Gasheads 2008 list

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Lifers in bold.

January 1

Pivot Fields, Dubai, UAE
1. Grey heron.
2. Glossy ibis.
3. Common kestrel.
4. Grey francolin.
5. Northern lapwing.
6. Red-wattled lapwing.
7. Sociable lapwing.
8. Eurasian golden plover.
9. Jack snipe.
10. Common snipe.
11. Wood sandpiper.
12. Little stint.
13. Temmincks stint.
14. Black-headed gull.
15. Feral pigeon.
16. Eurasian collared dove.
17. Laughing dove.
18. Little green bee-eater.
19. Indian roller.
20. Eurasian hoopoe.
21. Crested lark.
22. Eurasian skylark.
23. Richard's pipit.
24. Tawny pipit.
25. Red-throated pipit.
26. Water pipit.
27. White wagtail.
28. Yellow wagtail.
29. Citrine wagtail.
30. White-eared bulbul.
31. Red-vented bulbul.
32. Song thrush.
33. Bluethroat.
34. Siberian stonechat.
35. Isabelline wheatear.
36. Graceful prinia.
37. Isabelline shrike.
38. Common starling.
39. House sparrow.
40. Indian silverbill.

Al Warsen Lakes, Dubai, UAE
41. Little grebe.
42. Purple heron.
43. Eurasian wigeon.
44. Northern pintail.
45. Common pochard.
46. Ferruginous duck.
47. Tufted duck.
48. Common moorhen.
49. Eurasian coot.
50. Caspian gull.
51. Common myna.

Nouakchott Street Marsh, Dubai, UAE
52. Black-winged stilt.
53. White-tailed lapwing.

Ras-Al-Khor Wildlife Sanctuary, Dubai, UAE
54. Great cormorant.
55. Great egret.
56. Little egret.
57. Western reef heron.
58. Eurasian spoonbill.
59. Mallard.
60. Osprey.
61. Western marsh harrier.
62. Greater spotted eagle.
63. Common sandpiper.
64. Slender-billed gull.
65. Caspian tern.
66. Greater flamingo.
67. Striated heron.

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January 2

Safa Park, Dubai, UAE
68. Common teal.
69. Garganey.
70. Northern shoveller.
71. Alexandrine parakeet.
72. Grey wagtail.
73. Purple sunbird.
74. House crow.

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January 5

Wadi Bih, RAK, UAE
75. Eurasian sparrowhawk.
76. Pallid swift.
77. Desert lark.
78. Pale crag martin.
79. White-spectacled bulbul.
80. Blue rock thrush.
81. Black redstart.
82. Humes wheatear.
83. Plain leaf warbler.
84. Desert whitethroat.
85. Southern grey shrike.
86. Brown-necked raven.
87. Trumpeter finch. :cool:

Digdagga fields, RAK, UAE
88. Bonelli's eagle.
89. Grey plover.
90. Kentish plover.

Hamraniyah fields, RAK, UAE
91. Arabian babbler.

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January 5

Seawatch, Fujeirah, UAE
92. Socotra cormorant.
93. Swift tern.
94. Lesser crested tern.
95. Sooty gull.
96. Sandwich tern.
97. Whimbrel.

National Dairy Farm, Fujeirah, UAE
98. Spanish sparrow. 3:-)
99. Green sandpiper.
100. Pintail snipe. B (:
101. Greylag goose.
102. Greater white-fronted goose.
103. Chiffchaff.
104. Rose-ringed parakeet.
105. Striated bunting.
106. Desert wheatear.
107. Bank mynah
108. Rose ringed parakeet.
109. Blyths pipit.
110. Egyptian nightjar. :cool:

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January 10

Pivot fields, Dubai, UAE
111. European stonechat.
112. Little ringed plover.
113. Ringed plover.
114. Ruff.
115. Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse.
116. Collared pratincole.

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January 11

Khalidiya, Abu Dhabi, UAE
117. Lesser whitethroat.
118. Saunders tern.

Mushrif Palace Gardens, Abu Dhabi, UAE
119. Red-whiskered bulbul (UAE tick!) :cool:
120. Clamorous reed warbler.
121. Scaly-breasted munia (UAE tick!) :cool:

Al-Wathba camel racetrack, Abu Dhabi, UAE
122. Cream-coloured courser.
123. Pacific golden plover.
124. Bimaculated lark.
125. Greater short-toed lark.
126. Lesser short-toed lark. :cool:

Al-Maqam Equestrian centre and golf course, Abu Dhabi, UAE
127. Egyptian goose.

Al-Wathba lake, Abu Dhabi, UAE
128. Ruddy shelduck.
129. Spotted crake.
130. Pied avocet.
131. Black-tailed godwit.
132. Spotted redshank.
133. Common redshank.
134. Marsh sandpiper.
135. White-winged tern.
136. Sand martin.
137. Barn swallow.
138. Brambling (UAE mega tick!) :cool:

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14 January

Al Warsen Lakes, Dubai, UAE
139. Purple gallinule.

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17 January

Safa Park, Dubai, UAE
140. House martin.

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18 Januray

Pivot fields, Dubai, UAE
141. Streaked weaver.
142. Whiskered tern.

Al-Warsen Lakes, Dubai, UAE
143. Red-knobbed coot.

Ras Al Khor, Dubai, UAE
144. Pallas' gull.

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January 20

Safa Park, Dubai, UAE
145. Olive-backed pipit.

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January 21

Pivot fields, Dubai, UAE
146. Gadwall (patch tick)

Al-Warsen Lakes, Dubai, UAE
147. Indian pond heron.
148. Black-crowned night heron.

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2 February

Pivot fields, Dubai, UAE
149. Red-crested pochard :t:

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8 February

Jumeirah beach, Dubai, UAE
150. Pied myna

Pivot Fields, Dubai, UAE
151. Common cuckoo

Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary, Dubai, UAE
152. Common shelduck

Dreamland beach, Um Al Qwaim, UAE
153. Eurasian oystercatcher
154. Greater sandplover
155. Eurasian curlew
156. Common greenshank
157. Terek sandpiper
158. Ruddy turnstone
159. Lesser sandplover

9 February

Pivot Fields, Dubai, UAE
160. Long-legged buzzard
161. Red-rumped swallow

Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary, Dubai, UAE
162. Gull-billed tern
163. Curlew sandpiper

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12 February

Belgrade airport, Serbia
164. Carrion crow
165. Jackdaw

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13 February

Kotor, Montenegro
166. Alpine chough
167. Blue tit

14 February

Lustica peninsula, Montenegro
168. Blackbird
169. Cetti's warbler
170. Black-throated diver :t:
171. European Robin
172. Chaffinch
173. Rough-legged buzzzard :t:
174. Herring gull
175. Reed bunting

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15 February

Kotor, Montenegro
176. Great tit
177. Northern grey shrike

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18 March

Safa Park, Dubai, UAE
178. Masked shrike

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21 March

Jebel Haffit, Abu Dhabi, UAE
179. Great spotted cuckoo :t:
180. Barbary falcon
181. Rufous-tailed rock thrush
182. Common redstart
183. Red-tailed wheatear
184. Egyptian vulture

Ain Al Fayda Park, Abu Dhabi, UAE
185. Rufous-tailed scrub robin
186. Menetres warbler

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4 April

Pivot Fields, Dubai, UAE
187. Northern wheatear

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11 April

Pivot fields, Dubai, UAE

188. Montagu's harrier
189. Rose-coloured starling

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16-22 April

Various sites, Mauritius

190. White-tailed tropicbird.
191. Brown noddy.
192. Madagascar turtle dove.
193. Zebra dove.
194. Mascarene swiftlet.
195. Mascarene martin.
196. Village weaver.
197. Madagascar fody.
198. Yellow-fronted canary.

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23 April

Safa Park, Dubai, UAE

199. Tree pipit.
200. Ortolan. B (:
201. Shikra.
202. Red-backed shrike.
203. Spotted flycatcher.

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23 April

Creekside Park, Dubai, UAE

204. Common nightingale.
205. Whinchat.
206. Willow warbler.
207. Blackcap.

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26 April

Mamzar Park, Sharjah, UAE

208. European bee-eater
209. European roller
210. White-throated robin :t:
211. Lesser grey shrike
212. Woodchat shrike

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30 April

Safa Park, Dubai, UAE

213. European turtle dove

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10 May

Pivot Fields, Dubai, UAE

214. Black-eared wheatear
215. Marsh warbler
216. Blue-cheeked bee-eater

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11-16 June

Non-birding trip to Uzbekistan

217. White stork.
218. Alpine swift.
219. Common swift.
220. Tree sparrow.
221. Woodpigeon.

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20 September

East Coast, United Arab Emirates
222. Whimbrel.
223. Sanderling.
224. Little gull.
225. Roseate tern.
226. Common tern.
227. White-cheeked tern.
228. Lesser noddy.
229. Collared kingfisher.
230. Common kingfisher.
231. Long-billed pipit.
232. Eurasian golden oriole.
233. Olivaceous warbler.

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27 September
Pivot fields, Dubai
234. Steppe gull.
Safa Park, Dubai
235. Brahminy starling.

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10 October
Fujeirah National Dairy Farm, UAE
236. Squacco heron.
237. White stork.
238. Lesser kestrel.
239. Eurasian hobby.
240. Eurasian stone curlew.
241. Oriental turtle dove.
242. Namaqua dove.
243. Pied wheatear.
244. Rufous-tailed wheatear.
245. Great reed warbler.
246. Asian desert warbler.

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7 November
Dubai pivot fields, UAE
247. Meadow pipit.
248. Oriental skylark.

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2 December
Dubai
249. Dunlin.
250. Meadow pipit.
251. Brown shrike.