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A Naughty Nine No Longer  As I approach the time when I have to stop travelling outside Europe, I found myself wondering where to travel to next. I don't have a bucket list since it would just keep getting longer however many places I go, so I did what I have done in the past and decided on a focus, setting myself a target. Having long ago achieved my first target of seeing all the world's gulls, and finding others now too expensive (such as Pterodroma petrels), I decided to attempt to see every species on Category A of the British List, somewhere in the world. As I had previously done a lot of twitching this started as a "dirty dozen", and the first year I visited Kazakhstan for two species. I had been there before, but to different areas, so a thoroughly enjoyable trip got me White-winged Lark and Caspian Plover, which was also my 200th wader. The lark, which is one of the most attractive of its family, held interest in that the only UK record was less than ten mil...