How is your 2008 List Going? (1 Viewer)

[gthang]

My latest year bird/lifer is a lone Ovenbird that foraged on our lawn in the Adirondack Park.

However, I noticed a beak "deformity" as seen below. If truly a deformity, it could explain why the bird seemed not to care that we were so close to it. At one point, I came to within 2 feet of the bird before it hopped a short distance away.

 

[jtibbetts]

Another one recently:

568: Red-backed Shrike

(UK List 227)

 

[JRE]

205. Black Redstart (finally!)
206. Lesser Scaup
207. King Eider

 

[Selsey Birder]

Keeping strictly to UK birds, and a certain symetry with Joe above!!

258. Lesser Scaup - same ones as Joe
259. King Eider - hmmmm - yup same one as Joe, he did get there about 15 minutes before us though!

 

[Nightjar61]

A quick morning's birding brought me two new birds for the year, so my Year List is now up to 431.

430. American Avocet
431. Franklin's Gull

Dave

 

[jtibbetts]

2 more yesterday:

569: Black Grouse (12 males)
570: Short-eared Owl (3)

(UK Year List 233)

 

[Larry Lade]

Added about 250 new birds to my World List during a recent birding trip to Ecuador, October 5 to October 19, 2008.


Added two more for my 2008 Missouri List

October 20, 2008
250. Ferruginous Hawk, near Muskat Lake, Saint Joseph, Missouri
October 24, 2008
251. Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow, Mark Youngdahl Urban Conservation Area, Saint Joseph, Missouri

 

[Larry Lade]

I have counted up my new "world birds" added during my Ecuadorian birding trip and have come up with 245, making my current world list 1336.

 

[Larry Lade]

November 3, 2008, Missouri 2008 Year List

252. LeConte's Sparrow at Green Acres Golf Course, Chillicothe, Missouri

 

[Jacana]

wow haven't updated this in a while! not since my Peregrine back in June!

had a bit since then from various locations round Britain

181. red backed shrike
182. sandwich tern
183. arctic skua
184. spotted redshank
185. spoonbill
186. yellow legged gull
187. honey buzzard
188. montagu's harrier
189. bittern
190. eider
191. gannet
192. sooty shearwater
193. black tern
194. green sandpiper
195. arctic tern
196. great skua
197. audouin's gull uk lifer only
198. great egret uk lifer only
199. whinchat
200. temminck's stint
201. pectoral sandpiper
202. brown shrike
203. yellow browed warbler
204. red breasted flycatcher
205. leach's storm petrel
206. rock pipit
207. amur/red footed falcon either way it's a lifer!
208. hen harrier

soundly beaten last year's total!

 

[Reader]

At last, another year tick and this time it was also a new British tick.

263. Steppe Grey Shrike

John

 

[JeffMoh]

Little Progress

I'm glad to see that other people's lists are going well.

I've been ashamed to show my face here since September, because I've added so few birds to my year list. I've done a lot of birding and seen a lot of good birds (including recently lots of FOS birds), but I've only added 3 species to my 2008 list:
208. Least Sandpiper
209. Sedge Wren
210. Nashville Warbler.

The main problem has been that my favorite birding sites were devastated by Hurricane Ike and so most of my recent birding has been in my yard and at the college where I work. Not the way to see new birds!

Jeff

 

[Tero]

Stuck on 198. Need peregrine falcon and one other, then I stop counting very much.

 

[ovenbird43]

For the first time ever I'm close to reaching 400, thanks in large part to a trip to the Florida panhandle, several weeks traveling around Oregon, and a trip to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas... I'm at about 389, give or take 1. But 400 will be tough to reach, since I don't have any plans to travel somewhere with many new birds, and I don't expect to see anything new locally. I may be able to add Seaside Sparrow and Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow in coastal Mississippi in a few weeks, but not much else. If I go down to Florida to visit my dad for Christmas I'll have a better shot, but even then it will take some luck and effort.

Similarly, my BIGBY list is around 189, but it will be hard to bump that to 200 by the end of the year. A lot of ducks are moving through right now, so there is potential for me to add several species, if only I weren't sick and didn't have such a busy schedule this semester. And I need to get my bike fixed... maybe by this weekend!

 

[Reader]

Two more today.

264. Two-bar Crossbill
265. Pied Wheatear (lifer)

John

 

[Jacana]

sice last update:

209. Southern Grey Shrike (pallidirostris)
210. Desert Wheatear
211. Pied Wheatear
212. (tundra) Bean Goose
213. Wood Sandpiper

and i seem to be missing a bird somewhere because i'm on 214...

 

[Steve Lister]

A while since I had anything to report.......

254 Waxwing
255 Velvet Scoter
256 Two-barred Crossbill
257 Pied Wheatear
258 Steppe Grey Shrike
259 Black-throated Diver

Steve

 

[Nightjar61]

Just got back from an intense two-week birding trip to Amazonian Peru, visiting areas near and around Iquitos. In addition, I had a day birding in the Lima area before and after traveling to the Amazon. I added 333 birds to my Year List, which is now at 764. Lifers are in Bold.

432. Pacific Dove
433. Belcher's Gull
434. Eared Dove
435. Bananaquit
436. Vermilion Flycatcher
437. Peruvian Booby
438. Peregrine Falcon
439. Long-tailed Mockingbird
440. Scrub Blackbird
441. Red-backed Hawk
442. Rufous-collared Sparrow
443. Shiny Cowbird
444. Red-masked Parakeet
445. Zone-tailed Hawk
446. Large-billed Tern
447. Yellow-billed Tern
448. Pied Lapwing
449. White-winged Swallow
450. Yellow-hooded Blackbird
451. Black-fronted Nunbird
452. Russet-backed Oropendola
453. Silver-beaked Tanager
454. Coraya Wren
455. Scarlet-crested Barbet
456. Crimson-crested Woodpecker
457. Amazonian Royal Flycatcher
458. White-eared Jacamar
459. Yellow-crowned Elaenia
460. Zimmer's Flatbill
461. Wedge-billed Woodcreeper
462. Zimmer's Tody-Tyrant
463. White-winged Becard
464. Bluish-slate Antshrike
465. Buff-breasted Wren
466. Dot-winged Antwren
467. Pale-billed Hornero
468. Thrush-like Wren
469. Great Potoo
470. Masked Crimson Tanager
471. Red-capped Cardinal
472. Southern Rough-winged Swallow
473. Cobalt-winged Parakeet
474. Hoatzin
475. Hooded Tanager
476. Pink-throated Becard
477. Yellow-headed Caracara
478. Black-tailed Antbird
479. Gray-headed Tanager
480. Hauxwell's Thrush
481. Crane Hawk
482. Rufous-breasted Hermit
483. Fork-tailed Palm Swift
484. Plumbeous Antbird
485. Blackish Antbird
486. Spot-breasted Woodpecker
487. Turquoise Tanager
488. Lesser Kiskadee
489. Wattled Jacana
490. Black-capped Donacobius
491. Yellow-rumped Cacique
492. Speckled Chachalaca
493. Oriole Blackbird
494. White-headed Marsh Tyrant
495. Chestnut-bellied Seedeater
496. Canary-winged Parakeet
497. Red-and-white Spinetail
498. Lesser Hornero
499. Dark-breasted Spinetail
500. Ash-breasted Antbird
501. Smooth-billed Ani
502. Yellow-browed Sparrow
503. White-eyed Parakeet
504. Orange-headed Tanager
505. Dusky-headed Parakeet
506. Castelnau's Anstshrike
507. Olive-spotted Hummingbird
508. Leaden Antwren
509. Straight-billed Woodcreeper
510. Cinereous Becard
511. Dusky-capped Flycatcher
512. Black-throated Mango
513. Bicolored Conebill
514. Caqueta Seedeater
515. Short-crested Flycatcher
516. Spotted Tody-Flycatcher
517. Glittering-throated Emerald
518. Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet
519. Plain-breasted Piculet
520. Streaked Flycatcher
521. Plain-crowned Spinetail
522. Cocoi Heron
523. Greater Ani
524. Striated Heron
525. Black-collared Hawk
526. Fuscous Flycatcher
527. Black Caracara
528. Amazonian Black-tailed Trogon
529. Rufescent Tiger Heron
530. Musician Wren
531. Plain-brown Woodcreeper
532. Dot-backed Antbird
533. Olivaceous Flatbill
534. Green-and-rufous Kingfisher
535. Black-throated Antbird
536. Blue-headed Parrot
537. Cream-colored Woodpecker
538. Plum-throated Cotinga
539. Bar-breasted Piculet
540. Thick-billed Euphonia
541. Spot-winged Antshrike
542. Gray-crowned Flatbill
543. Short-tailed Pygmy Tyrant
544. Olive-faced Flatbill
545. Yellow-tufted Woodpecker
546. Common Potoo
547. Black-banded Crake
548. White-shouldered Antbird
549. Forest Elaenia
550. Chestnut-eared Aracari
551. Peruvian Warbling Antbird
552. Plain-winged Antshrike
553. Silvered Antbird
554. Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher
555. Blue-winged Parrotlet
556. Lafresnaye's Woodcreeper
557. Golden-headed Manakin
558. Cinereous Antshrike
559. Gray Antwren
560. Long-billed Woodcreeper
561. Slate-colored Antbird
562. Blue-backed Manakin
563. White-necked Puffbird
564. Black-bellied Cuckoo
565. Blue-crowned Manakin
566. Yellow-browed Antbird
567. Tawny-bellied Screech Owl
568. Many-banded Aracari
569. Lineated Woodcreeper
570. Ivory-billed Aracari
571. Gray-rumped Swift
572. Gilded Barbet
573. Paradise Tanager
574. Swallow Tanager
575. Orange-bellied Euphonia
576. Green-and-gold Tanager
577. Scale-breasted Woodpecker
578. Fulvous-crested Tanager
579. Lanceolated Monklet
580. Crested Oropendola
581. Golden-tailed Sapphire
582. Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher
583. Blue-and-yellow Macaw
584. Spangled Cotinga
585. Black-faced Dacnis
586. Double-toothed Kite
587. Plumbeous Pigeon
588. Western Striped Manakin
589. Red-necked Woodpecker
590. Sooty Antbird
591. Spot-winged Antbird
592. White-flanked Antwren
593. Dusky-throated Antshrike
594. Mouse-colored Antshrike
595. Black-faced Antbird
596. Chestnut-belted Gnateater
597. White-fronted Nunbird
598. Opal-rumped Tanager
599. Purple Honeycreeper
600. White-browed Purpletuft
601. Greater Yellow-headed Vulture
602. Pale-rumped Swift
603. Pied Puffbird
604. Amazonian Swift
605. Moustached Antwren
606. White-necked Jacobin
607. Dusky-chested Flycatcher
608. Black-bellied Thorntail
609. Opal-crowned Tanager
610. Long-tailed Potoo
611. Scale-backed Antbird
612. Rufous Motmot
613. Screaming Piha
614. Red-throated Caracara
615. Dougand's Antwren
616. Purple-throated Fruitcrow
617. Collared Gnatwren
618. Reddish Hermit
619. Bicolored Antbird
620. White-plumed Antbird
621. White-chinned Woodcreeper
622. White-crowned Manakin
623. Reddish-winged Bare-eye
624. Amazonian Schiffornis
625. Black-headed Parrot
626. Short-tailed Swift
627. Fasciated Antshrike
628. Rufous-bellied Euphonia
629. Grayish Mourner
630. Chestnut-winged Hookbill
631. Blue Dacnis
632. White-lored Euphonia
633. Nocturnal Curassow
634. Amazonian White-tailed Trogon
635. Black-spotted Bare-eye
636. Golden-collared Toucanet
637. Straight-billed Hermit
638. Bright-rumped Attila
639. White-necked Thrush
640. Black Antbird
641. Wire-tailed Manakin
642. Double-banded Pygmy Tyrant
643. Golden-green Woodpecker
644. Great Jacamar
645. Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
646. Whiskered Flycatcher
647. Palm Tanager
648. Sulphury Flycatcher
649. Gray-capped Flycatcher
650. Lettered Aracari
651. Pygmy Antwren
652. Yellow-billed Nunbird
653. Thrush-like Antpitta
654. Rusty-margined Flycatcher
655. Sunbittern
656. Black-tailed Tityra
657. Collared Plover
658. Amazon Kingfisher
659. Parker's Spinetail
660. River Tyrannulet
661. Drab Water Tyrant
662. White-bellied Spinetail
663. Brown-chested Martin
664. Riverside Tyrant
665. Black-and-white Antbird
666. Slate-colored Hawk
667. Short-tailed Parrot
668. White-chinned Jacamar
669. Zimmer's Woodcreeper
670. White-banded Swallow
671. Orange-eyed Flycatcher
672. Black Skimmer
673. Swallow-winged Puffbird
674. Pale-legged Hornero
675. Velvet-fronted Grackle
676. Band-tailed Oropendola
677. Cinnamon-rumped Foliage-gleaner
678. Solitary Cacique
679. Chestnut Woodpecker
680. Collared Puffbird
681. Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper
682. Elegant Woodcreeper
683. Lemon-chested Barbet
684. Maroon-tailed Parakeet
685. Red-stained Woodpecker
686. Purplish Jacamar
687. Cinereous Mourner
688. Ringed Woodpecker
689. Little Cuckoo
690. Brownish Elaenia
691. Pearly-breasted Conebill
692. Rusty-fronted Tody-Flycatcher
693. Amazonian Barred Woodcreeper
694. Plain-throated Antwren
695. Rusty-belted Tapaculo
696. Fulvous Shrike-Tanager
697. Dusky-capped Greenlet
698. Rufous-tailed Xenops
699. Black-capped Becard
700. Yellow-billed Jacamar
701. Purple-throated Euphonia
702. Chestnut-vented Conebill
703. Black-billed Thrush
704. Ancient Antwren
705. Mishana Tyrannulet
706. Yellow-throated Woodpecker
707. Zimmer's Antbird
708. Allpahuayo Antbird
709. Pale-tailed Barbthroat
710. Orange-crested Manakin
711. Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner
712. Saffron-crested Tyrant-Manakin
713. Brown-banded Puffbird
714. Campina Flycatcher
715. Paradise Jacamar
716. Pavonine Quetzal
717. Pompadour Cotinga
718. Little Woodpecker
719. Ruddy Spinetail
720. Chestnut-bellied Seed Finch
721. Magpie Tanager
722. Slender-footed Tyrannulet
723. Blue Ground Dove
724. Point-tailed Palmcreeper
725. Citron-bellied Attila
726. White-bearded Hermit
727. Brown Nunlet
728. Stipple-throated Antwren
729. White-shouldered Tanager
730. Yellow-backed Tanager
731. Iquitos Gnatcatcher
732. Gray Elaenia
733. Black-crested Antshrike
734. Casqued Oropendola
735. Band-tailed Nighthawk
736. Sand-colored Nighthawk
737. Peruvian Pelican
738. Inca Tern
739. Ruddy Turnstone
740. Surf Cinclodes
741. Blackish Oystercatcher
742. Red-legged Cormorant
743. Humboldt Penguin
744. Guanay Cormorant
745. Surfbird
746. Hudsonian Whimbrel
747. Elegant Tern
748. Sandwich Tern
749. Blue-and-white Swallow
750. Peruvian Meadowlark
751. Peruvian Thick-knee
752. White-cheeked Pintail
753. Cinnamon Teal
754. Wren-like Rushbird
755. Harris' Hawk
756. Slate-colored Coot
757. Great Grebe
758. Puna Ibis
759. Gray-hooded Gull
760. American Oystercatcher
761. Gray Gull
762. Plumbeous Rail
763. White-tufted Grebe
764. Andean Duck

Dave

 

[Gill Osborne]

Wow - there's some amazing year totals there you guys :eek!: :t: I'm almost too embarrassed to put my own meagre numbers on :-O In my defence it's been a bad year for birding as I started looking after a friend's young dog in mid-May and she's only just went back to her owner last week :smoke: Looking at wildlife through my bins and keeping an eye on dog at the same time were far too tricky so the majority of this summer's birding has been stuff heard or seen with the naked eye :-C
Already making plans for 2009......which does not include looking after ANYBODY'S dogs/cats/guinea pigs/hamsters/budgies or anything!!!!! :-O

Anyway.....

125: Waxwing ~ 5 feeding just outside Hulne Park in Alnwick today on rowan berries :t:

 

[JeffMoh]

211. Ring-necked Duck last weekend.

BTW, I saw three FOS birds yesterday: American Pipit, White-throated Sparrow and American Goldfinch.

I'm off to New Orleans for Thanksgiving but I don't expect to add to my year total: We're spending the holiday with non-birding friends, plus the birds there will be much the same species as here in Houston.

Jeff