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Gasheads 2017 world list (1 Viewer)

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Here we go again, trying to beat last years paltry total of 367 (lifers in bold)...



1 Mallard (UAE)
2 Greater Flamingo (UAE)
3 Great Cormorant (UAE)
4 Grey Heron (UAE)
5 Great Egret (UAE)
6 Western Reef-Heron (UAE)
7 Eurasian Marsh-Harrier (UAE)
8 Eurasian Oystercatcher (UAE)
9 Grey Plover (UAE)
10 Lesser Sand-Plover (UAE)
11 Kentish Plover (UAE)
12 Common Ringed Plover (UAE)
13 Whimbrel (UAE)
14 Eurasian Curlew (UAE)
15 Bar-tailed Godwit (UAE)
16 Ruddy Turnstone (UAE)
17 Curlew Sandpiper (UAE)
18 Dunlin (UAE)
19 Little stint (UAE)
20 Terek Sandpiper (UAE)
21 Common Sandpiper (UAE)
22 Common Greenshank (UAE)
23 Common Redshank (UAE)
24 Crab Plover (UAE)
25 Slender-billed Gull (UAE)
26 Black-headed Gull (UAE)
27 Pallas's Gull (UAE)
28 Gull-billed Tern (UAE)
29 Whiskered Tern (UAE)
30 Rock Dove (UAE)
31 Laughing Dove (UAE)
32 Pallid Swift (UAE)
33 Green Bee-eater (UAE)
34 Ring-necked Parakeet (UAE)
35 Isabelline Shrike (UAE)
36 House Crow (UAE)
37 Graceful Prinia (UAE)
38 Common Myna (UAE)
39 White Wagtail (UAE)
40 Tawny Pipit (UAE)
41 Yellow Bittern (Phillipines)
42 Intermediate Egret (Phillipines)
43 Little Egret (Phillipines)
44 Barred Rail (Phillipines)
45 Little Ringed Plover (Phillipines)
46 Spotted Dove (Phillipines)
47 Zebra Dove (Phillipines)
48 Common Kingfisher (Phillipines)
49 Collared Kingfisher (Phillipines)
50 Long-tailed Shrike (Phillipines)
51 Barn Swallow (Phillipines)
52 Asian Glossy Starling (Phillipines)
53 Eastern Yellow Wagtail (Phillipines)

54 Tree Sparrow (Phillipines)
55 Chestnut Munia (Phillipines)
56 White-eared Brown-Dove (Phillipines)
57 Philipine Drongo-Cuckoo (Phillipines)

58 Pygmy Swiftlet (Phillipines)
59 Samar Hornbill (Phillipines)

60 Northern Silvery-Kingfisher (Phillipines)
61 Brown Shrike (Phillipines)
62 Philippine Oriole (Phillipines)
63 Black-crowned Babbler (Phillipines)
64 Chinese Sparrowhawk (Phillipines)
65 Besra (Phillipines)
66 Plain Bush-hen (Phillipines)
67 White-breasted Waterhen (Phillipines)
68 Black-faced Coucal (Phillipines)
69 Philippine Trogon (Phillipines)

70 Buff-spotted Flameback (Phillipines)
71 White-breasted Woodswallow (Phillipines)

72 Hair-crested Drongo (Phillipines)
73 Philippine Bulbul (Phillipines)
74 Striated Wren-Babbler (Phillipines)
75 Coleto (Phillipines)
76 Everett's Scops-Owl (Phillipines) - 1200 sp. in Eastern Hemisphere
77 Brown booby (Phillipines)
78 Ruddy Kingfisher (Phillipines)
 
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79 Black-winged Stilt (UAE)
80 Grey Francolin (UAE)
81 Cattle Egret (UAE)
82 Oriental Honey-buzzard (UAE)
83 Red-wattled Lapwing (UAE)
84 Eurasian Collared-Dove (UAE)
85 Eurasian Hoopoe (UAE)
86 Red-vented Bulbul (UAE)
87 White-eared Bulbul (UAE)
88 Common Chiffchaff (UAE)
89 Redwing (UAE) - UAE tick
90 Song Thrush (UAE)
91 House Sparrow (UAE)
 
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92 Indian Roller (UAE)
93 Mistle Thrush (UAE) - UAE Tick
94 Asian Pied Starling (UAE)
95 Purple Sunbird (UAE)
 
96 Superb Starling (UAE) - UAE Tick
97 European Golden Plover (UAE)
98 Common Snipe (UAE)
99 Common Kestrel (UAE)
100 Southern Grey Shrike (UAE)
101 Skylark (UAE)
102 Crested Lark (UAE)
103 Rock Martin (UAE)
104 Black Redstart (UAE)
105 Northern Wheatear (UAE)
106 Red-tailed Wheatear (UAE)
107 Desert Wheatear (UAE)
108 Isabelline Wheatear (UAE)
109 Richard's Pipit (UAE)
110 Long-billed Pipit (UAE)
111 Striolated Bunting (UAE)
 
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112 Eurasian Wryneck (UAE)
113 Desert Whitethroat (UAE)
114 Black-throated Thrush (UAE)
115 Indian Silverbill (UAE)
 
116 Egyptian Vulture (Oman)
117 Eurasian Spoonbill (UAE)
118 Greater Spotted Eagle (UAE)
119 Pied Avocet (UAE)
120 Greylag Goose (UAE)
121 Gadwall (UAE)
122 Northern Shoveler (UAE)
123 Eurasian Green-winged Teal (UAE)
124 Little Grebe (UAE)
125 Purple Heron (UAE)
126 Common Moorhen (UAE)
127 White-tailed Lapwing (UAE)
128 Green Sandpiper (UAE)
129 Caspian Tern (UAE)
130 Clamorous Reed-Warbler (UAE)
131 Bluethroat (UAE)
132 Bank Myna (UAE)
133 Citrine Wagtail (UAE)
134 Streaked Weaver (UAE)
 
A day on the UAE east coast...

135 Eurasian Sparrowhawk
136 Brown-necked Raven
137 Starling
138 Pin-tailed Snipe
139 Woodchat Shrike
140 Menetries's Warbler
141 Black-eared Wheatear
142 Water Pipit
143 Desert Lark
144 White-spectacled Bulbul
145 Hume's Wheatear
 
A morning around the southern city of Al Ain in the UAE...

146 Egyptian Goose
147 Common Pochard
148 Eurasian Coot
149 Ruff
150 Wood Sandpiper
 
A non birding trip to Europe...

151 Canada Goose (England)
152 Common Shelduck (England)
153 Northern Pintail (England)
154 Common Pheasant (England)
155 Northern Lapwing (England)
156 Great Black-backed Gull (England)
157 Peregrine Falcon (England)
158 Rook (England)
159 Stock Dove (England)
160 Common Wood-Pigeon (England)
161 Great Spotted Woodpecker (England)
162 Common Magpie (England)
163 Coal Tit (England)
164 Marsh Tit (England)
165 Great Tit (England)
166 Long-tailed Tit (England)
167 Eurasian Nuthatch (England)
168 Eurasian Treecreeper (England)
169 Robin (England)
170 Chaffinch (England)
171 Eurasian Jay (England)
172 Eurasian Jackdaw (England)
173 Blue Tit (England)
174 Blackbird (England)
175 Siskin (England)
176 Mute Swan (Finland)
177 Common Goldeneye (Finland)
178 Mew Gull (Finland)
179 Lesser Black-backed Gull (Finland)
180 Common Eider (Finland)
181 Long-tailed Duck (Finland)
182 Common Merganser (Finland)
183 Hooded Crow (Finland)
184 Asian Desert Warbler (UAE)
185 Lesser Whitethroat (UAE)
 
Not many migrants around in the UAE so a trip to the beach...

186 Sanderling
187 Sooty Gull
188 Saunders's Tern
189 Common Tern
190 Sandwich Tern
191 Lesser Crested Tern
192 Shikra
193 White-cheeked tern
 
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A weekend visit to Bharatpur in India...

195 Little Swift
196 Black-rumped Flameback
197 Pied Bushchat
198 Grey Wagtail
199 Bar-headed Goose - 700 sp. in Asia
200 Eurasian Wigeon
201 Striated Heron
202 Himalayan Griffon
203 Indian Spotted Eagle
204 Steppe Eagle
205 Imperial Eagle
206 Black Kite
207 Oriental Turtle-Dove
208 Blue-tailed Bee-eater
209 Yellow-crowned Woodpecker
210 Indian Golden Oriole
211 Wire-tailed Swallow
212 Lesser Whistling-Duck
213 Ruddy Shelduck
214 Indian Spot-billed Duck
215 Garganey
216 Indian Peafowl
217 Asian Openbill
218 Woolly-necked Stork
219 Black-necked Stork
220 Painted Stork
221 Little Cormorant
222 Indian Cormorant
223 Oriental Darter
224 Black Bittern
225 Indian Pond-Heron
226 Black-crowned Night-Heron
227 Glossy Ibis
228 Black-headed Ibis
229 Grey-headed Swamphen
230 Sarus Crane
231 Bronze-winged Jacana
232 Temminck's Stint
233 Spotted Redshank
234 Marsh Sandpiper
235 Red Collared-Dove - 300 sp. in India
236 Yellow-footed Pigeon
237 Greater Coucal
238 Indian Scops-Owl
239 Spotted Owlet
240 Indian Grey Hornbill
241 White-throated Kingfisher
242 Pied Kingfisher
243 Common Woodshrike
244 Black Drongo
245 Rufous Treepie
246 Large-billed Crow
247 Blyth's Reed-Warbler
248 Common Tailorbird
249 Ashy Prinia
250 Plain Prinia
251 Common Babbler
252 Jungle Babbler
253 Indian Robin
254 Oriental Magpie-Robin
255 Red-breasted Flycatcher
256 Rosy Starling
257 Brahminy Starling
258 Western Yellow Wagtail
259 Chestnut-shouldered Petronia
 
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A week in Cyprus...

261 Ferruginous Duck
262 Collared Pratincole
263 Yellow-legged Gull
264 Lesser Kestrel
265 European Bee-eater
266 Eurasian Blackcap
267 Ortolan Bunting - 100 sp. in Cyprus
268 European Turtle Dove
269 Eurasian Golden Oriole
270 Eastern Orphean Warbler
271 Common Rock Thrush
272 European Greenfinch
273 European Goldfinch
274 Spotted Flycatcher
275 European Pied Flycatcher
276 Whinchat
277 Chukar
278 Common Swift
279 Common House Martin
280 Cyprus Warbler
281 Spectacled Warbler
282 Trumpeter Finch
283 Spanish Sparrow
284 Spur-winged Lapwing
285 Red-rumped Swallow
 
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Ten days in Kruger National Park...

287 Cape Wagtail
288 Coqui Francolin
289 Lizard Buzzard
290 African Scops Owl
291 Southern Fiscal
292 Common Ostrich
293 White-headed Vulture
294 Greater Blue-eared Starling
295 Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
296 Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
297 Eastern Paradise-Whydah
298 Spur-winged Goose
299 Marabou Stork
300 Black-breasted Snake-Eagle
301 Martial Eagle
302 Greater Striped-Swallow
303 Wattled Starling
304 Red-winged Starling
305 Burchell's Starling
306 Black Crake
307 Temminck's Courser
308 Red-eyed Dove
309 Senegal Coucal
310 Common Scimitarbill
311 Brown-headed Parrot
312 Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark
313 Groundscraper Thrush
314 White-breasted Sunbird
315 African Pipit
316 African Darter
317 Sacred Ibis
318 Hadada Ibis
319 African Spoonbill
320 Black-bellied Bustard
321 Mourning Collared Dove
322 Spotted Eagle Owl
323 Southern Ground-Hornbill
324 Chinspot Batis
325 White-crowned Shrike
326 Lesser Striped-Swallow
327 Helmeted Guineafowl
328 Natal Francolin
329 Yellow-billed Stork
330 Goliath Heron
331 Tawny Eagle
332 Three-banded Plover
333 Pearl-spotted Owlet
334 African Palm-Swift
335 Rattling Cisticola
336 Red-billed Oxpecker
337 Village Indigobird
338 Swainson's Francolin
339 Hamerkop
340 White-backed Vulture
341 African Fish-Eagle
342 Spotted Thick-knee
343 Blacksmith Lapwing
344 Wattled Lapwing
345 Double-banded Sandgrouse
346 Namaqua Dove
347 Southern Red-billed Hornbill
348 Brown-hooded Kingfisher
349 Giant Kingfisher
350 White-fronted Bee-eater
351 White Helmetshrike
352 Black-crowned Tchagra
353 Plain Martin
354 Yellow-breasted Apalis
355 Arrow-marked Babbler
356 African Pied Wagtail
357 Crested Francolin
358 Saddle-billed Stork
359 Black-winged Kite
360 Bateleur
361 Crowned Lapwing
362 Ring-necked Dove
363 Grey Go-away-bird
364 White-browed Coucal
365 African Grey Hornbill
366 Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
367 Lilac-breasted Roller
368 Rufous-crowned Roller Past last years total
369 Crested Barbet
370 Golden-tailed Woodpecker
371 Magpie Shrike
372 Fork-tailed Drongo
373 Pied Crow
374 Yellow-bellied Greenbul 200 sp. in South Africa
375 Common Bulbul
376 Cape Crombec
377 Ashy Flycatcher
378 Cape Starling
379 Golden-breasted Bunting
380 Southern Cordonbleu
381 Red-billed Firefinch
382 Jameson's Firefinch
383 Bronze Mannikin
 
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A day at Kurisa Moya in Magoebaskloof in South Africa...

384 Cape Griffon
385 White-necked Raven
386 African Stonechat
387 Comb Duck
388 African Goshawk
389 Jackal Buzzard
390 Rameron Pigeon
391 Lemon Dove
392 Knysna Turaco
393 Olive Woodpecker
394 Brown-necked Parrot
395 Cape Batis
396 Olive Bushshrike
397 Black-fronted Bushshrike
398 Grey Cuckooshrike
399 Square-tailed Drongo
400 Short-clawed Lark
401 Rufous-naped Lark
402 Yellow-streaked Greenbul
403 Yellow-throated Woodland-Warbler
404 Bar-throated Apalis
405 Red-faced Cisticola
406 Rock-loving Cisticola
407 Wailing Cisticola
408 Tawny-flanked Prini
409 Drakensberg Prinia
410 Cape White-eye
411 Gurney's Sugarbird
412 Chorister Robin-Chat
413 Orange Ground-Thrush
414 Collared Sunbird
415 Amethyst Sunbird
416 Scarlet-chested Sunbird
417 Southern Double-collared Sunbird
418 Mountain Wagtail
419 Cape Canary
420 Yellow-fronted Canary
421 Forest Canary
422 Streaky-headed Seedeater
423 White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
424 Holub's Golden-Weaver
425 Village Weaver
426 Swee Waxbill
427 Green-backed Twinspot
428 Common Waxbill
429 Magpie Mannikin
430 Cape Wagtail
 
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A bit of a catch up after moving to live in India a couple of months ago...

431 River Tern
432 Siberian Stonechat
433 Painted Spurfowl
434 Crested Serpent-Eagle
435 Alexandrine Parakeet
436 Plum-headed Parakeet
437 Tufted Duck
438 Grey-headed Canary-Flycatcher
439 Green Warbler
440 European Roller
441 Oriental White-eye
442 Large Grey Babbler
443 Red Avadavat
444 Pied Cuckoo
445 Little Bittern
446 Pheasant-tailed Jacana
447 Black-tailed Godwit
448 Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
449 Grey-throated Martin
 

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