EQUIPMENT AND LISTS


january 2011 northern Thailand

I have been photographing since 2007. I began taking pictures with a Nikon D80 body and a 300mm/f4 Nikkor lens. Since 2013 I use a Nikon D600 with the same lens. Since june 2015 I use a 300mm f/4 VR Nikkor. '23 I began with Nikon Z6ii mirrorless...

I use this H5 Zoom recorder with a SSH-6 shotgun mic for bird sounds.

 This telescope I bought in April 2021. Small, light and good quality


and of course the library

I have been birding abroad; besides some countries in Europe I visited Israel twice, Oman, Morocco, Peru, Costa Rica, Colombia, South Africa, Ecuador twice, Thailand twice, Florida, Canary Islands, Madeira, California, Turkey, Western Sahara and Algeria. 

The greater western palearctic region:

boundaries of the greater Western Palearctic


Lists:
I use IOC taxonomy

World                             2924
Western Palearctic           682
Norway                            314
Vestland                           276
Bergen                             197
edelkryss                         248
st. Olavs vei                      48

Best achievements:

Dark-sided Flycatcher, new for Norway

Long-billed Curlew, new for Colombia

 Southern Martin, second for Ecuador

Black-faced Grassquit in Florida (rare straggler from the Bahamas), twitched by many

a group of 16 Griffon Vultures originally above my house in Groningen, the Netherland, subsequently seen in three other provinces by many observers

Raddes' Warbler, new for Hordaland

further sub-rarities, among others American Wigeon, Lesser YellowlegsPectoral Sandpipers, Aquatic WarblerMelodious WarblerRosy Starlings, Red-breasted Flycatchers, Olive-backed PipitCitrine Wagtails and Little Buntings