In 2024, Clive visited Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan on an organized birding trip. This fascinating region, rich in history, has a wonderful mixture of birds, bringing together birds migrating on three pathways—to and from Africa, South Asia, and East Asia—as well as species that live year round in the high mountains and the dry grasslands. He will tell us about the birds he saw on a journey that spanned the Tien Shan mountains, the green steppes of northern Kazakhstan, and the forbidding Kyzylkum desert of western Uzbekistan.

Clive started birding as a young boy, going on walks with his father when the family lived in Hong Kong in the 1970s. He moved to the U.S. in 1993 with his wife and has been here ever since, apart from a four-year interlude in India. His favorite groups of birds are gulls, shorebirds, and waterfowl—all birds you can aim a scope at! As well as being a past-president of the Montgomery Bird Club, he has served two terms on the MOS Maryland/District of Columbia Records Committee.