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I'm a seventeen year old, bird-obsessed kid with a family that loves to travel. Right now, my world life list stands at 596, but that should be changing soon.

My latest trip was to western Ireland in March, which was my first trip to the British Isles, though my fourth to Europe (France/Monaco/Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic/Austria/Hungary). I managed to get a list of 54 species in six days while not spending most of my time birding (since I was there with my non-birding family). Some highlights of mine from the trip were: Northern Wheatear, with several good looks at a few males on the Dingle Peninsula; European Stonechat, which abounded in the yard of the cottage we were staying at; and Eurasian Wigeon, which I had searched for in vain in New York, Massachusetts, and California.

Tomorrow I'm off for ten days in New Zealand with target species of Yellow-eyed Penguin, Little Penguin, Royal Spoonbill, Paradise Shelduck, Northern Royal Albatross, Blue Duck, and Pacific Reef Heron

I hope to keep this updated during my trip but do not know how much internet access I will have.