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January 1st joint Birdforum list (2023 edition) (1 Viewer)

Swindon Addick

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You are invited to join in the tenth annual Birdforum joint lists for 1st January. The idea is that those who want to take part provide a list of what they've seen or heard on 1 January and we produce joint lists for areas such as the UK, the USA, Europe, Australia, or wherever we get enough people interested.

The rules are simple - birds can be seen or heard, as long as the ID is firm. "Cat C" birds (that's UK jargon for introduced species with self-sustaining breeding populations) are OK as long as the bird was from the self-sustaining population. No escapes or captive birds, obviously. Birds must be encountered between midnight and midnight on 1 Jan, local time.

Each year we've done this, we've had some surprising relatively common omissions, so there's scope for everyone to contribute, even if you're only going out for a short walk or even just watching from your window. The aim is to use the wide spread of Birdforum members around the various countries to increase the total by seeing species where they're easy.

It's supposed to be a bit of innocent fun, don't change where you're intending to go. Unless you're intending to sit at home, in which case get out there and watch some birds.

Here's a link to last year's thread so you can see how it works. Each year's thread has a link to the previous year in its first post.

Last year for the first time we did a global list, hitting 558 species (IOC taxonomy). Thanks to chowchilla for doing most of the heavy lifting on that.

Last year's regional totals: USA 150, Europe 205 (UK 153, rest of Europe 150), East Asia 103, Australia 66, Africa 82, South America 18.

2021 figures: USA 174, Europe 191 (UK 143, rest of Europe 138), Africa 166, East Asia 74, Falklands 39, New Zealand 35
2020 figures: USA 116, Europe 196 (UK 170, rest of Europe 129), North America 130 (Canada 14, Barbados 8)
2019 figures: USA 227, Europe 205 (UK 176, Rest of Europe 126), Australia 85, East Asia 84
2018 figures: USA 120, Europe 194 (UK 163, Rest of Europe 115)
2017 figures: USA 172, Europe 197 (UK 156, Rest of Europe 127), East Asia 87, Canada 16 (North America 180)
2016 figures: USA 205, Europe 167 (UK 150, rest of Europe 94), Australia 43.
2015 figures: USA 158, Europe 175 (UK 145, rest of Europe 119), Australia 89.
2014 figures: USA 185, UK 155.

Whatever you see on 1 Jan, please post a list in this thread either of everything you've seen or (easier for me) everything you've seen that you think may not have been reported yet. I'm hoping to be out and about most of the day so if anyone's online during the day and fancies doing some running totals, that would be great. If not, I'll catch up once I'm back online.
 
Arriving in London for Christmas this afternoon I was reminded that we'll be needing one of the London-based forum members to get us a parakeet. I'm hoping to be in south Devon where they're not exactly common...
 
Won't there be a Google Spreadsheet or something similar (couldn't find one last year)? It would be easier that way, perhaps, with all sightings in one place and a quick check for possible duplicates?
 
Won't there be a Google Spreadsheet or something similar (couldn't find one last year)? It would be easier that way, perhaps, with all sightings in one place and a quick check for possible duplicates?
Perhaps someone clever could copy and then alter the Green Listing 2022 thread’s spreadsheet to cater for the Jan 1st exercise?
 
Would have been more interesting if I were in Saudi as originally planned but alas, covid had different opinion on that. So I'll bring birds from the boring country of Israel :)
 
Perhaps someone clever could copy and then alter the Green Listing 2022 thread’s spreadsheet to cater for the Jan 1st exercise?
It won't be long enough, green will never match the internal combustion engine in a time limited exercise.

Anyway who wants to look at a spreadsheet? I enjoy individuals' posts on here listing either their day out or the list additions, with remarks on the circumstances. In short, the idea may be efficient but it completely misses the point.

John
 
Cheers, I was worried that the Christmas dinner had disagreed with you and made you all grumpy. Arctic and Great Skua at Selsey this morning, that would be good on your Jan 1st big day!
 
I'll be birding for the USA in my (current) home state of Mississippi. Weather forecast is looking great, unlike for tomorrow's Christmas Bird Count!
 
When it comes to time for generating the long lists of species seen in each region, I'll see if I can get an online spreadsheet going to avoid derailing the thread too much. However for reporting sightings please just post a list of species and where you were onto this thread - that seems like an easier way for people to contribute.

If anyone fancies making a start on a global list as we're going along, that probably needs either someone in a timezone well ahead of the UK, or someone in the UK who isn't going to go out much, as I suspect trying to piece it together once we've got more than a few contributions will be quite a daunting task. Failing that, we can always produce a global list in alphabetical order easily enough - it's trying to do a list in the order things were reported that gets a bit challenging.

Weather for me looks pretty bleak, but thankfully not as bad as tomorrow. I'll do my best to get us a cirl bunting.
 
Would have been more interesting if I were in Saudi as originally planned but alas, covid had different opinion on that. So I'll bring birds from the boring country of Israel :)
Israel is so cool! Find us a Hoopoe (דּוּכִיפַת), the National Bird of Israel.
 
I've made a blank spreadsheet along the lines of the one used for the green list. I hope it's set up so that anyone can edit it, but I'm not fluent with Google docs so may have messed it up totally. In which case someone with more knowledge can always make a better one.

Reminder please post your sightings on this thread rather than direct to the spreadsheet - it helps to have everything in one place. If you then want to add those of your sightings that were new to the spreadsheet, please do, but that may not be totally straightforward if the spreadsheet isn't up to date with what's in the thread, so don't feel you have to.

Link: BirdForum Joint 1 Jan list
 
So far of note: SW Turkey
-Pygmy Cormorant
-Black Necked Grebe
-Black Redstart
- Cettis Warbler
-Marsh Harrier
-Middle Spotted Woodpecker
-Lesser Spotted Woodpecker

I’m feeling less than sparkling so coffee and a toastie are now needed before I resume.
 
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