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Jochen’s Top 10 birds of 2016

10,000 Birds

The year 2016 was not a particularly birdy year for me, mostly because I didn’t get to go on business trips to Indonesia or Kazakhstan, as was frequently the case during the last few years. Just four days after I had seen it, and after it had been around that pasture for nearly a month, it buzzed off presumably to Kazakhstan.

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Best Bird of the Year 2012

10,000 Birds

I saw my all-time favourite bird species again after not seeing it for more than 10 years, a splendid Bearded Vulture (well, even two) in the Tien Shan mountains above Almaty, Kazakhstan in June. However, I am in a fierce and highly emotional year list competition with Corey, and it looks like I will lose against him.

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