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Bird Points Game Version 2.0 - ABA Life List Edition! (1 Viewer)

I think BC is where Sooty and Dusky overlap (making it tricky tricky), it probably depends on where in BC the bird was seen. I was recently in central washington, where it appeared that they overlapped, but I only got possitive confirmation on a Dusky.
 
Hi All,

Belatedly curious to see what my trotting about in North America would yield.
Round 1: 53
Round 2: 63
for a total of 116.

I haven't even worked out my ABA list in a couple of years and now I'm doing the Bird Points game. Go figure.

Chris
 
58 points so far for me. Nothing above level 2, except Eurasian Wigeon.

Larry, I think it's probably easier to leave the level 6 birds than edit them out. Realistically the only species that is a 6 and someone could have is Condor (I think).
 
Chris Benesh said:
Hi All,

Belatedly curious to see what my trotting about in North America would yield.
Round 1: 53
Round 2: 63
for a total of 116.

I haven't even worked out my ABA list in a couple of years and now I'm doing the Bird Points game. Go figure.

Chris
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Whoa!

cjwolf said:
58 points so far for me. Nothing above level 2, except Eurasian Wigeon.

Larry, I think it's probably easier to leave the level 6 birds than edit them out. Realistically the only species that is a 6 and someone could have is Condor (I think).
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Who knows, maybe some 200 year-old birder will show up.

B.C. Birder said:
I live in the interior of BC, does that help?

CL
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I honestly can't tell you if there is anybody out there who really knows yet.
 
And people complained about pelagics last time!

Meet installment #3 everybody. Welcome a new guest to this checklist - Ringed Storm-Petrel, which proabbly won't hold it's crown as a 5 for very long, as it was seen again off a pelagic in CA recently.

Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans 5
Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis 2
Black-footed Albatross Phoebastria nigripes 1
Short-tailed Albatross Phoebastria albatrus 3
Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis 1
Great-winged Petrel Pterodroma macroptera 5
Herald Petrel Pterodroma arminjoniana 3
Murphy’s Petrel Pterodroma ultima 3
Mottled Petrel Pterodroma inexpectata 3
Bermuda Petrel Pterodroma cahow 4
Black-capped Petrel Pterodroma hasitata 2
Galapagos/Hawaiian (“Dark-rumped”) Petrel
Pterodroma phaeopygia/sandwichensis 5
Fea’s/Zino’s Petrel Pterodroma feae/madeira 3
Cook’s Petrel Pterodroma cookii 2
Stejneger’s Petrel Pterodroma longirostris 4
Bulwer’s Petrel Bulweria bulwerii 5
Streaked Shearwater Calonectris leucomelas 4
Cory’s Shearwater Calonectris diomedea 1
Cape Verde Shearwater Calonectris edwardsii 5
Pink-footed Shearwater Puffinus creatopus 1
Flesh-footed Shearwater Puffinus carneipes 3
Greater Shearwater Puffinus gravis 1
Wedge-tailed Shearwater Puffinus pacificus 4
Buller’s Shearwater Puffinus bulleri 2
Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus 1
Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris 2
Manx Shearwater Puffinus puffinus 2
Black-vented Shearwater Puffinus opisthomelas 2
Audubon’s Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri 1
Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis 5
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel Oceanites oceanicus 1
White-faced Storm-Petrel Pelagodroma marina 4
European Storm-Petrel Hydrobates pelagicus 5
Black-bellied Storm-Petrel Fregetta tropica 5
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma furcata 2
Ringed Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma hornbyi 5
Leach’s Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa 1
Ashy Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma homochroa 2
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma castro 2
Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma tethys 5
Black Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma melania 2
Least Storm-Petrel Oceanodroma microsoma 2
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus 3
Red-billed Tropicbird Phaethon aethereus 3
Red-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon rubricauda 4
Masked Booby Sula dactylatra 3
Blue-footed Booby Sula nebouxii 4
Brown Booby Sula leucogaster 3
Red-footed Booby Sula sula 4
 
And you think you know yourself! Only four for me, but I should be catching up to those sneaky storm-petrels later this year. Manx was a fine boost, of one extra point!
 
Hi All,

This ol' man gets 50 for round 3.

Chris

Oh, and about the Code 6 birds. I've got two colleagues who could put down Eskimo Curlew (one of the last Galveston birds seen in 1961 if I remember right).
 
Ouch... this one is really painful - a big goose egg for me! That will change soon after I go on a couple Monterey Bay pelagics. My score remains at 70.

Neil G.
 
I am afraid Chris is going to leave us all "in the dust"!

I only got eleven (11) in round three!
Round #1 33
Round #2 43
Round #3 11 (these I got from my one and only 1/2 day pelagic trip out of Westport, Washington)

Total ..... 87
 
Speaking of Code 6 Birds........
It might be interesting to see if any responders get some of the birds "down the road" like Bachman's Warbler or Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Some older birders might be able to accomplish this.
However, it would appear that most of the respondents are under 20 years of age.
 
Larry Lade said:
Speaking of Code 6 Birds........
It might be interesting to see if any responders get some of the birds "down the road" like Bachman's Warbler or Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Some older birds might be able to accomplish this.
However, it would appear that most of the respondents are under 20 years of age.

I am afraid Chris is going to leave us all "in the dust"!
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Hi Larry,

I've actually met a couple of folks who have seen Bachman's Warbler (early 70's, if I remember right), and at least one who claims to have seen IBWO long ago, so I think they're out there. But not in this crowd.

I've got an unfair advantage here, so I am taking myself out of the competition. I'll post my numbers just so I can see how they compare, but since I'm at least 20 years older than most of the competition, that hardly seems fair.

Round 1: 53
Round 2: 63
Round 3: 50
Total: 166

Chris
 
I wait for twenty minutes waiting for someone to make post 50 so I can get the scoreboard up, then you all come along and post ten times before I'm back.

Anyway, Chris don't back out. More people of greater age may join later on. This game is for anybody and everybody.

Category A:
Gold Chis Benesh 166
Silver Larry Lade 88
Bronze Prairiemerlin 70
4th BEBirder 66
5th Birderbf 59
6th colejwolf 58
7th featherbrain1223 57
8th emupilot 47
10th B.C. Birder 44
11th Storm-Petrel 39
12th Ayasuda 26

Category B:

Gold Teamsaint 59
Silver The Devil Bird 42
 
Well, I'm pretty old, but with only one (1) pelagic trip "under my belt" I do not have too many seabirds. I have not been birding in the eastern US very much either (except for some in New Jersey and New York during some family visits).
 
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