Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (11 Viewers)

[bobsofpa]

Dusky Grouse

This past September I saw the Dusky Grouse twice, once in the National Bison Range NWR, MT and then a few days later in Glacier NP. NOTE, this is a new bird. In August the American Orin. Society decided, after DNA testing, that the two subspecies of Blue Grouse (Interior and Pacific) were actually separate species. They are now the Dusky Grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) and the Sooty Grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus). Not bad getting a lifer so soon after it became a "bird" :clap: .

 

[Nightjar61]

This past September I saw the Dusky Grouse twice, once in the National Bison Range NWR, MT and then a few days later in Glacier NP. NOTE, this is a new bird. In August the American Orin. Society decided, after DNA testing, that the two subspecies of Blue Grouse (Interior and Pacific) were actually separate species. They are now the Dusky Grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) and the Sooty Grouse (Dendragapus fuliginosus). Not bad getting a lifer so soon after it became a "bird" :clap: .

Hi Bob,

I used to live in Colorado where I had seen Blue Grouse of the "Dusky" form. I had seen the "Sooty" form in western Washington State way back in 1978 but didn't realize it right after the split. In going back through old notes I discovered I had a new bird for my Life List that I had seen 28 years ago.

Dave

 

[J Moss]

Shore Larks on Holkham saltmarsh and Barnicle Geese near Holkham Hall lake (wild??), on 27/12/2006.

2 Hen Harriers and Common Cranes at Stubbs Mill on 28/12/2006.

Happy Christmas!!

 

[dan pointon]

Ross's Gull in Argyll, awesome bird, showed down to 5m, too close for digiscoping! Pic attached...

 

[JRE]

At long, long, long last, Slavonian Grebe.

 

[Accipiter91]

white-breasted nuthatch

 

[anaturegal]

A Masked Duck in Viera, FL on 12/26/06 as well as an American Bittern.

 

[brian fielding]

last lifer for me was white-rumped sandpiper at cley in november, also saw black-eared kite and little auk on the same day taking my uk total to 299.

 

[Merg]

Carolina Wren and a Golden Crowned Kinglet. Both yesterday. Dec 30, 2006.

 

[JRE]

Another bogey bird finally on the list - Goldeneye, dare I say it!

 

[Reader]

My top bird finally succumbed whilst visiting the Coto Donana on the 28th Dec, thanks to John Butler.

Black-shouldered Kite.

John

 

[MKinHK]

White-bellied Green Pigeon - 4th record for HK and 19th HK tick of 2006.

A great way to end the year!

 

[AmpelisChinito]

Florida Scrub-Jay!!! A great lifer, now one of my favorite birds. They're just SO cool.

But before that on that day or the day before I got these lifers:

Tricolored Heron
Marbled Godwit
Glossy Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Western Sandpiper
Reddish Egret
Long-billed Dowitcher
Common Moorhen
Blue-winged Teal
Pied-billed Grebe

 

[Xenospiza]

Glad I can now say: Red-flanked Bluetail (= Orange-flanked Bush-Robin) (Tarsiger cyanurus).

 

[lvn600]

Today-Madison CT.-Lazuli Bunting. Branford CT. American Coot.

 

[gareth_blockley]

Last Lifer: Hen harrier and Merlin on the same day.

 

[Edward]

Prothonotary Warbler 12 Jan, Tobago. Went to an area of mangroves where I'd been told they might occur and ten minutes of pishing eventually brought one out.

E

 

[OwlTalon]

Calcarius lapponicus, a trio of Lapland Longspurs in a Horned Lark flock at Jones Beach yesterday. Very uncommon winter visitor there, most often just one (which I always miss) and usually hangs out with the Snow Buntings.

 

[yoyo]

Balck eared Kite, Lesser Yellowlegs - Norfolk yesterday

 

[Hanno]

Grey-faced Buzzard, Ca Mau, Viet Nam