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ABA Big Year 2016 (2 Viewers)

Up to 346 nw according to eburd, seemingly after a Pelagic as his most recent addition is Pink-footed Shearwater. Of course this gap will close rapidly once Olaf runs out of regular birds, but it took Neil Hayward until March to get to 346!
 
I read the blog this evening from the start. No talk of carbon-offsetting that I noticed. No worthy messages about spreading awareness or that he is spending a fortune to raise a fortune for charity or accidentally noticing that he is setting about a record-breaking year. Pure unadulterated hairy-arsed (literally I presume) twitching.

Go Olaf go. I hope he gets it!

All the best
 
Very many thanks - just found it!

Up to 373 having been in Florida yesterday and seen his Flamingo:-

http://ebird.org/ebird/top100?locInfo.regionCode=aba&yr=cur

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S27096359

Links to last two blog posts:-

http://olafsbigyear.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/giggling-for-flounder.html?m=1

http://olafsbigyear.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/some-call-this-hell-i-call-this-home.html?m=1

Florida one awaited. As a result of a visit from the bird police, he added the species list to the Blog:-

Bird Police Chief - 'Hi Olaf, You already had American Goldfinch. It was bird #300. You wrote about it in your post "Digging the texas two step..." Sincerely, The Bird Police'

Reply - 'yea, just noticed that when trying to figure out why ebird had me at 368 and my personal checklist was 369, will correct the total. Nothing good came out of those three trips to Refugio even though 1 and 2 were only two hours apart. I have added my full list to the side, ebird's numbers and mine do not add up sequentially as ebird order by taxonomy per each checklist and I don't know how to fix that easily. The number is 368......DONT SEND ME TO BIRDER JAIL, BIRD POLICE!!'

Good to see the authorities being vigilant.

All the best
 
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Hope he didn't leave Florida too fast....first state record Green-breasted Mango just reported from the southern half of the state, and an outstanding rarity to score for his list
 
Mysticete said:
Hope he didn't leave Florida too fast....first state record Green-breasted Mango just reported from the southern half of the state, and an outstanding rarity to score for his list
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He had a crack at the Mango report without success:-

http://olafsbigyear.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-pink-menace.html?m=1

He is not going to win a photographic competition but he may set a Big Year record!

Coded birds now 20. So I make that 364 of 671 commoner species so about 54%.

All the best
 
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The Green-breasted Mango was not a legitimate sighting. Have already seen the photos. A shame.

But there is a pair of Smooth-billed Ani now.
 
I'd head NE myself. There are 3 code 3-4 birds in the Long Island/New England region (Black-headed Gull, Pink-footed Goose, and Barnacle Goose). Plus probably some winter species he hasn't snagged yet that he won't have another shot at until next November (Purple Sandpiper I assume is still missing?)
 
timsg80 said:
Up to 399 now, with Great Gray Owl his latest. What an amazing achievement to see that many in a month!
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;)

Pretty awesome numbers wise - but (atm) still 1 away from the 400. One possible nemesis bird out the way though (correct lingo?!) Note that it's only 61% of the available species in the US right now though (654 or does that total also include all the hybrids and bird sps?).

http://ebird.org/ebird/top100?locIn...o.regionCode=aba&year=2016&sortBy=num_species



An aside = what's with the Great Tit on this list? I see it's not a coded bird - does that mean it's an escaped cagebird??

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S27110291


A second aside - c.25% of the top 10 (and top 50) year listers 2016 are of the female persuasion. Wouldn't get that over here!
 
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