Gibbo 92's 2012 Year List (1 Viewer)

[Gibbo 92]

7th April Marakissa River Camp
250) Striated Heron
251) Black Crake - several along river bank
252) White-crowned Robin-Chat - 1
253) Greater Painted Snipe - 1 male and female
254) Sacred Ibis - 3, 1 imm.
255) Giant Kingfisher - 1
256) Black-winged Stilt
257) Spur-winged Goose - 1 flying over
258) Woodland Kingfisher - 1
259) Wood Sandpiper - several
260) Common Cuckoo
261) Long-crested Eagle - 1 perched on bare tree
262) Lanner Falcon - 1 perched on bare tree
263) African Darter - 1
264) Blue-breasted Kingfisher - 1
265) Senegal Thick-knee - 2
266) Sedge Warbler
267) Malachite Kingfisher - 1 by small river
268) African Golden Oriole - a pair
269) Greater Honeyguide - 1 male

 

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8th April Footsteps Eco Lodge
270) African Yellow Whie-eye - 1 in woodland
271) African Pygmy Kingfisher - 1 in woodland
272) Rufous-crowned Roller - 1 in old sand quarry
273) Crested Lark - 5 on the beach

 

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9th April Tanji Bridge
274) Lesser Crested Tern - a few in amongst Caspian and Royal.

Kotu Creek
275) Oriole Warbler - First heard and then seen
276) Zitting Cisticola
277) Reed Warbler
278) Black Heron - 1 fishing
279) Little Swift
280) Little Green Bee-eater

Footsteps Eco Lodge
281) Striped Kingfisher - 1 by beach
282) Black-winged Red Bishop - frequent in non-breeding plumage

 

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10th April Footsteps Eco Lodge
283) Scarlet-chested Sunbird - 1 male
284) Buff-spotted Woodpecker - 1 by entrance

 

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11th May

285) Swift - 8 outside my window over Lancaster.

 

[Gibbo 92]

13th May. Aldcliffe, finally able to have a walk and go birdwatching, after weeks of revision.

286) House Martin
287) Sand Martin
288) Little Ringed Plover
289) Wheatear
290) Common Whitethroat

 

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14th May Leighton Moss

291) Garden Warbler
292) Garganey - 1 male and 1 female at Grisedale Hide

 

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4th June Minsmere

293) Stone-curlew
294) Barnacle Goose

 

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22nd June 2012 Pitlochry and Kindrogan Field center, Scotland

295) Dipper
296) Siskin
297) Grey Wagtail

 

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23rd June - Ben Lawers

298) Lesser Redpoll - several in areas of birch regeneration
299) Hooded Crow
300) Ring Ouzel - 1 male and female seen, possibly near a nest
301) Spotted Flycatcher - seen at Kindrogan Field Centre

 

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24th June - Rannoch Moor

302) Hen Harrier - 1 male flying through the valley
303) Raven
304) Whinchat

 

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25th June- Glas Maol

305) Red Grouse - 1 female with chicks
306) Golden Plover

 

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26th June Creag Meagaidh

307) Tree Pipit - 1 heard then seen singing from treetop
308) Golden Eagle - 1 over ridge briefly then 2 later flying across valley

 

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27th June Glen Fearnach

309) Yellowhammer

 

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3rd July Coverack, Cornwall

310) Gannet
311) Rock Pipit

 

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11th July

312) Red Kite - 1 seen from the train near Reading

 

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14th July Lima airport then Iquitos Peru, 2 weeks volunteering with Operation Wallacea in the Peruvian amazon!

313) White-tipped Dove - 1 at Lima airport
314) Turkey Vulture - very common
315) Black Vulture - very common
316) Large-billed Tern - several seen from Iquitos flying over the amazon river
317) Tropical Kingbird - very ubiquitos
318) Yellow-browed Sparrow - common along the riverfront
319) Blue-grey Tanager - ubiquitos
320) Spotted Tody Flycatcher - 1 seen in a tree at close proximity
321) Southern Rough-winged Swallow - common
322) Wattled Jacana - common on the river edge
323) Smooth-billed Ani - again common along the river front
324) Great Kiskadee - ubiquitos
325) Purple Gallinule - 1 adult seen briefly in floating vegetation
326) Great Black Hawk - common seen hunting by the river
327) Social Flycatcher - common by river edge
328) Greyish Saltator -1 seen feeding
329) House Wren - 1
330) Ruddy Ground Dove

 

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15th July Iquitos-Nauta then boat journey along Maranon river

331) Fork-tailed Palm Swift - 12 feeding
332) White-winged Swallow - common along the river
333) Ringed Kingfisher - very common
334) White-winged Parakeet - usually heard first and then seen, very common
335) Yellow-headed Caracara

 

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16th July River Journey on Maranon

336) Oriole Blackbird
337) Cocoi Heron
338) Yellow-billed Tern
339) Amazon Kingfisher
340) Black-collared Hawk
341) Brown-chested Martin
342) Swallow-wing
343) Horned Screamer
344) Black-necked Stilt
345) Pied Lapwing
346) Roadside Hawk
347) Snowy Egret
348) Grey-breasted Martin
349) Blue-and-yellow Macaw
350) Vermilion Flycatcher
351) Grey-necked Wood Rail

 

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17th July Pacaya-Samiria Reserve PV2 Taschacocha

352) Neotropic Cormorant
353) Green Kingfisher
354) Black Caracara
355) Black-fronted Nunbird
356) White-throated Toucan
357) Lineated Woodpecker
358) Plumbeous Antbird