Green Listing 2021 - Joint thread (1 Viewer)

[Swindon Addick]

I've updated my list, bringing my personal list up to 130, and the North American list up to 131

This makes us 308 worldwide unless anyone can see an error in the spreadsheet. And we have our first benefit from having chosen to use the IOC world list - we already had Eurasian Teal but can count connorco's Green-winged Teal as separate.

A very belated year-tick from me without changing the UK total:
23rd Jan
32 Starling

 

[pbjosh]

Well I'm now based in a decidedly colder and less birdy environ, but beautiful all the same and seemingly more orderly (remains to be seen if that is net positive or negative, hah!). And my lord is it lovely to be back to European bread, cheese, and wine! As we are getting settled I've not done a ton of birding but have squeezed in some walks, and if I rule out destinations I got to by train and tramcar I think I can add these species to the spreadsheet. Location is in and around Zürich.

Short-toed Treecreeper
Brambling
Yellow-legged Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Middle Spotted Woodpecker

If my Switzerland country list ever surpasses my Buenos Aires city list I'll be pleased, hah!

Cheers,
Josh

 

[Swindon Addick]

A run of weekends recently when the weather really hasn't encouraged walking anywhere, but a quick wander round the park caught up with one of the missing species that had really been annoying me. No change in the UK or worldwide totals, of course.

20 Feb
33 Chaffinch

Link to Dan's spreadsheet to save people scrolling back to where it was first posted:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...k6l70UVaE6-7hJoa_FGKGkrqY/edit#gid=1676269895

 

[pbjosh]

I'm still getting out for 2-3-4 walks in the woods / week, and have a couple more that I don't think are on the list yet:
Black Woodpecker
Hawfinch

I will theoretically have my bike back in a week or two and will start to be able to get to a lot more birds w/o train or tram!

 

[Swindon Addick]

Running totals from the spreadsheet: Worldwide 314, USA 130, UK 99, Argentina 83, France 40, Canada 25, Switzerland 7.

Minor additions to my list, 27 & 28 Feb:
34 Wren
35 Collared Dove (my first since last summer, and the first in my local park since June!)

 

[Colin Conroy]

Hi all, sorry I haven't been posting updates very often. I had a really good day on Sunday and got 13 new NMT birds which takes me up to 95 - including Spoonbill, Great Egret, Spotted Redshank and Avocet. I wrote about it in my blog (http://northormesbynaturalist.blogspot.com/2021/03/cycle-ride-to-saltholme-and-seal-sands.html). I think Spoonbill is my favourite bird of the year so far and one that I wasn't expecting to find

 

[Richard Prior]

Spoonbill is a good one Colin, I don't think that's on the list so far, it would be good if you get a minute to join in on the spreadsheet, hint hint (I think you've the only Jack Snipe spotted so far too). I have just updated so France is on a whopping (!) 53 now, three were new for the combined World total:

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Lammergeier

Nutcracker

I saw a Hazel Grouse on Saturday after hiking 2km up a track where I've seen them before, but we'd driven 5km to the start of the walk so that's definitely not 'green' enough

 

[Colin Conroy]

Spoonbill is a good one Colin, I don't think that's on the list so far, it would be good if you get a minute to join in on the spreadsheet, hint hint (I think you've the only Jack Snipe spotted so far too). I have just updated so France is on a whopping (!) 53 now, three were new for the combined World total:

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Lammergeier

Nutcracker

I saw a Hazel Grouse on Saturday after hiking 2km up a track where I've seen them before, but we'd driven 5km to the start of the walk so that's definitely not 'green' enough

Thanks Rich - I will do that. I love that you've got a Leonard Cohen quote (from 'The Story of Isaac') as part of your signature - you don't have the next couple of lines though "...cos I'd left my bins behind me, at the bottom of the mountain, so couldn't see it well"

 

[Colin Conroy]

I've started a joint list spreadsheet as promised ...

Joint BF Green/Lockdown List 2021

World ,Species,Date,Country Joint Green List - World 1,Tawny Owl,1st Jan,UK 2,Eurasian Blue Tit,1st Jan 3,Coal Tit,1st Jan 4,European Goldfinch,1st Jan 5,Black-headed Gull,1st Jan 6,European Herring Gull,1st Jan 7,Eurasian Wren,1st Jan 8,Dunnock,1st Jan 9,Rook ,1st Jan 10,Eurasian Collared Dove...

docs.google.com

It's free to edit (please don't alter the formatting/delete it all etc (!), although if anyone gets the urge to 'tidy' the main list feel free). I've added the UK lists too (bottom left hand corner tab) for comparison purposes.


Looks like we're on 147 with 4 participants on day 2 ... good going ;-) Wonder what a target would be if more people/locations join?!

Hi Dan,
I'd like to add my list to the spreadsheet as well. What's the drill? Do I just add a new column on the UK list and copy my list in? I think I might have a couple of species that haven't yet been seen by anyone (on the green list anyway) - Jack Snipe and Eurasian Spoonbill (at least according to Rich Prior). What do I need to do with them?
Cheers
Colin

 

[Colin Conroy]

Spoonbill is a good one Colin, I don't think that's on the list so far, it would be good if you get a minute to join in on the spreadsheet, hint hint (I think you've the only Jack Snipe spotted so far too). I have just updated so France is on a whopping (!) 53 now, three were new for the combined World total:

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

Lammergeier

Nutcracker

I saw a Hazel Grouse on Saturday after hiking 2km up a track where I've seen them before, but we'd driven 5km to the start of the walk so that's definitely not 'green' enough

Hi again,
so I think I've had 9 birds that no-one else has yet had (or at least not added to the list), for the world - Snow Bunting, Spotted Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Purple Sandpiper, Greater White-fronted Goose (Russian), Eurasian Spoonbill, Pied Avocet, European Shag and Jack Snipe. I might have got this wrong though and haven't added them to the global list (i have added a column on the UK list though with my list so far in it

 

[Swindon Addick]

Hi again,
so I think I've had 9 birds that no-one else has yet had (or at least not added to the list), for the world - Snow Bunting, Spotted Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Purple Sandpiper, Greater White-fronted Goose (Russian), Eurasian Spoonbill, Pied Avocet, European Shag and Jack Snipe. I might have got this wrong though and haven't added them to the global list (i have added a column on the UK list though with my list so far in it

There are several people who update the spreadsheet from time to time, either just their own records or catching up other people's. If you put your sightings on the spreadsheet in your own column (and ideally post here so people know to look for them), someone else will add them to the UK list and the worldwide list at some point. Or you can add them to the bottom of the lists yourself (as a tip, the easiest way to check if a species has been added already is to use ctrl-F and search for a distinctive word like "snipe" or "purple"; if your sighting is the only one that turns up, or if all mentions of "snipe" are common not jack, then you've got a new species.)

 

[Colin Conroy]

There are several people who update the spreadsheet from time to time, either just their own records or catching up other people's. If you put your sightings on the spreadsheet in your own column (and ideally post here so people know to look for them), someone else will add them to the UK list and the worldwide list at some point. Or you can add them to the bottom of the lists yourself (as a tip, the easiest way to check if a species has been added already is to use ctrl-F and search for a distinctive word like "snipe" or "purple"; if your sighting is the only one that turns up, or if all mentions of "snipe" are common not jack, then you've got a new species.)

Thanks for this

 

[Colin Conroy]

I got three more NMT species today (none of which were new for this group - either globally or in the UK) - Twite, Lesser Black-backed Gull and Green Sandpiper. Here is an account of my day if anyone is interested - http://northormesbynaturalist.blogspot.com/2021/03/three-more-nmt-birds-on-cycle-ride-to.html

 

[Richard Prior]

Good stuff, Colin, nearly reached the ton then! I really must get the old bike roadworthy so I can go a bit further afield, trouble is, it's a ladies' 'town' bike so not really the best sort for around here!
Just two more for me, Goldcrest in the forest last Wednesday and Common Treecreeper yesterday so up to 55 now.

 

[Swindon Addick]

UK now up to 117, which is partly Colin's additions and partly I found 3 species which someone had added to the world list as seen in the UK on 10 Jan but hadn't put on the UK list. World list 330. We need some people from other countries, and we need the spring migrants to start showing up!

 

[Paul Chapman]

64 species for me at home or on foot from home this year - but only recently started leaving the garden recently:-

Black-headed Gull

Canada Goose

Carrion Crow

Cetti's Warbler

Coal Tit

Collared Dove

Common Buzzard

Common Chaffinch

Common Chiffchaff

Common Gull

Common Linnet

Common Magpie

Common Moorhen

Common Raven

Common Redshank

Common Shelduck

Common Snipe

Common Starling

Common Woodpigeon

Dunlin

Dunnock

Eurasian Blackbird

Eurasian Blue Tit

Eurasian Curlew

Eurasian Jackdaw

Eurasian Jay

Eurasian Oystercatcher

Eurasian Skylark

Eurasian Sparrowhawk

Eurasian Wigeon

Eurasian Wren

Eurasian/Green-winged Teal

European Goldfinch

European Greenfinch

European Robin

European Stonechat

Fieldfare

Goosander

Great Black-backed Gull

Great Cormorant

Great Tit

Grey Heron

Grey Plover

Grey Wagtail

Herring Gull

House Sparrow

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Little Egret

Long-tailed Tit

Mallard

Meadow Pipit

Mediterranean Gull

Mute Swan

Northern Lapwing

Northern Shoveler

Peregrine Falcon

Pied Wagtail/White Wagtail

Red Kite

Redwing

Rock Dove

Rock Pipit

Rook

Song Thrush

Stock Dove

I believe that Cetti's Warbler and Mediterranean Gull may be UK additions?

All the best

Paul

 

[Swindon Addick]

I believe that Cetti's Warbler and Mediterranean Gull may be UK additions?

Also Rock Pipit and Raven. And 3 of the 4 were new for the world list as well. 333 up.

 

[Colin Conroy]

Also Rock Pipit and Raven. And 3 of the 4 were new for the world list as well. 333 up.

I still haven't had Rock Pipit - despite two trips to the sea

 

[Colin Conroy]

Aren't Green-winged and Eurasian Teal split now (at least according to IOC)? I'm hoping to get one on Saturday at my local RSPB reserve (along with American Wigeon) - hopefully they'll both hang about until then

 

[Swindon Addick]

Aren't Green-winged and Eurasian Teal split now (at least according to IOC)? I'm hoping to get one on Saturday at my local RSPB reserve (along with American Wigeon) - hopefully they'll both hang about until then

Yes, Green-winged and Eurasian Teal are 2 species for IOC lists. Green-winged would be new for the UK list but not for the world one as we had one from the USA in January.