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Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (4 Viewers)
- Thread starter Larry Lade
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timsg80
Gregor Tims
Quite a few lifers in the last few days, with Varied Triller, Double-barred Finch, White-lined Honeyeater and Partridge Pigeon in Darwin and then Crimson Finch, Grey-crowned Babbler, White-gaped Honeyeater and Weebill in Kununurra, WA. About to drive the Gibb River Road, so should get many more in the next few days!
punkskaphil
Well-known member
Spotted Crake for me too - at Rye Meads last week.
timsg80
Gregor Tims
In the last few days I've seen my first Little Friarbird, Bush Stone-curlew, Varied Lorikeet, Rufous Whistler, Jacky Winter, Banded Honeyeater, White-chinned Honeyeater, Bar-breasted Honeyeater, Leaden Flycatcher, Long-tailed Finch, Black-breasted Buzzard, Brown Goshawk, Northern Fantail and Sandstone Shrikethrush in the amazing Kimberley in Western Australia. Sadly I missed most of the specialities, but I will definitely be coming back at some point!
Larry Lade
Moderator
Tim, you are really piling up the "lifers"! (I need to make a trip down under!)
COLOMBIA Birding
Well-known member
Las trip to Mitú in the Guyanan Amazonian lowalands of Colombia near the Brazil border gave some neat lifers:
* Brown-banded Puffbird... finally cached up with this one that I want it badly! (attached photo)
* Red-billed Ground-Cuckoo.... ohhhh, ohhhh!!!... we did the 1st CONFIRMED record for Colombia as I recorded its bill snaps... foraging with a huge army ants swarm.. WHAT A BIRD!.. for the full story on how we got this one go to: https://www.facebook.com/COLOMBIA.Birding/posts/10152286257143517 (NO NEED of a Facebook account to read this as my profile is 100% public)
* Chamizal Flycatcher... the race duidae of the Fuscous Flycatcher that lives in white sands and likely to be split (attached photo)
* Gould's Jewelfront... another one I had been looking for in this area long time ago (attached photo)
* Chestnut-winged Hookbill
* Neopipo OR Cinnamon Neopipo OR Cinnamon Tyrant OR Cynnamon Tyrant-Manakin
Some more from last trip to Mitú at https://www.facebook.com/COLOMBIA.Birding/posts/10152291156468517
.... getting to Mitú again in a week with another group... let´s see if I can find me a Reddish-winged Bare-eye ;-)
* Brown-banded Puffbird... finally cached up with this one that I want it badly! (attached photo)
* Red-billed Ground-Cuckoo.... ohhhh, ohhhh!!!... we did the 1st CONFIRMED record for Colombia as I recorded its bill snaps... foraging with a huge army ants swarm.. WHAT A BIRD!.. for the full story on how we got this one go to: https://www.facebook.com/COLOMBIA.Birding/posts/10152286257143517 (NO NEED of a Facebook account to read this as my profile is 100% public)
* Chamizal Flycatcher... the race duidae of the Fuscous Flycatcher that lives in white sands and likely to be split (attached photo)
* Gould's Jewelfront... another one I had been looking for in this area long time ago (attached photo)
* Chestnut-winged Hookbill
* Neopipo OR Cinnamon Neopipo OR Cinnamon Tyrant OR Cynnamon Tyrant-Manakin
Some more from last trip to Mitú at https://www.facebook.com/COLOMBIA.Birding/posts/10152291156468517
.... getting to Mitú again in a week with another group... let´s see if I can find me a Reddish-winged Bare-eye ;-)
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Dortmundbirder
Well-known member
Was able to add European Storm petrel, Gyr Falcon, Brünnich's Guillemot, Barrow's Goldeneye and Harlequin Duck in our short trip to iceland in July.
Larry Lade
Moderator
That is a nice list of "lifers"!
Last Saturday brought up 202 for the "my rules" UK list, which means 200 BOU. And in case that wasn't good enough, it was the family of stilts that had bred at Medmerry. So really good views of a real rarity.
The actual most recent lifer caused rather mixed feelings. There was this skua, you see. And if you saw my thread on the ID forum you'll know the rest.
Long-tailed skua at Pagham harbour. I was the first person to see it after it arrived. Easily my best ever self-found bird. Except that it wasn't, because I didn't identify it, and my photos weren't clear enough for anyone to give a certain ID. Someone else took much better photos a couple of days later, at which point it was positively identified. Although I got a pretty good view of a very smart-looking bird, it's never quite the same if you don't know what you're looking at until later.
The actual most recent lifer caused rather mixed feelings. There was this skua, you see. And if you saw my thread on the ID forum you'll know the rest.
Long-tailed skua at Pagham harbour. I was the first person to see it after it arrived. Easily my best ever self-found bird. Except that it wasn't, because I didn't identify it, and my photos weren't clear enough for anyone to give a certain ID. Someone else took much better photos a couple of days later, at which point it was positively identified. Although I got a pretty good view of a very smart-looking bird, it's never quite the same if you don't know what you're looking at until later.
Last month saw my first Grey Partridge.
Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
Finally caught up with the Black-winged Pratincole at the Ouse Washes on Monday - world lifer.
Steve
Steve
Papa 10
Miserable Old Git
Black-winged Pratincole
Suprising that Steve considering your experience and extensive travel. :t:
Suprising that Steve considering your experience and extensive travel. :t:
foresttwitcher
Virtually unknown member
Northern Hawk Owl last week in Norway.
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