What are some 'most species in a day' birding records? (1 Viewer)

[Jon Turner]

We recorded 185 species in a day in Uganda - in and around Queen Elizabeth National Park.

 

[connorco]

The best I've done in a single day was 170 in Marin Co. California. I'm still looking to improve the route, with correct conditions I should be able to get over 200 in the county.

 

[Andy Adcock]

We recorded 185 species in a day in Uganda - in and around Queen Elizabeth National Park.

What's the Guan in your avatar Jon?

 

[Farnboro John]

What's the Guan in your avatar Jon?

It's the "Guan, guan, guan" endemic to Craggy Island

John

 

[Andy Adcock]

It's the "Guan, guan, guan" endemic to Craggy Island

John

Obviously still up there in your balloon cos that's over my head.

 

[Jon Turner]

What's the Guan in your avatar Jon?

Trinidad Piping. NE Trinidad. Very accommodating.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

My personal record is 113 species in a day in Lehigh County, PA. It would have been the county record, but a friend of mine got 117 the next day. He didn't intentionally try to beat me. Just a coincidence.

I don't know what the current PA state Big Day record is, but I know there was a record of 160 species in a day back in the '80s.

The record for the "World Series of Birding" in New Jersey is 232 species seen in the state in a single day.

 

[kb57]

Think my PB is about 107, ironically from my non-birding years when I made up the numbers in a birding race in Northumberland; the winning team as I recall had 120+. I remember also having a high day list from a visit to Bharatpur in the early 80s, also from my non-birding wilderness years.
I guess the Peru total quoted upthread is probably a world record, but I remember reading a while back about a team in Catalonia who posted a massive 'big day' list, a European record?

 

[raymie]

I've never done a devoted big day, my record was 104 species on one very good day in the height of spring migration.

 

[Andy Adcock]

Trinidad Piping. NE Trinidad. Very accommodating.

Wasn't sure if it was Blue-throated with which it used to be lumped I think?

I saw it on Trinidad too but it was some way off, in the canopy, feeding.

 

[Jon Turner]

Wasn't sure if it was Blue-throated with which it used to be lumped I think?

I saw it on Trinidad too but it was some way off, in the canopy, feeding.

This one gave us the full display and then came down to about 10 feet!

 

[Andy Adcock]

This one gave us the full display and then came down to about 10 feet!

Did you meet Kenny Calderon?

he took me in to town one night to drink rum in a back street den, when all the other light weights had gone to bed, got him wasted

 

[Jon Turner]

Did you meet Kenny Calderon?

he took me in to town one night to drink rum in a back street den, when all the other light weights had gone to bed, got him wasted

No. The only night we went out was to see Turtles coming ashore.

 

[Andy Adcock]

No. The only night we went out was to see Turtles coming ashore.

Kenny was the then, guide at Asa Wright, used by Wildwings on their tours and very good he was, also very good company.

 

[connorco]

The best I've done in a single day was 170 in Marin Co. California. I'm still looking to improve the route, with correct conditions I should be able to get over 200 in the county.

Actually, I forgot about one of the years I've done it. I hit 182 once in Marin.

 

[MKinHK]

I managed 101 on a may bird race in Dorset as a teenager in the 1980s, and 170+ in Hong Kong in a year when the winning team made 180+. This year my team managed 145 species.

My current patch at San Tin is an area of fishponds, some tree-lined drainage channels and a small urban park right on the boundary and loomed over by high-rise Shenzen. My record is a tantalising 97 species but the record is 113!

Cheers
Mike