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Birding Botswana’s Borders

10,000 Birds

But I do have rules about whether I can have said to have visited a country, ie does the country “count” which I have inherited from my family, particularly my Dad. I have caught a bus across Europe, but I can’t really claim to have “been” to Germany or Belgium. In particular, there are lots of waterbirds.

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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

10,000 Birds

My trips abroad were limited to short family vacations to the Cote d’Azur during the first days of January and a week-long vacation to northern Tuscany / Italy in May. Hybrid dabbling duck , Rieselfelder Münster, Germany. I did not see any lifers whatsoever in 2016, making it my first lifer-free year since around 2010.

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