Top 20 Most Wanted Birds.......what's your wanted list? (1 Viewer)

Andy Wraithmell · Nov 3, 2005

In the event of dying from boredom before going to work I was interested to see if any other birders keep a 20 most wanted list. I do!!! Here it is in no particular order

Wandering Albatross
Diademed Sandpiper Plover
Andean Condor
Andean Cock-of-the Rock
Snow Petrel
Gurney's Pitta
Kookaburra
Lyrebird
Egyptian Plover
Spoonbill Sandpiper
Harpy Eagle
Resplendant Quetzal
Bee Hummingbird
Spectacled Eider
Steller's Sea Eagle
Red-legged Kittiwake
Shoebill
Hawk Owl
Moussier's Redstart
Ivory-billed Woodpecker

I've chalked up only one so far (must get out more!) Wandering Albatross on a pelagic off South Africa a few years ago. A few of them should be relatively easy but some will be hard and will require vast amounts of spondoolies. Where's my piggy bank? :egghead:

Maybe depending on replies we could count the votes and come up with a birdforum top 20 most wanted?

the bird · Nov 3, 2005

heres mine -

Nightingale
Hawfinch
Jack Snipe
Long-tailed Skua
Pomarine Skua
Sooty Shearwater
Pallas Warbler
Bean Goose
Capercaillie
Ptarmigan
Dotterel
Golden Oriole
Lapland Bunting
Quail
Woodlark
Stone Curlew
Montagu's Harrier
Bee-eater
Roller
Bluethroat

As you can probably see there are obvious holes in my life list. If I got the first 16 birds from this list I would be totally and utterly over the moon for the rest of my life.

Any help on the first 16 would be appreciated. 8-P

John.

postcardcv · Nov 3, 2005

the bird said:
Any help on the first 16 would be appreciated. 8-P

John.

Hi John

drop me a PM if you're ever heading over to Norfolk - 3 of them should be getable here in the winter and a further 5 in spring.

Edward · Nov 3, 2005

I've managed two on your list, Limeybirder, (although there are in fact four species of kookaburra and two lyrebirds). Laughing Kookaburra you'd see within hours of arriving at any east coast city in Australia, as there are an estimated 65 million individuals n Australia and they are not exactly inconspicuous!

Here's 10 off the top of my head:
My definite no. 1 is Black Grasswren, an endemic of remote northern Western Australia. I will see it one day.
Inaccessible Island Rail
Plains-wanderer
Long-tailed Ground Roller
either Picathartes/Rockfowl
Magellanic Plover
Cape Rockjumper
Flame Bowerbird
Wilson's Bird-of-Paradise (or pretty much any, I've seen one BOP, but not well)
Kagu

E

postcardcv · Nov 3, 2005

my top 20 wants list is...

Fea's petrel
roller
snowy owl
wallcreeper
sibe rubythroat
red-flank bluetail
pallid swift
Hudsonian godwit
golden-winged warbler
cream-coloured courser
white-throated needletail
black and white warbler
Siberian thrush
Maramora's warbler
isabelline wheatear
rufous bush robin
great spotted cuckoo
red-rumped swallow
ivory gull
Wilson's phalarope

all in the UK please....

Andy Wraithmell · Nov 3, 2005

Edward said:
I've managed two on your list, Limeybirder, (although there are in fact four species of kookaburra and two lyrebirds). Laughing Kookaburra you'd see within hours of arriving at any east coast city in Australia, as there are an estimated 65 million individuals n Australia and they are not exactly inconspicuous!

Here's 10 off the top of my head:
My definite no. 1 is Black Grasswren, an endemic of remote northern Western Australia. I will see it one day.
Inaccessible Island Rail
Plains-wanderer
Long-tailed Ground Roller
either Picathartes/Rockfowl
Magellanic Plover
Cape Rockjumper
Flame Bowerbird
Wilson's Bird-of-Paradise (or pretty much any, I've seen one BOP, but not well)
Kagu

E

Long-tailed Groud Roller almost made it to my list Ed and Ive seen Cape Rockjumper both spectacular birds. Didnt know bout the Lyrebirds and Kookaburras so that makes the list a little bigger. Bugger!

DJW · Nov 3, 2005

the bird said:
heres mine -
John.

Nightingale---Little Paxton Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire in Spring, a doddle
Hawfinch ---Lynford Arboretum near Brandon, Norfolk.
Capercaillie----Abernethy Forest, Loch Garten RSPB.
Ptarmigan----Cairngorms
Golden Oriole---Hockwold Washes, Lakenheath, Norfolk, summer
Woodlark---Weeting Heath, near Brandon, Norfolk.
Stone Curlew---Weeting Heath, near Brandon, Norfolk.

Dave

the bird · Nov 3, 2005

postcardcv said:
Hi John

drop me a PM if you're ever heading over to Norfolk - 3 of them should be getable here in the winter and a further 5 in spring.

cheers postie,

I definately will get in touch with you.

Looking at your list - Wallcreeper - that bird is 21st on my list!!!

the bird · Nov 3, 2005

DJW said:
Nightingale---Little Paxton Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire in Spring, a doddle
Hawfinch ---Lynford Arboretum near Brandon, Norfolk.
Capercaillie----Abernethy Forest, Loch Garten RSPB.
Ptarmigan----Cairngorms
Golden Oriole---Hockwold Washes, Lakenheath, Norfolk, summer
Woodlark---Weeting Heath, near Brandon, Norfolk.
Stone Curlew---Weeting Heath, near Brandon, Norfolk.

Dave

definately looks like Norfolk here I come (several times) over the next year!!!

Cheers Dave

John.

Bluetail · Nov 3, 2005

For my British List I'm not sure I want anything badly enough to travel very far for it, but I'd really like to see the following (not in any particular order):

Pallid Swift
Little Swift
Pacific Swift
Siberian Rubythroat
Siberian Blue Robin
Northern Parula
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Killdeer
Sociable Plover
Sooty Tern
Wallcreeper
White-throated Sparrow
Black-browed Albatross
Bee-eater
Corncrake
Nutcracker
Black-headed Bunting
Ivory Gull
Booted Warbler
Black-throated Thrush

Iceberg slim · Nov 3, 2005

heres mine in preferable order

1 Wallcreeper
2 Blackburnian warbler (male)
3 Marvellous spatuletail
4 Himalayan rubythroat
5 spoonbilled sandpiper
6 Garnet pitta
7 Great grey owl
8 Cape rockjumper
9 Cuban tody
10 Emperor penguin
11 Pied thrush
12 Andean condor (again)
13 Moussiers redstart
14 American redstart
15 Severtzov tit warbler
16 Hyacinth macaw
17 Harlequin duck (Drake)
18 Fairy tern
19 Hooded wheatear
20 Aquatic warbler

I have seen some real goodies around the world,but i want more

Edward woodwood · Nov 3, 2005

will do it later properly (wopped a few off in Tibet)!

but 4 now
Marvellous Spatuletail
Whiskered Pitta
Beautiful Nuthatch
Cabot's Tragopan
Wilson's Bird of Paradise

salty · Nov 3, 2005

oooh!

definetly snowy owl, the last owl out of 7 in the UK that i aint seen.

montagus harrier, just missed the one 15mins down the road from me this year!

white tailed eagle, a trip upto mull will sort this one for me though!

Dimitris · Nov 3, 2005

Limeybirder said:
In the event of dying from boredom before going to work I was interested to see if any other birders keep a 20 most wanted list. I do!!! Here it is in no particular order

Wandering Albatross
Diademed Sandpiper Plover
Andean Condor
Andean Cock-of-the Rock
Snow Petrel
Gurney's Pitta
Kookaburra
Lyrebird
Egyptian Plover
Spoonbill Sandpiper
Harpy Eagle
Resplendant Quetzal
Bee Hummingbird
Spectacled Eider
Steller's Sea Eagle
Red-legged Kittiwake
Shoebill
Hawk Owl
Moussier's Redstart
Ivory-billed Woodpecker

I've chalked up only one so far (must get out more!) Wandering Albatross on a pelagic off South Africa a few years ago. A few of them should be relatively easy but some will be hard and will require vast amounts of spondoolies. Where's my piggy bank? :egghead:

Maybe depending on replies we could count the votes and come up with a birdforum top 20 most wanted?

I've seen:

Wandering Albatross,Laughing Kookaburra and Superb Lyrebird.Go to a trip to Oz mate easy to get!Infact I've touched Laughing Kookabura...(see pic.)

My top of the list was Wandering Albatross but I got 2 this year along with Royal,Grey Headed and Black-browed....(yes I love digging it in...

)

Anyways sorry for diverting the thread.Returning to the topic I'd love:

1)Resplendant Quetzal
2)Bird Of Paradise (any.preferably all)
3)Jap. Crane (or any other crane for that matter)
4)Night Parrot
5)Kakapo
6)Harpy Eagle
7)Sword Bill Hummer
8)Hummingbird(any all iridescent species will do)
9)Golden Shouldered Parrot
10)Hycinth Macaw
11)Flame Bowerbird and/or Golden Bowerbird
12)Slender-billed Curlew(...)
13)'Golden' Tropicbird
14)Shoebill Stork
15)Monaol Pheasant
16)Stellers Sea Egle
17)Budgie(yes I've been to Oz and I haven't seen them wild!

)
18)Glossy Black Cockatoo
19)Wheatear(any species.I have never seen one.No matter how hard I search :-C )
20)Any bird that I've haven't seen yet!

Dimitris · Nov 3, 2005

Edward said:
Here's 10 off the top of my head:
My definite no. 1 is Black Grasswren, an endemic of remote northern Western Australia. I will see it one day.

Edward Can I come with you?I've yet to be in north Australia (except Cairns...).I'll prolly be going to Oz June 2006 again...

wolfbirder · Nov 3, 2005

been birding seven years now, so here's mine(I realise wont get first 3 in UK);

Great Grey owl
Lammergeier
wallcreeper
roller
bluethroat
adult long tailed skua (seen juv)
Saker
Gyr
Quail
Corncrake
Golden Pheasant
Northern Long Tailed Tit (dipped on them at spurn)
black browed albatross
great reed warbler
cattle egret
lesser grey shrike
black kite
kentish plover
penduline tit
glaucous gull
iceland gull

dbradnum · Nov 3, 2005

I'm going to split my allocation of 20 into 2 halves:

10 easiest remaining UK birds, to fill gaps on the list:

Cory's Shear
Great Shear... OK, I need to get down to the SW in September
King Eider
Little Bittern
Night Heron
Tawny Pipit
Red-throated Pipit
Melodious Warbler
Subalpine Warbler
Rustic Bunting

10 dream birds for the UK:

white phase Gyr
Great Bustard (and not a reintroduced bird, either)
a sandgrouse... any would do
Sibe Rubythroat (male please)
White-crowned Black Wheatear (grip back on my Dad)
Sibe Thrush (again, male please)
Wallcreeper
Parula
Long-tailed Shrike

and an addition to the British list: Black-shouldered Kite

Just watch me go into twitch mode when the next one of these turns up...

Dave B Smith · Nov 3, 2005

Well Ive been trying hard all summer to find the White-tailed Ptarmigan so I have to say he's number one. Others I'm after locally include Boreal Owl, Great Gray Owl, Northern Hawk Owl, any Rosy Finch, Bohemian Waxwing, Common and Hoary Redpolls.

In South America still looking for Harpy Eagle, Eared Trogon; better views of Lovely Cotinga (and any other Cotingas), several of the Hawk-Eagles, Andean Condor, and King Vulture.

Haven't even started a dream list for Oz, Asia, Europe, or Africa - too busy trying to find a lot of the ABA birds yet!

Chris D · Nov 3, 2005

Whitehead's Trogon, Broadbill, Spiderhunter (will try in 3 weeks)
Marvelous Spatuela Tail
Crimson Topaz
Lappet-Faced Vulture (or any old world one)
Secretary Bird
Speckled Mousebird
Carmine Bee-eater (for my wife)
Numfor Paradise Kingfisher
Volgelkop Bower (The Bower, not the bird)
King of Saxony, Wilson's, Black Sicklebill, 12 Wired BOP
White Tern
Rifleman
Magellanic Woodpecker
Sunbittern
Red-Billed Ground Cuckoo

jurek · Nov 3, 2005

1) goose which lays golden eggs
2-20) no problem

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