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Broome to Busan

10,000 Birds

I then flew south to Sydney to have the weekend with my sister and family. I then flew into Busan, South Korea after a heavy rain storm Tuesday morning and the first birds I saw were egrets beside the runway. Well I have done a lot of travelling in the week since I last wrote a post!

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Hoopoe

10,000 Birds

We saw these birds in Egypt in 1994 and they were just great and Grant saw 5 in Busan, South Korea a few weeks ago, just after I got home to Broome. Thursday was a day off from counting shorebirds and so we were catching up on family news and four of the other shorebird counters went to look at the ephemeral lakes.

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Busan to Broome

10,000 Birds

I have a day in Sydney with my sister and family and then go home to Broome… hopefully not delayed by the threat of a Qantas baggage handlers strike starting Tuesday morning as I try to fly north-west. Well, as you read this I will be sitting on an aeroplane heading from Busan to Hong Kong to Sydney… time to go home!

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Best Bird of the Year 2012

10,000 Birds

2012 has certainly been a bumper year for me with an estimated year list of around 3,000 species after extensive travels to South Africa, Ethiopia, South Korea, Indonesia, the Russian Far East, United Kingdom, Peru, Guatemala and Panama. Adam Riley chose a bird that is near and dear to Mike Bergin’s heart.

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