Maroon Jay
Airborne
How many lifers have you seen in a single day. I got 27 a couple of days ago. Amazon Peru.
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Yes. I am in Peru and almost every bird is new to me.I’m not sure of mine but you can’t beat the first days of a long haul foreign birding trip to somewhere well away from previous destinations. Updating the notepad & thumbing through the field guide over a beer is a satisfying end to the day.
Namibia is my next stop.I can't find the data, so I had to hand-measure from my own plots at SAR, Botswana, Namibia and so on - Novemeber 2018 But the best day in Africa 2018 seems to be 29 in Caprivi Strip (Ngepi, Mahango to Kasane) and I doubt we had something better for lifers than this trip.
Wow!66 (I think) on my first day in kenya, spent in Nairobi NP
Cheers,
James
Wow. That is quite a haul. Guess I need to travel more.66 along the Mandala Road in Arunachal Pradesh, India in 2009.
Quite a few more days with over 40 lifers:
Zambia (56, 49, 42 – first time in tropical Africa), Brazil (46, 43), Cameroon (45), Papua New Guinea (44 – first time in Oceania), Venezuela (43 – first time in the Neotropics, on my own) and Colombia (41).
I saw only 24 in HK. Did not make it to Mai Po.Though my personal record wouldn't be a high number,
somebody who e.g. had never been outside the Americas and comes to Hong Kong for a day of birding could get 100 lifers in a day.