I have been interested in natural history and wildlife since I was at infants school, and was very fortunate to have spent most of my working life in the fisheries sector which afforded me an almost unique opportunity to study my world at close quarters. There I developed my photographic and Journalist skills and have had numerous articles and pictures published. As well as fish, birds have always fascinated me but I didn't become a serious birder until 2001 when I started to keep records. My ambition then was to achieve 300 "self found" species in the Western Palearctic and 500 worldwide......two ambitions which have almost been fulfilled. Most of my birding nowadays is confined to my home patch around Dublin, but I try and get away overseas as often as possible to keep the numbers increasing!
Nottinghamshire
United Kingdom
This is the current list of birds recorded in the county of Nottinghamshire
Started birding when I was 9. Mainly birdwatch in Hampshire.
22 year old Norfolk birder of 14 years (with 6 year break for college and uni!)
I've been birding since I was a kid. I'm a birder, twitcher, photographer, chairman of our local birding society, BirdingPal and also a "Lintukummi" i.e. i'm a volunteer guide for birding events.
I am a bird watcher and wildlife photographer. Also working as a Naturalist
I am a Veterinary science student having intrest in wild birds.
Young birder and wildlife photographer.
Hello my name is Oscar I live in Scotland and like birds.
I am a "travelling recreational birder", with over 25 years of birdwatching behind me.
I keen on Western Paleartic, Spanish and Asturias lists.
Work + turism + birding trips (1.988-2.001): Germany, Uruguay, Argentina, Antarctica, Brazil, Chile, Tunisia, Russia, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Portugal.
But, since 2003, serious birdwatching trips in the WP:
*Sweden, Norway and Finland: June 2003
*Poland: May 2004
*Morocco: April 2005
*Israel and Palestine: March-April 2006
*Turkey, Georgia and Cyprus: May 2007
*France (Île d´Ouessant): October 2007
Latest 5 ticks:
*557 Killdeer, 25/11/2007, Encoro de Cecebre, La Coruña, Spain
*556 Buff-bellied Pipit, 13/10/2007, Île d´Ouessant,France
*555 Dusky Warbler, 12/10/2007, Île d´Ouessant,France
*554 Wilson´s Storm-Petrel, 26/09/2007, Asturias, Spain
*553 Blue-winged Teal, 27/08/2007, Galicia, Spain
I am also interested in "mammalwatching" and for example I have observed in Spain, all the species of Iberian carnivores (16 sp, including: Iberian Lynx, European Mink, Brown Bear, Wolf)
Group account for pan-species listing, used for base site lists
I am a birding guide in Goa, India. We conduct birding excursions in Goa and around. We also operate birding lodge named Nature's Nest in Goa.
This is a combined total for all the competitors of Patchwork Challenge.
We offer guided birding outings in grasslands, gallery forests along the river Uruguay and the Ibera Wetlands in the province of Corrientes.
I just started birding recently with my husband Keith Taylor. I'm a nurse who is about to retire. Love travel.
Huerfano/Colorado
United States of America
My husband and I are advanced amateur birders...far more interested in a good satisfying look at a given bird than the actual number of birds seen on a given trip.
