January 1st joint Birdforum list (2023 edition) (1 Viewer)

[opisska]

Haha half of this is what it would like if you asked me to spoof a neotropic birding list off the top of my head The place should be advertise as "stop wasting time travelling south america, just come here, we have everything!".

 

[Swindon Addick]

Now that's the sort of thing we're after - a list of 60 species for the country which adds 56 to the global total.

Global total 462. Europe 184 (UK 147, rest of Europe 134), USA 145, east Asia 80, South America 60. Also 40 Israel and 23 Turkey.

Spreadsheet, with a new tab for South America: BirdForum Joint 1 Jan list

 

[Cicada]

I can contribute Tawny Owl for the UK - a pair calling just after midnight were my first birds of 2023.

 

[Swindon Addick]

Europe now 185, of which UK 148.

 

[01101001]

If anyone fancies putting together a UK mammals list, I can offer harbour porpoise and grey seal.

'I fancy putting together a UK mammals list if anyone harbours this purpose,' is what I've initially read.

 

[angusmcoatup]

Final Turkish list came in at 71. Apologies- been busy. Had a quick spin through the spreadsheet, Little Owl & Woodlark possible additions. BN Grebe appears to have been recorded twice.

 

[angusmcoatup]

Köyceğiz,Türkiye

1. Black Redstart, 2. House Sparrow, 3. Hooded Crow, 4. Blackbird, 5. Chaffinch, 6. Greenfinch, 7. ChiffChaff, 8. Raven, 9. Laughing Dove, 10. Collared Dove, 11. Starling, 12. Black Headed Gull 13. Yellow Legged Gull, 14. Little Grebe, 15. Black Necked Grebe, 16. Great Cormorant, 17. Mallard, 18. Tufted Duck, 19. Grey Heron, 20. Great White Egret, 21. Little Egret, 22. Goldfinch, 23. Water Rail, 24. Spanish Sparrow, 25. Siskin, 26. Song Thrush, 27. Steppe Buzzard, 28. Long Legged Buzzard, 29. Marsh Harrier 30. Sparrowhawk, 31. Corn Bunting, 32. Reed Bunting, 33. Zitting Cisticola 34. Moorhen, 35. Coot, 36. Great Tit, 37. Blue Tit, 38. Coal Tit, 39. Common Kingfisher 40. White throated Kingfisher, 41. Water Pipit, 42. Meadow Pipit, 43. Skylark 44. Serin, 45. Crested Lark, 46. Common Snipe, 47. Green Sandpiper, 48. Pygmy Cormorant, 49. Middle Spotted Woodpecker, 50. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 51. Greater Spotted Woodpecker, 52. Cetti’s Warbler, 53. Robin, 54. Woodpigeon 55. Linnet, 56. Teal, 57. Syrian Woodpecker, 58. Crag Martin, 59. Grey Wagtail, 60. White Wagtail 61. Stonechat, 62. Blackcap, 63. Magpie, 64. Jay, 65. Chukar, 66. Woodlark, 67. Wren, 68. Goldcrest, 69. Great Crested Grebe, 70. Tawny Owl, 71. Little Owl.
72. Blue Rock Thrush - which I’d missed off the final list.

 

[Swindon Addick]

Köyceğiz,Türkiye

1. Black Redstart, 2. House Sparrow, 3. Hooded Crow, 4. Blackbird, 5. Chaffinch, 6. Greenfinch, 7. ChiffChaff, 8. Raven, 9. Laughing Dove, 10. Collared Dove, 11. Starling, 12. Black Headed Gull 13. Yellow Legged Gull, 14. Little Grebe, 15. Black Necked Grebe, 16. Great Cormorant, 17. Mallard, 18. Tufted Duck, 19. Grey Heron, 20. Great White Egret, 21. Little Egret, 22. Goldfinch, 23. Water Rail, 24. Spanish Sparrow, 25. Siskin, 26. Song Thrush, 27. Steppe Buzzard, 28. Long Legged Buzzard, 29. Marsh Harrier 30. Sparrowhawk, 31. Corn Bunting, 32. Reed Bunting, 33. Zitting Cisticola 34. Moorhen, 35. Coot, 36. Great Tit, 37. Blue Tit, 38. Coal Tit, 39. Common Kingfisher 40. White throated Kingfisher, 41. Water Pipit, 42. Meadow Pipit, 43. Skylark 44. Serin, 45. Crested Lark, 46. Common Snipe, 47. Green Sandpiper, 48. Pygmy Cormorant, 49. Middle Spotted Woodpecker, 50. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 51. Greater Spotted Woodpecker, 52. Cetti’s Warbler, 53. Robin, 54. Woodpigeon 55. Linnet, 56. Teal, 57. Syrian Woodpecker, 58. Crag Martin, 59. Grey Wagtail, 60. White Wagtail 61. Stonechat, 62. Blackcap, 63. Magpie, 64. Jay, 65. Chukar, 66. Woodlark, 67. Wren, 68. Goldcrest, 69. Great Crested Grebe, 70. Tawny Owl, 71. Little Owl.

Add Woodlark and Little Owl, delete the duplicated Black-necked Grebe, making 463 globally.

I make it 72 for Turkey - you reported Blue Rock Thrush earlier, which isn't on this list.

 

[angusmcoatup]

Add Woodlark and Little Owl, delete the duplicated Black-necked Grebe, making 463 globally.

I make it 72 for Turkey - you reported Blue Rock Thrush earlier, which isn't on this list.

Cheers- can’t leave off a Blue Rock Thrush!

 

[Gastronaut]

It's a bit hard to cross-ref but don't think you've got the following, all of which I saw around Lizard:

Manx Shearwater
Storm Petrel
Chough
Guillemot
Razorbill

 

[Torchepot]

Woken by thunder and lightning at 6am today - under the weather myself too, still trying to shake off the dreaded “not covid“ bug. Anyway probably going to lay low this year but did have a Dipper in the garden just now which cheered me up.

Probably getting a little over-sensitive in my old age - but I was a wee bit miffed to see that my post #40 had attracted an "amazed face" emoji from 01101001
I'm assuming this related to the presence of a dipper in our garden on New year's Day (and not the thunder and lightning). But then I thought - actually it might seem a little unlikely if you had no idea where we live.

There's a river in our garden.

But sometimes our garden's in the river!

 

[01101001]

No rivers in my garden and no dippers in range!

 

[Torchepot]

They nested on our land last year - I'm keeping my fingers crossed that their nest site survives the floods🤞

 

[Richard Prior]

No rivers in my garden and no dippers in range!

My problem is that the river (less than 1km away) is not visible from our garden even though Dippers are present, I must buy a chainsaw to resolve the problem!

 

[01101001]

Half a kilometre here, but apart from Mallards and gulls we only get a heron, occassional kingfisher, random Goosander, and a cormorant further downstream sometimes.

 

[Swindon Addick]

It's a bit hard to cross-ref but don't think you've got the following, all of which I saw around Lizard:

Manx Shearwater
Storm Petrel
Chough
Guillemot
Razorbill

All 5 of those are additions to the UK and global lists. UK up to 153, Europe to 190 and global to 468.

 

[lammergeier05]

I have some unique species: 51 species from the Rooi Els region of South Africa including some nice endemic specialties topped by Cape Rockjumper

1.

Red-eyed Dove​

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1. 2.
   

   Ring-necked Dove​

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2. 3.
   

   Hartlaub's Gull​

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3. 4.
   

   Pied Crow​

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4. 5.
   

   White-necked Raven​

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5. 6.
   

   Cape Grassbird​

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   Sir Lowry's Pass | ZA-WC
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6. 7.
   

   Karoo Prinia​

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   Sir Lowry's Pass | ZA-WC
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7. 8.
   

   Red-headed Cisticola​

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   Sir Lowry's Pass | ZA-WC
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8. 9.
   

   Barn Swallow​

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   Sir Lowry's Pass | ZA-WC
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9. 10.
   

   Cape Bulbul​

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   Sir Lowry's Pass | ZA-WC
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10. 11.
    

    Cape Robin-Chat​

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    Sir Lowry's Pass | ZA-WC
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11. 12.
    

    African Stonechat​

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12. 13.
    

    Orange-breasted Sunbird​

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    Sir Lowry's Pass | ZA-WC
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13. 14.
    

    Cape Spurfowl​

    01 Jan 2023
    Harold Porter Botanical Gardens | ZA-WC
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14. 15.
    

    Rameron Pigeon​

    01 Jan 2023
    Harold Porter Botanical Gardens | ZA-WC
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15. 16.
    

    White-rumped Swift​

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16. 17.
    

    Hadada Ibis​

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17. 18.
    

    Giant Kingfisher​

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    Harold Porter Botanical Gardens | ZA-WC
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18. 19.
    

    Piping Cisticola​

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    Harold Porter Botanical Gardens | ZA-WC
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19. 20.
    

    Rock Martin​

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    Harold Porter Botanical Gardens | ZA-WC
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20. 21.
    

    Greater Striped Swallow​

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    Harold Porter Botanical Gardens | ZA-WC
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21. 22.
    

    Black Sawwing​

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22. 23.
    

    Cape White-eye​

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    Harold Porter Botanical Gardens | ZA-WC
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23. 24.
    

    Red-winged Starling​

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    Harold Porter Botanical Gardens | ZA-WC
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24. 25.
    

    Olive Thrush​

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    Harold Porter Botanical Gardens | ZA-WC
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25. 26.
    

    African Dusky Flycatcher​

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    Harold Porter Botanical Gardens | ZA-WC
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26. 27.
    

    Cape Sugarbird​

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    Harold Porter Botanical Gardens | ZA-WC
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27. 28.
    

    Amethyst Sunbird​

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    Harold Porter Botanical Gardens | ZA-WC
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28. 29.
    

    Malachite Sunbird​

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    Harold Porter Botanical Gardens | ZA-WC
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29. 30.
    

    Southern Double-collared Sunbird​

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30. 31.
    

    Yellow Bishop​

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31. 32.
    

    Swee Waxbill​

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    Harold Porter Botanical Gardens | ZA-WC
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32. 33.
    

    Common Waxbill​

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33. 34.
    

    Cape Wagtail​

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    Harold Porter Botanical Gardens | ZA-WC
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34. 35.
    

    Cape Siskin​

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    Harold Porter Botanical Gardens | ZA-WC
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35. 36.
    

    Kelp Gull​

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36. 37.
    

    Cape Griffon​

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37. 38.
    

    Rock Kestrel​

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38. 39.
    

    Cape Rockjumper​

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39. 40.
    

    Familiar Chat​

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40. 41.
    

    Cape Bunting​

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41. 42.
    

    African Penguin​

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42. 43.
    

    Bank Cormorant​

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43. 44.
    

    Cape Cormorant​

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44. 45.
    

    Great Cormorant​

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    Stony Point--Penguin Colony | ZA-WC
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45. 46.
    

    Cape Canary​

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    Stony Point--Penguin Colony | ZA-WC
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46. 47.
    

    White Stork​

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47. 48.
    

    African Oystercatcher​

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    Struisbaai--Damara Tern colony | ZA-WC
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48. 49.
    

    White-fronted Plover​

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    Struisbaai--Damara Tern colony | ZA-WC
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    Damara Tern​

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    Struisbaai--Damara Tern colony | ZA-WC
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    Sandwich Tern​

    01 Jan 2023
    Struisbaai--Damara Tern colony | ZA-WC

 

[Swindon Addick]

So we have a new entry for Africa, which has 51 species, and the world total goes up to 517. The two we had already were Great Cormorant and Sandwich Tern; I was half expecting White Stork to be another duplicate but that one was new.

If I've got the technology right, I've made a read-only version of the spreadsheet which should survive even if I absent-mindedly zap my Google Drive. Link: BirdForum Joint 1 Jan list - Google Drive