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Swarovski Skills Camp, or men and their toys

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It was also great to finally travel overseas again, meet a lot of people I did not know (and some I did), to be in a new country… and not just the new country, but its best birding area, where almost all local hotspots are yellow (150+ species) and several are ochre (200+ sp.), impressive for Central Europe.

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A Quick Drive

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Ascending further requires a hike – required to see some high-elevation species absent from elsewhere on the island. The machine-gun drumming of a Chestnut Woodpecker greeted us once we alighted from the vehicle. No visual on the woodpecker, sadly – several Scaled Pigeons bolted from the treetops as we searched, though.

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Isolation, a.k.a. Business as Usual

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Although relatively common here they’re notoriously difficult to see well – a phenomenon clearly not unique to this species ! A Lineated Woodpecker banged its head against a dry branch. Golden-crowned Warbler is one of the three resident warbler species on Trinidad. I was thrilled to see a Short-tailed Hawk fly in.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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This is how it looks like: Or at sunset: A species I did not come for from Shanghai is the Black-crowned Night Heron. Its species name graydoni is in honor of Philip Newenham Graydon (1864-1940), a British planter in Sabah. Why that makes Mr. Graydon worthy of having a bird species named after him is a mystery to me.

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The Greek Strategy

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Head for the sea only when you fully recharge your batteries. Other species of interest include the southernmost breeding population of Greylag Goose in Europe, Goosander (at bigger and deeper Megali Prespa), Hazel Grouse (at Mt. Some 312 species were recorded here and my September daily averages were around 70.

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Come@Me Week Round Up

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1PM – Clare: Cameras with AA Batteries are the Best. 1PM – Carrie: Invasive Species Can Be Awesome. We here at 10,000 Birds have no shame and it was either this or lots of posts about woodcocks, boobies, and woodpeckers. 7AM – Intro Post. 7AM – Corey: Snowy Owls are Superior in Every Way to Great Gray Owls.

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Welcome to Come@Me Week

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We are more refined, merely enjoying invasive species, thinking extinct birds are gone and you should get over it, and that those who like to watch gulls probably have a screw or two loose. 1PM – Clare: Cameras with AA Batteries are the Best. 1PM – Carrie: Invasive Species Can Be Awesome. 7AM – Intro Post.