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Bird Points Game Version 2.0 - ABA Life List Edition! (1 Viewer)
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birderbf
Wild, Wild West ................... ern Spindalis
Inst. #2
Some good stuff seen out there!
Anyway I'm quite busy today for once, so have fun with Installment #2. I should get the first scorteboard set later on tonight, hopefully.
Black Scoter Melanitta nigra 1
Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis 1
Bufflehead Bucephala albeola 1
Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula 1
Barrow’s Goldeneye Bucephala islandica 1
Smew Mergellus albellus 3
Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus 1
Common Merganser Mergus merganser 1
Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator 1
Masked Duck Nomonyx dominicus 3
Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis 1
Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula 2
Chukar Alectoris chukar 2
Himalayan Snowcock Tetraogallus himalayensis 2
Gray Partridge Perdix perdix 2
Ring-necked Pheasant Phasianus colchicus 1
Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus 1
Greater Sage-Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus 1
Gunnison Sage-Grouse Centrocercus minimus 2
Spruce Grouse Falcipennis canadensis 2
Willow Ptarmigan Lagopus lagopus 1
Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus muta 1
White-tailed Ptarmigan Lagopus leucura 2
Dusky Grouse Dendragapus obscurus 2
Sooty Grouse Dendragapus fuliginosus 2
Sharp-tailed Grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus 2
Greater Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus cupido 2
Lesser Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus 2
Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo 1
Mountain Quail Oreortyx pictus 1
Scaled Quail Callipepla squamata 1
California Quail Callipepla californica 1
Gambel’s Quail Callipepla gambelii 1
Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus 1
Montezuma Quail Cyrtonyx montezumae 2
Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata 1
Arctic Loon Gavia arctica 2
Pacific Loon Gavia pacifica 1
Common Loon Gavia immer 1
Yellow-billed Loon Gavia adamsii 2
Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus 2
Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps 1
Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus 1
Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena 1
Eared Grebe Podiceps nigricollis 1
Western Grebe Aechmophorus occidentalis 1
Clark’s Grebe Aechmophorus clarkii 1
Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos 4
Shy Albatross Thalassarche cauta 4
Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris 5
Some good stuff seen out there!
Anyway I'm quite busy today for once, so have fun with Installment #2. I should get the first scorteboard set later on tonight, hopefully.
Black Scoter Melanitta nigra 1
Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis 1
Bufflehead Bucephala albeola 1
Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula 1
Barrow’s Goldeneye Bucephala islandica 1
Smew Mergellus albellus 3
Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus 1
Common Merganser Mergus merganser 1
Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator 1
Masked Duck Nomonyx dominicus 3
Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis 1
Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula 2
Chukar Alectoris chukar 2
Himalayan Snowcock Tetraogallus himalayensis 2
Gray Partridge Perdix perdix 2
Ring-necked Pheasant Phasianus colchicus 1
Ruffed Grouse Bonasa umbellus 1
Greater Sage-Grouse Centrocercus urophasianus 1
Gunnison Sage-Grouse Centrocercus minimus 2
Spruce Grouse Falcipennis canadensis 2
Willow Ptarmigan Lagopus lagopus 1
Rock Ptarmigan Lagopus muta 1
White-tailed Ptarmigan Lagopus leucura 2
Dusky Grouse Dendragapus obscurus 2
Sooty Grouse Dendragapus fuliginosus 2
Sharp-tailed Grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus 2
Greater Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus cupido 2
Lesser Prairie-Chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus 2
Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo 1
Mountain Quail Oreortyx pictus 1
Scaled Quail Callipepla squamata 1
California Quail Callipepla californica 1
Gambel’s Quail Callipepla gambelii 1
Northern Bobwhite Colinus virginianus 1
Montezuma Quail Cyrtonyx montezumae 2
Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata 1
Arctic Loon Gavia arctica 2
Pacific Loon Gavia pacifica 1
Common Loon Gavia immer 1
Yellow-billed Loon Gavia adamsii 2
Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus 2
Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps 1
Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus 1
Red-necked Grebe Podiceps grisegena 1
Eared Grebe Podiceps nigricollis 1
Western Grebe Aechmophorus occidentalis 1
Clark’s Grebe Aechmophorus clarkii 1
Yellow-nosed Albatross Thalassarche chlororhynchos 4
Shy Albatross Thalassarche cauta 4
Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophris 5
Larry Lade
Moderator
First round 33
Second round 43
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Total .......... 76
My ABA count is really only the "lower 48 states" as I have not been to any of the other ABA areas, i.e. Alaska, Hawaii, the other places. I have been on one pelagic out of Westport, Washington, USA.
This thread should prove interesting as we move forward.
I have no eiders, only a "smattering" of seabirds and only a few grouse.
Second round 43
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Total .......... 76
My ABA count is really only the "lower 48 states" as I have not been to any of the other ABA areas, i.e. Alaska, Hawaii, the other places. I have been on one pelagic out of Westport, Washington, USA.
This thread should prove interesting as we move forward.
I have no eiders, only a "smattering" of seabirds and only a few grouse.
prairiemerlin
registered guy
28 for me for the second round - you've hit my weak spot - pelagics and game birds. That will change soon!
Neil G.
Neil G.
B.C. Birder
Well-known member
15 for me.
BC
BC
featherbrain1223
Well-known member
1st round 25
2nd round 30
When the pelagics come, I'm dead, I only have a handful :'(
2nd round 30
When the pelagics come, I'm dead, I only have a handful :'(
Larry Lade
Moderator
teamsaint, Perdix perdix is Grey Partridge for you and Gray Partridge for those of us in the US.
birderbf
Wild, Wild West ................... ern Spindalis
Scoreboard!
Ok so we have:
Category A:
Gold Chis Benesh 166
Silver Larry Lade 77
Bronze Prairiemerlin 70
4th BEBirder 66
5th Birderbf 59
6th featherbrain1223 55
" colejwolf 58
7th emupilot 47
8th B.C. Birder 44
9th Storm-Petrel 39
10th Ayasuda 26
Category B:
Gold Teamsaint 50
Silver The Devil Bird 42
I would post next to your name if you're all caught up, but that's just too much for me. It's now your responsibility to update your scores and not look like a terrible birder.
Anyway, I'm off to go birding!
Ok so we have:
Category A:
Gold Chis Benesh 166
Silver Larry Lade 77
Bronze Prairiemerlin 70
4th BEBirder 66
5th Birderbf 59
6th featherbrain1223 55
" colejwolf 58
7th emupilot 47
8th B.C. Birder 44
9th Storm-Petrel 39
10th Ayasuda 26
Category B:
Gold Teamsaint 50
Silver The Devil Bird 42
I would post next to your name if you're all caught up, but that's just too much for me. It's now your responsibility to update your scores and not look like a terrible birder.
Anyway, I'm off to go birding!
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Storm-Petrel
registered dude
add twenty for me
devilbirder
Well-known member
are black and common scoters seperate or not?
devilbirder
Well-known member
A pathetic 13 for part 2 for me please birdbf.
Thanks
PS just put a full stop next to each name that is up to date.
Thanks
PS just put a full stop next to each name that is up to date.
B.C. Birder
Well-known member
Can you add one point to my score bf? I just saw a Blue Grouse.
BC
BC
birderbf
Wild, Wild West ................... ern Spindalis
According to my Europe book, Common Scoter is Melanitta nirga, and according to Sibley, it is also Melanitta nigra. As far as I know, they're conspecific. I believe White-winged/Velvet was split though for sure?
We'll see what the latin name of Black Scoter is in the next edition of the ABA checklist. I believe that the BOU calls them Melanitta americana now?
That means we have to look for Velvet and Common Scoters off our shore... that isn't going to be pretty...
featherbrain1223
Well-known member
BC Birder, Blue Grouse is now split into 2 species, Dusky and Sooty, which of these did you see?
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