Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (7 Viewers)

Andy Hurley

Gotta love nature!

Opus Editor

Supporter

• Dec 18, 2018

• #3,941

As I'm just back from my first trip to Sri Lanka, I have between 160 and 170 lifers (still confirming) breaking though the 1000 with Spotted Dove on day one. The last 4 confirmed endemics are Orange-billed Babbler, Ashy-headed Laughingthrush, Sri Lanka Drongo and Layard's Parakeet.

 

Last edited: Dec 18, 2018

Paul Longland

Well-known member

• Dec 18, 2018

• #3,942

Tundra Bean Goose. Actually had to go out and find one. None of your armchair ticks here.

 

YuShan

Well-known member

• Dec 22, 2018

• #3,943

Black-capped Chickadee
Yes, really :-O
Bird no 2036 on my lifelist

 

JTweedie

Well-known member

• Dec 23, 2018

• #3,944

Spent a week in Spain and a week in Morocco in October. It wasn't a birding holiday but I saw the following lifers in my time there:

Spain:

Monk Parakeet
Hoopoe
Barbary Partridge
Sooty Shearwater
Cattle Egret

Morocco:

White Stork
Crested Lark
Maghreb Magpie
Great Grey Shrike
Griffin Vulture
Spotless Starling
Alpine Swift
Common Bulbul
White-rumped Swift
Alpine Accentor

I also saw barbary macaques in Morocco which were my first non-human primates seen anywhere.

 

Jeff Hopkins

Just another...observer

• Dec 29, 2018

• #3,945

Baer's Pochard on the Han River in Seoul on Christmas Eve made being stuck in Korea for the holiday somewhat tolerable.

 

Xenospiza

Distracted

• Jan 2, 2019

• #3,946

Crab Plover in Oman, along with assorted goodies including Omani Owl. Fierce competition for the least impressive tick, but Yemen Serin and Plain Leaf Earbler were not as unremarkable as African Collared Dove!

 

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Louis_P

Average Birder

• Jan 6, 2019

• #3,947

Dusky Warbler at Stiffkey, Norfolk a few weeks back.

 

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andyb39

Well-known member

• Jan 8, 2019

• #3,948

Ferruginous Partridge and Long-billed Spiderhunter, Bukit Tinggi, Malaysia, Jan 2nd.

 

Warixenjalka

Birdwitcher

• Jan 9, 2019

• #3,949

Last years last lifer was a really exotic-looking tit only 30 km from my home. Autumn 2018 they had quite a lot movements for South. In our County this was first and the only known one still.
This years first lifer was these "chickens".

 

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Chilt

Well-known member

• Jan 12, 2019

• #3,950

Last recorded was a Lapwing at Chasewater, Staffordshire

Chilt

 

ClarkWGriswold

Carpe Carpum

Supporter

• Jan 12, 2019

• #3,951

Had 2 in Norfolk and 1 in Cambridgeshire last week.

Shore Lark
Taiga Bean Goose
Rough Legged Buzzard

Rich

 

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in vitrio

Well-known member

• Jan 13, 2019

• #3,952

Shoveler at Brandon Marsh in Warwicks today. There had been a Caspian gull and whooper swans the previous days but I missed them.

 

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birdmeister

Well-known member

• Jan 14, 2019

• #3,953

Cackling Goose

A long overdue lifer, great looks at two classic Richardson's!

 

Seth Miller

Well-known member

• Jan 23, 2019

• #3,954

Most recent lifers were all on a trip to Jahangirnagor University, in Bangladesh. I had three lifers: Yellow Bittern, Booted Eagle, and Gray-headed Fish Eagle.

 

hookem2010

Well-known member

• Jan 23, 2019

• #3,955

Purple finch at a neighborhood park near Fort Worth. Not a bad bird for Texas, and there appears to be a bit of an influx of the species in this area compared to recent years. Hoping to get as many eastern species as possible prior to likely moving west this summer.

 

Euan Buchan

The Edinburgh Birdwatcher

Supporter

• Jan 29, 2019

• #3,956

Today in Madeira saw my first
Trocaz Pigeon
Spectacled Warbler
Berthelot’s Pipit
Waxbill
Canary

 

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ralph21

Member

• Feb 3, 2019

• #3,957

White-tailed sea eagle (Biesbosch, Netherlands)

 

Tom Mc85

Well-known member

• Feb 7, 2019

• #3,958

Most recent lifer was a Greenshank at Lodmoor yesterday.

 

Nightjar61

David Daniels

• Feb 15, 2019

• #3,959

During a one-week birding trip to the Canopy Tower in Panama I got 38 lifers. The last one was Bay Wren.

Dave

 

hookem2010

Well-known member

• Feb 15, 2019

• #3,960

Checked off another eastern US species with eastern towhee in a neighborhood park. Now if only the rusty blackbirds will hang around a nearby sports complex until tomorrow...