January 1st joint Birdforum list (2016 edition) (1 Viewer)

[Swindon Addick]

Here's Team USA:

American Black Duck
American Coot
American Crow
American Goldfinch
American Kestrel
American Robin
American Tree Sparrow
Bald Eagle
Black Vulture
Black-capped Chickadee
Blue Jay
Bufflehead
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
Cedar Waxwing
Common Goldeneye
Common Grackle
Common Merganser
Dark-eyed Junco
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Meadowlark
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Eurasian Starling
Gadwall
Great Horned Owl
Hairy Woodpecker
Harris Sparrow
Herring Gull
Horned Lark
House Finch
House Sparrow
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Lesser Scaup
Mallard
Mourning Dove
Mute Swan
Northern Cardinal
Northern Flicker
Northern Harrier
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Shoveler
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Redhead
Ring-billed Gull
Ring-necked Duck
Rock Pigeon
Rock Pigeon
Ruddy Duck
Snow Goose
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Trumpeter Swan*
Tufted Titmouse
Western Meadowlark
White-breasted Nuthatch
White-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-rumped Warbler

 

[Swindon Addick]

And here's Team Australia (definitely leading the "best bird names" competition):

Australasian Figbird
Australian Brushturkey
Australian Magpie
Australian Pelican
Australian White Ibis
Black-faced Cuckooshrike
Blue-faced Honeyeater
Brown Thornbill
Caspian Tern
Common Myna
Crested Pigeon
Dusky Moorhen
Eastern Cattle Egret
Eastern Whipbird
Fairy Martin
Feral Pigeon
Great Cormorant
Great White Egret
Grey Butcherbird
Grey Fantail
Large-billed Scrubwren
Laughing Kookaburra
Lewin's Honeyeater
Little Black Cormorant
Magpie-lark
Masked Lapwing
Noisy Miner
Pied Butcherbird
Pied Currawong
Rainbow Lorikeet
Rufous Fantail
Spangled Drongo
Spotted Dove
Straw-necked Ibis
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Tawny Frogmouth
Topknot Pigeon
Torresian Crow
Variegated Fairywren
Welcome Swallow
White- throated Needletail
White-breasted Woodswallow
White-browed Scrubwren

 

[csanchez7]

Happy New Year, all! Here's my half-day list of birding from Miami, Florida:

1) Gadwall
2) American Wigeon
3) Mottled Duck
4) Blue-winged Teal
5) Northern Shoveler
6) Ring-necked Duck
7) Pied-billed Grebe
8) Wood Stork
9) Double-crested Cormorant
10) Anhinga
11) American White Pelican
12) American Bittern
13) Great Blue Heron
14) Great Egret
15) Snowy Egret
16) Little Blue Heron
17) Tricolored Heron
18) Cattle Egret
19) Green Heron
20) White Ibis
21) Glossy Ibis
22) Roseate Spoonbill
23) Black Vulture
24) Turkey Vulture
25) Osprey
26) Northern Harrier
27) Sharp-shinned Hawk
28) King Rail
29) Common Gallinule
30) American Coot
31) Killdeer
32) Greater Yellowlegs
33) Lesser Yellowlegs
34) Long-billed Dowitcher
35) Wilson's Snipe
36) Ring-billed Gull
37) Rock Pigeon
38) Eurasian Collared-Dove
39) Common Ground-Dove
40) Mourning Dove
41) Ruby-throated Hummingbird
42) Belted Kingfisher
43) Red-bellied Woodpecker
44) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
45) American Kestrel
46) Monk Parakeet
47) Eastern Phoebe
48) Loggerhead Shrike
49) White-eyed Vireo
50) Yellow-throated Vireo
51) Blue-headed Vireo
52) Blue Jay
53) American Crow
54) Fish Crow
55) Tree Swallow
56) House Wren
57) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
58) Gray Catbird
59) Northern Mockingbird
60) European Starling
61) Black-and-white Warbler
62) Orange-crowned Warbler
63) Common Yellowthroat
64) American Redstart
65) Cape May Warbler
66) Northern Parula
67) Magnolia Warbler
68) Black-throated Blue Warbler
69) Palm Warbler
70) Pine Warbler
71) Yellow-rumped Warbler
72) Yellow-throated Warbler
73) Prairie Warbler
74) Black-throated Green Warbler
75) Clay-colored Sparrow
76) Lincoln's Sparrow
77) Swamp Sparrow
78) Eastern Towhee
79) Summer Tanager
80) Northern Cardinal
81) Indigo Bunting
82) Painted Bunting
83) Dickcissel
84) Red-winged Blackbird
85) Common Grackle
86) Boat-tailed Grackle
87) House Sparrow

 

[etudiant]

Just to add a few from NYC Central Park to the USA score (although some claim NYC is not really part of the USA):

Hooded Merganser
Gadwall
Bufflehead
Coot
Double Crested Cormorant
Great Black Backed Gull
Hermit thrush

 

[A2GG]

New Jersey US today:

Turkey Vulture
Eastern Bluebirds
Blue Jays
Northern Cardinals
Dark-eyed Juncos
Tufted Titmouse
Downy Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
White-breasted Nuthatch
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Mallards
Canada Geese
Hooded Mergansers

 

[Dan Miller]

Please add

Tundra Swan (two swimming in the bay in front of the house today)

to the USA list.

Happy New Year All!

Cheers,
Dan (27 species in the yard today).

 

[Torchepot]

Best bird of the day from Limousin France
Black woodpecker
Other additions
Crested tit
Coal tit
Marsh tit
Brambling
Robin
Dunnock
Mistle thrush
Nuthatch
Tawny owl

 

[Nutcracker]

I'd be grateful if people could point out any obvious errors in my lists for USA and Australia. I'm prone to missing synonyms due to lack of familiarity.

It'd be less error-prone (and any errors much easier to spot) if posted in taxonomic order (e.g. IOC list), rather than alphabetic :t:

 

[csanchez7]

I second the motion (Nutcracker's idea of organizing by taxonomic order).

It makes life much easier!

 

[avesjohn]

Birds (22 species total) seen today in my yard and at my local park in Glendale, California:

Band-tailed Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Acorn Woodpecker
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
American Crow
Oak Titmouse
Bushtit
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Dark-eyed Junco
White-crowned Sparrow
California Towhee
Spotted Towhee
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
House Sparrow

 

[Jos Stratford]

Throwing my hat in with Team USA again this year ...a rather drizzly day here in southern Texas, but still managed a nice selection, especially impressed with all the wintering Nearctic vireos and warblers. Spend the whole day at a single inland location in the lower Rio Grand Valley, notching up 109 species.


(Non-passerines)

Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Plain Chachalaca
Least Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
American White Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Tricolored Heron
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
White-faced Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Turkey Vulture
Cooper's Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Harris Hawk
Sora
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Killdeer
Solitary Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Lesser Yellowlegs
Long-billed Curlew
Stilt Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
Royal Tern
Feral Pigeon
Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Common Ground Dove
White-tipped Dove
Common Paraque
Eastern Screech Owl
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Black-throated Hummingbird
Buff-bellied Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
American Kestrel

 

[Jos Stratford]

(Passerines)

Eastern Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Vermillion Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Couch's Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Green Jay
Tree Swallow
Cave Swallow
Black-crested Titmouse
Brown Creeper
House Wren
Winter Wren
Carolina Wren
Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
Clay-colored Thrush
American Robin
Curve-billed Thrasher
Long-billed Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Ovenbird
Black-and-White Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Parula
Pine Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Olive Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Great-tailed Grackle
Bronzed Cowbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Altamira Oriole
House Sparrow

 

[ovenbird43]

I had a good day out but I think the only species I got that are not already listed are:

Wild Turkey
Great Black-backed Gull

 

[Nightjar61]

A few more for the USA:

Horned Grebe
Pileated Woodpecker
Common Raven
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Pine Siskin


Dave

 

[Nightjar61]

Golden-fronted Kingfisher

Golden-fronted Woodpecker?

 

[Richard Prior]

Adding etudiant's sightings to the non-UK European list, then ours from a visit to west Switzerland I think that list is now as follows (sorry it's still in alphabetical order):
Barn Owl
Black headed Gull
Black necked Grebe
Black Woodpecker
Blue Tit
Brambling
Bullfinch
Canada Goose
Carrion Crow
Chaffinch
Cirl Bunting
Coal Tit
Crested Tit
Common Blackbird
Common Buzzard
Common Chaffinch
Common Crane
Common Gull
Common Kestrel
Common Linnet
Common Kingfisher
Common Magpie
Common Pochard
Common Raven
Common Starling
Common Wood Pigeon
Dunnock
Eurasian Coot
Eurasian Jay
Eurasian Wren
European Blue Tit
Feral Pigeon
Fieldfare
Gadwall
Goldeneye
Goldcrest
Goldfinch
Goosander
Great Cormorant
Great crested Grebe
Great Egret
Great Grey Shrike
Great Skua
Great spotted Woodpecker
Great Tit
Greenfinch
Grey Heron
Greylag Goose
Hen Harrier
Hooded Crow
House Sparrow
Jackdaw
Little Grebe
Little Gull
Mallard
Marsh tit
Mistle Thrush
Mute Swan
Northern Goshawk
Northern Shoveler
Nuthatch
Pintail
Red-crested Pochard
Reed Bunting
Ringed Plover
Robin
Rook
Ruddy Shelduck
Siskin
Skylark
Sparrowhawk
Stonechat
Tawny Owl
Teal
Tree Sparrow
Tufted Duck
Water Pipit
Western Jackdaw
White Wagtail
White-tailed Eagle
Wigeon
Wren
Yellow-legged Gull

 

[Jos Stratford]

Golden-fronted Woodpecker?

Oops, yes! That's what you get for inputting data in a McDonald's!

 

[Swindon Addick]

I'm afraid I can only list species in alphabetical order as I'm using a spreadsheet and I don't have an add-on that would let me sort in taxonomic order. Such a tool would make checking a lot easier.

Meanwhile, here's a totally-unscientific "wants list" for the UK. It's just a list of species that were reported in last year's 1st Jan list but not this year's. A couple of them reflect specific twitches that were happening this time last year, but some are relatively common - surely someone saw a red kite? Or a yellowhammer?

A reminder you must have seen the bird yesterday.

Selected birds not yet reported as seen in the UK on 1 Jan:
Bewick's Swan
Black Redstart
Blyth's Pipit
Dipper
Glaucous Gull
Grey Partridge
Hen Harrier
Little Bustard
Long-tailed Duck
Peregrine
Pomarine Skua
Red Kite
Richard's Pipit
Ring-necked Duck
Spoonbill
Waxwing
White-tailed Eagle
Woodcock
Yellowhammer

 

[Trystan]

From my Jan 1st list I think I can contribute Peregrine, Red grouse and Ruddy duck to the list

 

[Stonefaction]

Only just remembered about this and have started at the end but I can supply at least a couple of the 'required' birds for the UK list.

Yellowhammer (near Auchmithie, Angus - my 61st species of 1/1 and 2016)
Waxwing (Montrose, Angus - my 49th species of 1/1 and 2016. Photos on my flickr page).