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I have just come back from 12 days in Turkey and found some impressive birds including:-
Lammergeier
See See partridge
Spur-winged Lapwing
Desert Finch
Dead Sea Sparrow
Black-bellied sandgrouse
Black Francolin
Armenian Gull
Pied Kingfisher
Graceful Prinia
Little Swift
Laughing Dove
Eastern Rock Nuthatch
Alpine Chough
Radde's Accentor
Citrine Wagtail
Caspian Snowcock
Red-fronted Serin
Snowfinch
Syrian Woodpecker
Spectacled Bulbul
Finsch's Wheatear
Krupers Nuthatch
Chestnut sided Petronia
Menetrie's Warbler
All 25 new lifers for me. Alltogether we had 203 species for the trip but the above 25 lifers will satisfy me for many a year to come.
The very first one (Lammergeir) is a bird that has been top of my wanted list for years and we had the privilege of one gliding fairly close to us for almost ten minutes. Brilliant.
John
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