Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (21 Viewers)

[Andy Hurley]

As I'm just back from my first trip to Sri Lanka, I have between 160 and 170 lifers (still confirming) breaking though the 1000 with Spotted Dove on day one. The last 4 confirmed endemics are Orange-billed Babbler, Ashy-headed Laughingthrush, Sri Lanka Drongo and Layard's Parakeet.

 

[Paul Longland]

Tundra Bean Goose. Actually had to go out and find one. None of your armchair ticks here.

 

[YuShan]

Black-capped Chickadee
Yes, really :-O
Bird no 2036 on my lifelist

 

[JTweedie]

Spent a week in Spain and a week in Morocco in October. It wasn't a birding holiday but I saw the following lifers in my time there:

Spain:

Monk Parakeet
Hoopoe
Barbary Partridge
Sooty Shearwater
Cattle Egret

Morocco:

White Stork
Crested Lark
Maghreb Magpie
Great Grey Shrike
Griffin Vulture
Spotless Starling
Alpine Swift
Common Bulbul
White-rumped Swift
Alpine Accentor

I also saw barbary macaques in Morocco which were my first non-human primates seen anywhere.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Baer's Pochard on the Han River in Seoul on Christmas Eve made being stuck in Korea for the holiday somewhat tolerable.

 

[Xenospiza]

Crab Plover in Oman, along with assorted goodies including Omani Owl. Fierce competition for the least impressive tick, but Yemen Serin and Plain Leaf Earbler were not as unremarkable as African Collared Dove!

 

[Louis_P]

Dusky Warbler at Stiffkey, Norfolk a few weeks back.

 

[andyb39]

Ferruginous Partridge and Long-billed Spiderhunter, Bukit Tinggi, Malaysia, Jan 2nd.

 

[Warixenjalka]

Last years last lifer was a really exotic-looking tit only 30 km from my home. Autumn 2018 they had quite a lot movements for South. In our County this was first and the only known one still.
This years first lifer was these "chickens".

 

[Chilt]

Last recorded was a Lapwing at Chasewater, Staffordshire

Chilt

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

Had 2 in Norfolk and 1 in Cambridgeshire last week.

Shore Lark
Taiga Bean Goose
Rough Legged Buzzard

Rich

 

[in vitrio]

Shoveler at Brandon Marsh in Warwicks today. There had been a Caspian gull and whooper swans the previous days but I missed them.

 

[birdmeister]

Cackling Goose

A long overdue lifer, great looks at two classic Richardson's!

 

[Seth Miller]

Most recent lifers were all on a trip to Jahangirnagor University, in Bangladesh. I had three lifers: Yellow Bittern, Booted Eagle, and Gray-headed Fish Eagle.

 

[hookem2010]

Purple finch at a neighborhood park near Fort Worth. Not a bad bird for Texas, and there appears to be a bit of an influx of the species in this area compared to recent years. Hoping to get as many eastern species as possible prior to likely moving west this summer.

 

[Euan Buchan]

Today in Madeira saw my first
Trocaz Pigeon
Spectacled Warbler
Berthelot’s Pipit
Waxbill
Canary

 

[ralph21]

White-tailed sea eagle (Biesbosch, Netherlands)

 

[Tom Mc85]

Most recent lifer was a Greenshank at Lodmoor yesterday.

 

[Nightjar61]

During a one-week birding trip to the Canopy Tower in Panama I got 38 lifers. The last one was Bay Wren.

Dave

 

[hookem2010]

Checked off another eastern US species with eastern towhee in a neighborhood park. Now if only the rusty blackbirds will hang around a nearby sports complex until tomorrow...