Joined: May 10, 2022 Last Active: Sep 7, 2024 iNaturalist Mexico Monthly Supporter since October 2022
Dutch birder (born December 1989; age 34) with twenty-five years of field experience, currently living in the Netherlands. I have lived in Mexico City for six years, where I was regional reviewer on eBird for three years, and guided some birding day trips and short tours in Central Mexico. As a side project, I am illustrating birds of Mexico with graphite pencils, coloured pencils, watercolour and gouache. Besides birds, I am also interested in other organisms, mainly moths, butterflies, dragonflies, damselflies, flies, bugs, beetles, bees, spiders and mammals.
Over the years, I have traveled to forty-five countries and observed a little over 2400 bird species (following IOC), but I have only begun taking photographic documentation seriously from October 2020 onwards. I will gradually upload my sightings from the past years to iNaturalist. What I still have to upload are photos and sound recordings from Faro, Portugal (February-April 2021), the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico (April-May 2022), Extremadura, Spain (April-May 2023), Niedersachsen, Germany (June and September 2023, and March 2024), the Philippines (July-August 2023), Bermuda (October 2023), Vietnam (February 2024), Hauts-de-France and Normandie, France (April 2024), Extremadura and Andalucía, Spain (April-May 2024), Malaysia (July 2024), Sumatra, Indonesia (July 2024), Papua, Indonesia (August 2024) and the Netherlands (2020-2024).
As a word of gratitude, I would like to thank everyone who has helped identify my observations! The time and effort put into this and the sharing of your knowledge is very much appreciated.
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Heatmap of my identifications on iNaturalist:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/map?ident_user_id=jorenvanschie