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January 1st joint Birdforum list (2025 edition) (1 Viewer)

Some from the PNW that may be new for the list (or not):
Spotted Towhee
American Kestrel
Pied-billed Grebe
Belted Kingfisher
Great Blue Heron
Red-tailed Hawk
Tundra Swan
Marsh Wren
Northern Shoveler
Bufflehead
Mourning Dove
Ring-billed Gull*
Glaucous-winged Gull*
Bald Eagle
Mallard
Harrier
Song Sparrow
I also saw an owl...several people had mentioned a Short-eared Owl in recent days in the same area, but I can't confirm.

*exact identification iffy; lots of hybridization (and I don't know my gulls very well)

Sorry, I saw a Stellar's Jay yesterday, but not today.

It looks like I got credit on the US list for the Grebe, Mallard, Tundra Swan, Northern Harrier and Marsh Wren, and the last three on the World list. Cool!
I want to confirm the swan - both Tundra and Trumpeter are common in this area. Any thoughts (I know, the photos are awful)?
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It looks like I got credit on the US list for the Grebe, Mallard, Tundra Swan, Northern Harrier and Marsh Wren, and the last three on the World list. Cool!
I want to confirm the swan - both Tundra and Trumpeter are common in this area. Any thoughts (I know, the photos are awful)?
Here are the Harrier and the Grebe. Didn't get a photo of the marsh wren.
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I'd say it's a juvenile red-tail but it's pretty heavily marked on the breast. All that marking on the upper breast is throwing me a bit, which is why I just said buteo. The markings seem more like a Broad-wing, but they're not here right now. It's not a Red-shoulder, so by default it's a 'tail.

A harrier is a slimmer bird and has a very flat, round face that's kind-of like an owl. The tail is longer than a buteo's although it doesn't always show. It's also got much skinnier legs than a buteo. They usually don't have so much white on the back.

Your bird just looks very beefy.
 
I'd say it's a juvenile red-tail but it's pretty heavily marked on the breast. All that marking on the upper breast is throwing me a bit, which is why I just said buteo. The markings seem more like a Broad-wing, but they're not here right now. It's not a Red-shoulder, so by default it's a 'tail.

A harrier is a slimmer bird and has a very flat, round face that's kind-of like an owl. The tail is longer than a buteo's although it doesn't always show. It's also got much skinnier legs than a buteo. They usually don't have so much white on the back.

Your bird just looks very beefy.

Thanks for the very thorough descriptions!
I'm gonna go ahead and take the harrier off my list; I just can't be sure I saw one anymore, without a photo.
However, it looks like I can ADD my two gulls to the list - a Glaucous-winged x Western Gull hybrid and a Short-billed.
 
Fortunately that wasn't our only report of Northern Harrier so the total isn't affected. Northern Harrier becomes bird number 630 in place of 603 and the ones in between all move up one.

We don't generally count hybrids, but Short-billed Gull is an IOC species and new for the list, so 707 for the world list and 188 for the USA.
 
Fortunately that wasn't our only report of Northern Harrier so the total isn't affected. Northern Harrier becomes bird number 630 in place of 603 and the ones in between all move up one.

We don't generally count hybrids, but Short-billed Gull is an IOC species and new for the list, so 707 for the world list and 188 for the USA.
Great, thanks!
I also have been informed on another thread that my Tundra Swans are Trumpeter Swans, so I added Trumpeter to the list and crossed off my Tundra. I hope someone else saw a Tundra/Bewick's? I was surprised Trumpeter wasn't already there.

Hopefully by next year I will have improved my bird ID skills! :) That's why I'm here.
 
And 181 for East Asia:

Ashy Woodswallow
Asian Barred Owlet
Asian Brown Flycatcher
Asian Fairy-bluebird
Asian Green Bee-eater
Asian Koel
Asian Openbill
Asian Stubtail
Azure-winged Magpie
Bay Woodpecker
Baya Weaver
Besra
Black Drongo
Black Kite
Black-browed Reed Warbler
Black-collared Starling
Black-crested Bulbul
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black-faced Spoonbill
Black-hooded Oriole
Black-naped Monarch
Black-throated Laughingthrush
Black-winged Stilt
Blue Rock Thrush
Blue Whistling Thrush
Blue-tailed bee-eater
Blue-winged Leafbird
Brahminy kite
Brown Shrike
Brown-cheeked Fulvetta
Chestnut Bulbul
Chestnut-tailed Starling
Chinese Bamboo-Partridge
Chinese Hwamei
Chinese Penduline Tit
Chinese Pond Heron
Cinereous Tit
Citrine Wagtail
Collared Crow
Collared Dove
Common Greenshank
Common Myna
Common Sandpiper
Common Tailorbird
Coppersmith Barbet
Crested Myna
Daurian Redstart
Dusky Warbler
Eastern Buzzard
Eastern Cattle Egret
Eastern Crowned Warbler
Eastern Jungle Crow
Eastern Red-rumped Swallow
Eastern Spot-billed Duck
Eastern Yellow Wagtail
Eurasian Coot
Eurasian Spoonbill
Eurasian Teal
Eurasian Wigeon
Eurasian Woodcock
Falcated Duck
Fork-tailed Sunbird
Gadwall
Garganey
Golden-fronted Leafbird
Great Barbet
Great Cormorant
Great Myna
Great White Egret
Greater Coucal
Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush
Greater Spotted Eagle
Green Sandpiper
Grey Heron
Grey Plover
Grey Wagtail
Grey-backed Thrush
Grey-chinned Minivet
Grey-eyed Bulbul
Grey-headed Lapwing
Hair-crested Drongo
Hill Blue Flycatcher
House crow
House Swift
Indian White-eye
Indochinese Green Magpie
Indochinese Yuhina
Japanese Thrush
Javan myna
Kingfisher
Large-billed Crow
Light-vented Bulbul
Lineated Barbet
Little Bunting
Little Egret
Little Grebe
Little Ringed Plover
Little Spiderhunter
Long-tailed Shrike
Mallard
Manchurian Bush Warbler
Martens's Warbler
Masked Laughingthrush
Medium Egret
Moorhen
Mountain Tailorbird
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Olive-backed Pipit
Olive-backed sunbird
Oriental Magpie-Robin
Oriental Stork
Oriental Turtle Dove
Ornate Sunbird
Osprey
Pacific swallow
Pacific swift
Paddyfield Pipit
Pallas's Leaf Warbler
Peregrine (ssp ernesti)
Pied Avocet
Pied Bush Chat
Pied Harrier
Pied Kingfisher
Pied Wagtail
Pin-striped Tit-Babbler
Pintail Snipe
Plain Flowerpecker
Plain Prinia
Puff-throated Bulbul
Purple Heron
Purple Sunbird
Red Collared Dove
Red-billed Blue Magpie
Red-billed Starling
Red-throated Pipit
Red-whiskered Bulbul
Richard's Pipit
Rock Dove
Rufescent Prinia
Rufous-capped Babbler
Rufous-tailed Robin
Russet Bush Warbler
Scaly-breasted Munia
Scarlet Minivet
Scarlet-backed Flowerpecker
Siamese Pied Myna
Siberian Pipit (=Buff-bellied)
Siberian Rubythroat
Snipe
Sooty-headed Bulbul
Spotted Dove
Spotted Redshank
Stejneger's Stonechat
Streak-breasted Scimitar-babbler
Streak-eared Bulbul
Streaked Wren-Babbler
Striated heron
Swallow
Swinhoe's White-eye
Taiga Flycatcher
Tree Sparrow
Tristram's Bunting
Tufted Duck
Two-barred Warbler
Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
Verditer Flycatcher
White-bellied sea eagle
White-breasted Waterhen
White-cheeked Starling
White-headed Bulbul
White-shouldered Starling
White-throated Kingfisher
Wood Sandpiper
Yellow Bittern
Yellow-bellied Prinia
Yellow-billed Grosbeak
Yellow-browed Warbler
Yellow-vented bulbul
Zebra Dove
Zitting Cisticola

Almost done with the World list, then there's just the small matter of combining the 2 European lists to get a continent-wide one. The other tabs that have data (South & Central America and Turkey) are all individual posters so no need for any fun with spreadsheets for them.
I can add to this list:

Gray Treepie (Dendrocitta formosae)
Taiwan Blue-magpie (Urocissa caerulea)
Pale Thrush (Turdus pallidus)
Bronzed Drongo (Dicrurus aeneus)
White-eared Sibia (Heterophasia auricularis)
Taiwan Bamboo-Partridge (Bambusicola sonorivox)
Morrison’s Fulvetta (Alcippe morrisonia)
Taiwan Whistling-thrush (Myophonus insularis)
Green-backed Tit (Parus monticolus)
White-bellied Erpornis (Erpornis zantholeuca)
Taiwan Scimitar-babbler (Pomatorhinus musicus)
Taiwan Barbet (Psilopogon nuchalis)
Swinhoe’s Pheasant (Lophura swinhoii)

From near Taipei, Taiwan
 
Sorry Swindon Addick, only just viewed this thread. Think I can add Bearded Tit (Reedling) and Baikal Teal from Somerset on Jan 1. Weather awful on the day (as you'll know) so 86 was my lowest NYD total in years, but still pretty good given the conditions.
 

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