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Wintibird's 2013 list (1 Viewer)

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André Weiss
Opus Editor
After almost a thousand birds in 2011, the number in 2012 was much lower. This year, with trips to Sri Lanka and Australia, around 600 should be possible. Will see....
Lifers in bold.

1. January - Kitulgala, Sri Lanka
1. Sri Lanka Junglefowl
2. Indian Pond Heron
3. Cattle Egret
4. Little Egret
5. Asian Openbill
6. Little Cormorant
7. Brahminy Kite
8. White-bellied Sea-Eagle
9. Black Eagle
10. Shikra
11. White-breasted Waterhen
12. Green Imperial Pigeon
13. Spotted Dove
14. Sri Lanka Green Pigeon
15. Emerald Dove
16. Sri Lanka Hanging Parrot
17. Layard's Parakeet
18. Indian Cuckoo
19. Southern Coucal
20. Green-billed Coucal
21. Chestnut-backed Owlet
22. Indian Swiftlet
23. Crested Treeswift
24. Malabar Trogon
25. Stork-billed Kingfisher
26. White-throated Kingfisher
27. Common Kingfisher
28. Blue-tailed Bee-eater
29. Sri Lanka Grey Hornbill
30. Yellow-fronted Barbet
31. Lesser Goldenback
32. Crimson-backed Goldenback
33. Indian Pitta
34. Common Iora
35. Sri Lanka Drongo
36. White-bellied Drongo
37. Black-hooded Oriole
38. Black-naped Monarch
39. Indian Jungle Crow
40. Sri Lanka Swallow
41. Black-capped Bulbul
42. Red-vented Bulbul
43. White-browed Bulbul
44. Yellow-browed Bulbul
45. Square-tailed Bulbul
46. Plain Prinia
47. Common Tailorbird
48. Clamorous Reed Warbler
49. Green Warbler
50. Brown-capped Babbler
51. Dark-fronted Babbler
52. Tawny-bellied Babbler
53. Orange-billed Babbler
54. Yellow-billed Babbler
55. Oriental White-eye
56. Lesser Hill Myna
57. Common Myna
58. Spot-winged Thrush
59. Oriental Magpie-Robin
60. Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
61. Jerdon's Leafbird
62. Purple-rumped Sunbird
63. White-rumped Munia
64. Grey Wagtail
 

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2. January, Kitulgala to Nuware Eliya, Sri Lanka
65. Crested Serpent Eagle
66. Common Pigeon
67. Orange Minivet
68. Brown Shrike
69. House Crow
70. Yellow-eared Bulbul
71. Sri Lanka Bush Warbler
72. Sri Lanka White-eye
73. Pied Bushchat
74. House Sparrow
75. Scaly-breasted Munia

3. January, Horton Plains National park and Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
76. Himalayan Buzzard
77. Great Tit
78. Sri Lanka Woodpigeon
79. Sri Lanka Scimitar Babbler
80. Dull-blue Flycatcher
81. Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher
82. Pale-billed Flowerpecker
83. Paddyfield Pipit
84. Pied Thrush
85. Kashmir Flycatcher
86. Forest Wagtail
 
4. January - Nuwara Eliya to Tissa, Sri Lanka
87. Indian Peafowl
88. Lesser Whistling-Duck
89. Cotton Pygmy-goose
90. Black-headed Ibis
91. Grey Heron
92. Purple Heron
93. Great Egret
94. Spot-billed Pelican
95. Darter
96. Purple Swamphen
97. Eurasian Coot
98. Common Moorhen
99. Black-winged Stilt
100. Red-wattled Lapwing
101. Pheasant-tailed Jacana
102. Whiskered Tern
103. Rose-ringed Parakeet
104. Asian Koel
105. Green Bee-eater
106. Brown-headed Barbet
107. Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike
108. Asian Paradise-Flycatcher
109. Ashy-crowned Sparrow Lark
110. Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush
111. Purple Sunbird
112. Black-headed Munia
113. Watercock
114. Grey-bellied Cuckoo
115. Little Grebe
116. Painted Stork
117. Yellow Bittern
118. Black Bittern
119. Intermediate Egret
120. Black-crowned Night Heron
121. Slaty-breasted Rail
122. Pin-tailed Snipe
123. Gull-billed Tern
124. Asian Palm Swift
125. Little Swift
126. Sri Lanka Woodshrike
127. Small Minivet
128. Ashy Prinia
129. Ashy Woodswallow
130. White-winged Tern
 
5. January - Yala National Park
131. Garganey
132. Eurasian Spoonbill
133. Crested Hawk Eagle
134. Great Thick-knee
135. Yellow-wattled Lapwing
136. Pacific Golden Plover
137. Grey Plover
138. Kentish Plover
139. Lesser Sand Plover
140. Ruff
141. Red-necked Phalarope
142. Black-tailed Godwit
143. Common Redshank
144. Marsh Sandpiper
145. Common Greenshank
146. Common Sandpiper
147. Ruddy Turnstone
148. Little Stint
149. Sanderling
150. Dunlin
151. Caspian Tern
152. Greater Crested Tern
153. Common Tern
154. Orange-breasted Green Pigeon
155. Blue-faced Malkoha
156. Common Hoopoe
157. Malabar Pied Hornbill
158. Black-headed Cuckooshrike
159. White-browed Fantail
160. Jerdon's Bushlark
161. Yellow-eyed Babbler
162. Rosy Starling
163. White-rumped Shama
164. Indian Robin
165. Indian Silverbill

and some mammals....
 

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6. January - Tissa to Sinharaja Rainforest
166. Indian Roller
167. Thick-billed Flowerpecker
168. Grey-breasted Prinia
169. Osprey
170. Sri Lanka Spurfowl
171. Little Ringed Plover
172. Wood Sandpiper
173. Alpine Swift
174. Crimson-fronted Barbet
175. White-faced Starling
176. Legge's Flowerpecker
177. Woolly-necked Stork

7. January - Sinharaja Rainforest
178. Red-faced Malkoha
179. Lesser Yellownape
180. Sri Lanka Blue Magpie
181. Ashy-headed Laughingthrush
182. Sri Lanka Hill Myna
183. Sri Lanka Thrush
184. Brown-breasted Flycatcher

8. January - Sinharaja Rainforest
185. Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
186. Brown-backed Needletail
187. Legge's Hawk Eagle
188. Serendib Scops Owl
 
And some more while travelling with my wife...

11. January - Whalewatching trip off Mirissa
189. Striated Heron
190. Bridled Tern

13. January - Drive to Kandy
191. Hill Swallow
192. Loten's Sunbird

15. January - Early morning at Udawatta Kele
193. Brown Fish Owl
 
And back to Switzerland....

19. January - Winterthur, Switzerland
194. European Robin
195. Blackbird
196. Blue Tit
197. Eurasian Magpie
198. Carrion Crow
199. Tree Sparrow
200. Chaffinch

20. January - Winterthur, Switzerland
201. Eurasian Sparrowhawk

21. January - along river Töss, Switzerland
202. Great Cormorant
203. Common Teal
204. Mallard
205. Common Merganser
206. Red Kite
207. White-throated Dipper
208. Eurasian Wren
209. Long-tailed Tit
210. Greenfinch
211. Eurasian Bullfinch
 
23. January - Dietlikon, Switzerland
212. Common Buzzard

26. January - Merligen, Switzerland
213. Tufted Duck
214. Black-headed Gull
215. Herring Gull
216. Yellow-legged Gull
217. Caspian Gull
218. Iceland Gull - first record for Switzerland!

30. January - Turbenthal, Switzerland
219. Hawfinch
 
9. February - Winterthur, Switzerland
220. Eurasian Jay
221. Great Spotted Woodpecker

10. February - Winterthur, Switzerland
222. Eurasian Collared Dove
223. Waxwing
224. Fieldfare
225. Mistle Thrush
226. Crested Tit
227. Eurasian Treecreeper
228. Common Raven
 
14. February - Winterthur
229. Eurasian Nuthatch
230. Eurasian Jackdaw

17. February - Rapperswil
231. Great Crested Grebe
232. Pygmy Cormorant - the long staying vagrant
233. Mute Swan
234. Greylag Goose
235. Gadwall
236. Red-crested Pochard
237. Common Pochard
238. Common Eider
239. Velvet Scoter
240. Common Goldeneye
241. Eurasian Curlew
242. Common Gull
243. White Wagtail
244. Marsh Tit
245. Short-toed Treecreeper
 
21. February - Winterthur
246. Green Woodpecker
247. Black Woodpecker

24. February - Klingnauer Stausee
248. Great Bittern
249. Greater White-fronted Goose
250. Ruddy Shelduck
251. Common Shelduck
252. Eurasian Wigeon
253. Northern Pintail
254. Northern Shoveler
255. Common Kestrel
256. Water Rail
257. Common Snipe
258. Green Sandpiper
259. Grey-headed Woodpecker
260. Middle Spotted Woodpecker
261. Meadow Pipit
262. Chiffchaff
263. Common Starling
 
25. February - Winterthur
264. Common Redpoll

26. February - Brentjong & Rotafen, Wallis
A most enjoyable day trip to this part of Switzerland!
265. Lammergeier (really cose)
266. Golden Eagle
267. Peregrine Falcon
268. Dunnock
269. Goldcrest
270. Coal Tit
271. Wallcreeper (nice scope views)
272. Great Grey Shrike
273. Yellow-billed Chough
274. Red-billed Chough
275. Rook
276. Brambling
277. European Goldfinch
278. Common Crossbill
279. Yellowhammer
 
28. February - Riedikon
280. White Stork
281. Black Stork

1. March - Lake Constance
282. Black-throated Diver
283. Great Northern Diver
284. Black-necked Grebe
285. Whooper Swan
286. Tundra Swan
287. Red-breasted Merganser

2. March - Winterthur
288. Eurasian Siskin
 
3. March - Zürich
289. Mandarin Duck
290. Lesser Black-backed Gull

7. March - Winterthur
291. Song Thrush

9. March - Flachsee Unterlunkhofen
292. Reed Bunting
293. Common Wood Pigeon
294. Northern Lapwing
295. Northern Goshawk
 
Spring is still far away, cold and snowy here, however the birds are slowly arriving.

17. March - Klingnauer Stausee
296. Marsh Harrier
297. Bluethroat
298. Black Redstart
299. Stonechat
300. Redwing

21. March - Eschenberg near Winterthur
301. Firecrest
302. Pygmy Owl - what a surprise! Usually only in the mountains.

22. March - Eschenberg
303. Woodcock

23. March - Flachsee Unterlunkhofen
A day birding with birdingpal Peter Trueblood from California
304. Black Kite
305. Eurasian Skylark
306. Eurasian Crag Martin
307. Barn Swallow (actually seen already on 3. January in Sri Lanka, but somehow it got forgotten).
308. Water Pipit
309. Yellow Wagtail
 
Still no real sign of spring here. However, an incredibly amount of Bluethroats around. I don't remember having seen so much of them ever before.

30. March - Klingnauer Stausee
310. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

3. April - Nussberg ZH
311. Stock Dove

7. April - Hüttwilersee
312. Linnet
313. Blackcap
 
Spring has finally arrived. 20°C today!

9. April - Turbenthal
314. Common Redstart
315. House Martin

11. April - Waltenstein
316. Serin

13. April - Neeracherried
317. Common Cuckoo
318. Northern Wheatear
319. Savi's Warbler
320. Willow Warbler
321. Penduline Tit
 
After a lovely week with sun and high temperatures we had snow again yesterday and lots of rain. Terrific conditions for birdwatching, a lot of rarities around!

15. April - Winterthur
322. Common Swift

20. April - Klingnauer Stausee
323. Spotted Redshank
324. Sand Martin
325. Whinchat
326. Common Grasshopper Warbler
327. Sedge Warbler
328. Eurasian Reed Warbler
329. Lesser Whitethroat
330. Common Whitethroat
331. European Pied Flycatcher
332. Ortolan Bunting

21. April - Kaltbrunner Riet
333. Montagu's Harrier
334. Common Crane
335. Eurasian Wryneck
336. Tree Pipit
337. Woodchat Shrike
 
A nice twitch in the middle of Zürich! Yesterday, an Aquatic Warbler was found at a little pond near a building site in the middle of the city. I was there this morning with the first light, but had to leave after 40 minutes (work was calling). So I had to try again in the evening and suceeded then with really nice views.

22. April - Zürich
338: Red-throated Pipit
339: Aquatic Warbler
 
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