The Top 10 Birds of 2023
Well 2023 was... a year. Now that it's over and done with and I'm mostly living the quiet life back in DC, I can safely say that it was my craziest year of travel yet (for which there is a LOT of competition), and certainly the birdiest. In fact, I spent probably 75% of the year on the road in some form or another- between a couple of dedicated birding trips, multiple extended work trips, and a long, slow move from the Philippines to Washington DC. The year actually started off with Nikki and I in Thailand, where we got to do some birding up in the mountains above Chiang Mai before returning to the Philippines. In January I did some casual birding in southeastern Luzon, including some fun waterbird censuses and surprise Philippines lifers, but soon got interesting when I was sent to Indonesia for a week and got to spent some time exploring Jakarta . Things properly picked up in February when Doug and Andrew joined me for a month of birding around the Philippines- fruit do...