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my life list (1 Viewer)

well I've not updated this for a while! my life list total is now 213, so i've seen 8 new species since last May

I can't remember all off the top of my head, but 6 new species:
brent goose
long-tailed duck
red crested pochard
egyptian goose
yellow legged gull
golden plover

1 species do to splits:
hooded crow

1 species missed off the list
hispaniolan crow

plus since the redpoll's been split i've seen only the lesser species not the common/mealy.

total: 213
 
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since I did the recount I've added a further 4 species:

Garganey, Avocet, Black-winged Stilt and Montagu's harrier. I've decided to redo the list in the first post to update it and make it easier to read.
 
haven't unpdated for a while:

Whimbrel
Curlew sandpiper
Marsh harrier
Bearded tit
Black tern
Lesser whitethroat
Merlin

(rook missed of list)
 
red throated diver, woodchat shrike & short toed lark from the great orme a few weeks back.

should get some nice birds for the list next week at spurn!
 
not updated for a while, duely done!

little auk
little gull
little tern
mediterranean gull
laughing gull
stone curlew
smew
turtle dove (for uk)
golden pheasant
golden oriole
grasshopper warbler
snow bunting
ring ouzel
great northern diver
red backed shrike
 
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honduras trip netted me these:

altimira oriole
azure hooded jay
band tailed barbthroat
band tailed pigeon
black cowled oriole
black phoebe
black swift
black vulture
blue black grosbeak
blue crowned cholophonia
blue grey tanager
brown capped vireo
brown crested flycatcher
brown jay
canivet's emerald
clay coloured thrush
common bush tanager
common ground dove
emerald toucanet
flame coloured tanager
golden fronted woodpecker
great kiskadee
great tailed grackle
green heron
green throated mountain gem
green-breasted mango
grey breasted wood wren
groove billed ani
hook billed kite
inca dove
least tern
lesser yellow headed vulture
long tailed hermit
mangrove swallow
mourning dove
northern rough winged swallow
northern waterthrush
olivaceous woodcreeper
olive throated parakeet
ruddy ground dove
rusty sparrow
scaly throated foliage gleaner
semipalmated sandpiper
slate throated redstart
spotted sandpiper
spotted woodcreeper
strong billed woodcreeper
swallow tailed kite
tricoloured heron
tropical kingbird
tropical mockingbird
variable seedeater
vaux's swift
white collared seedeater
white collared swift
white eared hummingbird
white winged dove
white winged tanager
yellow billed cacique
yellow crowned amazon
yellow faced grassquit
yellow throated brushfinch
yellow warbler
yellowish flycatcher
 
more additions:

great horned owl (armchair)
barred warbler
yellow browed warbler
lapland bunting
red flanked bluetail
black throated diver
purple sandpiper
slavonian grebe
long eared owl
great grey shrike
american black duck
rosy starling
franklin's gull
ring billed gull
short eared owl

total 327
 
not updated in a good while

forgot the tanagers and Grace's Warbler- blue-grey, common bush, white winged, flame coloured and blue crowned chlorophonia added

Thai trip birds added over 300 new ones:
abbott's babbler
arctic warbler
ashy bulbul
ashy drongo
ashy tailorbird
ashy throated leaf warbler
ashy woodswallow
asian barred owlet
asian brown flycatcher
asian drongo cuckoo
asian fairy bluebird
asian glossy starling
asian golden weaver
asian koel
asian martin
asian openbill
asian palm swift
asian paradise flycatcher
asian pied starling
banded kingfisher
bar winged flycatcher shrike
barred buttonquail
barred cuckoo dove
baya weaver
besra
black and buff woodpecker
black and yellow broadbill
black backed kingfisher
black backed sibia
black baza
black bittern
black browed leaf warbler
black capped babbler
black capped kingfisher
black collared starling
black crested bulbul
black crowned night heron
black drongo
black headed bulbul
black naped monarch
black naped oriole
black nest swiftlet
black shouldered kite
black stork
black tailed crake
black thighed falconet
black throated laughingthrush
black throated sunbird
black winged cuckoo shrike
blue bearded kingfisher
blue eared kingfisher
blue magpie
blue tailed bee eater
blue throated barbet
blue whistling thrush
blue winged leafbird
blue winged pitta
blyth's leaf warbler
brahminy kite
broad billed sandpiper
bronze winged jacana
bronzed drongo
brown backed needletail
brown barbet
brown booby
brown hawk owl
brown headed gull
brown prinia
brown streaked flycatcher
brown throated treecreeper
brown winged kingfisher
buffy fish owl
caspian tern
changeable hawk eagle
chestnut breasted malkoha
chestnut bunting
chestnut crowned laughingthrush
chestnut crowned warbler
chestnut headed bee eater
chestnut munia
chestnut rumped babbler
chestnut tailed minla
chestnut vented nuthatch
chestnut winged babbler
chinese egret
chinese pond heron
cinnamon bittern
collared kingfisher
collared owlet
collared scops owl
common hill myna
common iora
common myna
common tailorbird
coppersmith barbet
cotton pygmy goose
cream vented bulbul
crested goshawk
crested serpent eagle
crested treeswift
dark necked tailorbird
dark sided flycatcher
dark sided thrush
dollarbird
dusky broadbill
eastern yellow wagtail
emerald dove
eyebrowed wren babbler
fire breasted flowerpecker
flavescent bulbul
forest wagtail
fork tailed swift
fulvous chested jungle flycatcher
german's swiftlet
golden babbler
golden crested myna
golden fronted leafbird
golden throated barbet
great black headed gull
great crested tern
great eared nightjar
great hornbill
greater coucal
greater flameback
greater racket tailed drongo
greater sandplover
greater short toed lark
greater yellownape
green bee eater
green billed malkoha
green broadbill
green eared barbet
green magpie
green tailed sunbird
greenish warbler
grey backed shrike
grey breasted prinia
grey bushchat
grey capped woodpecker
grey cheeked fulvetta
grey chinned minivet
grey crowned warbler
grey eyed bulbul
grey headed canary flycatcher
grey headed lapwing
grey rumped treeswift
gull billed tern
gurney's pitta
hainan blue flycatcher
hair crested drongo
hairy backed bulbul
heart spotted woodpecker
hill blue flycatcher
hill prinia
himalayan swiftlet
hooded crow
house swift
indian cormorant
indian roller
indochinese bushlark
intermediate egret
javan frogmouth
javan pond heron
kentish plover
laced woodpecker
large billed crow
large niltava
large scimitar babbler
large tailed nightjar
large wren babbler
lesser coucal
lesser crested tern
lesser racket tailed drongo
lesser sandplover
lesser whistling duck
lineated barbet
little cormorant
little pied flycatcher
little spiderhunter
long tailed broadbill
long tailed shrike
long toed stint
malaysian plover
mangrove pitta
marsh sandpiper
mountain bulbul
mountain imperial pigeon
moustached babbler
moustached barbet
moustached hawk cuckoo
nutmeg mannikin
ochraceous bulbul
olive backed pipit
olive backed sunbird
orange bellied flowerpecker
orange bellied leafbird
orange brested trogon
orange headed thush
oriental honey buzzard
oriental magpie robin
oriental pied hornbill
oriental pipit
oriental pratincole
oriental reed warbler
oriental white eye
pacific golden plover
pacific reef heron
pacific swallow
painted stork
pale blue flycatcher
pheasant tailed jacana
pied bushchat
pied fantail
pied imperial pigeon
pink billed pigeon
pintail snipe
plain backed sparrow
plain flowerpecker
plain prinia
plain throated sunbird
plaintive cuckoo
puff throated bulbul
purple cochoa
purple heron
purple sunbird
purple throated sunbird
racket tailed treepie
radde's warbler
raffles's malkoha
red collared dove
red crowned barbet
red headed trogon
red necked stint
red throated barbet
red wattled lapwing
red whiskered bulbul
richard's pipit
rosy minivet
ruby cheeked sunbird
ruddy breasted crake
rufescent prinia
rufous backed sibia
rufous bellied niltava
rufous crowned babbler
rufous faced warbler
rufous fronted babbler
rufous winged fulvetta
scaly crowned babbler
scarlet backed flowerpecker
scarlet minivet
shikra
short tailed babbler
siberian blue robin
silver eared mesia
silver pheasant
slaty backed forktail
slaty bellied tesia
slaty breasted rail
small minivet
snowy browed flycatcher
sooty headed bulbul
speckled piculet
spectacled barwing
spotted dove
streak eared bulbul
streaked spiderhunter
striated grassbird
striated heron
striated swallow
stripe throated bulbul
striped tit babbler
taiga flycatcher
thick billed flowerpecker
thick billed pigeon
thick billed warbler
verditer flycatcher
vinous breasted starling
watercock
whiskered tern
white bellied sea eagle
white bellied yuhina
white breasted waterhen
white browed crake
white browed piculet
white browed scimitar babbler
white browed shortwing
white browed shrike babbler
white capped redstart
white cheeked bulbul
white crested laughingthrush
white fronted scops owl
white gorgeted flycatcher
white rumped munia
white rumped shama
white tailed leaf warbler
white tailed robin
white throated fantail
white throated kingfisher
white vented myna
white winged tern
wreathed hornbill
yellow bellied bulbul
yellow bellied fantail
yellow bellied flowerpecker
yellow bellied prinia
yellow bellied warbler
yellow bittern
yellow breasted flowerpecker
yellow browed tit
yellow cheeked tit
yellow vented bulbul
yellow vented flowerpecker
zebra dove
zitting cisticola

plus uk lifers from last year and this year:

grey phalarope
balearic shearwater
sooty shearwater
leach's storm petrel
red breasted flycatcher
southern grey shrike
firecrest
honey buzzard
spoonbill
wood warbler
wood lark
dartford warbler
nightingale
cetti's warbler
amur falcon
brown shrike
desert wheatear
pied wheatear
temminck's stint

Grand Total= 659
 
Antillean Mango from Dominican Republic and Grey-cheeked Bulbul from Thailand were missed off!

Plus Ferruginous Duck as a new lifer takes me up to:

662
 
Cirl Bunting
Common Quail
Blue-winged Teal
Bluethroat
European Storm-petrel
Baird's Sandpiper
Icterine Warbler
Eurasian Wryneck

675
 
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