How Is Your 2016 List Going? (5 Viewers)

[Andy Hurley]

70 Mistle Thrush
from my kitchen window

 

[Jacana]

I've just returned from a successful trip to Comoé National Park in Côte d'Ivoire. ~150 species and 98 lifers in 2 weeks, which wasn't too bad considering most of my time was limited to just a couple of square kilometres of the park. I made one brief update on here while I was there, but there were a few omissions and errors on it, so here's the full list:

75. Western Cattle Egret
76. Yellow-billed Kite
77. Pied Crow
78. Heuglin's Masked Weaver
79. African Palm Swift
80. Laughing Dove
81. Northern Grey-headed Sparrow
82. African Pied Wagtail
83. Little Swift
84. African Pied Hornbill
85. Vieillot's Black Weaver
86. Little Egret
87. Blue-spotted Wood Dove
88. Broad-billed Roller
89. Black-winged Kite
90. Purple Roller
91. Dark Chanting Goshawk
92. Greyish Eagle-Owl
93. Standard-winged Nightjar
94. Common Sandpiper
95. Red-bellied Paradise Flycatcher
96. Grey-headed Bristlebill
97. White-browed Forest Flycatcher
98. European Pied Flycatcher
99. Black-winged Oriole
100. Wire-tailed Swallow
101. Bronze Manakin
102. Melodious Warbler
103. Common Bulbul
104. Tawny-flanked Prinia
105. Malachite Kingfisher
106. African Finfoot
107. Red-eyed Dove
108. White-crowned Lapwing
109. Collared Sunbird
110. Pied Kingfisher
111. Red-necked Buzzard
112. Bateleur
113. African Thrush
114. Bush Petronia
115. Grasshopper Buzzard
116. Tree Pipit
117. Black-faced Firefinch
118. African Harrier-Hawk
119. Crested Guineafowl
120. African Grey Hornbill
121. African Green Pigeon
122. Vinaceous Dove
123. White-shouldered Black Tit
124. White-tailed Alethe
125. African Golden Oriole
126. Brown-backed Woodpecker
127. Fork-tailed Drongo
128. Violet-backed Starling
129. Double-spurred Francolin
130. Willow Warbler
131. Hadada Ibis
132. Giant Kingfisher
133. Beautiful Sunbird
134. Mottled Spinetail
135. Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat
136. African Pygmy Kingfisher
137. Red-throated Bee-eater
138. Northern Puffback
139. Western Violet-backed Sunbird
140. Square-tailed Drongo
141. Grey Kestrel
142. Pale Flycatcher
143. African Spotted Creeper
144. Blue-breasted Kingfisher
145. Grey-headed Kingfisher
146. Little Bee-eater
147. Senegal Eremomela
148. Pygmy Sunbird
149. Lesser Blue-eared Starling
150. Red-headed Weaver
151. Plain Nightjar
152. Fine-spotted Woodpecker
153. Vieillot's Barbet
154. European Bee-eater
155. Northern Carmine Bee-eater
156. Swallow-tailed Bee-eater
157. White-backed Vulture
158. Striped Kingfisher
159. Yellow-fronted Canary
160. Red-thighed Sparrowhawk
161. Rufous-rumped Lark
162. Red-winged Warbler
163. Yellow-bellied Hyliota
164. Senegal Batis
165. White-crested Helmetshrike
166. Singing Cisticola
167. Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird
168. Splendid Sunbird
169. Olive-bellied Sunbird
170. Western Marsh Harrier
171. Little Green Sunbird
172. Green-headed Sunbird
173. African Paradise Flycatcher
174. Martial Eagle
175. Yellow-mantled Widowbird
176. Moustached Grass Warbler
177. Cabanis's Bunting
178. Black-crowned Tchagra
179. African Yellow White-eye
180. Long-tailed Nightjar
181. Short-winged Cisticola
182. Black-bellied Firefinch
183. Lesser Honeyguide
184. Puvel's Illadopsis
185. Red-tailed Leaflove
186. Brown Babbler
187. White-fronted Black Chat
188. Guinea Turaco
189. Green Wood Hoopoe
190. Brown-crowned Tchagra
191. Orange-cheeked Waxbill
192. Lizard Buzzard
193. Togo Paradise Whydah
194. Shining-blue Kingfisher
195. Mangrove Sunbird
196. Honeyguide Greenbul
197. Northern Crombec
198. Orange-breasted Bushshrike
199. West African Swallow
200. Piping Hornbill
201. Tawny Eagle
202. White-headed Vulture
203. Intermediate Egret
204. Bat Hawk
205. Reed Cormorant
206. Senegal Parrot
207. African Jacana
208. African Fish Eagle
209. Palm-nut Vulture
210. Tropical Boubou
211. Shikra
212. Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-Weaver
213. Spur-winged Lapwing
214. White-rumped Swift
215. Namaqua Dove
216. Striated Heron
217. Bronze-tailed Starling
218. Latham's Francolin
219. Greater Honeyguide
220. Stone Partridge
221. Senegal Coucal
222. Western Reef Heron
223. Great Egret

 

[Larry Lade]

2016 Missouri Bird No. 86

Turkey Vulture

 

[Tero]

Finally got tufted titmouse to my eBird, but still not Nebraska but Wisconsin, same with the pileated
93 purple finch
94 pileated woodpecker
95 tufted titmouse

 

[Nightjar61]

Went out this evening to look for woodcocks, as they've been reported in various locations around the state within the last few days. I usually don't look for them until March, so they're early this year. I easily found my target, so I'm now up to 104 for the year.

104. American Woodcock

Dave

 

[Tero]

96 smith’s longspur
97 canvasback
98 killdeer
99 herring gull

 

[Jacana]

Forgot one from my Cote D'Ivoire trip:

224: African Hobby

From a couple of days ago in Uppsala:

225: Northern Goshawk

 

[AlexC]

Nice morning walk in San Pedro:
195. Snowy Plover
196. Mew Gull
197. Semipalmated Plover

 

[Trystan]

27 Feb

117. Grey wagtail
118. Dipper

 

[Nightjar61]

A great morning's birding yielded three new birds, so I'm now up to 107 for the year.

105. Greater White-fronted Goose
106. Wilson's Snipe
107. Golden Eagle

The goose is a rare bird for the state, the snipe is two or three weeks early, and the eagle was a Preston County lifer (number 218).

Dave

 

[Andy Hurley]

71 Black Redstart - Steinhorster Becken
72 Dunnock - Paderborn
73 Rough Legged Buzzard - North of Bielefeld from Autobahn

 

[Andy Hurley]

74 Red Kite
75 Eurasian Sparrowhawk
76 Common Reed Bunting
77 Meadow Pipit

At NSG Sauertal near Kleinenberg, Germany

 

[Tero]

100 hooded merganser
101 Northern pintail
102 peregrine falcon
103 trumpeter swan
104 american coot
105 Northern shoveler
106 common grackle

 

[AlexC]

Pasadena parrot roost on Saturday:
198. Red-crowned Parrot
199. Lilac-crowned Parrot
200. Yellow-headed Parrot

And a Sunday bird outing turned into an impromptu Big Day - unofficial species total 125, with one nemesis lifer:
201. Black Skimmer
202. Common Loon
203. Long-tailed Duck
204. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
205. Green Heron
206. Wood Duck
207. Oak Titmouse
208. Long-eared Owl (lifer)
209. Red-breasted Nuthatch
210. Ross's Goose
211. Greater White-fronted Goose
212. Golden Eagle
213. Tricolored Blackbird
214. Cliff Swallow
215. Clark's Grebe
216. Greater Scaup
217. Common Goldeneye
218. Violet-green Swallow
219. Red-necked Grebe

 

[Tero]

106 common grackle
107 carolina wren
108 bufflehead

 

[Larry Lade]

My most recent additions to my 2016 Missouri List

Pectoral Sandpiper
Sandhill Crane
Rusty Blackbird
Wood Duck
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Harrier

 

[Swindon Addick]

117 at the end of February, adding 19 during the month. No "real" lifers in the month, but did see my first ever Greenland white-fronted geese, being more used to the other subspecies.

 

[Larry Lade]

Birds added to my 2016 Missouri List today:

Wilson's Snipe
Lincoln's Sparrow
Blue-winged Teal
Bonaparte's Gull
Least Sandpiper
Herring Gull
Eastern Phoebe

 

[Nightjar61]

On my way home from work this afternoon I stopped by a state park for a few minutes and picked up an early spring migrant.

108. Eastern Phoebe

Dave

 

[Tero]

109 sharp-shinned hawk
110 brown-headed cowbird
111 green-winged teal
112 american wigeon
113 swamp sparrow
114 red-breasted merganser
115 Ross’s goose
116 double-crested cormorant
117 belted kingfisher
118 eastern phoebe
119 turkey
120 pheasant
121 yellow-rumped warbler
122 wood duck