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Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (8 Viewers)

Woopdedoop!

Finally, perhaps the most "common" bird missing from my UK list: my first ever Eurasian Woodcock, flushed from dunes at Blyth in Northumberland yesterday when out exploring with my kids!
 
Green Mango, Caribbean National Forest, Puerto Rico.

Capped a great week on that island, in which we saw 13 out of 17 of the island/regional endemics, and heard two of the remaining four.
 
Taiwan Whistling Thrush at Dasyueshan Forest Reserve capped a weekend in which I saw 5 more Taiwanese endemics. Only 4 to go (unless they make more splits)!
 
Great Grey Shrike at Cannock Chase on 17/01/14. I had searched in vain for three hours when another birding couple found it just as I was leaving. Got it at the second attempt (they were ont heir sixth attempt) so feel blessed with that! :)
 
90 odd lifers in Senegal over the past couple of weeks, the last of which was a Bridled Tern in Dakar.

I also finally broke 1000 species (bird 1000 was a good'un, Lappet-faced Vulture)
 
Larry Lade said:
I know that we have birders of all ages and number of years participating in this
pastime we all enjoy.

But, I thought that it would be interesting to see when it was that you observed your last "life" bird. *A "life" bird is one which you now have seen, but have never seen it in the wild before.

What was it? When? and Where?

My last "life" bird was:

Sharp-tailed Grouse seen in Sax-Zim bog area of northern Minnesota, USA, January 30, 2005
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Bald Eagle; holiday to US, a couple of weeks ago Jan 2014; Annapolis, Maryland, USA.
 
Jaeger01 said:
Couple of weeks ago, I got my 512th, a Buff-breasted Sandpiper at a local patch, A E Sea (not a sea under any view, but a large, almost dry pond) at Fermi Lab. He's not a rare bird here during spring and fall migration, just one I had never seen to ID before.

Jaeger near Chicago
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I just moved from that area.
 
I have just recently moved across the country, so I have a life bird it seems every week. 'm still trying to identify the hummingbird in the back yard so I will say confirmed it would have to be the ruby crowned kinglet. We had them back home in Illinois but they are so small and so quick I was never able to get a positive ID.
Along with the golden crowned kinglet they seem to flock in to my back yard, several times a day, by the dozens.
 

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Kitchy - Hi, these birds "by the dozens", do you mean the Bushtit? (i.e. the bird in the photo). They do tend to flock like that - kinglets move in flocks too, but not usually that many...

Cheers,
 

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