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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    More than 300 new species on my first trip to India last week, highlights being Blyth's Tragopan, Fire-tailed Myzornis, Spotted Elachura, Grandala, Blood Pheasant and many more. Strangely, my last lifer was one of India's most common birds Jungle Babbler, species no. 409 on my India list.
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    How Do You Pronounce ____________?

    I've only ever heard people say Vox's in the US and Vaux himself said "Vawks"
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    What’s your nemesis bird?

    Yeah, I've heard them calling just metres away in Spain but they remained well hidden. I thought I'd see them on spring migration in Israel but didn't even hear them on two spring trips.
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    What’s your nemesis bird?

    The most common bird in Europe I've never seen is Common Quail. Thought I heard lots in Gozo last summer before realising they were just tape recordings to lure birds to hunters... Most common bird missing from my Iceland list is Great Shearwater but I'm not a great sailor these days and I...
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    Your Most Recent "Life" Bird

    Saw 283 new species on a 10 day trip to SE Brazil last week but the last lifer was.... Iberian Chiffchaff on Monday during a very brief stopover in Lisbon.
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    Europeans, which American bird would you most like to see?

    Having been on birding trips to New York, Minnesota, North Dakota, Washington State and Texas, my number one target in North America now would be Smith's Longspur on its breeding grounds.
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    Westfjords?

    The West Fjords is a great area of Iceland for general travel, spectacular scenery, feels remote, still relatively few tourists. Don't underestimate the distances, things are further than you think as the roads wind in and out of every fjord, but the scenery is great all the time so just enjoy...
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    Walrus, West Sussex

    Thor is now in eastern Iceland https://www.austurfrett.is/frettir/rostungur-a-flotbryggju-i-breidhdalsvik?fbclid=IwAR1yQi6CV7PZ8tbUuExOATNIuT0TJgOcprhNQ6LRvrx8oYJLkeYv96nWXPk
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    Timing in May/June

    Don't think the direction really matters, I think I prefer going counter clockwise. If I were doing it now I'd check the weather first and then decide but I guess you have to book accommodation.
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    Timing in May/June

    Timing wise last week of May first week of June is definitely the best period for birding in Iceland – all breeding species have arrived, many northbound migrants are still present, they are all highly visible and noisy, you have 24-hour daylight and there still aren’t that many tourists around...
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    Birding in Iceland in July-Aug 2023

    As Andrew says, eBird is widely used in Iceland and is the best tool by far for seeing what birds are here and where they are. Although August is past the prime period and southbound migration has begun, there are still plenty of birds all over the place. Here are the eBird bar charts for...
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    Iceland in February - tips?

    “Foresttwitcher” has answered a lot of your questions but I’ll give you a winter perspective. King Eider is a regular but scarce winter visitor, mostly turning up February-April (although some stay all year) and almost always found in flocks of Common Eider. I haven’t seen any reported recently...
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    Birding in and close to Reykjavík in December

    There are usually plenty of Harlequins at Hafnir but they tend to be more distant than those at Þorkötlustaðabót. The beach to the north of the harbour wall in Sandgerði is usually heaving with gulls (which attract Gyr Falcon), the harbour itself can have birds in. For walks along the coast, the...
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    Birding in and close to Reykjavík in December

    You are very unlikely to see Harlequin Duck in Reykjavík in winter but it’s easy to see a short drive away from the city. A reliable site is the bay Þorkötlustaðabót just east of Grindavík, eBird hotspot here https://ebird.org/hotspot/L1312736. This site north of Reykjavík is also pretty certain...
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    Iceland for the bewildered

    I've never been to Vigur but that will be a good trip I think, tons of birds on the island and very often a King Eider in the Common Eider colony
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