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Could have done better? Confessions of a year-lister.

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I only scored 43 in March, but that was because I was away birding in Portugal and Estonia. Pallid Swift , already back on the breeding grounds in early March Many waders winter on the salt marshes of the Algrave in southern Portugal. A single Eleonora’s Falcon was a very pleasing if not unexpected, and a year-tick.

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Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo: A Book Review

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Quentin won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition (junior section) with the first-ever photograph of a nesting Chest-nutheaded Thrush. She currently lives in the Algarve, Portugal and Quentin splits his time between London and Sabah, according to the brief biographies in the back of the book. (I

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