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What list are they using, they don't all accept the Iberian splits do they?
Andy
On the page :t:
Rules: We will follow the list maintained at http://www.netfugl.dk/wplist.php
What list are they using, they don't all accept the Iberian splits do they?
Andy
Rules: We will follow the list maintained at http://www.netfugl.dk/wplist.php
Why no Scottish Crossbill?
I would future proof on taxonomy
Because future proofing on taxonomy will accept that it doesn't exist 8-P
Though it's on the current Netfugl list . . . so they could try for it . . but would it waste too much time trying to find something that isn't there?
1) The information given is very rudimental. They don't tell us anything about themselves and their background.
What taxonomy does netfugl use? (Could look it up, but they might aswell just give us half a sentence more)
2) Their spelling should really be double checked. I notice, they aren't native speakers, but come on... "Mars" "Catagory C" "Suthern Europé" "Kazakstan"
4) As far as I know at least L.G. Evans has already done a WP Big Year with 704 species seen.
"To our knowledge, no one has ever attempted a full Big Year in the WP region – that is what we’ll be doing in 2017."
Did LGRE explicitly call it a WP Big Year? Also could be contentious, there's some people at least who consider his personal bird lists a bit iffy . . .
But he doesn't count Scotbill!
Yes, very interesting indeed.
For those dissing Britain, they seem to be forgetting that as an island (group) it is extremely well placed to receive extra-limital vagrants which will be hard to pick up elsewhere - Sibes to a degree, but also the Yanks. The Azores will of course be good, but in a good year the UK can get 12+ Nearctic shorebird species alone. A potentially greater variety and much easier to twitch. Depends where the birds turn up in the particular year.
... don't they have to be careful about having Israel stamps in the same passport?
Not sure ending the year in Iceland is so good an idea though, very limited daylight, for very little potential return
I really don't think you can plan a big year and realistically legislate for a significant number of vagrants.
Though it's not like a World list, they will presumably be back and forth a lot so could easily spend a week on the Scillies, a week in the Hebs and a week on the Azores?
I suspect though that any vagrants may be mopped up if the chance presents and that solid coverage of each important destination will be of more benefit?
Alternatively, for British passport holders at least, you can travel on two passports.
That's interesting, didn't know that?
A
A friend of mine holds three passports. Irish, British and US. He usually uses his American passport in Israel and his British passport in other countries in the Middle East. He also requests that the Israeli border police stamp a piece of paper and he's only been refused on one of about five trips to Israel IIRC.
As far as I know though it's obligatory in some countries to use the same passport for both entry and exit on any one trip. This is the case in Switzerland at least.