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Setting Targets – 700 species in the Western Palearctic, author Ken Shaw (added April 26, 2008)
(Egypt, Georgia, Turkey, Britain, Pelagics)

Ghana: Pel's and Picathartes... by Tropical Birding, author Sam Woods/Tropical Birding (added April 20, 2008)
(White-necked Rockfowl (Yellow-headed Picathartes))

Ethiopia: endemics, eggs and dust - 19th January - 9th February 2008, author Allan Drewitt (added April 16, 2008)
(Bale Mountains, Ruspoli's Turaco, Stresemann's Bushcrow, Ankober Serin, Salvadori's Serin)

Wild Canaries - birds & landscapes - 1st - 7th February 2008, author Christopher Hall (added March 25, 2008)
(Apart from the rare Barbary Falcon, we cleaned up on the Canary Island endemics and specialities, and what we had seen was seen really well, making this a very successful and enjoyable trip.)

Gambia - 7th - 21st March 2008, author Grant Lewis Brooke (added March 24, 2008)
(Lesser Honeyguide, Spotted Honeyguide, Yellow Throated Longclaw)

Gabon - February 2008, author Tim Blackburn (added March 22, 2008)
(Mikongo, Lopé National Park, Grey-necked Picathartes, Western Lowland Gorilla)

La Palma - birds and butterflies - Feb - Mar 2008, author Alan Miller (added March 14, 2008)
(We knew La Palma to be lusher than many of the Canary Islands with a good coverage of Laurel forests, and with speciality birds and butterflies. With relatively little available information the challenge of a new place to explore excited us.)

Tanzania 24th November - 9th December 2007, author Michael Clarke (added February 12, 2008)
(Arusha, Manyara, Gibbs Fm, Ngorongoro, Ndutu, Serengeti, Zanzibar)


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Cape Verde Islands, Cape Verde - 3 New species for CV List. Santiago: author Tim Collins (added February 12, 2008)

Cape Verde Islands, Some interesting sightings during my trip to Cape author Yves Bas (added January 5, 2008)

Sharms Alam Beach Resort, Grey Hypocolius Black Bush Robin Isabelline author Jan Kiel (added January 9, 2007)

Buff-breasted Sandpiper - Pirang Shrimp Farm; Jacobin Cuckoos - Senegambia Hotel, Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Pirang Shrimp Farm on author John Wright (added December 23, 2006)

Tanqua Karoo, Heavy rains in the last winter have reslted in a author Keith Barnes / Tropical Birding (added November 2, 2006)


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