Where in the world am I? Bird Game! (1 Viewer)

[Robin Edwards]

Denver perhaps?

 

[Simon Wates]

Carlos - not nitpickin but the Doñana list included 80 Knot and 10 Ruddy Turnstone, which threw me as they would be very unusual in the accessible areas of Doñana. The east bank area is outside the park and holds these species near the mouth of the Guadalquivir - I suspect the recorder included this area, which turns up everything else on the list. Strange no Lesser Short-toed Larks and only 3 Crested Larks. W. Orphean Warbler is a good record - but no Sardinians, strange! Common Chiffchaff is extremely unlikely but Willow Warblers would be passing through in fair numbers by early August. The 3 Mute Swan are weird too - maybe at the captive breeding centre - Cañanda de los Pajaros? Anyway - I know you are not responsible for records of others - thought it worth commenting though

 

[csanchez7]

Simon, I try to pick lists that look like they had some thought put into them. The only ones I can really guarantee are the ones that are either produced by myself or ones from places I have been to (as I heavily research everywhere I go).

Sometimes, with these lists, people don't go into areas which might have particular species and thus get missed on a list. At the local park, if I decide not to walk by the pond and count the water birds, I can completely miss that subset of species on a day list. On the other side, I can chose to bird parts of the park not usually birded by anyone else and turn up several bird species not usual to the park. As far as I am aware, I think Mute Swan is not a native resident in most of Spain (?) so you are absolutely correct on that and other points.

Carlos

PS: Oh, and by the way, JoanT is correct that the list is from New Mexico, USA. But where exactly?

 

[JoanT]

PS: Oh, and by the way, JoanT is correct that the list is from New Mexico, USA. But where exactly?

Sandia Crest

 

[csanchez7]

JoanT gets the +6 pts for this round.

Scoreboard:

Andrew Whitehouse: 18
JoanT: 12
Welsh Peregrine: 6
david kelly: 6
Larry Lade: 1

Date of Observation: October 16, 2005
# of species: 37

1 Taiga Bean-Goose
3000 Tundra Bean-Goose
300 Greater White-fronted Goose
10 Gadwall
200 Mallard
1000 Eastern Spot-billed Duck
3 Northern Pintail
30000 Baikal Teal
300 Green-winged Teal
20 Common Pochard
10 Little Grebe
18 Great Crested Grebe
2 Eared Grebe
40 Gray Heron
8 Great Egret
5 Intermediate Egret
10 Little Egret
1 Black-crowned Night-Heron
1 Eurasian Kestrel
1 Eurasian Hobby
8 Black-bellied Plover
200 Kentish Plover
10 Common Greenshank
8 Whimbrel
2 Far Eastern Curlew
1 Black-tailed Godwit
34 Great Knot
300 Dunlin
1 Black-headed Gull
500 Black-tailed Gull
20 Oriental Turtle-Dove
2 Bull-headed Shrike
30 Eurasian Magpie
5 Great Tit
40 Vinous-throated Parrotbill
15 White Wagtail
20 Eurasian Tree Sparrow

I think you all will like this one.

Carlos

 

[david kelly]

Saemangeum Estuary, South Korea

David

 

[scary-canary]

Hong Kong

 

[scary-canary]

Changed my mind
Seosan lakes South Korea

(didn't look at baikal teal numbers at first)

 

[david kelly]

Changed my mind
Seosan lakes South Korea

(didn't look at baikal teal numbers at first)

Yeah, that was my first guess but the date and waders made me change my mind. Great Knot etc make me think estuary. Unfortunately the one I picked has now been reclaimed:-(

David

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

I'll agree with South Korea, but can't suggest a site which hasn't already been named!

 

[Larry Lade]

Hokkaido, Japan?

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Yancheng, China

 

[csanchez7]

Seosan A.B. Reclaimed Area, South Korea is the correct answer. Congrats scary-canary! According to the site description, there are enough mudflats to support breeding Little Tern and Kentish Plover, as well as being an important wintering site for thousands of Baikal Teal.

Carlos

 

[csanchez7]

Scoreboard:

Andrew Whitehouse: 18
JoanT: 12
david kelly: 7
scary-canary: 6
Welsh Peregrine: 6
Larry Lade: 1

Date of Observation: February 2, 2010
# of species: 35

1 Black Swan
3 Maned Duck
2 Black-faced Cormorant
4 White-faced Heron
1 Whistling Kite
1 Brown Falcon
15 Tasmanian Native-hen
25 Masked Lapwing
2 Pied Oystercatcher
25 Silver Gull
5 Pacific Gull
3 Great Crested Tern
2 Brush Bronzewing
4 Green Rosella
1 Blue-winged Parrot
1 Southern Boobook
10 Superb Fairywren
1 Eastern Spinebill
5 Yellow Wattlebird
2 New Holland Honeyeater
2 Forty-spotted Pardalote
2 Striated Pardalote
4 Yellow-rumped Thornbill
2 Dusky Woodswallow
20 Australasian Magpie
2 Black Currawong
3 Gray Fantail
20 Forest Raven
2 Flame Robin
8 Dusky Robin
15 Welcome Swallow
2 Silver-eye
2 Eurasian Blackbird
10 European Starling
10 House Sparrow

Carlos

 

[Andrew Whitehouse]

Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia

 

[csanchez7]

Andrew Whitehouse got this one.

Scoreboard:

Andrew Whitehouse: 18
JoanT: 12
david kelly: 7
scary-canary: 6
Welsh Peregrine: 6
Larry Lade: 1

Date of Observation: November 28, 2010
# of species: 61

10 Blue-winged Goose
2 Egyptian Goose
12 Ruddy Shelduck
20 Yellow-billed Duck
1 Moorland Francolin
4 Chestnut-naped Francolin
20 Wattled Ibis
20 Black Kite
35 Hooded Vulture
1 Lammergeier
1 Pallid Harrier
2 Mountain Buzzard
10 Augur Buzzard
2 Tawny Eagle
2 Steppe Eagle
1 Eurasian Kestrel
1 Saker Falcon
2 Rouget's Rail
2 Wattled Crane
6 Spot-breasted Lapwing
1 Common Greenshank
1 African Snipe
25 Speckled Pigeon
1 Red-eyed Dove
1 Eurasian Hoopoe
1 Tropical Boubou
2 Red-billed Chough
25 Cape Crow
8 Thick-billed Raven
2 Thekla Lark
6 Rock Martin
100 Common House-Martin
2 Common Bulbul
1 Brown Woodland-Warbler
6 Willow Warbler
2 Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler
1 Winding Cisticola
2 Tawny-flanked Prinia
5 Abyssinian Catbird
2 Brown Warbler
1 Broad-ringed White-eye
1 Abyssinian Slaty-Flycatcher
2 Dusky-brown Flycatcher
2 Rueppell's Robin-Chat
100 Moorland Chat
1 Isabelline Wheatear
10 Groundscraper Thrush
29 Abyssinian Thrush
2 Tacazze Sunbird
2 Variable Sunbird
1 Western Yellow Wagtail
2 Red-throated Pipit
2 Abyssinian Longclaw
2 Yellow-crowned Canary
100 Abyssinian Siskin
15 Streaky Seedeater
15 Brown-rumped Seedeater
12 Swainson's Sparrow
3 Baglafecht Weaver
3 Yellow Bishop
2 Yellow-bellied Waxbill
8 Common Waxbill

Carlos

 

[Welsh Peregrine]

Ethiopia

 

[JoanT]

Ethiopia

I agree Ethiopia Simien Highlands

 

[david kelly]

Bale Mountains - Dinsho

David

 

[csanchez7]

david kelly -- yes, Bale Mountains NP, Ethiopia.

Carlos