Where have you been? (country lists) (1 Viewer)

wintibird said:

Remembers me of a story a Finnish guide told me. When crossing the border from Norway to Finland his customers wanted a stamp in their passport. As there is usually nobody around they looked out for an official and eventually found one. But he didn't have the right stamp, so he stamped the passport with something like "Please forward to ..." in Finnish. The customers were happy and the guide was smiling.....

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chris butterworth said:

I've done a bit of travelling. The countries in Europe I DON't have a bird list for are:-
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova ( I don't think anuone else on here has birded there either ), San Marino, Ukraine or the Vatican.
I've birded Azores, Canaries, Cape Verdes, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Uganda, Madeira, Morocco, Senegal, Tanzania ( just the far north + Zanzibar ) + Tunisia in Africa,
Brunei, China ( incl. Hong Kong + Tibet ), India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Russia ( Tuva + Altai Rep.), Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UAE + Vietnam in Asia
Argentina ( just 24hrs ), Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, Cuba, Dom Rep, Falklands ( + Sth. Georgia, Sth. Orkney, Sth. Shetland, Antarctic Pen., Tristan da Cunha, Gough + deps), Jamaica, Trinidad
, USA + Venezuela in Americas
Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Palau, Western Samoa, F.S.M. + Northern Marianas in Australasia + Pacific.

Still a hell of a lot to do.

Chris

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Trystan said:

Current list of countries:


1. UK - Home
2. France - School trip in about 1990, I've only done airport transfers there since
3. Greece - Corfu, Crete, Rhodes and most recently Samos between 1992 and 2012 with various degrees of birding.
4. Cyprus - Twice in 1994 and then 1995. Was learning to bird around this time and picked up my first decent list of European species in 1995.
5. Spain - Holiday in 1996 then regularly from 2006 when my parents moved there, still a good few species to find, it's a very big country! Also been to Tenerife and Lanzarote but not birding.
6. Cuba - Non birding trip back in 2000. This was the place which gave me the travel bug.
7. Germany - 2003 with a bit of birding in the Alps.
8. Austria - Visit to Salzburg from Germany in 2003
9. Sri Lanka - Island tour where I got to do some birding but not as much as I'd have liked. 2004
10. Bulgaria - Birding trip 2005
11. Kenya - Safari in 2006, crossed the border into 12. Tanzania for 10 mins or so where the Masai Mara becomes the Serengeti.
13. Ecuador - General tour in 2007, did some birding on my free days but needed to spend a month or two there!
14. Netherlands Antilles Strictly speaking an airport transfer at Bonaire when it was still part of the Netherlands Antilles but we did cross the tarmac on foot and I have 2 bird species recorded for the country. 2007
15. Jordan and 16. Egypt Historical tour with a few notable species picked up. 2008
17. USA - Texas migration at High Island and the surrounding area in 2009
18. Hungary and 19. Romania - Birding tour in 2010
20. Gambia - Birding tour, my report is available on this site. 2011
21. Senegal - Spent the morning over the border from Gambia.
22. Turkey - Day trip from Samos in 2012
23. Iceland - Birding tour, my report is available on this site. 2012
24. Andorra - Another border crossing while birding the Pyrenees. 2012

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