Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (20 Viewers)

[Swindon Addick]

Hmm... How it's going? Former Sylvia cantillans moltonii is now Curruca subalpina, Moltoni's Warbler? And Sylvia cantillans cantillans is now Curruca cantillans, Eastern Subalpine Warbler? I'm little bit confuse... :brains:

There's a summary in a post on the taxonomy forum. Basically there are now 3 species and thanks to the wonderful rules of taxonomy the species name "subalpina" now applies to the only one of the 3 that isn't called "subalpine" in English.

IOC made the split on 6 May, see their updates diary entry.

Doesn't affect me as I've never seen any of them...

 

[Warixenjalka]

There's a summary in a post on the taxonomy forum. Basically there are now 3 species and thanks to the wonderful rules of taxonomy the species name "subalpina" now applies to the only one of the 3 that isn't called "subalpine" in English.

IOC made the split on 6 May, see their updates diary entry.

Doesn't affect me as I've never seen any of them...

Thank you. So my Subalpine change to Eastern Subalpine (albostriata). But no new ticks.

 

[Lisa W]

Redhead, not that unusual just haven’t seen one before.

 

[Mysticete]

Did my belated birthday big day today, with 82 species seen. Migrant levels were abysmal, with a lot of "expected" migrants completely absent. I had 15 species of warbler over almost 12 hours, in two of the best migrant hotspots in the state. Last weekend I managed 12 species of warbler in 3 hours, at just a couple of local spots.

BUT...I finally was able to see Connecticut Warbler, the last "northern" parulid I needed for my life list, and a major target for the spring. Nice to finally connect with this bird without having to fend off a horde of mosquitos in some bog!

 

[lgonz1008]

Semipalmated Sandpiper, went out looking for a Red-necked Phalarope but wasn't able to find it, so that was my compensation price.

 

[in vitrio]

Common eider, in south Cumbria.

 

[Warixenjalka]

Arctic Warbler in Merikarvia Finland. Unfortunately it stayed in hide and we just heard it singing.

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

Common Rosefinch this morning.

 

[Lerxst]

LeConte's Sparrow, after living along its migration route for 21 years without so much as hearing it. Worst (best?) nemesis bird I have ever had. Last year we even drove to North Dakota over Memorial Day to find one, and got skunked. That is when I wrote a poem to it and acknowledged its utter mastery over our lives. That did the trick, apparently.

When we did get it, we had just crossed paths, up in Sax-Zim Bog, with Bruce Beehler, co-author of the PNG field guide, who trudged out into the grass with us and helped us finally find one.

 

[kbirdly]

I finally got to see Yellow-breasted chat! Three of them!

 

[coltrv]

Say's Phoebe in Oregon. These probably aren't special, but I only started my life list this year.

 

[annewilliams]

Weebill in Australia, when i visited the Iron Range with Chris Dean of Bird Tracker last year

 

[GrebeOrGrackle]

My last lifer was a Western Grebe. Popped up and hung for a short while. Belle Fourche National Wildlife Refuge, Belle Fourche, South Dakota. Beautiful bird.

 

[Steve Lister]

Stejneger's Stonechat for my IOC world list, thanks to looking at a thread on here and realising that whta I saw in Hong Kong many years ago was not the run of the mill Siberian Stonechat.

 

[Nutcracker]

Stejneger's Stonechat for my IOC world list, thanks to looking at a thread on here and realising that whta I saw in Hong Kong many years ago was not the run of the mill Siberian Stonechat.

Glad I asked about it now!! o

 

[GrebeOrGrackle]

Well, I had 3 just yesterday after birding for 30+ years. Upland Sandpiper. Sharp Tailed Grouse and a Western Meadowlark. Late afternoon/evening up at the reservoir in Belle Fourche, SD. The meadows are vast. Absolutely beautiful up there.

 

[Lisa W]

On 8 July I saw my first Common Mergansers - a mother and her young ones floating and fishing on the river behind where I am staying this summer.

 

[KC Foggin]

Congrats Lisa!

 

[lmans66]

Something in Australia.....with the grandkids but just too busy to bird, if you can believe that. Just out of the corner of my eye did I keep up on it.

 

[Steve Lister]

A British 'lifer' in the impressive form of the Caspian Tern at Frampton Marsh on Friday.

I have spent 50 years birding now and always hoped to find one of these myself, either flying past Spurn in my youth or dropping in to one of the Leics/Rutland reservoirs in the last 30 years but no luck and so finally twitched one.

Steve