Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (1 Viewer)

[rob.72]

Uk number 321, White-throated Robin!

My dusty bin bird(remember 321 and dusty bin?...simple folk weren't we).

 

[vanislebirder]

Last life bird, Black-billed Cuckoo, west of Gatineau, Quebec, June 6/11.

 

[COLOMBIA Birding]

Hi all.. my last lifers from May2011 tour were:

Carunculated Caracara [Phalcoboenus carunculatus]
Indigo-winged Parrot [Hapalopsittaca fuertesi]
Thicket Antpitta [Hylopezus dives]
Hooded Antpitta [Grallaricula cucullata]
and finally good views of Choco Vireo [Vireo masteri]

;-)

 

[Larry Lade]

Diego, congrats on your five "lifers". Those antpitta are pretty tough to see aren't they?

 

[COLOMBIA Birding]

Diego, congrats on your five "lifers". Those antpitta are pretty tough to see aren't they?

Thanks Larry... Thicket Antpitta took us 1 hour inside very dense scrub and ferns, boiling hot temperature just above sea level.. anyways, a beauty!...

and Hooded Antpitta WAS MIND-BLOWING!!... one of those nemesis birds, a mega rare one that no one gets often!... we got a nice ind perched eye level, shaking the body few times in Grallaricula mood.. amazing little bird!... will be trying again for it soon in July!

Diego.

 

[ClarkWGriswold]

Ring Ouzel and Bonxie this week

Rich

 

[chris butterworth]

My latest bunch are :-

Truk Ground Dove
Truk ( Caroline Is. ) Swiftlet
Truk Monarch
Caroline Is Reed Warbler
Teardrop White-eye

Two guesses where I am? The 'Bird of the year' ( so far ) has to be Guam Rail on Rota, last week though.

Chris

 

[chowchilla]

Three Double-banded Plovers (a rare bird up here) this morning at Redden island sand spit. I had a 'maybe' down in Vic a couple of years back but theses were deffos. B

 

[rob.72]

A disappointing White-winged Scoter brings up 322 after a very disappointing dip on a bosting summer plumage Greater sand plover.

 

[Tred]

Multiple bobolinks on June 11th at Middleton Municipal Airport in Wisconsin. It was pretty neat

 

[trooper]

This week I had three lifers ,
White Tailed Plover, River Warbler and Spoonbill.

All on the Geschiebersperre by Hollenstedt, Northeim in Lower Saxoney, Germany.

The White Tailed Plover(found by Bernd Reidel), if excepted by the German rarity comittee will be the 12th for Germany and a county first.

A super week.:king:

 

[Enji]

Drove to visit my brother in Örebro last night. It had absolutely nothing to do with the Baillon's Crake just five minutes from where he lives...

(Isn't it great when you have these excuses to go see rare birds?)

 

[roger1234]

turtle dove in my garden and has visited for the past month.

 

[TimNic]

I'm lucky, 'cos I only started recording 'ticks' on the 1st June this year, but today I added............


.......wait for it.........



.....Partridge!

I'm being particularly hard on myself though - since I'm only 'ticking' birds that I have photographic evidence for. Is that allowed/reasonable?

 

[Edward]

Had six lifers on a family holiday to SW Turkey, the last of which was Chukar yesterday morning. The other five were Syrian Woodpecker, Middle Spotted Woodpecker, Dalmatian Pelican, Sombre Tit and Black-headed Bunting.

 

[Chlidonias]

latest bird to add to the crop (so to speak), Emperor Penguin. I am happy right now.
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=203806

 

[jc122463]

I got a very unexpected lifer a few weeks ago. Leading a birding trip to Kenya (a country I've been to a number of times) I didn't really expect to see any lifers but on the second-to-last day we picked up two Eurasian Oystercatcher. Probably not a really exciting bird for the European members here, but it was once of the last oystercatchers I needed and was a complete surprise!

I'm being particularly hard on myself though - since I'm only 'ticking' birds that I have photographic evidence for. Is that allowed/reasonable?

Allowed - of course
Reasonable - I've known stranger.... I actually just started keeping a list of all the birds I've photographed as well. It's separate from my total life-list and only about 12.5% of the birds I've seen have been photographed.

Cheers,
Benji

 

[Oregonian]

Purple Swamphen

Purple Swamphen - Porphyrio porphyrio Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
--Likas Lagoon 02 Jun 2011.
The photo isn't very good, though - I'm not sure it counts among birds photographed.

The last of 130 life birds on our trip to Borneo.

 

[halftwo]

Purple Swamphen - Porphyrio porphyrio Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
--Likas Lagoon 02 Jun 2011.
The photo isn't very good, though - I'm not sure it counts among birds photographed.
The last of 130 life birds on our trip to Borneo.

Jeff,

That's even better than that: now split: Black-backed swamphen P. indicus. A bird with a very restricted range.

 

[ovenbird43]

Scaled Quail
Mountain Plover
Black Rail B