnipe, Salvin's and Nocturnal Curassows, Foothill Elaenia, Black-tipped Cotinga, Pale-headed Brush Finch, White-faced Nunbird, Jocotoco Antpitta, Buckley's Mourner, Blackish Pewee, Purple-backed Thornbill, Crescent-faced Antpitta, Black Bushbird, Buckley's Forest Falcon, Rufous Potoo, and a Harpy Eagle that landed just a few feet from my head in the canopy tower at Sani Lodge). Back to Brazil (Manaus region): Rio Negro Gnatcatcher, Klages's and Cherrie's Antwrens, Ash-breasted Antbird, Zimmer's Woodcreeper, White-winged Potoo, Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock on the nest, Fairy & Crimson Topaz, Herpsilochmus sp. nov., Hemitriccus sp. nov., Hairy-crested and White-throated Antbirds, White-browed Hawk on the nest, Dotted Tanager etc.

Australia Oct9-Nov 7,Uganda Jul11-Aug1,Uzbekistan&Kazakhstan May8-27,NE India Mar 23-Apr9,Ecuador Jan 21 to Feb 3,NE Peru Jan 1-9.

Finished with India - Indian Scim-Babb, Ibisbills, 12 species of Owl including Mottled Wood-Owl and Tawny Fish-Owl, Long-billed Thrush, Himalayan Woodpecker etc. Noisy & Rainbow Pittas; Southern Cassowary; all 3 Aussie Frogmouths; Blue-faced Parrotfinches; Australian Owlet-nightjar; and White-eared Monarch in Australia. Rusty-breasted Antpitta in northern Ecuador and 4 Long-wattled Umbrellabirds, Gray-breasted Mountain-Toucan, Gray-headed Antbird, Spot-winged Parrotlet, Rose-faced Parrot, West Peruvian Screech-owl, Jocotoco Antpitta, Pacific Royal-Flycatcher, Waved Albatross, Crested Guan, and Surfbird on our recent southern Ecuador tour. Whitehead's Trogon, Broadbill & Spiderhunter in Borneo, Blue-headed & Black-headed Pittas also there; 24 species of Birds of Paradise, including Black Sicklebill, Crested BOP, Blue BOP, etc. plus Southern Crowned Pigeon, Flame Bowerbird and 2 species of Jewel-babblers in Papua New Guinea and Kagu in New Caledonia; Harpy Eagle, Chestnut-tailed & Hairy-crested Antbirds, Black-banded Crake, and Andean Potoo in Ecuador; Steere's, Whiskered, Red-bellied and Hooded Pittas, Philippine Eagle, all 6 endemic kingfishers and Palawan Peacock-Pheasant in the Philippines.

Hungary, Yemen, Vietnam, Ecuador (2x), Sumatra, New Caledonia, Fiji. Too many highlights to list! A few: Pallid Harrier-Hungary; Black-crowned Barwing, Hodgson's Frogmouth, Sooty Babbler-Vietnam, Socotra Bunting-Yemen, Orange-throated Tanager, Jocotoco Antpitta, Olive Finch-Ecuador, Large Frogmout, White-winged Duck, Graceful Pitta, Marbled Wren-babbler-Sumatra, Kagu, Collared Petrel, New Caledonian Grassbird in New Caledonia, Silktail and Orange Dove in Fiji ETC.

Year kicked off in Cambodia with Giant and White-shouldered Ibis. Thailand turned up Coral-billed Ground Cuckoo and Blue Pitta. Bhutan was highlighted by Yellow-bellied Flowerpecker and Pied Falconet with White-bellied Heron four years in a row. Sichuan best bird was Rusty Laughingthrush. Russia and Alaska turned up 16 species of alcid while eastern Bolivia had many highlights from Blue-throated and Red-fronted Macaw to Amazonian Umbrellabird and Snethlage's Tody-Tyrant! Last stop PNG had many highlights including nesting Shovel-billed Kingfisher, White-bellied Whistler, Painted Tiger-Parrot plus the other three, Meyer's Goshawk, Bronze Ground-Dove, White-rumped Robin, New Britain Buzzard and Webster's Kingfisher. Some recent birds in Australia included Masked Owl, male Golden Bowerbird, Plains-wanderer and Australasian Bittern. Back to Tari in PNG turned up Rufous Owl, Grass Owl, Sooty Owl and a Feline Owlet-nightjar whilst cruising thru the Solomons turned up Roviana Rail, White-headed Fruit-Dove, Collared petrel, Grey-backed Tern and Heinroth's Shearwater. Vanuatu and New Caledonia turned up most of the gettable endemics with highlights including Chestnut-bellied Kingfisher, Buff-bellied Monarch, Cloven-feathered Dove and the wonderful Kagu. Last trip for the year to Christmas and Cocos Islands added a few more including all the endemics like Abbott's Booby, Christmas Frigate-bird and CI Hawk-Owl plus a couple of bonus birds like Saunder's Tern. Thats it for 2007. Good birding for everyone in 2008.

AFRICA BIG YEAR 1561 + (Ecuador,Netherlands & Yemen 492); Gola Malimbe - Sierra Leone Dec07, Spot-breasted Ibis, Plumed Guineafowl, Yellow-capped Weaver - Gabon Aug07, White-faced Storm Petrel - SA Jun07, Wilson's Phalarope - Cape Town May07, Rufous-tailed Weaver, Friedmann's & William's Larks, Jackson's Francolin, Nubian Nightjar, Clarke's Weaver, Malindi Pipit - Kenya Mega (821) Apr, Golden Pipit - Kenya & Tanzania Mar, Northern Bald Ibis, Thick-billed Lark, Cream-coloured Courser, African Desert Warbler, Eurasian Dotterel, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - Morocco & Tunisia Feb, Thick-billed Cuckoo - Uganda Jan

My Gap Year of travel and birding. Mar - Cameroon, Apr - UK, May - Sichuan, June - N Queensland, Australia, July - Peru, Aug - Canada, Nov - N Peru. Now home in Sydney for Christmas

updated Dec. (Thailand, Kenya, South Africa, Ecuador, Australia, Namibia Digiscoping) Pink-throated Twinspot, Sokoke Scops-Owl, Neergaard's Sunbird, Bush Blackcap, Banded Antbird, Citron-bellied Attila, Rainbow Pitta, Thick-billed Grasswren, Southern Emuwren, Hartlaubs Babbler, Bare-cheeked Babbler, Ruppell's Parrot.

13 December, likely the grand total of the year. Sweden, Venezuela, Spain (2 days), Colombia, Brazil/Peru (Río Javarí only), Mexico (Veracruz) and Kenya.

2007 was a very varied year- Sierra Leone (White-necked Picathartes), UAE/Oman (Hypocolius), 4 trips to PNG, Bismarcks and Bougainville, Fiji (Long-legged Warbler and Pink-billed Parrotfinch), New Caledonia, Uganda (Red-chested Owlet, Fox's Weaver, Grey-chested Illadopsis), South Africa (Buff-spotted Flufftail, Sclater's Lark), New Zealand (Cirl Bunting!) and Australia (Scarlet-chested Parrot, Black Grasswren, Kimberley Honeyeater)

Trips to Equador-Morocco (south)-Spain (central and Pyr)-Panama incl Darien,Estonia,Sri Lanka,Gabon,Guyana and Egypt

Neotropics only. (Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Panama, & Galapagos) A few highlights, by country: Bald Parrot, Gray-winged Cotinga, Brazilian Merganser, Black-fronted Piping-Guan, Giant Snipe, Rusty-barred Owl, Uniform Woodcreeper, Large-tailed Antshrike, and Squamate Antbird in Brazil; Hairy-crested Antbird, Nocturnal Curassow, Ochre-striped Antpitta, Black Solitaire, Sapphire Quail-Dove, and Sand-colored Nighthawk in Ecuador; Recurve-billed Bushbird, White-mantled Barbet, Black Inca, Parker's Antbird, Black Anshrike, Santa Marta Antpitta, Sooty Ant-Tanager, Yellow-throated Spadebill, Chestnut Piculet, and Mountain Grackle in Colombia; Rosy thrush-Tanager, White-bellied Antbird, Lance-tailed Manakin, Buff-fronted Quail-Dove, and Silvery-throated Jay in Panama. Mainland South America 2007 total was 1607 seen.

Falkland Islands, Trinidad, Guyana, Mexico, China, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Russia (Kamchatka & Kommander Islands), Kenya, Peru, Thailand and UAE with the undoubted highlight being Spoon-billed Sandpiper in Thailand, Diademed Sandpiper-plover in Peru and Pallas's Fish-eagle in Kazakhstan. Last updated 30 December 2007 - Report & photos on http://www.birdfinders.co.uk

Finland, Madagascar, Namibia (twice!), Botswana, Spain, Portugal (twice!), S-Ecuador, SW Uganda, UAE, Oman Dec 31st.

First Woodpigeon and European Robin in 10 months! Restricted to Oriental Region. Bulwer's Pheasant (Kalimantan), Sclater's Monal, Blyth's Tragopan, Ward's Trogon, Cachar & Sikkim Wedge-billed Babblers, Naga & Mishmi W-babblers (India), Black-crowned Barwing, Sooty Babbler, Spoon-billed Sand, Red-tailed Laugher (Vietnam), Marbled W-babbler, Malayan Whistling-thrush & Partridge (Malaysia), White-rumped Falcon, Giant & White-shouldered Ibis (Cambodia), Blue Eared-Pheasant, Chinese Monal, Sukatshev's Laughingthrush, Rufous-headed Robin (Sichuan), Blue-banded & Giant Pittas, B Ground-cuckoo (Sabah), Sumatran Cochoa, Schneider's Pitta (Sumatra), Javan Scops-Owl (Java), Mountain Peacock-Pheasant, Long-billed Partridge

Highlights so far include Red-chested Flufftail, Rudd's Lark, Short-clawed Lark, Andaman Masked-Owl, Andaman Nightjar, Andaman Crake, Yellow-eared Parrot, Black-fronted and Chestnut Wood-Quail, Sooty Ant-tanager, White-capped and Gold-ringed Tanagers, Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird.

Canada, Colombia and Brasil. Highlights include Mountain Grackle, Recurve-billed Bushbird, Brown-banded Antpitta and Masked Saltator in Colombia. 407 spp. during the first surveys of the Pousada Rio Azul in Pará incl. Hyacinth Macaw, Bald Parrot, Silky-tailed Nightjar, Phaethornis sp. nov., Crimson Topaz, Pavonine Quetzal, Brown-banded Puffbird, Pale-bellied Mourner, Cinnamon Neopipo and Guianan Gnatcatcher. A week at Papallacta in Ecuador. Marail Guan, Capuchinbird, and 9 new antbirds in Amapá. Lear's Macaw, Araripe Manakin, Yellow-faced Siskin, Forbes' Blackbird, Seven-coloured Tanager, Fringe-backed Fire-eye, etc. in NE Brasil.

Borneo - Whitehead's broadbill; Thailand - spoonbilled sandpiper and coral-billed ground cuckoo; Bahamas - Bahama woodstar, West Indian woodpecker; Peru - Peruvian plantcutter and Marvelous Spatulatail; Fiji, Australia, New Guinea & New Zealand, China - Siberian Crane

Ecuador+ Bolivia

Last upd:31-Dec-07: Oman plus brief visits to Turkey, Korea, Kenya, China, Philippines and UK

Sweden, Philippines,PNG and Argentina.

Nov Ecuador: Andean siskin etc,Oct N Peru: Subtropical Doradito, Wedge-tailed Grass-Finch, Upland Sandpiper plus the usual N Peru endemics. Aug Ecuador: Jocotoco Antpitta, Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Orange-breasted Falcon, White-chested Swift, Andean Snipe, Collared Puffbird, Violet-throated Metaltail etc. Sulphur-throated Finch, Piura Hemispingus, Ochraceous Attila, Ornate Hawk-Eagle, South American Tern, Long-wattled Umbrellabird at Mangaloma. Latest at Gareno Lodge: Harpy Eagle, Nocturnal Currasow, Fiery Topaz, Gould's Jewelfront, White-throated Woodpecker, Yellow-billed and Brown Jacamars and Rio Suno Antwren etc. Also recently Imperial Snipe and Great Horned Owl at Yanacocha. Late may and early june holiday in Sweden with most of the usual birds. Highlight: Buff-breated Sandpiper. A few days in N Ecuador: Chestnut-bellied-, Blue- and Black-tipped Cotingas, Yellow-eared Toucanet, Cresent-faced Antpitta, Uniform Crake, Slaty-tailed Trogon, Scarlet-breasted Dacnis, Subtropical Doraito, Blue-headed Sapphire etc

UK (253 including Pacific and White-billed Divers, Barrow's Goldeneye, American Robin, Gyr Falcon, Franklin's Gull, 2 Lesser Scaup, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper ), Morocco (202), NE Spain (128), SE Brazil based at Serra dos Tucanos (260 including 86 regional endemics - Grey-winged Cotinga, Black-legged Dacnis, etc), southern California (275 including the 4th state Black Hawk) and Ethiopia (473 including all but three endemics).

This year's highlights: Trinidad & Tobabgo (Trinidad Piping-Guan, Oilbird, White-tailed Sabrewing, Tufted Coquette, and Bearded Bellbird); Honduras (Lovely Cotinga, Honduran Emerald, Keel-billed Motmot), Australia (all 13 northeast Queensland endemics plus Southern Cassowary, Great-billed Heron and Red-necked Crake); Papua New Guinea (Shovel-billed Kookaburra, Bicolored Mouse-Warbler, Obscure Berrypecker, Greater and Lesser Melampitta); USA (Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Fea's & Herald Petrel (North Carolina), Horned Puffin (Calif), 45 species of Wood Warblers in the USA), Ebro Delta Spain (Savi's Warbler and Broad-billed Sandpiper)

200+ in Argentina in Dec, 402 in Bolivia in September, a few from Biscay ferry in Aug, 563 species in Cameroon Mar/Apr; rest in UK

January: Tigers & Birds of Bandhavgarh with Hannu Jannes, Birdquest (243 seen). -- March: Cape Verde with Tony Clark, Birdquest (56 seen). -- April/May: Kenya Mega with David Hoddinott & Brian Finch, Rockjumper (795 seen) Group Total was 808 SEEN + 13 Heard. -- June: Sakhalin, Kurils, Commanders, Kamchatka with Mark Beaman, Birdquest (122 seen) -- July: Short visit to friends in Windsor, Ontario (81 seen)

42 heard only Crested Eagle in Panama Sep, Ochraceous Pewee, Silvery-throated Jay Panama, Phillipines, South Korea, USA

Green breasted Pitta YIPPPEE African Green Broadbill, Oberlanders G Thrush, Afep Pigeon, Brown-rumped Bunting, India - 2 trips , Bugun Liocichla, Wedge-billed Wren-Babbler, Ward's Trogon, Rufous throated Wren-Babbler, Black-breasted Parrotbill, Forest Owlet, Mottled Wood-Owl, Green Avadavat

May 23-June 21 in Mexico seeing specialties in Oaxaca, Veracruz and Chiapas. Singing Quail flew over my head, great views of Slaty Vireo, White-breasted Hawk, Tuxtla Quail-Dove, Northern Bentbill. Slate-colored and Brown-backed Solitaire serenades. Obtained possible first recordings of Bearded Wood-Partridge full song and Highland Guan contact calls.

Philippine Eagle, Palawan Peacock-Pheasant, Luzon Bleeding-Heart, Wattled Broadbill, Azure-breasted Pitta, Celestial Monarch, Flame-crowned Flowerpecker, Red-eared Parrotfinch in the Philippines. Andean Potoo, 8 Antpittas, Chestnut-crested Cotinga in Ecuador. Great and Little Bustard in Portugal.

Latest 25/09/07: First tour of duty in Cameroon and 'rediscovered' Chad Firefinch, also Emin's Shrike. PNG highlights inc. New Guinea Harpy Eagle, Shovel-billed Kingfisher, 25 sp. of BOP's and many more. Highlights?!? Hospitalised in Uganda but added a few inc. Grey Crowned Crane, Grey Kestrel, Eastern Grey Plantain-eater etc. Yellow-billed Barbet & Blue Cuckoo-Shrike, central CAR. Short work trip to SW CAR produced 3 lifers Cassin's Spinetail, Blue-headed Wood-Dove, Splendid Glossy Starling. Monkey-eating Eagle, Whiskered and Steere's Pitta, Mindanao Wattled Broadbill, Green-eared Parrotfinch, Rufous-lored and Blue-capped Wood Kingfisher and many others in the Philippines

Hawk Owl, Sokoke Scops Owl, Brown Flycatcher, Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll

One week in Belize, one week in Costa Rica, two weeks in Brazil, worked in CA, live in Michigan

Trips to Colombia, Ecuador, New Zealand, boat trip from New Zealand to Japan, Panama.

Venezuela June 07

Includes Brazil, Extremadura, Hungary & Ethiopia (but not much in UK)

UK,Finland,Ireland,Egypt,India,Indonesia,Dominican Rep...bird of the year Schneiders Pitta three feet away..awesome! Graceful Pitta(Indonesia) Bungun Liocichla,Ward's Trogon,Wedge-billed Wren Babbler,Beautiful Nuthatch(India) Azure Tit(Finland)

ABA Area (Indiana, Florida, and Wisconsin), England, Gambia, Senegal, Yemen (including Socotra), and Djibouti. Highlights: Ahanta Francolin, Quail-plover (a 20-minute look), Bronze-winged Courser, Adamawa Turtle Dove, Little Gray Woodpecker, Pied-winged Swallow, Gray-headed Bristlebill, River Prinia, Cricket Longtail, White-fronted Black Chat, Sennar Penduline-tit (Senegal and Gambia). All Yemen/Southwest Arabia specialties and all Socotra endemics, plus possible Himalayan Swiftlet on Socotra, a potential first record for Africa and the Middle East. Djibouti Francolin, Somali Bulbul, and Somali Sparrow in Djibouti. Plus Green-breasted Mango in Wisconsin.

Ecuador, killer looks at Stygian Owl, Strong-billed Woodcreeper, Black-and-chestnut Eagle, Chestnut-crowned Antpitta, Plus Ohio, Texas, and Florida.

9/2/07 - ABA (Feb and mid-Aug - southern CA, AZ) ~ 425 , India (Jan - Tamil Nadu) ~ 270, UK (March - Norfolk and Scotland) ~ 135

680 in Argentina, and another 55 in Chile in a week. No lifers; bird of the year was male Juan Fernandez Firecrown, followed by Harpy Eagle and Long-trained Nightjar.

Thailand, Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, UK and a couple of European trips

All in Colombia!

Resplendent Quetzal