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1000 in a year (1 Viewer)

A long day. First birding at Gunung Mahawu where we find the Sulawesi Blue Flycatcher. Then to the airport and a short flight from Manado to Ternate. With the boat over the bay to Halmahera, then long drive to Tabelo. Later drive north and to a beach where we find the Moluccan Megapode at around 2 in the morning. To bed at 3.30 am!

9. October - Gunung Mahawu, Sulawesi to Halmahera
946: Moluccan Megapode
947: Bulwer's Petrel
948: Lesser Frigatebird
949: Red-necked Phalarope
950: Beach Kingfisher
951: Sacred Kingfisher
952: Willie Wagtail
953: Metallic Starling
954: Sulawesi Blue Flycatcher
 
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Today first a drive south to Subaim, then we go birding along the road to Buli in the mountains. Lots of new birds as we are now east of Weber's Line. There is only little overlap in species between Sulawesi and Halmahera.

10. October - Buli road, Halmahera, Indonesia
955: Great Cuckoo-Dove
956: Scarlet-breasted Fruit Dove
957: Blue-capped Fruit Dove
958: Grey-headed Fruit Dove
959: Violet-necked Lory
960: Chattering Lory
961: Red-flanked Parrot
962: Red-cheeked Parrot
963: Great-billed Parrot
964: Goliath Coucal
965: Barking Owl
966: White-throated Needletail
967: Sombre Kingfisher
968: Blyth's Hornbill
969: Dusky Myzomela
970: White-streaked Friarbird
971: Moluccan Cuckooshrike
972: Halmahera Cuckooshrike
973: Long-billed Crow
974: Paradise-crow
975: Standardwing
976: Northern Golden Bulbul
977: Cream-throated White-eye
 
Another morning at the road to Buli, then drive south to Weda and some birding in the highlands there for Azure Dollarbird.

11. October - Buli road and drive to Weda
978: Cinnamon-bellied Imperial Pigeon
979: Pied Imperial Pigeon
980: Moluccan Hanging Parrot
981: Eclectus Parrot
982: Moluccan King Parrot
983: Halmahera Boobook
984: Moustached Treeswift
985: Halmahera Swiftlet
986: Azure Dollarbird
987: Rufous-bellied Triller
988: Black-chinned Whistler
989: Spangled Drongo
990: Island Leaf Warbler
991: Gray's Grasshopper Warbler
992: Moluccan Starling

Moustached Treeswift:
 

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The big day today: getting closer and closer to the magical number! First we visited a lek of Wallace's Standardwing. A wonderful experience! We then birded in the forest around the lek and went for some other birds in the afternoon. List today in actual order of seeing things:

12. October - Weda, Halmahera
993: Spectacled Imperial Pigeon
994: Ivory-breasted Pitta
995: Dusky Megapode
996: Moluccan Goshawk
997: Shining Flycatcher
998: Nicobar Pigeon
999: Common Paradise Kingfisher

1000: Blue-and-white Kingfisher3:)

1001: White Cockatoo
1002: Red-bellied Pitta
1003: Moluccan Scops Owl
1004: Moluccan Owlet-nightjar
 
Another day around Weda, trying to find whatever we have missed so far. Also some relaxed seawatching from the resort.

13. October - Weda, Halmahera
1005: Brown Booby
1006: Pacific Baza
1007: Gurney's Eagle
1008: Variable Goshawk
1009: Bridled Tern
1010: Drab Whistler
1011: Dusky-brown Oriole
1012: Moluccan Monarch
1013: White-naped Monarch
1014: Moluccan Flycatcher
1015: Halmahera Flowerpecker

Male Moluccan Flycatcher (aka Slaty Flycatcher):
 

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Last full day on Halmahera, trying to find Drummer Rail, however, luck was not on my side. The following day we travelled from Weda to Sififi, took the boat to Ternate, the flight to Manado and drove to Tangkoko, our last place on Sulawesi.

14. October - Weda, Halmahera
1016: Greater Crested Tern
1017: Kamchatka Leaf Warbler

15. October - Halmahera back to Sulawesi
1018: Oriental Hobby
1019: Black-naped Tern
1020: Javan Myna
1021: Java Sparrow
1022: Sulawesi Scops Owl
 
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First full day at Tangkoko Reserve. Some really nice birds here and some good local guides.

16. October - Tangkoko, Sulawesi
1023: Philippine Megapode
1024: Ochre-bellied Boobook
1025: Ruddy Kingfisher
1026: Red-backed Thrush
1027: Japanese Sparrowhawk

Lilac Kingfisher and Red-bellied Pitta (now split by Clements as Sulawesi Pitta):
 

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And the last day of this wonderful trip. Another day at Tangkoko, first with the boat to the mangroves, than rushing around in the forest in order to get some of the missing species. Grand finale with Dwarf Kingfisher and Sulawesi Nightjar.

17. October - Tangkoko, Sulawesi
1028: Great-billed Heron
1029: Sulawesi Goshawk
1030: Grey-tailed Tattler
1031: Sulawesi Nightjar
1032: Great-billed Kingfisher
1033: Sulawesi Dwarf Kingfisher

Grey-tailed Tattler and Great-billed Kingfisher:
 

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Finally some new birds back here in Switzerland. A cold, cloudy weekend it was....

6. December - Oerlinger Ried, Switzerland
1034: Jack Snipe

7. December - Klingnauer Stausee, Switzerland
1035: Greater White-fronted Goose
1036: Redwing
 
And some more:

14. December: Bodensee (Lake Constance), Switzerland
1037: Velvet Scoter

15. December: Pfäffikersee, Switzerland
1038: Eurasian Bittern
1039: Long-eared Owl
 
And an addendum from the Sulawesi/Halmahera trip. An Osprey we saw on Halmahera was an Eastern Osprey, split by IOC. As the bird was seen in the morning of the 12. October, this would make Common Paradise Kingfisher number 1000. However, who really cares;).

12. October - Weda, Halmahera, Indonesia
1040: Eastern Osprey
 
Back in India and doing some relaxed birding with friends around Pondicherry.

23. December - Auroville
1041: Black-rumped Flameback
1042: Indian Jungle Crow

24. December - Lake Ousteri
1043: Eurasian Spoonbill (hard to believe that I have missed it so far)
1044: Blue-faced Malkoha
1045: Common Hawk- Cuckoo
1046: Large Cuckooshrike
1047: Indian Golden Oriole
1048: White-browed Bulbul
1049: Pale-billed Flowerpecker
 
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and some more....

25. December - Lake Ousteri
1050: Grey Francolin
1051: Indian Spot-billed Duck
1052: Spot-billed Pelican
1053: Pallas's Gull
1054: Red-rumped Swallow

26. December - Gingee Fort
1055: Yellow-throated Bulbul
1056: Dusky Crag Martin
1057: Loten's Sunbird
 
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27. December - Lake Ousteri
1058: Indian Pitta (Pitta number 4 this year)
1059: Black-headed Cuckooshrike
1060: Blyth's Reed Warbler
1061: Ashy Prinia
1062: Indian Robin
1063: Purple-rumped Sunbird
1064: White-browed Wagtail

28. December - Lake Ousteri again
1065: Indian Peafowl
1066: Indian Blue Robin (what a stunner!)
1067: Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
 
Well, that was it. I had planned to visit another spot today and to add maybe 4 or 5 new species, but in India things not always run like we are used to it....
However, it was a great year, I've seen many birds and met many nice people. A bit of statistics:
Out of 1067 species seen...
....53 were Birds of Prey, 10 falcons
....54 were Waders
....45 were Pigeons or Doves
....18 were Owls, 6 Nightjars, 1 an Owlet- nightjar
....24 were Kingfishers
....18 Hornbills
....4 Pittas
....35 Bulbuls
....24 Starlings
....29 Sunbirds
....21 Parrots and Cockatoos
....13 Bee-eaters

Tomorrow the new year and the new list will start with a birding trip to the Nilgiris in southwest India. Also on schedule are northeastern India and Namibia, but the main goal will be to push the life list over 3000.

Special thanks this year go to Panuwat from Wildbird Eco, James Ntakor, Frank Lambert and everybody else out there I've birded with this year.

André
 
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