January 1st joint Birdforum list (2019 edition) (1 Viewer)

[Jos Stratford]

Got 101 species in southern California on 1 January, including a life bird - a species I have missed on several occasions over the years, California Gnatcatcher.

Will upload list fairly soon.

 

[Swindon Addick]

The US list is looking pretty good, with Jos still to be added. I've had a PM reporting a UK Bewick's Swan, which technically doesn't count as it's not a participant in this thread but it's nice to know they're actually out there. Fortunately we had a Tundra Swan of unspecified subspecies on the Rest Of Europe list, so we didn't miss it altogether.

Rest of Europe on 104:

Audouin's Gull
Bearded reedling
Black Redstart
Black-headed gull
Black-necked Grebe
Blue Rock Thrush
Booted Eagle
Brambling
Canada goose
Cattle egret
Cetti's warbler
Cirl Bunting
Coal Tit
Collared Dove
Common Blackbird
Common Chaffinch
Common Chiffchaff
Common Crossbill (Red Crossbill)
Common Firecrest
Common Gull
Common kestrel
Common moorhen
Common Pochard
Common snipe
Common Starling
Common Woodpigeon
Coot*
Cormorant
Corn bunting
Corsican Finch
Crane
Crested lark
Eagle owl
Egyptian goose
Eurasian Blackcap
Eurasian curlew
Eurasian Hoopoe
Eurasian magpie
Eurasian spoonbill
Eurasian teal
Eurasian wigeon
Eurasian Wryneck
European Blue Tit
European Goldfinch
European Greenfinch
European herring gull
European Robin
European Shag (also Mediterranean Shag)
European Stonechat
Feral Pigeon
Fieldfare
Gadwall
Gannet
Great Crested Grebe
Great egret
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Great Tit
Greater White-fronted Goose
Green Woodpecker
Grey heron
Greylag goose
Griffon vulture
Hawfinch
Hen harrier
Hooded Crow
House sparrow
Italian Sparrow
Jackdaw
Lesser black-backed gull
Linnet
Little egret
Little Gull
Mallard
Marsh Tit
Meadow Pipit
Med Gull
Mistle Thrush
Mute swan
Northern Raven
Nuthatch
Partridge
Red Kite
Red-legged Partridge
Redwing
Reed Bunting
Ruff
Sardinian Warbler
Siskin
Sombre Tit
Song Thrush
Spanish Sparrow
Sparrowhawk
Stock dove
Tawny owl
Thekla Lark
Tundra swan
Water pipit
Western Cattle Egret
White wagtail
Wren
Yellow-billed Chough
Yellowhammer
Yellow-legged Gull
Zitting Cisticola

 

[Edward]

Didn't go birding but saw a Rock Ptarmigan locally while out riding my bike on 1 Jan.

 

[Surreybirder]

I cannot see any mention of green sandpiper. Surely someone must have seen one?

 

[Steve Lister]

I cannot see any mention of green sandpiper. Surely someone must have seen one?

Yes, I had one as my #13 at Rutland Water.

There was also Jack Snipe there but I didn't look for it and I can't think of any BF members who did.

Steve

 

[Swindon Addick]

OK, so UK moves to 170 and Rest of Europe to 105. A combined Europe total was part way through being worked out when I got rudely interrupted by needing to go back to work after the holidays. Should finish that tonight.

 

[lrodrigues]

Hi,
Sorry for being late. This was my list of Jan 1 in Portugal:

1 Larus michahellis
2 Alopochen aegyptiaca
3 Anas platyrhynchos
4 Anas bahamensis
5 Tachybaptus ruficollis
6 Columba livia
7 Columba palumbus
8 Streptopelia decaocto
9 Gallinula chloropus
10 Fulica atra
11 Calidris alba
12 Chroicocephalus ridibundus
13 Ichthyaetus melanocephalus
14 Phalacrocorax carbo
15 Ardea cinerea
16 Egretta garzetta
17 Bubulcus ibis
18 Alcedo atthis
19 Dendrocopos major
20 Picus viridis
21 Psittacula krameri
22 Myiopsitta monachus
23 Garrulus glandarius
24 Pica pica
25 Periparus ater
26 Cyanistes caeruleus
27 Parus major
28 Certhia brachydactyla
29 Troglodytes troglodytes
30 Regulus ignicapilla
31 Cettia cetti
32 Phylloscopus collybita
33 Sylvia atricapilla
34 Sylvia melanocephala
35 Erithacus rubecula
36 Turdus philomelos
37 Turdus merula
38 Sturnus unicolor
39 Motacilla alba
40 Passer domesticus
41 Arenaria interpres
42 Calidris maritima
43 Serinus serinus
44 Corvus corone
45 Fringilla coelebs
46 Actitis hypoleucos
47 Larus fuscus
48 Thalasseus sandvicensis
49 Phoenicurus ochruros
50 Motacilla cinerea

 

[Andy Hurley]

I saw Northern Goshawk and listed it under Germany, but don't see it on the rest of Europe list

 

[Jonny721]

I can add Bewick's Swan from NYD in Lancashire

 

[Tikli]

Two additions to Europe's list (from Finland):

Tree Sparrow
Common Redpoll

 

[AntonBE]

I hadn't realized the UK and European lists would be split up, meaning I actually saw a few others on the 1st day that are currently missing from the "Rest of Europe" list:

Common shelduck
Northern shoveler
Common buzzard
Carrion crow
Long-tailed tit
Goldcrest
Dunnock

And the tundra swans I mentioned earlier were of course ssp bewickii.

 

[Nutcracker]

I hadn't realized the UK and European lists would be split up,

One of the unfortunate consequences of brexit . . . :-C

 

[Jos Stratford]

Sorry for delay, here are my 101 species for 1 January, all in the area from Los Angeles and south.

Brant Goose
Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Brandt's Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Reddish Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Least Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Heermann's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Western Gull
California Gull
American Herring Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Royal Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Allen's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Cassin's Kingbird
American Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Barn Swallow
Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
California Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Black-and-white Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
California Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowed Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

 

[KC Foggin]

Holy crap Jos! That's quite a list guy!

 

[Jos Stratford]

Holy crap Jos! That's quite a list guy!

Was a pretty good day. Three main sites were the Trump National Golf for California Gnatcatcher, the urban Los Angeles river near Long Beach which was pretty amazing (despite not seeing the main bird I was looking for, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher ...but saw yesterday) and Bolsa Chica, which is always totally amazing.
Warblers were mostly in Huntington Central Park.

 

[Selsey Birder]

Sorry this is late, but can add three from the Selsey Peninsula to the UK list:

Kittiwake
Cattle Egret (26)
Black Redstart

Friends saw the Hooded Crow, but it had departed by the time I arrived and our Green Sandpipers went AWOL on New Years Day.


I did my big day on 2nd January (appointment to watch Pompey on 1st) and saw 101 species on the Peninsula, but those do not count!


Ian

 

[Farnboro John]

Sorry this is late, but can add three from the Selsey Peninsula to the UK list:

Kittiwake
Cattle Egret (26)
Black Redstart

Friends saw the Hooded Crow, but it had departed by the time I arrived and our Green Sandpipers went AWOL on New Years Day.


I did my big day on 2nd January (appointment to watch Pompey on 1st) and saw 101 species on the Peninsula, but those do not count!


Ian

Always good to nail a century though, well done!

Supporting Pompey can't be helped I suppose.....

John

 

[Richard Prior]

Always good to nail a century though, well done!

Supporting Pompey can't be helped I suppose.....

John

At the Bill we often suggested Ian seek help for his Pompey addiction but nothing seems to work:eek!:
Well done any of you who got 100 plus in the day though,I managed 15!

 

[earthdragon64]

I saw a Hooded Crow on the 1st, just south of Newtonmore, I couldn't see one on the main UK list, apologies if I've missed it.

 

[Xenospiza]

My list for 1 January from Oman. 4½ hour drive with one species didn't contribute to the list size... but at least the target (Crab Plover) was seen.

Grey Francolin
Greater Flamingo
Laughing Dove
Eurasian Collared Dove
Pallid Swift
Striated Heron
Grey Heron
Western Great Egret
Western Reef Heron
Great Cormorant
Lesser Sand Plover
Greater Sand Plover
Red-wattled Lapwing
Grey Plover
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Black-winged Stilt
Black-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Whimbrel
Eurasian Curlew
Terek Sandpiper
Common Sandpiper
Common Greenshank
Marsh Sandpiper
Common Redshank
Ruddy Turnstone
Little Stint
Temminck’s Stint
Dunlin
Curlew Sandpiper
Crab Plover
Caspian Gull
Steppe Gull
Caspian Tern
Eastern Imperial Eagle
Western Marsh Harrier
Arabian Green Bee-eater
Common Kingfisher
House Crow
Brown-necked Raven
White-spectacled Bulbul
Red-vented Bulbul
Eurasian Swallow
Graceful Prinia
Purple Sunbird
House Sparrow
White Wagtail