Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings
2003 World Year List
Showing Records 1 through 46 of 46 Total Records

Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights
1 Jonathan Rossouw South African 2714 Ending off with Yellow Cardinal on New Year's Eve. Top 5 highlights: Gurney's Pitta, Coral-billed Ground-Cuckoo, Red-headed Picathartes, White-winged Flufftail & Strange-tailed Tyrant
2 Iain Campbell Australian 2041 Updated 30th December. Highlights are Peruvian and Jocotoco Antpittas in Ecuador, Bornean Bristlehead in Sabah and Red-headed Picathartes in Nigeria.
3 Vaughan Ashby English 1906 Last Updated 23/12/03 India, Sri Lanka, Costa Rica, Florida, Finland, Kazakhstan, Kenya, UAE, Oman, Gambia, Antarctica and now in Argentina with Magellanic Plover and Woodpecker
4 Ashley Banwell English 1732 1540 in South America
5 Mike Haldeman USA 1728 Stygian Owl & Keel-billed Motmot in Belize, Foothill Antwren, Royal Cinclodes in se Peru, 400+ life birds in Australia incl. Chestnut-breasted Whiteface, and Gray, Black, Pied, Regent, and Eungellla Honeyeaters
6 Ron Hoff USA 1597 Galapagos and NW Ecuador - 3 new Antpittas, Pacific Tuftedcheek.
7 Nick Athanas USA 1562 29/12/03: Ecuador, Peru, Nigeria
8 Ian Sinclair 1510 Madagascar, Mauritius, Cameroon, Southern Africa, Angola, Tanzania and Cape Town pelagics..Buller's, Sth & Nth Royal albaytrosses...
9 Rafael G. Campos-Ramirez Costa Rica 1418 Countries visited: Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, USA (FL, NY, NJ,NH). Updated: 28 October 2003
10 Clare Moger British 1401 Ocellated Tapaculo, Scaled Fruiteater, Cryptic Forest-Falcon, Banded Pitta. As at 31/12/03.
11 Dollyann Myers USA 1318 Eastern Bolivia
12 Janos Olah Jr. Hungarian 1286 North-Central Peru, Thailand, Hungary
13 Peter Kaestner USA 1282 Dec 2003, Noronha Elaenia and Vireo, three boobies, Fernando de Noronha, Brazil (of these, 1062 were from Brazil)
14 Timothy Boucher South African 1257 2003 - Peru, Chile, South Africa, Paraguay, Palau, Ecuador, Brazil, USA
15 Bob Stinger British 1226 U.K,Gambia,N.Z,Thailand,Austria,Hungary,Slovakia, Mexico (Yuc Pen), Sri Lanka
16 Jan Stinger British 1144 UK,Gambia,Thailand,Austria,Hungary,Slovakia,Mexico (Yuc Pen), Sri Lanka
17 Dave Sargeant British 1128 Last Upd: 31-Dec-2003: Last new bird of the year - American Golden Plover in Oman. Visited Thailand, Japan, Oman, Holland. Uganda and Rwanda in 2003.
18 Claes-Göran Cederlund Swedish 1124 Sweden,Mexico,Brazil,New Caledonia,Vanuatu,Fiji,Tonga,W.Samoa Updated Nov 03
19 Brian Fletcher Australian/British 1096 mainly Australia, Kenya, France, Guatemala ,western North America (Vancouver, Alaska, Nevada and California) and Hawaii
20 Goran Frisk Swedish 1082 Sweden,Hungary,India,Venezuela,Ecuador
21 Skip & Lyn Nelson USA 1033 Slender-billed Curlews in Morocco, Spain, 2-Trips to Ecuador, Washington State & Utah,USA
22 Bob Bailey British 1026 USA, Kenya and UK.
23 Chris Rose British 1024 UK, Florida, Kenya and Scotland
24 Phil Beaver English 955 UK,Jamaica, Cuba , Argentina , Zululand & Gambia updated 30/12/2003
25 Andrew Self UK 953 Costa Rica, Finland & Uganda. Forget the other 952 species, Shoebill is my bird of the year.
26 Han Buckx Dutch 950 Great trip in Ecuador (: 596 species) in November; Canada in July (: Nova Scotia) and The Netherlands
27 Laurens Steijn Netherlands 933 Visited Indonesia (Javan Cochoa, Bali Starling), Switserland (Rock Partridge), South Africa (Rudd's and Botha's Lark, Blue Korhaan, African Finfoot) and The Netherlands
28 Mikael Bauer Swedish 923 Thailand, the Philippines ,Malaysia, Vietnam... best birds included 15 sp. of Pitta, Philippine Eagle, 4 sp Peacock Pheasant, Masked Finfoot , Sooty Babbler
29 Garry George USA 912 NZ, New Caledonia, Fiji, Chile, SE Asia
30 Csaba Lendvai Hungarian 911 Peru, Egypt, Hungary
31 Kees (C.J.G.) Scharringa Netherlands 910 Malaysia (Orange-headed Groundthrush, Black Laughingthrush, Blue-winged Pitta and Garnett Pitta), South Africa, Australia (Origma) and Europe (Canvasback).
32 Peter Carnall South African 884 South Africa,Uganda,Australia,New Zealand.
33 Eduardo Amengual Spanish 828 Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador , Mallorca
34 Peter Bijlmakers Dutch 799 Burkina Faso, Ghana, Uganda, South Africa, Germany, Netherlands, Canary Islands
35 Kevin Vang Australia/Norway/USA 723 Fiji 09/11; New Zealand 10; New Caledonia 06-03, India, Nepal, Viet Nam, Poland, UK, Australia
36 Alex Lees British 710 2 1/2 months working at Cristalino Jungle Lodge: SCALED GROUND-CUCKOO, Cryptic Forest-falcon, Guianan Gnatcatcher, Zig-zag Heron, Grey-bellied Goshawk, Noble Antthrush, Spotted Tanager, Thrush-like Antpitta and Brown-banded Puffbird. Little effort in the UK but self-found Red-eyed Vireo (St Martins) and co-found Bobolink (Bryher), also on Scillies: Little Crake, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Pied Wheatear and Rustic Bunting. Blyth's Pipit in Notts and Pallas's, Sardinian and Dusky Warblers in Norfolk.
37 Nick Upton British 631 Thailand + SE England
38 Justin Jansen Holland 597 31/12/03 Yellow-eyed Stock-dove, yellow-breasted Tit, Ibisbill, Gurney's Pitta, Normanns Greenshank, Chinese Egret etc And 4 new editions to my dutch list: Orhean Warbler, Canvasback, Trumpetter Finch and Forster Tern!
39 Steve Lister British 573 England, two weeks in northern India in March, two weeks in SW Spain in May, and two weeks in The Azores in October.
40 Andy Gibb British 564 Pallas's Warbler at Auchmithie; Brambling and Waxwing in Angus; Bewick's Swan at Welney; Crested Tit at Loch Garten.
41 Julian Thomas British 562 Namibia, Spain and Britain. Herero Chat, Ruppell's and Northern Black Korhaans, Wallcreeper, Black Lark, Great Bustard, Spanish Imperial Eagle.
42 Rob Batchelder USA 560 Argentina, Colorado, Eastern Shore of Virginia. Best birds of the year: Gentoo Penguin, Torrent Duck, Black-fronted Piping-Guan, American Painted-snipe, Gray-breasted and Least Seedsnipes, Sabine's Gull (CO), Magellanic Horned and Striped Owls, White-eared Puffbird, Cream-backed and Magellanic Woodpeckers, Short-tailed Antthrush, Sandy Gallito, Red-ruffed Fruitcrow, Crested Doradito, Black-and-White Monjita, Strange-tailed Tyrant, Black-capped Danacobius, Black Rosy-Finch (CO), 15 new tanagers, Many-colored Chaco-Finch, Marsh Seedeater, and Yellow Cardinal.
43 Henrik Gustafsson Swedish 533 Sweden Tanzania
44 Georges Olioso French 394 Madeira (Bulwer's Petrel, Little Shearwater, Trocaz Pigeon, Canary, etc.)
45 Richard Wood American 274 Black-capped Vireo Texas only 7/22/2003
46 Jill Wood American 270 Black-capped Vireo Texas only 7/22/2003

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