Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (12 Viewers)

[COLOMBIA Birding]

From last birding trip (22 days, C & W Andes + Magdalena Valley + a bit of E Andes around Bogota) with clients from US: Wattled Guan, endemic Blue-billed Curassow, Black-and-chestnut Eagle, finally seen Cloud-forest Pygmy-Owl!, endemic Dusky Starfrontlet!!, Viridian Metaltail, endemic Grayish Piculet, Black-banded Woodcreeper, New undescribed species of Antpitta (in the W Andes), near-endemic Black-billed Flycatcher, and the endemic Chestnut-bellied Flowerpiercer!

 

[JeffMoh]

My most recent lifer - and the only one so far this year - was Sprague's Pipit, seen on Galveston a couple of weeks ago. I'd been wanting to see one for several years.

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com

 

[Halcon]

Lesser short toed lark at the Ebro Delta on 23rd Jan.

 

[Jacana]

is that the undescribed antpitta in the photo?

 

[COLOMBIA Birding]

is that the undescribed antpitta in the photo?

Yes Jacana,
that is the new species of Antpitta in the W Andes. It is coming to feeders along with Chestnut-naped so it is secure sighting!....
more stuff of this new species at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/COLOMBIABirdingDiego#p/u/8/WyuTxGy3nXY
http://www.youtube.com/user/COLOMBIABirdingDiego#p/u/9/gXyA6hTsQMw
http://www.flickr.com/photos/colombia_birding_diego/sets/72157623159834165/

enjoy!,
Diego.

 

[Enji]

On the fourth try, found the Glaucous Gull in Stockholm today. Bit far away so I only got some record shots, but I'm still really happy.

 

[xcellent]

The Village Indigobird (Male and Female) on 5th of February in Nguuni Sanctuary in Mombasa.

Regards Frank

 

[Espen]

Mine is black kite at Gigrin farm a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Divebird]

Glossy Ibis

 

[Nicky mwangi]

Am still new in North America hence a lot of lifers. My latest lifer was the Painted bunting at Naples Florida.

 

[Hanno]

Red Avadavat, 10th of January, Cambodia.

 

[Sy V]

Meadow Pipit - I ringed one (of two we caught) yesterday.

 

[Divebird]

new yesterday not a White-bellied Brent Goose, 150 White-bellied Brent Goose!
picture at http://divebird.blogspot.com/2010/02/more-then-150.html

 

[Jonny721]

self found American Wigeon on the river lune in Lancashire yesterday o British Bird 240

 

[Fozzybear]

Meadow Pipit - I ringed one (of two we caught) yesterday.

I started writing a reply when I saw you'd posted this earlier but really didn't know how to word it without appearing to be taking the mick - which I most definitely am not!

How can I say this... I'm fascinated that a ringer (by which is presumably a birder of long experience) hadn't seen a Meadow Pipit as I'd thought, from little knowledge, that they were a very common and widespread bird. Are there places around the country where you don't really see them? Have they been a 'bogey bird' for you? Nuthatch was mine until only last month.

I really like Meadow Pipits (fantastic little bird) but although there are quite a lot of them near my house I have never seen one close up so am really jealous that you got your first view of one at a ringing! :t:

 

[nickderry]

GREAT GREY SHRIKE

yes, I know that this isn't the most difficult bird to see, but after ten years of missing them by a hair's breadth, I finally got mine this morning! I now firmly believe in karma, as it was in the atlas square that I've just volunteered to follow for the LPO.

 

[Jonny721]

well done Nick it's great seeing a bogey bird especially one that has eluded you for so long!!

 

[nickderry]

cheers Jonny, it had gone beyond just a bogey - it was a curse on me! Now it's been lifted, I feel so much better! Especially as other stuff today included hawfinches, a white stork, watching peregrines at the breeding site and listening to an eagle owl calling at dusk.

 

[longbow]

Saw three common redpolls yesterday, lifers, they were across the way from my feeder, showed no interest at all in it.

This has been a very strange winter here, the mildest in recent memory, the black capped chickadees are already doing their spring song, absolutely zero finches or juncos, two species which are usually very common.

Anticipating what's next.

 

[dalat]

Last birding trip to Van Ban Nature Reserve in Northern Vietnam (not far from Sapa). This place is supposed to hold still the largest bits of forest in Northern Vietnam, we did not manage to get to really good forest though, because this would have required several days walk and overnight in the forest and we were not prepared for that. Still got 16 lifers, mostly in grassland, scrub and bamboo:
Jerdon's Bushchat, Striated Grassbird, Brownish-Flanked Bushwarbler, Slaty-bellied Tesia, Yellow-bellied and Rufous-faced Warbler, Hwamei (finally, after having seen hundreds in cages), White-browed Laughingthrush, Streaked Wren Babbler, Spot-breasted and Streak-breasted Scimitar Babbler, Spectacled Barwing, Grey-cheecked Fulvetta, Black-chinned Yuhina, Spot-breasted Parrotbill and Crested Bunting.
Florian