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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Larry Sweetland" data-source="post: 1211830" data-attributes="member: 27337">Nice one Wayne. Red-backed Shrike would be a new one for the trip too, though possibly not quite worth legging it home for now we've got this far <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />Very funny Gav...if only I'd managed to keep hold of any old photos I might have had of YOU...... Nicky's in stitches by the way. World list? Can't do it to the nearest 100 even, because of taxonomic grey areas (don't know how some people manage to quote big lists to the nearest 1), but it's somewhere around 3800. Not that many really, but not bad for a most-time skint hippy part-timer I suppose.Well we're on Singapore waiting for the boat. The bus broke down on the way here just 2km from the old bunker track at Panti. Not quite in the forest for hopeful flyovers, but we did add Long-tailed Parakeet to the trip list before we were rescued.Haven't seen much yet here on Singapore, highlights being a Yellow Bittern at the botanical gardens, and the classiest feral bird of the trip so far, Tanimbar Corella (boy would some real ones of those be nice). Having talked to Morten Strange (who was very helpful) in the Botanical Gardens bookshop, it appears that the Spotted Wood-Owls are no longer about there, but if I'm lucky I could be in with a chance of Red-crowned Barbet and Great-billed Heron at other sites. Wish me luck.780 Long-tailed ParakeetSo with this long first leg of the trip drawing to a close, we've managed 780 species in about 7 months, which has been more than enough for me to try and get my head round. I'm sure you could manage that many birds in a week, but would possibly require intercontinental flights, local charters, top-notch local guides, tapes, and perhaps parachutes and mortars.And here's a few recent photos. 1. Let me in I'm a House Swift, 2. The 'Lady', 3. Hawksbill (we think) Turtle</blockquote>

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