islands protect what they have, but they also market themselves strategically. The streets are kept clean, crime is low, tourists pay for 
service but it's first class, and no matter who you are, when you leave the Seychelles, you leave a little bit of your adventurous heart behind.

Club, volume 6.1, March 1999. Due to its remote location, lack of freshwater, dense scrub, difficult terrain and no small degree of good fortune, Aldabra's ecosystem has survived relatively intact. The atoll of Aldabra comprises four main islands - Grande Terre, Malabar, Polymnie and Picard - and a number of smaller lagoon islands and islets. The Aldabra group comprises Aldabra atoll and with the  neighbouring islands of similar age and structure - Assumption, Astove and Cosmoledo atolls. 

Ruth Traynor. "This is not a comprehensive account of Birdwatching in the Seychelles. It is a personal account of a 2 week vacation in the Seychelles in 1998 by two ordinary mature (= "middle-aged"!) English birdwatchers! If you are thinking of visiting the Islands and hope to do some birding, you may find it of some help." (Note from Tina - ignore the modesty of the author - this is an extremely comprehensive and useful set of information about birding the Seychelles).

Natural World Heritage Site.

Oct - Nov 1994, by Stig Jensen et al. (NOTE: this is a downloadable report in WORD format from the Danish Ornithological Society´s website). In October-November 1994, the excursions committee of the Copenhagen department of the Danish Ornithological Society (DOF) carried out its first tour to Madagascar, Réunion and the Seychelles. The main purpose of the tour was to provide the participants with a good impression and knowledge of the fantastic - and threatened - natural areas remaining and the local culture as well as to see as many of the endemic birds and other animals as possible. The tour was organised in three parts: Part 1: 8 days in the Seychelles, part 2: 1 day in Réunion and 20 days in Madagascar, part 3: 7 days in northeastern Madagascar. Part 3 was offered only as an extension of the main tour (part 2). In additional Marianne Andersen and Erik Mølgaard visited the Mauritius Island before the main tour and Jesper Meedom, Ulrik Andersen and Erik Mølgaard made a 4 days extension to the area around Andape in the northern Madagascar. We have included their notes in this report. 

Kim Biledgaard  This is a list of the bird species observed during our trip to the Seychelles. It has to be admitted, that we didn't count and observe that eagerly at all times. Much of the time we just enjoyed the fine weather, spent time swimming, getting sunburned... Or we watched the fruit bats, the geckos and lizards, the giant spiders or the colourful fishes.

We spent the second half of October 2000 in the Seychelles and wrote a short report about the birds we saw in the Seychelles...

Ricceri & Marco Salvioni. We arrived a bit too early for migrants but good for breeding seabirds and residents. People are interested in other birders's experiences, so here is our own one!

Factoids taken from Where to Watch Birds in Africa - by Nigel Wheatley.

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