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ABA Big Year 2016 (1 Viewer)

So 412 + 284 = 696. What's the target again?

How many vagrant species typically hit the USA during the course of a year, and what's the highest total of these posted by a Big Year person? For that matter, what happens if you exclude vagrants in Alaska and its off-islands, as I guess many of these are non-twitchable whereas getting around the lower 48 is gruelling but doable?

I'm finding this one more interesting than Arjan's world listing for some reason.

John
 
So 412 + 284 = 696. What's the target again?

How many vagrant species typically hit the USA during the course of a year, and what's the highest total of these posted by a Big Year person?

John

Neil Hayward, 2013: 749 spp.

I've got 82 Code 3 birds listed for the US. He'll be doing quite a few pelagics later in the year I guess.

Yep - I think 750 is the target but I get 83 Code 3 species defined as follows:-

Code 3: Rare - Species that occur in very low numbers, but annually, in the ABA Checklist Area. This includes visitors and rare breeding residents.

15 seen so far:-
Western Spindalis
Clay-colored Thrush
White-collared Seedeater
Rufous-backed Robin
Rufous-capped Warbler
Ivory Gull
Sky Lark
Aplomado Falcon
Flame-colored Tanager
Brown Booby
American Flamingo
Shiny Cowbird
Steller's Eider
Common Pochard
Tufted Duck

68 left to chase:-
Taiga Bean-Goose
Tundra Bean-Goose
Whooper Swan
Spectacled Eider
Smew
Masked Duck
Short-tailed Albatross
Trindade Petrel
Murphy's Petrel
Bermuda Petrel
Hawaiian Petrel
Fea's Petrel
Cook's Petrel
Flesh-footed Shearwater
White-faced Storm-Petrel
Least Storm-Petrel
White-tailed Tropicbird
Red-billed Tropicbird
Masked Booby
Hook-billed Kite
Lesser Sand-Plover
Terek Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Gray-tailed Tattler
Common Greenshank
Black-tailed Godwit
Ruff
Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
Curlew Sandpiper
Temminck's Stint
Long-toed Stint
Red-necked Stint
Common Snipe
Great Skua
Long-billed Murrelet
Guadalupe Murrelet
Craveri's Murrelet
Black-headed Gull
Little Gull
Ross's Gull
Slaty-backed Gull
Black Noddy
Ruddy Ground-Dove
Common Cuckoo
Smooth-billed Ani
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
Buff-collared Nightjar
Green Violetear
Berylline Hummingbird
White-eared Hummingbird
Budgerigar
La Sagra's Flycatcher
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Rose-throated Becard
Yellow-green Vireo
Brown Jay
Tamaulipas Crow
Gray-headed Chickadee
Black-capped Gnatcatcher
Siberian Rubythroat
Eyebrowed Thrush
White Wagtail
Olive-backed Pipit
Red-throated Pipit
Tropical Parula
Five-striped Sparrow
Rustic Bunting
Brambling

Of course, he should get a crack at a few more Category 4 and 5 species?

All the best
 
What about Black-capped Petrel? I thought it was annual from pelagics originating at cape Hatteras?

Niels
 
I don't think there is a ready list, unless North American Birds does something like that.

Picked up McKay's Bunting today, and now I think he is heading to Texas next for Blue Bunting and White-throated Thrush (if the flights clear that is...). BUT...there is a Kelp Gull in Los Angeles and now a Fieldfare in Newfoundland. So I wonder what will be the next leg? The Kodiak ramblings also make me wonder about staying power...

Also wondering
 
The Kodiak ramblings also make me wonder about staying power...

I hope you're wrong - Olaf's writing is quirky and entertaining and I enjoy the fact that he calls it like he sees it. He's also put in some serious miles already - and has grumbled about plenty of other stuff along the way.

For me it makes a nice contrast and more interesting reading over the consistently positive styles of Arjan and Noah - which I enjoy too - just not as much.

Cheers
Mike
 
Code 3: Rare - Species that occur in very low numbers, but annually, in the ABA Checklist Area. This includes visitors and rare breeding residents.
68 left to chase:-
Of those, Budgerigar (extirpated) is being de-listed, and I don't think Brown Jay or Tamaulipas Crow have been recorded in recent years and probably shouldn't still be Code 3...
 
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