Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (9 Viewers)

[Sreitz]

Got my first Eurasian Collard Dove at the park/patch I've been trying to bird as often as possible. It's usually the same gang every day so its nice when something new shows up.

 

[Bino Steve]

Road Runner - Death Valley CA this last July.

 

[Arbu]

Azores Bullfinch last Friday

 

[DuckNorris]

Eastern Kingbird
Ovenbird
Boca Raton, Florida, USA

 

[MKinHK]

This monster! Powerful Owl, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Get in!

 

[Mysticete]

This monster! Powerful Owl, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Get in!

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Congrats. My lifer Powerful Owl was seen in the same location. Wonder if this is his grandkid?

 

[Micah_G]

Red-necked Phalarope Central Montana 15 Aug 2022 also a Grasshopper Sparrow earlier that day. Both not rare species.

 

[DuckNorris]

White-winged Dove
Boynton Beach, Florida USA

 

[DuckNorris]

Common Yellowthroat
Prairie Warbler
Boca Raton, Florida USA

 

[Swindon Addick]

MigFest at Spurn continues its amazing run of delivering me a lifer every time I've shown up (if you allow me to stretch a point with the albatross at Bempton last year). So I was at the seawatch on Sunday morning, kicking myself that I missed sooty shearwater yet again the day before, when the guides' radios all crackle and a disembodied voice says "ringtail harrier heading south, maybe Pallid". Not the closest of views, but I'm not complaining. Pallid Harrier isn't something I'd have a hope of identifying for myself with any confidence, so if there was ever a good moment to be stood with a couple of dozen much more experienced birders...

 

[DuckNorris]

Palm Warbler
Boca Raton, Florida USA

 

[DuckNorris]

Here in Baltimore we used to have mainly American Crows in the summer and big flocks of (usually very quiet) Fish Crows in the winter, but when the West Nile Virus hammered the American Crows about 15 years ago, the Fish Crows largely replaced them as nesters. The "regular" Crows recovered over time (although I remain convinced that there was some hybridizing going on for a few years, as there were some rather odd caws from adults, back in the 1990s), but there still appears to be only about a 60:40 American:Fish mixture overall during the breeding season, with local variations. Anyway, I just remember the flat, nasal Fish crow "Cah" call by saying that Fish Crows are "the crow that quacks". Interestingly, my wife tells me that the Chinese term for crow means something like that..
Oh, and to avoid the sin of OT-ness, my last lifer was a Chiffchaff on a distressingly curtailed trip to Edinburgh, which featured a damaged Achilles tendon on arrival at Heathrow and subsequent reduced mobility. Luckily, the house we were staying in had a lovely back deck looking over a fairly wild stretch of forest, so at least I could watch the Wood-Pigeons, Jackdaws and Magpies, while hearing all the frustratingly discreet singers so close by. The Chiffchaff, luckily for me, got so wrapped up in its singing that it incautiously let me get a good look at it the day before we left.

I have been using both the Merlin app's sound ID and my own ears to listen to all crows I can hear, and it appears to me that every crow in south Palm Beach County is a Fish Crow. I have yet to hear an American Crow here.

 

[DuckNorris]

Three today (it's easy when you're a newbie).

Yellow Warbler
American Redstart
Red-eyed Viero

Loxahatchee NWR, Palm Beach County, Florida USA

 

[DuckNorris]

White-eyed Vireo
Loxahatchee NWR

 

[dwallace]

Common Nighthawk at Wantage.

Dave W

 

[RobinD]

Common Nighthawk at Wantage.

Dave W

Me too!

 

[Musoman]

A Ruff, juvenile. Seen only once before, a few years ago, at this same place ( Farmoor NR ) but too elusive to photo

Took these shots on 22nd Sept. 22

 

[Musoman]

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[Himalaya]

Lifers from the last 2 years ..most recent at the top...

Red Footed Falcon - Marton Mere Nature Reserve, Lancashire -Sept 2022
Turkestan Shrike - RSPB Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire - July 2022
Black Browed Albatross - RSPB Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire - July 2022
Spotted Sandpiper - Elton Reservoir, Greater Manchester -May 2022
Belted Kingfisher - South Ribble, Lancashire - December 2021
Long Toed Stint - RSPB St Aidans aka Swillington Ings, Yorkshire - October 2021
Roseate Tern - Coquet Island, Northumberland - July 2021
Brown Shrike - West Yorkshire, Oct 2020
Wilsons Phalarope - WWT Martin Mere, Lancashire - Sept 2020

 

[DuckNorris]

Chuck-will's-widow
Green Cay Nature Center, Boynton Beach, Florida USA