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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 |
















































