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   Little Egret                                   Photo Stijn De Win

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Where2watch birds in Asia is set to become the premier birding sites

resource for Asia.  Our aim being to provide birders with a different set of

free info hardly ever found on the internet.   As well as covering a load of

new but excellent birding sites which have never been written about,  we

want to get you the hard info for travelling and birding the known sites,

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Stijn De Win started birding in and around the garden of his parents’ home

in Belgium at the age of 8.  He wants to thank them for that first pair of

binoculars they gave him…just let’s hope they don’t regret it because they

don’t see him often now, as Stijn is travelling for birding in Asia most of

the year these days.

Anyway, the garden and surrounding soon got too small, Europe became so

at the age of 17, first time Nepal at 20 – fourth time in 2008…

Stijn got his life list over 3000 species at the age of 26, on a happy day in

Namibia.  Africa isn’t where he’s lost his heart however, neither the America’s

although Costa Rica came close, for its birds and nature, as did Mexico, for

birds and something else.  Stijn has travelled 50 different countries to date

but it’s Asia that has kept his imagination, with trips to China and Thailand

at the age of 21.  Today, Laos is his exploratory playground, Philippines the

country with something ‘special’, Nepal his yearly high-literally, Taiwan the

endemic heaven, Cambodia his recommendation,…Thailand his home.

If Stijn was to keep the same yearly lifers hit-rate he did to get to 3000

species, he would be 35 today.  Eh! I’m not.  I’m younger the same number

of years as is my ranking on the Surfbirds.com life lists of the country I call

my home!

Whoops!  What’s my life list today?  At what age? Which bird is hidden in this

text?

 

  

Good start to birding at the age of 8.                   I'm watching you, 12 years later.

 

Not so long ago in the mountains of North Thailand.

 

Excellent birding in Laos!  December 2008.  With Sooty Babbler photographed at Na Hin, Laos.

 

Common Kingfisher -common, beautiful and one of my very best pictures, taken in Laos of course!

 

Stijn can be contacted at stijndewin@birding2asia.com but not to tell me

my age please.  Any laughs are welcome though…

 

People from outside the Netherlands or the Flemish part of Belgium might find it difficult to

pronounce my name properly.  Find out how Stijn is pronounced correctly.

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