Maffong
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Per Facebook:
I have these 14 species as potential targets and wonder which of these they didn't consider. Frigatebird? Storm Petrel? Fea's?
Helmeted Guineafowl
Cape Verde Storm Petrel
Fea's Petrel
Cape Verde Shearwater
Boyd's Shearwater
Red-billed Tropicbird
Magnificent Frigatebird
Brown Booby
Cape Verde Buzzard
Cape Verde Swift
Grey-headed Kingfisher
Raso Lark
Cape Verde Warbler
Iago Sparrow
And for Canaries these are the targets
Houbara Bustard
Bolle's Pigeon
Laurel Pigeon
Canary Islands Chiffchaff
Canary Islands Stonechat
Tenerife Blue Chaffinch
Gran Canaria Blue Chaffinch
I wonder how they'll treat Nanday Parakeet. And apparently they'll try to twitch some vagrant Yellow-billed Loon and Grey-headed Chickadee as far south as possible
If they don't add any other (non-rarity-hunt) trip to that, this would mean that they won't have the following species, that occur in the WP on a regular basis.
Goliath Heron
Shikra
Pin-tailed Snipe
Caspian Tit
Algerian Nuthatch
Red-billed Firefinch
Scottish Crossbill
Pallas's Reed Bunting
plus these that should occur on a regular basis but haven't been recorded AFAIK this year
African Darter
Verreaux's Eagle
African Skimmer
Hume's Wheatear
Pygmy Sunbird
African Silverbill
And a few options of code 4 birds are still open, e.g.:
Rüppell's Vulture
Northern Harrier
Wilson's Snipe
Ross's Gull
American Herring Gull
Dusky Warbler
Pine Bunting
And whatever else turns up...
Spirits high! We are off to Cape Verde. 13 target species and a good potential of getting Red-Footed Booby, Intermediate Egret and the Black-Headed Heron that was seen some weeks ago.
Next will then be the Canary Islands where we expect to get our 750th bird of the year!! Fantastic!
I have these 14 species as potential targets and wonder which of these they didn't consider. Frigatebird? Storm Petrel? Fea's?
Helmeted Guineafowl
Cape Verde Storm Petrel
Fea's Petrel
Cape Verde Shearwater
Boyd's Shearwater
Red-billed Tropicbird
Magnificent Frigatebird
Brown Booby
Cape Verde Buzzard
Cape Verde Swift
Grey-headed Kingfisher
Raso Lark
Cape Verde Warbler
Iago Sparrow
And for Canaries these are the targets
Houbara Bustard
Bolle's Pigeon
Laurel Pigeon
Canary Islands Chiffchaff
Canary Islands Stonechat
Tenerife Blue Chaffinch
Gran Canaria Blue Chaffinch
I wonder how they'll treat Nanday Parakeet. And apparently they'll try to twitch some vagrant Yellow-billed Loon and Grey-headed Chickadee as far south as possible
If they don't add any other (non-rarity-hunt) trip to that, this would mean that they won't have the following species, that occur in the WP on a regular basis.
Goliath Heron
Shikra
Pin-tailed Snipe
Caspian Tit
Algerian Nuthatch
Red-billed Firefinch
Scottish Crossbill
Pallas's Reed Bunting
plus these that should occur on a regular basis but haven't been recorded AFAIK this year
African Darter
Verreaux's Eagle
African Skimmer
Hume's Wheatear
Pygmy Sunbird
African Silverbill
And a few options of code 4 birds are still open, e.g.:
Rüppell's Vulture
Northern Harrier
Wilson's Snipe
Ross's Gull
American Herring Gull
Dusky Warbler
Pine Bunting
And whatever else turns up...