Met any of these people? (1 Viewer)

[Tero]

The N America big listers are listed here, on several pages.
http://www.surfbirds.com/cgi-bin/surfbirds/display.cgi?list=list2&lowVal=0&highVal=49

I do not chase birds out of state, so never went for any rarities. In reports of big time birders, like Sandy Komito, a huge crowd seems to appear. Komito never even brings a scope, there is already some more local person with a scope there.

I looked at the list and apparently Miller and Levantin never listed with the ABA. Those were the three doing a 1998 big year. In the book of the same name.

So, your celebrities?

 

[Tero]

the top 10 life listers
1 William Rydell USA 843
2 Sandy Komito American 840
3 David Narins US 839
4 Bruce Barrett Canadian / British 821
5 Mike Austin 801
6 David Chaffin USA 783
7 Jim Holmes, Jr. USA (Calif) 778
8 Craig Faanes USA 778
9 Bob Morse 773
10 Wes Biggs 764

 

[lockbreeze926]

You can find more lists (millions of lists, more than you could ever want to see) at http://www.americanbirding.org/bigday/

It reports lists like they're official sports results - except of course, there are many, many birders who don't "compete" but who have longer lists than those who fill in the forms, so there are anomalies all over the place.

Having said that, I had the good fortune to go birding a couple weeks back with one gentleman listed in the post above and he is a very pleasant, friendly and helpful individual - although I wouldn't want to get between him and a vagrant Jabiru....

 

[TupeloN8]

I had heard that several big-listers stopped submitting their lists to the ABA when the ABA began allowing heard-only birds to be listable. They felt it was unfair to those who had worked to see the bird. A fair point as I see it, and as a result the ABA numbers are misleading.

Nathan

 

[Steve Lister]

I had heard that several big-listers stopped submitting their lists to the ABA when the ABA began allowing heard-only birds to be listable. They felt it was unfair to those who had worked to see the bird. A fair point as I see it, and as a result the ABA numbers are misleading.

Nathan

Even more will have stopped when the ABA decided that only membes could be included. A lot of non-states birders dropped out then.

Steve

 

[devilbirder]

I met Debbie Shearwater who knows Sandy Komito.

 

[Tero]

OK, I met Kenn Kaufman who must have met Komito. He only agreed to shake hands if we bought his book, Kenn.

 

[nctexasbirder]

OK, I met Kenn Kaufman who must have met Komito. He only agreed to shake hands if we bought his book, Kenn.

LOL!