Spent entire year in South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina) except first two weeks of Jan in Panama. Among too many highlights, 36 spp of antpitta and 41 spp of tapaculo. Latest additions from November in central and southern Chile and Argentina include Dinelli's Doradito, Salinas Monjita, sweep of all central Chilean endemics, Hooded Grebe, Austral Rail, White-bellied Seedsnipe, and Patagonian Tinamou. Late addns in late Dec incl Pampas Meadowlark, Yellow Cardinal, 5 spp of seedeater, Black-crowned and Rusty-backed monjitas, both reedhaunters, Red-and-white Crake.

All in the New World! USA (Alaska, Washington, Montana, Colorado, Texas), Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador

January: Costa Rica, February-March: Colombia, April: Puerto Rico & Hispaniola, May: California & Arizona, July: Northern Peru; October-November: Madagascar; December: North India. Sweden.

South Affrica in December; Angola including all big targets!; Brazil included 21 new families! 502 new for the year; Tanzania 14 days, 19 days Ethiopia and 67 days Cameroon and based in South Africa

Ended the year with a trip to the Andaman Islands, Corbett and Naini Tal. 25 Nov. Further field time in PNG added displaying Black Sicklebill and Superb BOP; daytime roosting Mtn. Owlet-Nightjar and special views of ad. male Wattled Ploughbill11 Nov. Short trip to PNG produced 5 male Flame Bowerbirds and exceptional Southern Crowned Pigeons; 2 Sept. Further trips to Sabah, Borneo, Bali, Java and Sumatra produced a nice collection incl. nesting Large Frogmouth, Javan Gibbon, Sumatran Spitting Cobra and 3 Bornean Ground-Cuckoos. 21 June: A 2 week trip to Uganda incl. Semuliki produced a wonderful array of birds & mammals incl. Black-casqued Wattled Hornbill; a glowing Forest Robin; both Buff-spotted and White-spotted flufftails on the same morning in Budongo and my first Crested Malimbe! 29 May: Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan: Pallas's Sandgrouse, Goitered Gazelle, Crimson-winged Finch, Pander's Ground-Jay; 1 May: Bhutan - fabulous as always; several close male Satyr Tragopans; sensational and prolonged views of Wedge-billed, Long-billed + 4 other wren babblers and an unforgetable last afternoon's birding near Somdrup Jonkhar; 4 April - Delacour's Langur, Black-crowned Barwing, Sooty Babbler, Short-tailed Parrotbill are just some of the many fine creatures garnered in Vietnam. 4 March - Undoubtedly the highlight was superb views of a Tufted-eared Ground-Squirrel in addition to a male Siberian Blue Robin and my first Bornean Malaysian Rail-Babbler; 14 Feb. Several superb Bornean species including displaying Maroon-chested Philentoma; 8 Jan. Sev. spp. over the SCG as England won the Ashes! 3 Jan. Birding around my home property and nearby; best bird Plum-headed Finch.

Antarctic: Atlantic Petrel and Great Shearwater: New Zealand: Great Spotted Kiwi: crippling views:Australia: Australian Painted Snipe, White-necked Petrel, Red Goshawk etc-nothing new for my Aus list for the first year ever:PNG: Starry Owlet-nightjar, Papuan Hawk-Owl, Streaked Lorikeet, Long-bearded Melidectes, Mountain Robin, Alpine Pipit: Vanuatu: Santo Thicket-Warbler, Rusty-winged Starling, Palm Lorikeet, Baker's Imperial-Pigeon, Vanuatu Honeyeater:China: Japanese Waxwing, Crested Ibis, Hooded Crane, Taiga and Tundra Bean Geese, Brown Eared-Pheasant, Chinese Crested Tern, Cabot's Tragopan, Grey-sided Scimitar-Babbler, Courtois Laughingthrush, Reed Parrotbill, Chinese Marsh Grassbird:Thailand: White-fronted Scops-Owl, Ferruginous Wood-Partridge, Ratchet-tailed Treepie, Rufous-tailed Robin, Eared Pitta. India: Grasshopper Warbler, Nepal Wren-Babbler, Smoky Warbler, Black-throated Accentor, Pink-browed Rosefinch, Grey-crowned Prinia, Koklass Pheasant, Himalayan Woodpecker, Cheer Pheasant, Pine Bunting

Sweden,Japan. US, Peru,Paraguay,Argentina,Brazil,Indonesia,Scotland and Burma.

Last upd: 09-Nov-11: Thailand, UK, Indonesia and Ethiopia.

In addition to Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany (airport), Namibia, South Africa, Ethiopia, Hong Kong (airport), Bali, N Australia, NZ (airport), Fiji, Vanuatu, Tahiti, Tuamotus, Marquesas, Brazil and the USA produced the species on the year list. My fourth best year ever, the top results being 1720 and twice around 1500.

Excl heard-onlies. Highlights are Painted Bush Quail, Nilgiri Woodpigeon, Spot-bellied Eagle & Mottled Wood Owl, Sri Lanka Frogmouth, Nilgiri Pipit, Nilgiri, Kerala & Wynaad Laughingthrush, Grey-headed & Yellow-throated Bulbul, Nilgiri & White-bellied Blue Robin, Pied Thrush, Black-and-orange Flycatcher, White-bellied Treepie & Leopard (SW India, Febr); Black Baza, Spot-bellied Eagle Owl, 4 Coral-billed Groundcuckoo, Banded Kingfisher, Long-tailed Broadbill, Black-throated Laughingthrush & Pileated Gibbon (Khao Yai, Thailand, Apr); Emu, Turquoise Parrot, Varied Sitella, White-winged Chough, Striped Honeyeater, Koala, Wallaroo (E Aus, Apr); Northern Brown Kiwi, Campbell Albatross, Grey Ternlet, Morepork (New Zealand, Apr); Short-tailed (my 5,000th lifer), Laysan & Black-footed Albatross, Beck’s, Tahiti, Providence, Kermadec & White-necked Petrel, Heinroth’s & Greater Shearwater, New Zealand, ‘New Caledonian' & Polynesian Stormpetrel, Kagu, Solomon Islands Sea-Eagle, Caroline Islands Ground-Dove, Claret-breasted & Yellow-bibbed Fruit-Dove, Chestnut-bellied Imperial-Pigeon, Finsch’s Pygmy-Parrot, Horned Parakeet, Ultramarine, Beach & Kolombangara ‘Common’ Kingfisher, Rennell Shrikebill, White-capped & Truk Monarch, Faichuk & Bare-eyed White-eye, Blue-faced Parrotfinch (West Pacific Odyssey Apr/May); Ocellated Turkey, Crested Guan, Great Curassow, Chestnut-colored & Pale-billed Woodpecker, Yucatan Jay, Blue-and-white Mockingbird, Mangrove & Slaty Vireo, Blackburnian, Worm-eating, Yellow-throated, Black-throated Grey, Red-faced, Red, Kentucky, MacGillivray's & Olive Warbler, Red-breasted Chat, Rose-throated, Yellow-winged & Scarlet Tanager and, runner-up best bird of 2011: Orange-breasted Bunting (Mexico Sept/Oct); Red-breasted & Lesser White-fronted Goose, White-tailed Eagle, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Red-necked Stint, Spotted Sandpiper, Eurasian Dotterel, Sabine’s Gull, White-barred Crossbill, Raddes Warbler (the Netherlands).

Namibia - all regional endemics plus many superb Okavango specialties including Pel's Fishing Owl on 4 occasions! Cameroon - over 1 hour veiwing of 5 Grey-necked Rockfowl in Korup NP, Vermiculated Fishing Owl, Green-breasted Bushshrike, Grey-headed Broadbill, Cricket Longtail etc

Dec A very pleasant trip to Cape Town and the Karoo brought around 140 with most Cape endemics, thanks to Dalton Gibbs from Birding Africa. Oct Madagascar with Callan Cohen and Deirdre Vrancken - 114 endemics inc all the Asities and Mesites, plus very friendly Flufftail and Buttonquail. Aug Colorado/Wyoming/Utah 100 odd (inc. White-tailed Ptarmigan) finally makes a more respectable N American list. Feb/March North and Central Thailand with David Shackleford - many highlights inc. Spoonbilled Sandpiper, Green Cochoa; April in New York with Luke Bunnett - 89 in Central Park and NJ

Costa Rica, Southern Africa, and the US; updated May 26th

Pen Malaysia 367, Thailand 356, Netherlands 129, belgium 59, Germany 33, Australia 299, Tasmania 62, Singapore 53

over 500 in Angola/Namibia, also Thailand & UK.

Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Coral-billed Ground Cuckoo, White-necked Picathartes, Egyptian Plover.

Germany, UK, Myanmar, Sicily, Russia, Scotland, Ukraine, Ecuador and India so far: Collared Myna in Myanmar Sicily in March with Pallid Harrier, Middle-spotted Woodpecker in Germany in April, Black Stork in Germany in May, June July in Russia with Great Snipe, Pechora pipit, Tufted Puffin and Spoon-billed Sandpiper amongst many others. Ukraine in September with almost 3000 Red-footed Falcon as the Highlight, Cream-coloured Woodpecker and the iconic Plate-billed Toucan in Ecuador, Blue-capped Rock-Thrush always a stunning bird. Last entry Egyptian Vulture, fortunately increasing again in India!

Thailand and a few weeks in UK; highlights - Mongolian Gull, Pallid Harrier, Long-tailed Skua, Black Tern, Glaucous Gull, Eared Pitta, Spot-billed Pelican, Lesser Rufous-headed Parrotbill, Green Cochoa, Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher, Garnet Pitta, Giant Pitta, Green-backed Flycatcher, Ruddy Kingfisher, Japanese Paradise Flycatcher, Plain-pouched Hornbill, Chinese Spot-billed Duck

Costa Rica-Quetzal, Keel billed and Toco Toucan, Emerald Toucanet, Collared and Fiery billed Aracari, Muscovy Duck, Great and Little Tinamou, Great Currasow, Red footed booby,Boat-billed Heron, Kenya- Olive Ibis, Wooly necked Stork, Corncrake, Honey buzzard, Imperial Eagle, Schalow's Turaco, England-Long billed Dowitcher, Red crested Pochard, Wryneck, Melodious Warbler, Ring necked Duck, Red kit

Britain, Estonia and Colombia

several common speices whilst in uk , plus another 12 in nairobi nat park on return .including African Silverbill and Grey-headed Silverbill

Full List on Bubo: Pyrenees 37 species, Bolivia 370 species February, Quail, Golden Oriole, Crane, Short-toed Treecreeper, Great Grey Shrike, Iceland Gull, Hawfinch, Tundra, Tiaga Ben Goose Slav Grebe Bn Grebe

Fifteen days birding in south India and one day in Singapore added over 280 species to yearlist, incl 11 world lifers in Singapore and 76 in India

ABA Area (Indiana, West Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, and North Carolina). Colombia (Santa Marta Mountains and Guajira Peninsula) March 2011. All Santa Marta endemics except Santa Marta Sabrewing and Santa Marta Wren. ABA Area lifers this year: Garganey, White-tailed Tropicbird, Little Egret, Curlew Sandpiper.

Includes Kenya, Uganda, Pakistan, Qatar and USA

Ceylon Spurfowl, Mongolian Accentor

All Taiwan. Last bird Greylag Goose on New Year's Eve. Highlight of the year a toss-up between Fork-tailed Drongo Cuckoo on local patch or Fujian Niltava in neighbouring county.

3/07/11 Great Frigatebird, Norfolk Island Parakeet, N.Z. Storm Petrel, MaskedDuck, Aplomado Falcon,Fernbird

Razorbill 12/10/11

updated 10 January - Kelp Gull

ABA Area (Indiana and West Virginia). Latest Bird: Tundra Swan