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Yep, that's the big goal this year. I nearly made it in 2012 (I would with heard only included) but this year it should be possible. Some trips out of Switzerland will help greatly, on the map are Thailand, Ghana, Scotland, Bosnia, Sulawesi and India.

1. January - Chennai, India
1: Rose-ringed Parakeet
2: Asian Koel
3: House Crow

2. January - Chennai, India
4: Indian Pond Heron
5: Eastern Cattle Egret
6: Booted Eagle
7: Black Kite
8: Rufous Treepie
9: Yellow-billed Babbler

A rather slow start, but on this evening I went to the airport and took a flight to Bangkok, where I booked a little tour with Par from Wild Bird Eco. Very recommandable by the way!

 

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3. January - somewhere around Petchaburi, Thailand
10: Little Grebe
11: Asian Openbill
12: Black-headed Ibis
13: Yellow Bittern
14: Striated Heron
15: Grey Heron
16: Purple Heron
17: Great Egret
18: Intermediate Egret
19: Little Egret
20: Pacific Reef Heron
21: Little Cormorant
22: Indian Cormorant
23: Oriental Darter
24: Western Osprey
25: Black-winged Kite
26: Shikra
27: Eastern Marsh Harrier
28: Pied Harrier (a stunning male!)
29: Brahminy Kite
30: Slaty-breasted Rail
31: White-breasted Waterhen
32: Ruddy-breasted Crake
33: White-browed Crake
34: Purple Swamphen
35: Common Moorhen
36: Black-winged Stilt
37: Grey-headed Lapwing
38: Red-wattled Lapwing
39: Pacific Golden Plover
40: Grey Plover
41: Little Ringed Plover
42: Pheasant-tailed Jacana
43: Bronze-winged Jacana
44: Common Snipe
45: Black-tailed Godwit
46: Common Redshank
47: Marsh Sandpiper
48: Common Greenshank
49: Wood Sandpiper
50: Temminck's Stint
51: Brown-headed Gull
52: Caspian Tern
53: Commen Tern
54: Whiskered Tern
55: Rock Dove
56: Red Turtle Dove
57: Zebra Dove
58: Pink-necked Green Pigeon
59: Greater Coucal
60: Green-billed Malkoha
61: Plaintive Cuckoo
62: Germain's Swiftlet
63: Asian Palm Swift
64: Indian Roller
65: White-throated Kingfisher
66: Black-capped Kingfisher
67: Collared Kingfisher
68: Common Kingfisher
69: Green Bee-eater
70: Blue-tailed Bee-eater
71: Laced Woodpecker
72: Golden-bellied Gerygone
73: Ashy Woodswallow
74: Common Iora
75: Small Minivet
76: Mangrove Whistler
77: Brown Shrike
78: Black Drongo
79: Malaysian Pied Fantail
80: Racket-tailed Treepie
81: Yellow-vented Bulbul
82: Streak-eared Bulbul
83: Barn Swallow
84: Yellow-streaked Warbler
85: Black-browed Reed Warbler
86: Lanceolated Warbler
87: Yellow-bellied Prinia
88: Plain Prinia
89: Common Tailorbird
90: Oriental White-eye
91: Great Myna
92: Common Myna
93: Pied Myna
94: Siberian Rubythroat (a female unfortunately)
95: Oriental Magpie-Robin
96: Stejneger's Stonechat
97: Eurasian Tree Sparrow
98: Asian Golden Weaver
99: Streaked Weaver
100: Baya Weaver
101: Forest Wagtail

Ah yes, lifers are in bold and the taxonomy follows IOC.

 

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Two pics from that day: Yellow-bellied Prinia and Plaintive Cuckoo

 

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Big day today, first out to Pak Thale for the Spoon-billed (success!) and other waders. In the late afternoon drive to Kaeng Krachan, some birding around the headquarter and some good species seen.

4. January: Petchaburi - Kaeng Krachan
102: Red Junglefowl
103: Lesser Whistling Duck
104: Painted Stork
105: Chinese Pond Heron
106: Crested Serpent Eagle
107: Kentish Plover
108: Lesser Sand Plover
109: Greater Sand Plover
110: Asian Dowitcher
111: Whimbrel
112: Eurasian Curlew
113: Spotted Redshank
114: Nordmann's Greenshank
115: Green Sandpiper
116: Common Sandpiper
117: Great Knot
118: Red Knot
119: Sanderling
120: Red-necked Stint
121: Long-toed Stint
122: Curlew Sandpiper
123: Dunlin
124: Spoon-billed Sandpiper
125: Broad-billed Sandpiper
126: Ruff
127: Gull-billed Tern
128: Spotted Dove
129: Thick-billed Green Pigeon
130: Banded Bay Cuckoo
131: Asian Barred Owlet
132: Large-tailed Nightjar
133: Eurasian Hoopoe
134: Oriental Pied Hornbill
135: Green-eared Barbet
136: Coppersmith Barbet
137: Black-naped Oriole
138: Ashy Drongo
139: Bronzed Drongo
140: Hair-crested Drongo
141: Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
142: Eastern Jungle Crow
143: Grey-headed Canary-Flycatcher
144: Oriental Skylark
145: Black-headed Bulbul
146: Black-crested Bulbul
147: Stripe-throated Bulbul
148: Arctic Warbler
149: Zitting Cisticola
150: Brown-cheeked Fulvetta
151: Asian Brown Flycatcher
152: Verditer Flycatcher
153: Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
154: Brown-throated Sunbird
155: Olive-backed Sunbird
156: House Sparrow
157: Plain-backed Sparrow
158: Eastern Yellow Wagtail
159: Richard's Pipit

Some pictures added: Bronzy Drongo, some waders (note the one on the right), Large-tailed Nightjar

 

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Full day in the lower parts of Kaeng Krachan today with some good birds.

5. January - Kaeng Krachan
160: Cinnamon Bittern
161: Besra
162: Grey-faced Buzzard
163: Wedge-tailed Green Pigeon
164: Violet Cuckoo
165: Collared Scops Owl
166: Spotted Owlet
167: Orange-breasted Trogon
168: Chestnut-headed Bee-eater
169: Tickell's Brown Hornbill
170: Blue-eared Barbet
171: Common Flameback
172: Greater Flameback
173: Bay Woodpecker
174: Black-winged Cuckooshrike
175: Rosy Minivet
176: Black-naped Monarch
177: Asian Paradise Flycatcher
178: Crested Jay
179: Common Green Magpie
180: Sultan Tit
181: Ochraceous Bulbul
182: Yellow-browed Warbler
183: Two-barred Warbler
184: Dark-necked Tailorbird
185: Pin-striped Tit-Babbler
186: Puff-throated Babbler
187: Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush
188: Asian Fairy Bluebird
189: White-rumped Shama
190: Taiga Flycatcher
191: Blue-throated Blue Flycatcher
192: Blue-winged Leafbird
193: Golden-fronted Leafbird
194: Ruby-cheeked Sunbird
195: Crimson Sunbird
196: Grey Wagtail

Images attached: Asian Barred Owlet, Collared Scops Owl and Oriental Pied Hornbill

 

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Another full day at Kaeng Krachan, this day spending most of the time at the upper slopes and on the mountains.

6. January - Kaeng Krachan
197: Common Emerald Dove
198: Vernal Hanging Parrot
199: Red-billed Malkoha
200: Red-bearded Bee-eater
201: Great Hornbill
202: Whreathed Hornbill
203: Great Barbet
204: Blue-throated Barbet
205: Moustached Barbet
206: Speckled Piculet
207: Crimson-winged Woodpecker
208: Black-and-buff Woodpecker
209: Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike
210: Large Woodshrike
211: Ashy Minivet
212: White-bellied Erpornis
213: Blyth's Shrike-babbler
214: White-throated Fantail
215: Grey Treepie
216: Ratchet-tailed Treepie
217: Flavescent Bulbul
218: Buff-vented Bulbul
219: Mountain Bulbul
220: Ashy Bulbul
221: Asian House Martin
222: Chinese Leaf Warbler
223: Sulphur-breasted Warbler
224: Large Scimitar Babbler
225: White-browed Scimitar Babbler
226: Rufous-fronted Babbler
227: Golden Babbler
228: Collared Babbler
229: Black-throated Laughingthrush
230: Striated Yuhina
231: Dark-sided Flycatcher
232: Hill Blue Flycatcher
233: Rufous-browed Flycatcher
234: Greater Green Leafbird
235: Fire-breasted Flowerpecker
236: Black-throated Sunbird
237: Streaked Spiderhunter

Attached are Streaked Spiderhunter, Rufous-browed Flycatcher and Blue-winged Leafbird

 

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Some birding in the morning in Kaeng Krachan, then long drive to Khao Yai and some initial birding there.

7. January - Kaeng Krang to Khao Yai
238: Crested Honey Buzzard
239: Brown Fish Owl
240: Brown Hawk-Owl
241: Great Eared Nightjar
242: Grey-rumped Treeswift
243: Oriental Dollarbird
244: Blue-bearded Bee-eater
245: Heart-spotted Woodpecker
246: Greater Yellownape
247: Grey-headed Woodpecker
248: Great Slaty Woodpecker (a very nice sighting of four birds foraging)
249: Golden-headed Cisticola
250: Common Hill Myna

 

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Two full days at Khao Yai completed my Thailand trip.

8. January - Khao Yai, Thailand
251: Silver Pheasant
252: Siamese Fireback
253: Barred Cuckoo-Dove
254: Brown-backed Needletail
255: Red-headed Trogon
256: Banded Broadbill
257: Dusky Broadbill
258: Eared Pitta
259: Puff-throated Bulbul
260: Grey-eyed Bulbul
261: Dusky Warbler
262: Abbott's Babbler
263: White-crested Laughingthrush
264: Blue Rock Thrush
265: White-throated Rock Thrush
266: Mugimaki Flycatcher

9. January - Khao Yai, Thailand
267: Green-legged Partridge
268: Banded Kingfisher
269: Chestnut-flanked White-eye
270: Golden-crested Myna
271: Chestnut-tailed Starling
272: Siberian Blue Robin
273: Hainan Blue Flycatcher
274: Little Spiderhunter

Attached pictures: Ashy Drongo, Hainan Blue Flycatcher and Brown Shrike

 

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After a long flight via Muscat (no birds seen from the airport) back in Switzerland. First Swiss birds around the house and at the river close to my town. A fruitless search for Parrot Crossbill on the 13th.

11. January - Winterthur, Switzerland
275: Eurasian Magpie
276: Carrion Crow
277: Eurasian Blue Tit
278: Great Tit
279: Common Blackbird
280: European Robin
281: Common Chaffinch
282: European Greenfinch

12. January - River Töss, Switzerland
283: Mallard
284: Common Merganser
285: Red Kite
286: Common Buzzard
287: Eurasian Jay
288: Goldcrest
289: White-throated Dipper

13. January - Schaffhausen, Switzerland
290: Common Pochard
291: Tufted Duck
292: Black Woodpecker
293: Coal Tit
294: Marsh Tit
295: Eurasian Nuthatch
296: Mistle Thrush
297: Brambling
298: Red Crossbill

 

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Another good bunch added with a trip to Lake Constance with fellow birder Dominik.

16. January - Winterthur, Switzerland
299: Eurasian Collared Dove

18. January - Lake Constance, Switzerland
300: Mute Swan
301: Gadwall
302: Eurasian Teal
303: Red-crested Pochard
304: Ferruginous Duck
305: Ring-necked Duck - a nice male and only my third bird of this species
306: Common Goldeneye
307: Black-throated Loon
308: Red-necked Grebe
309: Great Crested Grebe
310: Horned Grebe (aka Slavonian)
311: Black-necked Grebe
312: Great Cormorant
313: Eurasian Coot
314: Black-headed Gull
315: Mew Gull
316: Yellow-legged Gull
317: Lesser Black-backed Gull
318: Short-toed Treecreeper
319: White Wagtail
320: Common Reed Bunting

21. January - Zürich, Switzerland
321: Eurasian Sparrowhawk

24. January - Zürich, Switzerland
322: Great Spotted Woodpecker

Back to work now for a few weeks (travelling is not free.....).

 

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A nice trip to Klingnauer Stausee yesterday:

1. February - Klingnauer Stausee, Switzerland
323: Greylag Goose
324: Common Shelduck
325: Eurasian Wigeon
326: Northern Shoveler
327: Northern Pintail
328: Smew
329: Eurasian Wren
330: Western Jackdaw
331: Eurasian Siskin
332: Long-tailed Tit
333: Common Chiffchaff
334: Hawfinch

 

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Two more outings, one to Rapperswil, the other one to Lake Constance. Is it March or February? Nice and warm on both days.

8. February - Rapperswil, Switzerland
335: Common Eider
336: Common Scoter
337: Common Starling
338: European Goldfinch (this one was in Winterthur actually)

11. February - Bodensee (Lake Constance), Switzerland/Germany
339: Great Northern Diver (or Loon)
340: White Stork
341: Tundra Swan
342: Whooper Swan
343: Ruddy Shelduck
344: Red-breasted Merganser
345: Caspian Gull
346: Common Wood Pigeon

 

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12. February - Eschenberg (the forest behind my house)
347: Eurasian Treecreeper
348: European Crested Tit
349: Fieldfare
350: Eurasian Blackcap

13. February - Greifensee and Rapperswil, Switzerland
351: Black Stork - the same bird winters here since several years
352: Northern Lapwing
353: Great Black-backed Gull

 

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And some more to add. Still no snow here in the lowlands and the birds already begin to sing....

18. February - Weinland, Switzerland
354: Yellowhammer
355: Water Pipit
356: Eurasian Skylark
357: Common Kestrel
358: Great Grey Shrike
359: European Green Woodpecker

And a day trip to the Alps. Failed to find the Wallcreeper, but the rest was quite good...

20. February - Leuk, Switzerland
360: Northern Raven
361: Northern Goshawk
362: Golden Eagle
363: Alpine Chough
364: Red-billed Chough
365: Bearded Vulture
366: Rock Bunting

 

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Day trip to Klingnauer Stausee today with some birding beginners. Nice birds seen and some additions to the year list.

23. February - Klingnauer Stausee, Switzerland
367: Common Firecrest
368: Water Rail
369: Rook

 

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Not much to add recently, lots of work and not many birds have arrived yet from the south.

8. March - Winterthur, Switzerland
370: Tawny Owl

21. March - Zürich, Switzerland
371: Black Redstart

29. March - Klingnauer Stausee, Switzerland
372: Garganey
373: Song Thrush

 

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And another four. Moustached Warbler as a major bonus, the first twitchable bird in Switzerland.

5. April - Neeracherried, Switzerland
374: Eurasian Penduline Tit
375: Bearded Reedling
376: Moustached Warbler
377: Western Marsh Harrier

 

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And some more to add before leaving to Africa:

9. April - Winterthur, Switzerland
378: European Serin

13. April - Kaltbrunner Ried and Winterthur, Switzerland
379: Willow Warbler
380: Tree Pipit
381: European Stonechat
382: Alpine Swift

14. April - Hohentwiel, Germany
383: Peregrine Falcon
384: Cirl Bunting

 

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Arrived in Ghana after a long flight via Frankfurt to Accra. Started birding the next day, first new bird was Laughing Dove followed by Northern Grey-headed Sparrow, both around the hotel. Then we went on to Shai Hills, afterwards to Sokonoma Lagoon at the coast and then we drove west. Some birding at Winneba Plains was very nice in the afternoon and finally we arrived at Kakum National Park.

19. April - Shai Hills, Sokonoma Lagoon, Winneba Plains - Ghana
385: Helmeted Guineafowl
386: Ahanta Francolin
387: Double-spurred Francolin
388: White-faced Whistling Duck
389: Squacco Heron
390: Western Cattle Egret
391: Western Reef Heron
392: Reed Cormorant
393: Hooded Vulture
394: Ovambo Sparrowhawk
395: Yellow-billed Kite
396: African Hobby
397: Lanner Falcon
398: Black-bellied Bustard
399: Spur-winged Lapwing
400: African Jacana
401: Red-eyed Dove
402: Vinaceous Dove
403: Laughing Dove
404: Blue-spotted Wood Dove
405: Guinea Turaco
406: Violet Turaco
407: Western Plantain-eater
408: Black Coucal
409: Great Spotted Cuckoo
410: Levaillant's Cuckoo
411: Little Swift
412: Purple Roller
413: Blue-bellied Roller
414: Blue-breasted Kingfisher
415: Pied Kingfisher
416: Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
417: White-throated Bee-eater
418: African Grey Hornbill
419: Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
420: Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
421: Vieillot's Barbet
422: Senegal Batis
423: Brown-crowned Tchagra
424: Black-crowned Tchagra
425: Northern Puffback
426: Yellow-crowned Gonolek
427: Red-shouldered Cuckooshrike
428: African Paradise Flycatcher
429: Pied Crow
430: Flappet Lark
431: Common Bulbul
432: Simple Greenbul
433: Ethiopian Swallow
434: Mosque Swallow
435: Northern Crombec
436: Wood Warbler
437: Croaking Cisticola
438: Short-winged Cisticola
439: Red-winged Warbler
440: Grey-backed Camaroptera
441: Senegal Eremomela
442: Blackcap Babbler
443: Purple Starling
444: Mocking Cliff Chat
445: Northern Black Flycatcher
446: Grey Tit-Flycatcher
447: Splendid Sunbird
448: Copper Sunbird
449: Northern Grey-headed Sparrow
450: Yellow-mantled Widowbird
451: Bar-breasted Firefinch
452: Orange-cheeked Waxbill
453: Black-rumped Waxbill
454: Bronze Mannikin
455: Pin-tailed Whydah
456: Plain-backed Pipit

 

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And two pictures from that day, Croaking Cisticola and Blue-bellied Roller.