Mid-winter dream exchange revisited: 3 weeks anywhere else

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Back in Oct 22 I started a thread about dream swaps with other iNat observers.

I thought it might be fun to revisit and re-fantasize and share our dreams of trading homes with another iNatter anywhere in the world for a dedicated 3 week observing binge.

(We Canadians might have to dream a little harder about anyone actually going for such a swap, at least in the current season.)

So close your eyes, imagine lifting your camera to your eye and focusing on that dream lifer you’ve always drooled over – what are you focusing on and where in the world are you in this dream?

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Probably Texas, or maybe somewhere in Mexico, either Yucatan, Chiapas, or Oaxaca. These are areas that have a lot of cool animals, including many species in one of my favorite families, Odontophoridae (New World Quail).

Texas is one of the places in the US where a lot of quail can be found: Northern Bobwhite, Gambel’s Quail, Scaled Quail, and Montezuma (Mearns) Quail are the species found in Texas, and all would be incredible to see.

Mexico as a country is a great place to see quail, too. They have 14 species, but I would like to visit Chiapas and Oaxaca to see a specific subspecies of Northern Bobwhite, Colinus virginianus coyoleos, which is such a beautiful bird. Yucatan has a bobwhite named after it, the Yucatan Bobwhite or Black Throated Bobwhite, Colinus nigrogularis.

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I’d go to Amazonian Peru, inspired by @sebastianoak’s wonderful photos in the lifers thread. But I rather doubt anyone there would swap with me at the same time, since right now it’s winter in Massachusetts in the northeastern US. Unless maybe they wanted to visit herbaria and museum collections? I can dream, though!

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It is cold and rainy in Tel Aviv-Yafo. And there are, um, other reasons I expect nobody would want to be here about now.
That aside… I would be esctatic to spend three weeks in Aotearoa. There is so much to see, tons of endemic life, and I could learn SCUBA too :)

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I would want to be hiking through Indonesia - almost everything you see is a new species!

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I sort of answered this here.

But, if I have to only choose one destination only, I am going to Korea not only because @whaichi’s photos always touch something within me, but also because three weeks is a long time during which I could not only make lots of Observations but also I could gorge myself on bulgogi and bibimbap. (I am food motivated.)

If I can break the three weeks up though, two in Korea, followed by a week recovering and watching the parade of visitors to @danly’s garden still. Heaven.

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