2007 - Lifers only

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One advantage of emigrating and restarting my list after a few years away from birding. Here's to 200 'lifers' in 2007...

January
1. Eurasian crag martin (Al Ain, UAE).
2. Desert lesser whitethroat (Al Ain, UAE).
3. Bimaculated lark (Abu Dhabi, UAE).
4. Red breasted flycatcher (Abu Dhabi, UAE).
5. Common nightingale (Abu Dhabi, UAE).
6. Greater white-fronted goose (Abu Dhabi, UAE).
7. Great grey shrike (Abu Dhabi, UAE).

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A few days in India...

February
8. Little cormorant (Bangalore, India)
9. Oriental darter (Bangalore, India)
10. Black-eared kite (Bangalore, India)
11. White-breasted waterhen (Bangalore, India)
12. Asian koel (Bangalore, India)
13. Greater coucal (Bangalore, India)
14. House swift (Bangalore, India)
15. White-browed wagtail (Bangalore, India)
16. Red-whiskered bulbul (Bangalore, India)
17. Ashy prinia (Bangalore, India)
18. Black drongo (Bangalore, India)
19. Jungle crow (Bangalore, India)
20. Brahminy starling (Bangalore, India)
21. Jungle myna (Bangalore, India)
22. Indian peafowl (Goa, India)
23. Crested honey buzzard (Goa, India)
24. Crested serpent eagle (Goa, India)
25. Crested goshawk (Goa, India)
26. Besra (Goa, India)
27. Indian black eagle (Goa, India)
28. Chestnut-bellied hawk eagle (Goa, India)
29. Grey junglefowl (Goa, India)
30. Pompadour green-pigeon (Goa, India)
31. Mountain imperial pigeon (Goa, India)
32. Malabar parakeet (Goa, India)
33. Crested treeswift (Goa, India)
34. White-rumped spinetail (Goa, India)
35. Brown-backed needletail (Goa, India)
36. Asian palm-swift (Goa, India)
37. Oriental dwarf kingfisher (Goa, India)
38. Stork-billed kingfisher (Goa, India)
39. Black-capped kingfisher (Goa, India)
40. Chestnut-headed bee-eater (Goa, India)
41. Malabar grey hornbill (Goa, India)
42. Malabar pied hornbill (Goa, India)
43. White-bellied woodpecker (Goa, India)
44. Black-rumped flameback (Goa, India)
45. Heart-spotted woodpecker (Goa, India)
46. Streak-throated swallow (Goa, India)
47. Small minivet (Goa, India)
48. Scarlet minivet (Goa, India)
49. Bar-winged flycatcher shrike (Goa, India)
50. Grey-headed bulbul (Goa, India)
51. Black-crested bulbul (Goa, India)
52. Yellow-browed bulbul (Goa, India)
53. Black bulbul (Goa, India)
54. Common iora (Goa, India)
55. Asian fairy-bluebird (Goa, India)
56. Indian blue robin (Goa, India)
57. White-rumped shama (Goa, India)
58. Blue-capped rock thrush (Goa, India)
59. Malabar whistling thrush (Goa, India)
60. Orange-headed thrush (Goa, India)
61. Common tailorbird (Goa, India)
62. Greenish warbler (Goa, India)
63. Western crowned warbler (Goa, India)
64. Brown-breasted flycatcher (Goa, India)
65. Tickell's blue flycatcher (Goa, India)
66. Black-naped monarch (Goa, India)
67. Asian paradise flycatcher (Goa, India)
68. Puff-throated babbler (Goa, India)
69. Dark-fronted babbler (Goa, India)
70. Brown-cheeked fulvetta (Goa, India)
71. Velvet-fronted nuthatch (Goa, India)
72. Purple-rumped sunbird (Goa, India)
73. Crimson-backed sunbird (Goa, India)
74. Little spiderhunter (Goa, India)
75. Thick-billed flowerpecker (Goa, India)
76. Brown shrike (Goa, India)
77. Bronzed drongo (Goa, India)
78. Greater racket-tailed drongo (Goa, India)
79. Ashy woodswallow (Goa, India)
80. Black-throated munia (Goa, India)
81. Brahminy kite (Goa, India)
82. Vernal-hanging parrot (Goa, India)
83. Spot-bellied eagle owl (Goa, India)
84. Brown fish-owl (Goa, India)
85. Jerdon's nightjar (Goa, India)
86. Jungle nightjar (Goa, India)
87. Indian swiflet (Goa, India)
88. Malabar trogon (Goa, India)
89. Blue-eared kingfisher (Goa, India)
90. Great hornbill (Goa, India)
91. White-cheeked barbet (Goa, India)
92. Brown-capped woodpecker (Goa, India)
93. Black-headed cuckoo shrike (Goa, India)
94. Golden-fronted leafbird (Goa, India)
95. Blyth's reed warbler (Goa, India)
96. Long-billed sunbird (Goa, India)
97. Plain flowerpecker (Goa, India)
98. Golden oriole (Goa, India)
99. Long-tailed shrike (Goa, India)
100. Spangled drongo (Goa, India) B (:
101. Rufous treepie (Goa, India)
102. White-rumped munia (Goa, India)
103. Mountain hawk-eagle (Goa, India)
104. Indian pitta (Goa, India)
105. Hair-crested drongo (Goa, India)
106. Hill myna (Goa, India)
107. Indian cormorant (Goa, India)
108. Asian openbill (Goa, India)
109. Black-headed ibis (Goa, India)
110. Lesser whistling duck (Goa, India)
111. Cotton teal (Goa, India)
112. White-bellied sea eagle (Goa, India)
113. Pheasant-tailed jacana (Goa, India)
114. Bronze-winged jacana (Goa, India)
115. Little pratincole (Goa, India)
116. Jungle owlet (Goa, India)
117. Spotted owlet (Goa, India)
118. Brown hawk owl (Goa, India)
119. Paddyfield pipit (Goa, India)
120. White-browed bulbul (Goa, India)
121. Zitting cisticola (Goa, India)
122. Plain prinia (Goa, India)
123. Large woodshrike (Goa, India)
124. White-bellied drongo (Goa, India)
125. Baya weaver (Goa, India)
126. Pied stonechat (Goa, India)
127. Malabar crested lark (Goa, India)
128. Black-lored tit (Goa, India)
129. White-headed starling (Goa, India)
130. Chestnut-tailed starling (Goa, India)
131. Nilgiri blackbird (Goa, India)

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March

A quiet month back home...

132. Common swift (Dubai, UAE)
133. Semi-collared flycatcher (Dubai, UAE)

[scfmerlin]

Gashead,
Now I'm jealous.
Please enlighten me on the name gashead as it locally means a supporter of a certain football team.
regards
Merlin

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Yep, Bristol Rovers to be exact.

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April nothing to add, May and a holiday in Europe...

134. Great crested grebe (England).
135. Dunnock (England).
136. Sedge warbler (England).
137. Bullfinch (England).
138. Reed bunting (England).
139. Alpine swift (Croatia).
140. Garden warbler (Montenegro).
141. Cirl bunting (Montenegro).
142. Yellow-legged gull (Montenegro).
143. Great reed warbler (Montenegro).
144. Common raven (Montenegro).
145. Green woodpecker (England).
146. Long-tailed tit (England).

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June, back in Dubai in the heat...

147. Pharaoh eagle owl (Dubai, UAE).
148. Greater hoopoe lark (Um Al Quwaim, UAE).

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July and a long weekend in Yemen (only limited birding due to security problems)...

149. Fan-tailed raven.
150. Red-breasted wheatear.
151. South arabian wheatear.
152. Ruppel's weaver.
153. Tristrams grackle.
154. Little rock thrush.

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October...

155. European nightjar.
156. Common rosefinch.
157. Forest wagtail

200 seems a long way off...

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November...

158. Steppe eagle.

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December...

159. Olive-backed pipit in Dubai.