Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings

2005 Young Birder's Year List Showing Records 1 through 41 of 41 Total Records Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights 1 Ryan Terrill Californian 950 Give or take 50 or so. I'll add it up soon enough. Indonesia, Thailand, Costa Rica (twice), California. Satanic Nightjar, Minahassa Masked Owl, Wallace's Standardwing Bird-of-Paradise, Black-Tailed Crake, Resplendant Quetzal, Mangrove Hummingbird, Fiery-Throated Hummingbird, etc etc etc 2 Olivier Barden Canada - Québec 823 See life list for highlights of trip to South America. Vermont: Black-tailed Gull (10/23). Quebec highlights: Common Teal, Barnacle Goose, Great Cormorant, Ruff, Manx Shearwater, Black-headed Gull, Eurasian Wigeon x 5, Townsend's Solitaire, Northern Wheatear, Gyrfalcon, Boreal Owl, Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Dovekie, Thick-billed Murre, Slaty-backed Gull (11/15), Anna's Hummingbird (11/18) 3 Ryan Merrill USA - WA 668 (349 ABA) Primarily birded MA this year (279), highlights: Magnificent Frigatebird, 2+ Wilson's Plovers, Curlew Sandpiper, California & Franklin's Gull, Sandwich Tern, Townsend's Solitaire, Varied Thrush, Golden-winged, Yellow-throated & Prothonotary Warblers. WA: 176 including Baikal Teal. Also: Black-tailed Gull in VT, many great birds in Ecuador 4 Mike Harvey NH, USA 620 (8/24) Panama: Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo, Snowcap, Black-crowned Antpitta, Tacarcuna Bush-Tanager, etc. NH: Rufous Hummingbird, Yellow-throated Warbler. NY: Gyrfalcon, Mountain Bluebird 5 Robert Furrow USA - PA 600 (320 ABA) Final post (12/28). Numbers are approximate. Highlights include King Vulture, Scarlet Macaw, Volcano Hummingbird, Turquoise-browed Motmot, Skylark, Long-tailed Tit, Flame-throated Warbler, Scarlet-thighed Dacnis, and Yellow-rumped Cacique. Latest: Rough-legged hawk (12/27) and Northern Shrike (12/18) 6 Andy Boyce USA: Colorado 517 (410 ABA) 11/26 7 Erik Enbody MI 480 ABA Northern Saw-whet Owl and Boreal Chickadee a great way to end this most excellent of years. Visited TX, NJ, GA, FL, SD, and WA 8 Sean Fitzgerald WI - USA 462 12/31/05 - trips to South Texas, coastal Alaska, and El Paso/New Mexico area/Guadeloupe Mtn, TX (287 WI) 9 Ross Gallardy Pa 440 (aba area) Trip to FL:almost all of the possible specialties at this time, FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER & Snail Kite(lifers of the trip) 10 Oscar Johnson USA-Mexico 438 (421 ABA, 385 CA) Last post. California: Baikal Teal, Rufous-backed Robin, Smith's Longspur, 2 Cook's Petrels (1 self-found), Glossy Ibis, Common Black-Hawk, Mississippi Kite, Thick-billed Kingbird, 3 Dusky-capped Flycatchers, 4 Red-billed Tropicbirds, Tricolored Heron, 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons, Greater Pewee, Sedge Wren, Broad-billed Hummminbird, American Golden-Plover, 2 Fulvous Whistling-Ducks, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, 2 Sprague's Pipits, 2 Ruff, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Philadelphia Vireo (self-found), 28 warblers including Red-faced, Pine, Worm-eating, Blackburnian, Black-throated Blue, 2 Hooded, Painted Redstart, Ovenbird. Baja California: Ruby-throated Hummingbird (1st state record), 5 of 6 endemics. 11 Michael Woodruff WA -- USA 422 (355 ABA) ABA area (Washington, Oregon, B.C, CA, Idaho, & SE Arizona) and Philippines trip 12 Tom Auer US 414 Final as of 12/31/05. 13 Andy Bankert Florida 408 La Sagra's Flycatcher, Bananaquit, Thick-billed Vireo, Ruff, Masked Booby, Last year bird- Fork-tailed Flycatcher 14 Charlie Wright WA-USA 402 Updated 10/9. WA and OR plus a trip to Baja's Cape District. Baja highlights: Juan Fernandez Petrel!!!, 8 MS Kites, YT Warbler, all the endemics (except junco), many others. 15 Daniele Mitchell Canadian 350 (260 Can) 10/02 NB: SP Skua, Pomarine, Parasitic Jaeger, Red Phalarope, Greater/Sooty Shearwater, Lark Sparrow 16 Alex Harper Florida, USA 340 Updated 12/26; ABA 253 in FL; ABA and BOU 99 life birds for the year, 20 in FL. Highlights: Manx Shearwater, Greater Scaup, White-rumped Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, ten gull species, Roseate Tern (both ABA and BOU), Arctic Tern, Groove-billed Ani, Lesser Nighthawk, Eurasian Nightjar, Buff-bellied Hummingbird, La Sagra's Flycatcher, Thick-billed Vireo, Common Chough, forty-one warbler species (33 wood-warblers, eight old world warblers), Vesper Sparrow. 17 Neil Gilbert Michigan - USA 331 85 lifers so far this year. September highlights: Buff-breasted Sandpiper; Willet; Red-necked Phalarope; Wilson's Phalarope; Western Sandpiper; Connecticut Warbler; American Pipit; ANHINGA; GULL-BILLED TERN; Surf Scoter; Harris's Sparrow; Red-throated Loon; White-winged Scoter; Merlin; Barred Owl. October Highlights: Thumb Trip on 10/1, tons of new county birds for St. Clair, Sanilac, and Huron Counties. St. Clair: Peregrine Falcon, Dunlin, late Spotted Sandpiper, Rusty Blackbird, Palm Warbler. Sanilac County: Wilson's Snipe, Greater Yellowlegs, American Pipit, Savannah Sparrow, Field Sparrow. Huron County: Wilson's Snipe, Greater Yellowlegs, Philly Vireo, both Kinglets, Black-thrted Green and Blue Warblers. 18 Josh RM Jones Western Palearctic 310 (ish) All UK except five days in France in which only 1 was spent birding. Highlights: Caspian, Lesser-crested, Sooty, Whiskered, Black, Common, Arctic, Roseate, Gull-billed, Little and Sandwich Terns! Latest tern: White-winged Black! 19 Andrew Sigerson NJ-USA 302 November Highlights: Rufous Hummingbird, Pomarine Jaeger, Harlequin Duck NJ Yearlist 20 Karl Fairchild Oregon 256 (Oregon only) 21 Tim Baerwald Michigan (Mostly Berrien County) 255(over all) 240(Michigan) 230(Berrien County) WW Scoter,4 Great & 5 Lesser BB Gulls, Wood Duck, YR Warb, Am. Pipit, 2 Killdeer, 1st W Bald Eagle & ESOW in my back yard,6 Thayers Gull,6 Glaucous Gull, Iceland Gull. Weekend trip up north-SE Owl,GG Owl, NH Owl, WW Crossbill, Boreal Chickadee, ST Grouse, LT Duck, etc. Missed Gray Jay. didnt know about the rosy-finch. Snow Goose, Brewers Blackbird, GOLDEN EAGLE, Goshawk, other stuff, missed the Black Vulture agian, got 9 AM.WHITE PELICANS though! LITTLE GULL!! and ROSS'S GOOSE at Three Oaks sewage ponds. GW Warbler +13 other species 5/6, Kentucky/Chat/Clay-colored Sparrow 5/9, heading to pelee 5/11. Marbled Godwit, Kirtlands Warbler, YC Nightheron, Glossy Ibis, Brandon Holden, Worm-eating Warbler, Summer Tanager etc-Point Pelee in May. EC Doves, SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER, CHUCK-WILLS WIDOW!!!Big Day-5/21=147 species. Mockingbird/BB Cuckoo. Carolinia Chickadee/Swiansons Warb-Apalachitan Trail, VA. Willet 7/12, Bairds Sandpiper 7/13. Yea I got a Curlew Sandpiper. AM. AVOCET!!!! Parasitic Jaeger/Piping Plover. updated 8/21/05 22 David Roche UK 235 Latest = Marsh Sandpiper and Lesser Crested Tern both as lifers at Minsmere!!! Arctic Skua, Arctic Tern and Yellow Legged Gull as other Year ticks definately the right place to choose...... mind you if had got south Stack I would be watching the Tern!! 23 Josh Jones British 235 - Great Britain only Latest: Trumpeter Finch and Willow Tit 24 Joe Cockram English 234 25 Brandon Holden Ontario, Canada 229 www.PeregrinePrints.com Finally updated the List. Glossy Ibis, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Kirtland's Warbler, 2 Eurasian Wigeons (my old nemisis ;) ) etc. etc. 26 Jonathan Clarke British 224 BOU Back in the Midlands now so less tickin & birdin in general! 34 yr ticks thanks to a few crackin but hectic days in East Anglia! 172 in Wales! 9 gull sp in Aberystwyth inc a stonkin Iceland! & 9 BOP's at the local Patch inc Marsh Harrier & Goshawk, Also the 3 Diver sp in Mid Wales too! Loads of summer stuff plus a few twitches UTB now ive got some wheels!! 27 David Bell Canadian 217 Birded in Ontario, California, Manitoba a bit. 28 Carlos Ross USA 215 62 lifers in Japan; Baird's Sandpiper in Arizona 29 Dennis Riederer Switzerland 211 Latest: Laughing Gull 1st for Switzerland!!! and Great Black-backed Gull. Cattle Egret, Spoonbill, Brent Goose, Great Snipe, Marsh Sandpiper, Zitting Cisticola, Subalpine Warbler, Woodchat Shrike, Snow Bunting, Little Bunting, Trumpeter Finch First for Switzerland in Avril!! 30 Christopher Langsdon London 191 White Rumped Sand at East Tillbury 31 Danny Heptinstall UK - Yorkshire 190 Latest (17/09) LEACH'S STORM PETREL highlights so far - DRAKE SMEW!!!, Spoonbill, GREAT GREY SHRIKE!!!, 8 BLACK TERNS @ local patch, ROSE COLOURED STARLING, LSWOODY, Drake Garganey, all the gr8 scottish stuff, GREENISH WARBLER, PEC SAND, LITTLE STINT, Artic Skua, Sooty + Manx Shearwater!!! ringed Kestrel (02/07) ringed MERLIN!!! 15th species ringed 32 Kris Gibb Scottish 176 STILT SAND (NORFOLK) and LESSER SCAUP... Latest: Temminck's Stint, Surf Scoter(drake), L-R Plover, Little Stint and Buff-breasted Sandpiper. 33 Luke DeCicco Alaskan 161 California, a wee bit out of the hotel window and a day out birding, 126 in AK 34 Tim Jones English 146 Tons 35 Daryl Coldren Sacramento, CA 141 36 Oliver Metcalf English 132 18/2/05 Geese in Norfolk, Greenland White Front, Bean Goose, Snow Goose+ Arctic Redpoll, and Waxwing around house and school, aswell as finding Iceland Gull 37 Brandon US 112 38 Heidi Trudell TX/USA 93 ....how low i can keep my list and how strange can the birds be? ....purple gallinule & northern hawk owl... sure. 39 Ben Griffith NH-USA 76 Harris' Sparrow, Great Gray Owl, Yelow-throated Warbler. Latest update 1/9/05. 40 Bill Alexson VA (U.S.) 45 Anybody ever covered 71.5 miles over a 10-hour Christmas Bird Count? 41 Robert George Morris Cymro Welsh British 24 Teal and Goldeneye at the Spinnies in Bangor,North Wales Not entered in these rankings and want to enter yourself? 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