Paul Chapman
Well-known member
Having played with a few options, I settled on the following goals for 2025:-
1. Get my 2023 world photo year list completed (finally....) - currently on 9th December 2023 & processing pics for 10th December 2023;
2. Add at least one photo of each species that I have photographed into eBird - 930 species without pics currently but some will be unphotographed - maybe 250 species;
3. Keep an up to date world list in eBird & record my yearlist in eBird throughout the year;
4. Record at least 1,000 bird species in the year;
5. Get my eBird World List through 4,000 species - currently 3,567 species so 433 new species would need to be recorded;
6. Photograph over 400 new bird species worldwide in the year;
7. Get my photographed species in eBird through 3,750 - currently 2,637 species so 1,113 species will need to be added before the end of the year from those already photographed & new species photographed during the year;
8. Get a British & Irish moth list input into BUBO;
9. Record my Britain & Ireland moth list in BUBO throughout the year; &
10. Spend at least twenty nights moth trapping in the field in the year.
This will be my attempt to meet the fourth goal. I have two trips booked being a Cruise with associated birding trips from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles stopping on at least twelve occasions followed by a road trip thereafter to San Franciso (March/April) and a week in Morocco (May) with one main WP target.
It may need some more effort to hit a thousand species in 2025 than the trips planned but I am sure that I will try and arrange something else. (It will almost certainly need something else to hit the fifth to seventh goals but I am not sure how much. Working out the likely outcomes of that Cruise is a little bit mind-bending but I suspect that I will need another big trip to give me maybe 150 more ticks......)
I expect this to be moved to a 2025 Sub-folder in due course.
All the best
Paul
1. Get my 2023 world photo year list completed (finally....) - currently on 9th December 2023 & processing pics for 10th December 2023;
2. Add at least one photo of each species that I have photographed into eBird - 930 species without pics currently but some will be unphotographed - maybe 250 species;
3. Keep an up to date world list in eBird & record my yearlist in eBird throughout the year;
4. Record at least 1,000 bird species in the year;
5. Get my eBird World List through 4,000 species - currently 3,567 species so 433 new species would need to be recorded;
6. Photograph over 400 new bird species worldwide in the year;
7. Get my photographed species in eBird through 3,750 - currently 2,637 species so 1,113 species will need to be added before the end of the year from those already photographed & new species photographed during the year;
8. Get a British & Irish moth list input into BUBO;
9. Record my Britain & Ireland moth list in BUBO throughout the year; &
10. Spend at least twenty nights moth trapping in the field in the year.
This will be my attempt to meet the fourth goal. I have two trips booked being a Cruise with associated birding trips from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles stopping on at least twelve occasions followed by a road trip thereafter to San Franciso (March/April) and a week in Morocco (May) with one main WP target.
It may need some more effort to hit a thousand species in 2025 than the trips planned but I am sure that I will try and arrange something else. (It will almost certainly need something else to hit the fifth to seventh goals but I am not sure how much. Working out the likely outcomes of that Cruise is a little bit mind-bending but I suspect that I will need another big trip to give me maybe 150 more ticks......)
I expect this to be moved to a 2025 Sub-folder in due course.
All the best
Paul
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