UK | Europe | Asia | Middle East | Africa | Australasia | North America | Central and South America

Also, for a picture of life on a BUBO expedition, check out the Postcards From page!

UK Bird Races

• Guernsey 2005 - 1 May 2005 (83 species)
• Guernsey 2004 - 2 May 2004 (92 species)
• Norfolk 2003 - 10 May 2003 (144 species)
• Guernsey 2003 - 4 May 2003 (88 species)
• Durham 2002 - 11 May 2002 (127 species)
• Guernsey 2002 - 5 May 2002 (86 species)
• Guernsey 2001 - 6 May 2001 (90 species)
• West Sussex 2000 - 6 May 2000 (127 species)
• Norfolk 2000 - 1 Jan 2000 (106 species)
• Grampian 1999 - 30 May 1999 (135 species)
• Yorkshire 1998 - 17 May 1998 (140 species)
• Norfolk 1997 - 4 May 1997 (135 species)

Europe

• Canary Islands (Fuerteventura) 2002
• Czech Republic 2002
• France/Spain
• Ionian Islands (Corfu and Cephalonia) 2003
• Portugal (The Algarve) 2002
• Scandinavia 1992 (birding by public transport!)
• Spain: Near Malaga 1998, Various sites 2002, Extremadura 2006 with additional photo gallery
• Spain and Portugal 2006

Asia

Note: Since October 2002 Mike has been in India seeing innumerable good birds! For reports see the excellent Delhibird website and the Delhibird mail archives.

• Bangladesh 1997
• Halmahera
• India:
  - 1996
  - 1997
  - Ranthambhor & Bharatpur 1999
  - Rajasthan 2000
  - Ranthambhor & Bharatpur 2001
  - Goa & South India 2002 (273 species) [with photos (249K) | text only (80K)]
  - North Bengal 2002 (259 species, 226K PDF file; includes Gorumara, Chapramari, Lava, Darjeeling and Singalila)
  - North Bengal & Sikkim 2003 (324 species, 440K PDF file; includes Tiger Hill, Lava, Gorumara, Pemayangtse, Maenam, Fambong Lho)
   and some great birds including Gould's Shortwing! HTML version and many more images also available on the Kolkata Birds website.
  - Photo gallery for the 2002 and 2003 North Bengal and Sikkim trips
  - North India (including Delhi area, Corbett, Nainital area and Bharatpur) 2003
  - Gujarat (including Little Rann of Kutch, Gir and Velavadar) 2004 with photo gallery
  - North India 2005 photo gallery
  
• Nepal 1998, 2000
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka 2000, 2001
• Turkey 1998

Logistics for many of the birding trips in India were made through Asian Adventures. For trip planning, also consider Wild About India who can help independent travellers with itineraries.

Middle East

• Israel 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998 (August/September and November)

  Several long BUBO trips were made, although currently just a few have online reports available. Check out the 317 species recorded by Mark between August 1993 and June 1994, Ian's August/September 1998 trip and Rich's in November 1998, plus some Israel raptor photos from Mike's trips there in 1992, 1993 and 1994.

  Check out probably the top BUBO find of all time: second Didric Cuckoo for the Western Palearctic!

  

Africa

• Ethiopia photo gallery (197 species illustrated)
• Botswana, Namibia and Victoria Falls 2001 (318 species)
• The Gambia 1995
• Seychelles 1998
• South Africa 2002 (312 species in four days)
• Tunisia 2001

Australasia

• Australia

North America

• California and Arizona, USA, 1993
• California 2001
• Canada (Quebec and Montral) 2001
• British Columbia, Canada, 1999
• Florida 2000
• New York 2001
• New Jersey 2006 photo gallery

Central and South America

• Antigua and Guadeloupe 1997
• Bolivia 1996
• Costa Rica 2002
• Cuba 2000
• Dominica 1990
• Dominican Republic 1998
• Mexico 1997
• Trinidad and Tobago 1998, 2000
• Venezuela (Llanos, Henri Pittier, Moroccoy) 2012 with Naturetrek

To experience some of the atmosphere of the best days with BUBO birds, have a look at the following:

• Raining birds in the Promised Land; Eilat, Israel; 7 April 1994
• Nightwarblers in the land of the midnight sun; Sündsvall, Sweden; 16 June 1992