2016 - World Yearlist Record Attempt (1 Viewer)

[DMW]

What's this: http://world.observation.org/waarneming/view/113818094

Wouldn't Lesser Cuckoo have a more conspicuous eye-ring? What about Grey-bellied?

 

[jurek]

* personal note, slightly off-topic: no matter how critical you are about ID's, at places on the globe where you have little or no experience, you're bound to make mistakes. On trips I sometimes get the comment of being over-critical (I e.g. refuse to tick many Empidonax flycatchers in the Neo-tropics, even in the (rare) cases I've hired a guide and the bird is pointed out to me).

Few good birders would tick a bird when they did not see diagnostic characters themselves.

And actually most local guides in tropics with whom I birded string birds for their clients. Birders of course can enjoy anything by their own standard, but reality remains.

Most local guides have poor bins or no bins and claim birds on the basis of place and general appearance "this is XXX, because XXX is a small brown bird which often perches in that bush". Next time check what bins your local guide has, in a country where Svarowski costs more than a three median year wages, and stop fooling yourself, that he has five times better eyesight than anybody you know well.

 

[Paul Chapman]

So with one addition today, a total of 28 species recorded that Noah did not record as he heads to Delhi:-

Tundra Swan
Snow Bunting
Spotted Redshank
Rough-legged Hawk
Tundra Bean-Goose
Pine Bunting
Black Guillemot
Grey Partridge
Common Scoter
Rock Pipit
Pink-footed Goose
Greater Spotted Eagle
Red-throated Pipit
Pacific Swift
Plain Leaf-Warbler
Sooty Gull
Persian Shearwater
Crimson-fronted Barbet
Sri Lanka Whistling-Thrush
Yellow-eared Bulbul
Sri Lanka Bush-Warbler
Dull-blue Flycatcher
Sri Lanka Wood-Pigeon
Pied Thrush
Eyebrowed Thrush
Orange-breasted Pigeon
Great Thick-knee
Sri Lanka Woodshrike

All the best

 

[Larry Sweetland]

Few good birders would tick a bird when they did not see diagnostic characters themselves.

...but what your field guides/ id literature (etc) may tell you is a diagnostic character is sometimes found not to be, sometimes years later. Especially as knowledge and field guides improve.

 

[Vincent van der Spek]

Few good birders would tick a bird when they did not see diagnostic characters themselves.

And actually most local guides in tropics with whom I birded string birds for their clients. Birders of course can enjoy anything by their own standard, but reality remains.

Most local guides have poor bins or no bins and claim birds on the basis of place and general appearance "this is XXX, because XXX is a small brown bird which often perches in that bush". Next time check what bins your local guide has, in a country where Svarowski costs more than a three median year wages, and stop fooling yourself, that he has five times better eyesight than anybody you know well.

That's what I said, didn't I? ID birds yourself. And if you can't, you can't.

(I do think your impression of local guides is too negative; maybe you've been unlucky a couple of times?)

 

[Paul Chapman]

With a very substantial element of guesswork, I am getting the following list of 26 species recorded by Noah in Southern India and Sri Lanka (in 12 days) that have now fallen off Arjan's itinerary:-

Black-and-rufous Flycatcher
Black-chinned Laughingthrush
Broad-tailed Grassbird
Crimson-backed Sunbird
Grey-fronted Green-Pigeon
Grey-headed Bulbul
Indian Nuthatch
Jerdon's Nightjar
Kerala Laughingthrush
Legge's Hawk-Eagle
Malabar Barbet
Malabar Grey Hornbill
Malabar Lark
Malabar Parakeet
Malabar Starling
Malabar Woodshrike
Nilgiri Flowerpecker
Nilgiri Flycatcher
Nilgiri Pipit
Nilgiri Wood-Pigeon
Rufous Babbler
White-bellied Blue-Flycatcher
White-bellied Shortwing
White-bellied Treepie
White-cheeked Barbet
Yellow-throated Bulbul

About right?

I've not looked at how many species that Noah recorded in Antarctica & Falklands which Arjan will not record?

7 days based in and around Delhi next before 15 days in North East India:-

http://arjandwarshuis.com/the-biggest-year-the-official-first-half-year-itinerary/

http://world.observation.org/arjan.php

I suspect that the way to judge Arjan's progress against Noah's record is to compare the species Arjan has recorded that Noah did not - currently 28 - against the species that Noah recorded that are no longer available to Arjan on his itinerary?

All the best

 

[Surreybirder]

Link to the first blog entry by Arjan:
http://www.dutchbirding.nl/news.php?id=1054

You get a sense of the excitement from the blog!

 

[Richard Klim]

India, 9 Jan: world.observation.org/arjan.php.

Grey Francolin: Cat A. :t:

IOC taxonomy...

• Indian Spot-billed Duck Anas [poecilorhyncha] poecilorhyncha
• Indian Bush Lark Mirafra erythroptera
• Grey-throated [Brown-throated] Martin Riparia [paludicola] chinensis
• Pied Myna (aka Asian Pied Starling) Gracupica contra – not Pied Starling Lamprotornis bicolor!

Eastern Marsh Harrier Circus [aeruginosus] spilonotos is a surprise in New Delhi.

 

[Thijs Fijen]

You get a sense of the excitement from the blog!

Also updated to the 8th of January, for those who didn't notice.

@Richard, name issues solved, wrong species (last two) is something for Vincent to let Arjan know.

 

[Larry Sweetland]

Indian Bush Lark, M. erythroptera doesn't occur in Sri Lanka. Does he mean Jerdon's M. affinis?

 

[Paul Chapman]

Indian Bush Lark, M. erythroptera doesn't occur in Sri Lanka. Does he mean Jerdon's M. affinis?

That was from mainland India:-

India- Haryana (28.4682,76.8918)

All the best

 

[Larry Sweetland]

That was from mainland India:-

India- Haryana (28.4682,76.8918)

All the best

oops, thanks Paul, serves me right for skim reading! Didn't realise he'd been to India! :eek!:

 

[Paul Chapman]

India, 9 Jan: world.observation.org/arjan.php.

• Pied Myna (aka Asian Pied Starling) Gracupica contra – not Pied Starling Lamprotornis bicolor!

It appears correctly here:-

http://world.observation.org/user/l...&kle_g=0&exo=0&exo=1&esc=0&esc=1&sorteer=alfa

All the best

 

[Paul Chapman]

So with one addition today, a total of 28 species recorded that Noah did not record as he heads to Delhi:-

Tundra Swan
Snow Bunting
Spotted Redshank
Rough-legged Hawk
Tundra Bean-Goose
Pine Bunting
Black Guillemot
Grey Partridge
Common Scoter
Rock Pipit
Pink-footed Goose
Greater Spotted Eagle
Red-throated Pipit
Pacific Swift
Plain Leaf-Warbler
Sooty Gull
Persian Shearwater
Crimson-fronted Barbet
Sri Lanka Whistling-Thrush
Yellow-eared Bulbul
Sri Lanka Bush-Warbler
Dull-blue Flycatcher
Sri Lanka Wood-Pigeon
Pied Thrush
Eyebrowed Thrush
Orange-breasted Pigeon
Great Thick-knee
Sri Lanka Woodshrike

An additional three species today so 31 in total:-
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Imperial Eagle
Brooks's Leaf-Warbler

All the best

 

[Richard Klim]

It appears correctly here:-
http://world.observation.org/user/l...&kle_g=0&exo=0&exo=1&esc=0&esc=1&sorteer=alfa

It's great that any errors are being corrected so swiftly. :t:

 

[Thijs Fijen]

It's great that any errors are being corrected so swiftly. :t:

Of course! Otherwise you will never use the site

Did you know there is also a UK website? http://unitedkingdom.observation.org/

 

[Vincent van der Spek]

Wouldn't Lesser Cuckoo have a more conspicuous eye-ring? What about Grey-bellied?

:t: Grey-bellied seems right to me: no eye-ring, no yellow base of the bill and the upper tail pattern fits grey-bellied (and not Lesser).

 

[Paul Chapman]

An additional three species today so 31 in total:-
Red-breasted Flycatcher
Imperial Eagle
Brooks's Leaf-Warbler

All the best

Now 32 with Grey-bellied Cuckoo substituted for Lesser Cuckoo as number 339 here:-

http://world.observation.org/arjan.php

All the best

 

[Vincent van der Spek]

For those who can't wait.

Arjan has no wifi at the moment, but his girlfriend Camilla spoke him on the phone. They had 50+ new birds both today and yesterday. The boys passed the 500 mark!

 

[edenwatcher]

Seems like a very fast start!

Rob