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Out of UK 1 March to May 2017 Australia and Montenegro
Out of UK 2 June to Dec 2017 Alaska, Spain, Cyprus, Australia
Out of UK 3 January to March 2018 India
Out of UK 4 April 2018 Cape Town
Out of UK 5 May 2018 South Africa, Namibia and Botswana
Out of UK 6 Summer 2018 Faroe Isles
Out of UK 7 Autumn 2018 Papua New Guinea and Indonesia
Out of UK 8 2019 Jordan, Cambodia and Vietnam, Florida, Nepal
David Hughes in Colorado
April 2019

Greater Prairie-chicken

Greater Sage-grouse

Scaled Quail

Green-tailed Towhee
Mark Dadds in San Francisco
25 September to 11 October 2019
April 2019
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Greater Prairie-chicken |
Greater Sage-grouse |
Scaled Quail |
Green-tailed Towhee |
Mark Dadds in San Francisco
25 September to 11 October 2019
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Ring-necked Duck |
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California Quail |
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Pied-billed Grebe |
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Brown Pelican |
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Double-crested Cormorant |
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Snowy Egret |
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Red-tailed Hawk |
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American Coot |
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Willet |
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Long-billed Curlew |
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Black Turnstone |
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Surfbird |
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Least Sandpiper - 2nd most common wader species after sanderling |
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California Gull |
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Western Gull - by far the most numerous gull species |
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Heermann's Gull |
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Elegant Tern |
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Great-horned Owl |
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Anna's Hummingbird - the most common hummingbird in San Fran, and the only resident one |
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Pacific-slope Flycatcher |
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Black Phoebe |
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Say's Phoebe |
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Tropical Kingbird - a minor twitch at Golden Gate Park |
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Warbling Vireo |
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Steller's Jay |
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Western Scrub-jay |
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American Robin |
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Northern Mockingbird |
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Virginia's Warbler - a major twitch at Golden Gate Park Botanical Gardens |
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Black-throated Gray Warbler |
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Townsend's Warbler - one of the 2 most numerous warbler species the other being Yellow-rumped Warbler |
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California Towhee |
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Savannah Sparrow |
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Fox Sparrow |
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Song Sparrow |
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White-crowned Sparrow |
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Golden-crowned Sparrow |
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Western Tanager |
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Brewer's Blackbird - seems to occupy the same niche as Starling, found wherever people drop food |
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Great-tailed Grackle |
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Red-winged Blackbird |
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Western Meadowlark |
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Lesser Goldfinch |
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Racoon |
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Coyote |
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California Sealion |
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Humpback Whale - as seen from the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge |
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Monarch |
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Western Tiger Swallowtail |
Vera Carpenter in Japan
November 2019
Brown-eared Bulbul |
Japanese White-eyes |
Large-billed Crow |
F Canvasback with Tufted Ducks |
Is this a female Lesser Scaup? |
Black Kite |
Oriental Turtle Dove |
Varied Tit |
Falcated Duck |
Spot-billed Duck |
Intermediate Egret |
Chinese Egret |
Japanese Wagtail |
Vera Carpenter in Cambodia and Vietnam
Feb/March 2020
Asian Brown Flycatcher |
f Olive-backed Sunbird |
Chinese Pond Heron |
Little aka Striated Heron |
Common Sandpiper |
Red-whiskered Bulbul |
Sooty-headed Bulbul |
Coppersmith Barbet. |
Common Myna |
Large-billed Crow |
Oriental White-eye |
Black Kite |
Black Kite |
White-throated Kingfisher. |
Scaly-breasted Munia |
Magpie Robin |
Common Iora |
Pied Fantail |
Chestnut-tailed Starling |
Greater Coucal |
Blue Rock Thrush |
Bats flying out of bat cave |
Zebra Dove |
Red Collared Dove |
Brown Shrike |
Red-breasted Parakeet |
Slaty-blue Flycatcher |
Possibly Common Tailorbird |
Streak-eared Bulbul |
Yellow-vented Bulbul |
Cattle Egret |