Here's a personal review in pictures of this year's travel with friends and family both to Little Oak Group birding and nature conservation projects HERE and some jollies to do a bit of World and WP ticking.
JANUARY- FUERTEVENTURA
A family holiday (4 WP and World ticks)
Juvenile/first-winter Allen's Gallinule
Adult Dwarf Bittern
Canary Island Stonechat
'Canary Island ' Houbara Bustard (More on Fuerteventura endemics HERE)
FEBRUARY- GHANA
A visit to the Manso Nkwanto region to set up an ebird hotspot and look into establishing a recording project for birds, moths and butterflies and to investigate the possibility of purchasing a small forest reserve.
Black Dwarf Hornbill
Black Bee-eater
African Piculet
Marsh Tchagra
Honey Buzzard
APRIL/MAY -MAJORCA
Family holiday (3 WP/World ticks)
Balearic Warbler
Mediterranean Flycatcher
Moltoni's Warbler
JULY- UGANDA
World listing trip: We had 476 species of which about 200 were world lifers TRIP REPORT HERE
Eastern Gorilla
Shoebill
African Grey Parrot
Grauer's Broadbill
Green-breasted Pitta
Chimpanzee
Our Birding Group
THE AZORES NATURAL HISTORY TRIP (JUNE) AND THE BIRDER'S PELAGIC (SEPTEMBER) 2019
I was away for both of these this year so both trips were led by Vincent Legrand. More on this HERE
Band-rumped Storm Petrel (Presumed Grant's). Both Monteiro's and 'Grant's' Storm-Petrel can be found on the birder's pelagic.
Wilson's Petrel
Common Dolphins
Sowerby's Beaked Whales
Spotted Dolphins
Azores Pelagic Birders 2019
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER- EURO ROAD TRIP TO THE BALKAN ECOLOGY PROJECT
As alternative modes of transport (to flying) was a theme of 2019 we drove in our camper van to Bulgaria. We put on offer in for a small 2000m2 piece of land where we plan to build a bird/moth recording observatory and develop some habitat , did some recording and visited the main Balkan Ecology Project (of which the Black Sea project is a satellite) in Shipka HERE.
Male Pied Wheatear
First-winter Citrine Wagtail
First-winter Black-headed Bunting
Found this Terek Sandpiper - a Bulgarian rarity
Marsh Warbler
Montagu's Harrier
Jersey Black Arches
Pale Shoulder
OCTOBER- CORVO 2019
Did a week on Corvo (a birding community founded by Little Oak Group)
Hermit Thrush-a WP lifer
Northern Parula
We published the 2016 Azores Rare and Scarce Bird Report just in time for the Corvo season
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