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top 10 most wanted ABA zone. (1 Viewer)

For me, in no particular order:

1. Boreal Owl (would complete the ABA owls)
2. Gray-headed Chickadee
3. Tufted Puffin
4. Baird's Sparrow (last ABA Ammodramus)
5. Kirtland's Warbler
6. Whiskered Auklet
7. Spectacled Eider
8. Ross's Gull
9. Bluethroat
10. White-winged Crossbill

I need to go to Alaska!
 
Staying closer to home,(some I have seen or heard briefly,but left unsatisfied)

1.Boreal Owl
2.Northern Saw-whet Owl
3.Common Nighthawk(on a daytime perch)
4.Whip-Poor-Will(same situation as 3)
5.Upland Sandpiper
6.Mountain Bluebird(around in the prairies)
7.Summer Tanager(many sightings here!)
8.Black-headed Grosbeak
9.Yellow Rail(heard many no sightings though!)
10.Least Bittern
 
In no particular order except for # 1 bird, a nemesis bird for me!

BOHEMIAN WAXWING
BOREAL OWL
Greater Sage Grouse
Gunnison Sage Grouse
White-tailed Ptarmigan
Green-tailed Towhee (easy, supposedly, but not for me)
Lesser Prairie Chicken
Wilson's Plover
Red Phalarope
Pinyon Jay
 
Oh, another one I would really like to see is the Kirtland's Warbler. It should not be too difficult to get if I can just make it up to Michigan in the spring/summer!
 
Oh, another one I would really like to see is the Kirtland's Warbler. It should not be too difficult to get if I can just make it up to Michigan in the spring/summer!

Yeah... wish I'd made that drive when I lived in Ohio! But I moved away soon after I started birding.
 
Hah...keeping this in the spirit of the british list:

Tawny-shouldered Blackbird
Yellow-breasted Bunting
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush
Collared Forest-Falcon
Eurasian Hoopoe
Amazon Kingfisher
Swallow-tailed Gull
Spoon-billed Sandpiper
Sungrebe
Steller's Sea Eagle.

These will pretty much do for me, too. I even booked a flight to go look for the Amazon Kingfisher in early 2010, but then it disappeared.

And in the more realistic category
Mountain Quail
White-headed Woodpecker
Gyrfalcon
Baird's Sparrow
Bridled Tern
Muscovy Duck
Great Gray Owl
Kirtland's Warbler
Roseate Tern
Yellow Rail
 
First 8 because they're characterful. Last 2 because I've dipped enough now.

1&2 Prairie Chickens in display
3. Henslows Sparrow
4. Smith's Longspur (in summer)
5. Black Rail
6. Conneticut Warbler
7. Montezuma Quail
8. Spectacled Eider
9. Spruce Grouse
10. Black-billed Cuckoo (this bird is fictional!!)

10.I thought also until I walked into a real one this year!Here's a video of the moment,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGoY7FjXr88&feature=share&list=UUKTNVvSM-2MRKFEs_2x7BTQ
And a few days later seen a Connecticut Warbler in the exact spot!
 
1. Ross’s Gull in alternate plumage
2. Great Grey Owl
3. Ivory Gull
4. Emperor Goose
5. Spectacled Eider
6. either Sage Grouse
7. Whiskered Auklet
8. Steller’s Eider
9. Tufted Puffin
10. Evening Grosbeak (should get that this year…)
 
I hope to visiting western Canada this Spring (BC and Manitoba ending in Toronto) so my "tart's" top ten would be -

Pileated Woodpecker
Heermann's Gull
Marbled Murrelet
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Varied Thrush
Prairie Falcon
Saw-whet Owl
Trumpeter Swan
Black Swift
Steller's Jay

This will be my third trip to Canada so there is still a lot of species I could see for the first time.

David
 
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