Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings

World Life List Rankings Showing Records 1 through 50 of 633 Total Records NEXT Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights 1 Tom Gullick British 8792 New species include: White-winged and Rufous Potoo, White-winged Nightjar, Lesser Northura, Cone-billed Tanager, Black-chested Tyrant, Klages's Antwren, Undulated Antshrike, Cinereous Warbling Finch 2 jon hornbuckle British 8565 Cornell updates +15, -3. Laos Oct 09: Bare-faced Bulbul. Jan 2010: all 39 Micronesian endemics including Guam Rail and Palau Owl 3 Hugh Buck British 8507 Dec 09 Cornell updates +23 - 4, Nov-Dec 09 Guyana: Red-legged Tinamou, Black-faced Hawk, White-winged Potoo, Sun Parakeet, Hoary-throated Spinetail, Rio Branco Antbird, Dusky Purpletuft, Guianan Red Cotinga, Crimson Fruitcrow, Bearded Tachuri. Crested Doradito, Olive-green Tyrannulet, Red Siskin. Nov 09 Suriname: Marail Guan, Rufous Crab-Hawk, Guianan Piculet, Blood-coloured Woodpecker, White-fronted Manakin, Blue-backed Tanager, Finsch's Euphonia. Oct 09 Algeria: Algerian Nuthatch. Tunisia: African Desert Warbler. 4 Phoebe Snetsinger USA 8400 + Last lifer was Red-shouldered Vanga, Madagascar Nov'99 5 Philip Rostron British 8320 Dec 09 - Cornell/Clements updates Nov 09 - Chile - Puna Tinamou, Horned Coot, Slender-billed Parakeet, Rufous-legged Owl, all those nice Tapaculos, Creamy-rumped Miner, Red-backed Sierra-Finch Oct 09 - NE Argentina - Stygian Owl, Sickle-winged Nightjar, Bearded Tachuri, Strange-tailed Tyrant, Chestnut, Rufous-rumped, Marsh and Dark-throated Seedeaters. July 09 - Tibet - Szechenyi's Monal-Partridge, Przevalski's Partridge, Pere David's Owl, Henderson's Ground-Jay, AlaShan Redstart, Kozlov's Bunting, Roborovski's Rosefinch 6 Martin Edwards Canadian 8264 2009 Dec update (+17);2009 Nov-Dec Guyana,Sun Parakeet,White-winged Potoo,Hoary-throated Spinetail, Bearded Tachuri,Todd's Antwren;2009 Sep South Africa, Taita Falcon, Barlow's and 8 other new larks, Kimberley Pipit;2009 June NW Mexico Thick-billed and Maroon-fronted Parrots,Eared Quetzal,Tufted and Purplish-backed Jays,Sinaloa Martin,Aztec Thrush,Worthen's Sparrow;2009 April Guerrero Mexico,Banded Quail,Balsas Screech-Owl,Eared Poorwill,Short-crested Coquette,Sierra Madre Sparrow;April Colorado,Dusky Grouse etc.,Pinyon Jay, Black Rosy-Finch 7 Peter Kaestner USA 8196 July 09 Koko Nur, NE Tibet: Pink-tailed Bunting, three Snowfinches, Ground Tit, Henderson's Ground Jay. May 09 Assam Pale-capped Pigeon, Chestnut-backed LT, Marsh babbler, Jerdon's Babbler, Black-breasted Parrotbill, Swamp Prinia. Apr 09 Fulvous Parrotbill, Bhutan, Brown-capped Babbler Sri Lanka. 8 C J Pollard USA 8182 October 2008: Comoro endemics; Helmet Vanga, Sakalava Rail, Madagascar Pochard, Madagascar Red Owl 9 Alan Greensmith Independent 8094 2 Feb.2010. Brown-banded, Bicolored, Fenwicks and Moustached Antpittas and Noble Snipe in Colombia. 19 Nov.2009. Gray-naped Antpitta. 30 Sept.2009. Latest Maracaibo Tody-Flycatcher, Falcon, Venezuela. 15 Sept. 2009. Hoary-throated Spinetail, Brazil/Guyana border last new one. 17 August 2009. Lesser Antilles from Martinique and Barbuda to Grenada. 31 July 2009. Guianan Gnatcatcher, Golden-sided Euphonia etc. in French Guiana. 19 July 2009. Up to leaving Brazil. 14 July 2009. Birding in South America for the last two years, visiting Ecuador (6 months), Peru (8 months), Bolivia (5 months), Chile (1 week), Argentina (3 months) and Brazil (3 months and counting!). Seen 33 species of Tinamous including Solitary, Hooded, Taczanowski's, Dwarf and Quebracho Crested, 24 Grallaria Antpitta's including Giant, Ochre-striped, Pale-billed, Red-and-white, Jocotoco and Rufous-faced, and 29 Scytalopus Tapaculo's inc. Large-footed, Ancash, Marsh and Diademed. 10 Joe Thompson USA 8073 Colombia Jan 2010: Yellow-headed Manakin, Red-bellied Grackle; Ecuardor Oct. 2009: Brown Wood-Rail, Giant and Moustached Antpittas, Orange-breasted Fruiteater, Five-colored Barbet, Cloud-forest Pygmy-Owl, Berlepsch's Tinamou; Ecuador Feb 2009: Peruvian Antpitta (San Isidro), Greater Scythebill (Guacamayos Ridge Trail), Jocotoco Antpitta, Andean Potoo---finally! (Tapichalaca), Orange-throated Tanager (Cabanas Yankuam) 11 Bob Bates USA 8024 Oct/Nov 2009 Oman: Jouanin's Petrel, Persian Shearwater, Socotra Cormorant, Arabian and Sand Partridges, Spotted Sandgrouse, Forbes-Watson Swift, Hume's Owl, Menetries's Warbler, Oman's first Dusky Warbler, Arabian Babbler. Bahrain: Hypocolius (two flocks totalling 16) feeding at site near destroyed old roost, locals will try to locate new roost. Clements updates. 12 Claes-Göran Cederlund Swedish 8024 Updated 20 Dec 2009. Strictly Clements. Latest trips Peru in Nov-Dec and Lesser Sundas in Sept. 13 Sebastian Hogberg Swedish, based in Myanmar 8016 Highlights 2007: North and central Angola with Grey-striped Francolin Gabela helmet-shrike, Gabela Akalat, Gabela Bush-shrike, Monteiro bush-shrike, Orange-breasted bush-shrike, Pulitzer Longbill, White-headed Robin-chat (in a new locality) and white-fronted wattle-eye in february; Southeastern Myanmar with White-fronted scops-owl in March 14 Jon Jihiz USA 8012 Northern Somalia, March 06 with Somali Pigeon, Somali Thrush, Warsangli Linnet, Archer's Lark (seen 40km north of the listed range) + nine new species records for Somalia; Sangihe and closeby Islands, June 06 with all endemics; Sao Tome and Principe, September with Dwarf Olive Ibis, Sao Tome sunbird, Sao Tome grosbeak and Sao Tome Fiscal; Makira (Solomon Islands), October 06 to complete my Solomon list and to get the last endemics (missed the moorhen though) 15 Mark Van Beirs Belgian 7931 15 Jan 2010: Bogota Rail, Black Inca, White-mantled Barbet, Brown-banded Antpitta, Gold-ringed Tanager and Masked Saltator in Central Colombia. 2 October 09: Powerful Owl and Lewin's Rail in Australia and Woodford's Rail in the Solomon Islands. 15 August 09: Purus Jacamar, Scarlet-hooded Barbet, Peruvian Recurvebill, Red-and-white Antpitta, White-cheeked Cotinga and Rufous-backed and Great Inca-Finches in Peru. 16 Dave Sargeant British 7511 Last upd: Jan-10. Trips to New Guinea, ne India, Cambodia, Malaysia and Tibet in 2009. Taiwan, Cyprus, Jordan and Philippines in 2008. Willianm's Lark, Friedmann's Lark, Masked Lark, Nairobi Pipit, Somali Sparrow, Star-spotted Nightjar and Malindi Pipit in Kenya. Mongolian Finch, Iraq Babbler and Caucasian Grouse in Turkey (2007). Relict Gull, Scaly-sided Merganser, and Tristram's Bunting in Korea (2006). Kagu, New Caledonia Grassbird, Vanuatu Scrubfowl, Mao, and Rarotonga Monarch.in the Pacific (2006) Beesley's Lark, Uluguru Bushshrike, and Kilombero Weaver in Tanzania (2006). Basra Reed-Warbler in Oman (2006). Tawny fish-Owl, Rock Bush-Quail and Brook’s Warbler in India (2006). Socotra Bunting in Yemen (2006). Hume's Pheasant in Thailand (2006). Meller's Duck, Bernier's Teal, Madagascar Long-eared Owl, Yellow-bellied Sunbird-Asity, Madagascar Snipe, and Short-legged Ground-Roller in Madagascar (2005). 17 Keith Turner british 7421 18 Jonathan Rossouw South African 7360 Dec 09: Shore Plover & a sea full of Chatham Albies, beaut days at Bounty, Antipodes & Enderby; Fiji cleanup, incl Long-legged Warbler and, best of all, 2 FIJI PETRELS; Outback Australia, incl Cape York specialties plus Carpentarian, Kalkadoon, White-throated & Black Grasswrens; Jan 09 Maui Parrotbill, Akohekohe, Akiapola'au & clean sweep of other (definitely extant) Hawaiian endemics; Tasmania endemics plus Orange-bellied Parrot; Nov 08 New Zealand endemics; Oct 08 Niaufo'ou Megapode, Atiu Swiftlet in S Pacific; Aug 08 Lowland Akalat & Grey Ground Thrush in Gabon 19 Gerald Broddelez Belgian 7315 Latest highlights include:Marvelous Spatuletail, Long-wattled Umbrellabird, Jocotoco Antpitta, White-winged Guan in S Ecua&N Peru, Cape Eagle Owl, Fairy Flycatcher, Protea Canary etc in South Africa, Tibetan Snowfinch, Solitary Snipe, Ibisbill, Great and Streaked Rosefinch in Ladakh while leading Naturetreks first and successful Snow Leopard trip! Dusky Thrush in Belgium!Rufous Owl down under, Hyancinth Macaw, Matto Grosso Antbird, Bare-faced Curassow in Pantanal ,Himalayan Monal; Satyr Tragopan, Black-tailed Crake, Ward's Trogon, Rufous-necked Hornbill, Yellow-rumped Honeyguide, Red-faced Liocichla,Fire-tailed Myzornis, Beautiful Nuthtach etc in Bhutan ,Gundlach's Hawk in Cuba Guianan Cock-of-the Rock, Blood-coloured Woodpecker,Capuchinbird in Guyana, Frasers Eagle Owl, Black-headed Bee-eater ,Bates Nightjar, Lyre-tailed Honeyguide, Red-billed Quailfinch and Black-faced Canary in Gabon, Serendib Scops Owl, Spot-bellied Eagle-owl, Green-billed Coucal,Sri Lanka Frogmouth in Sri Lanka, Choco Tinamou,Pirre Hummingbird,Tody Motmot,Beautiful Treerunner,Pirre Warbler(Panama) Harpy Eagle, Zigzag Heron,Black-necked Red Cotinga,Salvin's Curassow,Ecuadorian Rail,Pavonine Quetzal,White-plumed Antbird(Ecuador) clements tax 20 John Penhallurick Australian 7291 Pemba Green Pigeon,Pemba Scops Owl,Scheffler's Barred Owlet,Usambara Nightjar,Boehm's Bee-eater,Ruaha Hornbill,Eastern Green Tinkerbird,Brown-breasted Barbet,Pallid Honeyguide,Speckle-throated Woodpecker,Mombasa Woodpecker,Uluguru Mountain Greenbul,Stripe-faced Greenbul,Spot-throat,Usambara Akalat,White-chested Alethe,Arnott's White-headed Chat,Coastal Cisticola,Black-lored Cisticola,Stierlings Wren-Warbler,Chapin's Apalis,White-winged Apalis,Long-billed Tailorbird,African Tailorbird,Grenn-capped Eremomela,Livingstone's Flycacther,White-tailed Crested Flycatcher,Eastern Black-headed Batis,Black-throated Wattle-eye,Black-fronted Bush-Shrike,Uluguru Bush-Shrike,Fuelleborn's Black Boubou,Green-headed Oriole,Kenrick's Starling,Southern Blue-eyed Starling,Ashy Starling,Uluguru Violet-backed Sunbird,Banded Green Sunbird,Usambara Double-collared Sunbird,Loveridge's Sunbird,Pemba Sunbird,Swahili Sparrow,Bertram's Weaver,Taveta Golden Weaver,Kilombero Weaver,Usambara Weaver,Broad-tailed Paradise-Whydah,Southern Citril,Rufous-tailed Weaver,Steel-blue Whydah,Grey-breasted Spurfowl,Grey-crested Helmet-Shrike,Buff-belied Penduline-Tit,Rufous-bellied Tit,Short-tailed Lark,Beesley's Lark,Sombre Nightjar,Abbott's Starling,Grey-Olive Greenbul 21 Dollyann Myers USA 7266 NE Brazil Nov/Dec 2009 22 David Shackelford USA 7230 2010 Highlights - Siberian Crane, Short-tailed and Reed Parrotbills, and Scaly-sided Merganser in SE China; Pallid Scops-Owl and Hooded Wheatear in UAE; Smith’s Longspur in Texas; next to Gabon and Cameroon… 2009 Highlights - Rufous-winged Ground-Cuckoo, Sun Parakeet, Crestless Curassow, White-winged Potoo, and Crimson Fruitcrow in Guyana; Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl and Coral-billed Ground Cuckoo in Thailand; White-winged Duck in Assam; Three-banded Rosefinch in Bhutan; Spectacled Eider and Kittlitz’s Murrelet in Alaska; Lovely Cotinga and Keel-billed Motmot in Honduras; Dusky Grasswren and Spinifex Pigeon in Australia; Wallace’s Owlet-Nightjar and Black-mantled Goshawk in Papua New Guinea; Ashy Storm-Petrel in California; Red-billed Streamertail and Crested Quail-Dove in Jamaica; Magellanic Horned Owl in Patagonia; Rufous-throated Dipper and Horned Hoot in NW Argentina. 23 Jürgen Lehnert German 7193 December 09/January 10 Northeast and Central Brazil: Highlights were White-collared Kite, Little Wood-Rail, Pfrimer’s Parakeet, Bahian Nighthawk, Kaempfer’s Woodpecker, Alagoas Foliage-gleaner, Chestnut-capped Foliage-gleaner, Moustached Woodcreeper, Hooded Gnateater, Bahian Tapaculo, Stresemann’s Bristlefront (on Christmas day), Reiser’s Tyrannulet, Minas Gerais Tyrannulet, Crimson-fronted Cardinal and Forbes’s Blackbird. 24 David Fisher British 7150 Updated 7 Feb 2010. Latest highlights were on a Sunbird tour to Southern India & the Andamans led by Paul Holt. Best birds Ceylon Bay Owl and Andaman Crake. 25 Ron Hoff USA 7129 NE Brazil Nov/Dec 2009 26 David Narins US 7030 The following seen in Ecuador; trip terminating on the 11th of September, 2004 Rufous-chested Wood-Quail, Rufous Potoo, Choco Poorwill, Green Thorntail, Mountain Avocetbill, White-chested Puffbird, Powerful Woodpecker, Yellow-browed Antbird, Yellow-breasted Antpitta, Golden-chested Tanager, Blue-whiskered Tanager, 27 Pete Morris British 6973 Updated August 2009 following great trip to Northern Peru - Ochre-fronted Antpitta led the way! 28 Brian Gee British 6914 2008 Highlights – Superb Pitta, Crested Berrypecker, Twelve-wired, King-of Saxony & Blue B-o-Ps, Southern Crowned-Pigeon, Bronze Ground-Dove, Shovel-billed, Hook-billed & New Britain Kingfishers, Little & Brown-headed Paradise-Kingfishers, Dwarf Cassowary, Salvadori’s Teal, New Guinea Eagle, Jungle, Manus, Bismark & New Britain Hawk-Owls, three sp Jewel-Babbler, both Melampittas, Wattled Ploughbill, Blue-capped Ifrita, etc. 2009 Northern Hawk Owl, Sibe Jay, Ridgway’s Hawk, WI Whistling-Duck, Ashy-faced Owl, Least Poorwill, Elfin Woods Warbler 29 Bjorn Anderson Swedish, living in Panama 6880 16 Jan. 2010 Highlights: Jamaica bag. Galapagos bag. 2009 highlights: Ecuador w Umbrellabird, Ocellated Tapaculo, Tanager-Finch, Masked Mountain-Tanager, Beautiful Jay, Orange-br Fruiteater & Angel´s Antpitta hat trick (Giant, Moustached and Yellow-breasted). Peru w Plantcutter, Chatham Albatross, Ringed Storm-Petrel & Rufous-breasted Warbling-Finch, 2 visits to Dominican Rep (Ridgway´s Hawk, Ashy-faced Owl, Palmchat (last family!), Golden Swallow, WI Wh-Duck), 4 visits to Guatemala (Horned Guan, Azure-rumped Tanager, Blue-thr Motmot, Pink-headed Warbler, Orange-br Falcon), 2 visits to Costa Rica (Scaled Antpitta & Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager), Cuba (Zapata Wren & Sparrow, Bee Hummer, 4 spp Quail-Dove), Barbabos (Bullfinch), Colombia (Santa Marta specialties incl new Screech-Owl, Bogota Rail, Apolinar´s Wren, Antioquia Bristle-Tyrant), Panama (Chiriqui Yellowthroat, Yellow-eared Toucanet , Black-crowned Antpitta, Sapayoa, Veraguan Mango, Tacarcuna Bush-Tanager, Black Antshrike, Purplish-backed Quail-Dove, Rufous-crested Coquette, Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo, Stripe-cheeked Woodp). 30 Ian Lewis British 6871 Clements taxonomy. 2009 - all Yemen and Socotra endemics and a life bird free trip to Spitzbergen 31 Alan Lewis British 6832 Clements (including Dec 2009 update): Highlights of 2009: Jan 09 Montserrat Oriole, Bridled Quail-dove, Barbuda Warbler; April 09 UAE - Barbary Falcon, Pallid Scops Owl, Panay & Negros - Walden's Hornbill, Negros Bleeding-heart, Negros Striped Babbler; North Peru & Lima - July-August: White-winged Guan, 4 Inca-finches, male Ochre-fronted Antpitta, point blank Barred Antthrush, close views of Rusty-tinged and Chestnut Antpittas, Spatuletail, Grey-bellied Comet, White-bellied Cinclodes; 58 new in NZ South Island and subantarctic islands in Nov-Dec 2009 including Orange-fronted Parakeet, King Shag, Black Stilt, 3spp Kiwi, Auckland & Campbell Island Teals (latter unringed!), Magenta & Chatham Island Petrels, Antipodes Parakeet, Shore Plover, Subantartic Snipe; 18 splits in Clements 2009 update, the best probably Pernambuco Foliage-gleaner 32 Richard Rowland British 6831 Clements Taxonomy. Nov. 09. 29 ticks on the Sub-antarctic islands of N.Z. and Australia trip. 33 Josep del Hoyo Spanish 6794 Sept, 2007: Giant Antpitta, Rufous Potoo & Dark-backed Wood-Quail in Ecuador. See videos of these and many more in the Internet Bird Collection (IBC). 34 Jan Vermeulen The Netherlands 6609 Bogota Rail, Santa Marta & Flame-winged Parakeet, Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird, Blossomcrown, Black Inca, White-tailed Starfrontlet, White-mantled Barbet, Santa Marta Toucanet, Rusty-headed, Silvery-throated & Streak-capped Spinetail, Santa Marta & Cundinamarca Antpitta, Brown-rumped & Matorral Tapaculo, Antioquia Bristle-Tyrant, Santa Marta Bush-Tyrant, Apical Flycatcher, Apolinar's & Niceforo's Wren, Yellow-crowned Redstart, White-lored Warbler, Santa Marta Mountain-Tanager, Velvet-fronted Euphonia, Santa Marta & Olive-headed Brush-Finchand Mountain Grackle were the 29 endemics I saw on a trip to Colombia in November 2007. 35 Erik Molgaard DANISH 6600 Trip Papua New Guinea 36 Luke Fazio Canadian 6545 2007-Silktail, Kandavu Fantail; Noisy Scrubbird, Origma; Kagu', New Caledonia Grassbird, Crow Honeyeater, Cloven-feathered Dove; 2008 Villaral Flycatcher, Mishana Tyrannulet, Zimmer's Woodcreeper 37 joseph brooks usa 6493 July 09 : Sabah, Borneo -all 6 possible Pittas, Bornean Ground Cuckoo, Hose's Broadbill, Whitehead's trio, Everett's, Orange headed & Chestnut capped Thrushes,Fruithunters, Pygmy Ibon,Mountain Serpent Eagle, White fronted Falconet, Red Breasted, Chestnut necklaced & Crimson headed Partridges, White crowned Hornbill, & Mountain, Bornean & Black throated Wren Babblers.... April 09 : Arunachal Pradesh & Assam - Blue naped Pitta, Ward's Trogon, Cachar & Sikkim Wedge Billed Babblers,Blyth's Kingfisher, Grandala, Rusty throated Wren Babbler, Myzornis, Bugun Liocichla, Purple Cochoa. August 08: Sumba-Elegant Pitta,Sumba Hornbill. Timor-Black banded Flycatcher,Timor Black Pigeon,Chestnut backed & Orange banded Thrushes. Flores-Chestnut capped Thrush, White browed Shortwing,White rumped Kingfisher. 38 Ashley Banwell english 6440 2009:Spangled Owlet Nightjar, Sanfords Bowerbird, Ultramarine Kingfisher, Odedi, Bougainville Crow 2008: Javan Cochoa, Sumatran Ground Cuckoo, White-capped Munia, Buetikoffers Babbler, Sumatran Grey breasted Partridge, Asian Golden Weaver, White-fronted Scops Owl, Northern Cassowary, Wilson's BoP, Brujin's Brush turkey, Red-breasted Paradise KF, Long tailed Paradagalla, Blue-black KF. Victoria and Southern Crowned Pigeons 39 peter maaskant Dutch 6427 rufous-vented ground-cuckoo, beautiful treerunner, black-crowned antpitta (2010), malaysian rail-babbler, cabot's tragopan, chinese crested tern, zino's petrel, noisy scrubbird, little-spotted kiwi, palila (2009) blue-billed curassow, duskystarfrontlet, recurvebilled bushbird, iraq babbler, negros bleeding-heart, walden's hornbill, palawan peacock-pheasant, whiskered pitta, horned guan, short-crested coquette, white-throated jay, (2008) latham's francolin, clarke's weaver, beesley's lark, aberdare cisticola, capuchinbird, helmeted curassow, red-banded fruiteater, finsch's flycatcher-thrush, marmora's wabler, blue-headed quail-dove, crested quail-dove, elfin-woods warbler, ridgway's hawk (2007),conebilled tanager, razorbilled curassow, kaempfer's tody-tyrant, sp. imperial eagle, purple cochoa, sichuan partridge, chinese monal, houbara bustard, long-wattled umbrellabird, zigzag heron, crescent-faced antpitta, pale-headed brushfinch, grey-headed antbird (2006), kagu, crow honeyeater, nc grassbird, swift parrot, red-lored whistler, regent's honeyeater, white-shouldered-, giant ibis, collared-laughingthrush, green cochoa, black-banded owl, magelanic plover, white-throated antpitta (2005), laurel pigeon, scaly groundroller, velvet asity, barau's petrel, redruffed fruitcrow, multicollared tanager, bearded helmetcrest, greynecked rockfowl, mt kupe bushshrike, bannerman's turaco (2004) montezuma quail, rustytinged antpitta, chestnutcrested cotinga, orangethroated tanager, gurney's pitta (2003) cerulean paradise-flycatcher, buff-fronted quaildove, shoebill (2002) cebu flowerpecker, palewinged trumpeter, orange dove, cherrythroated tanager(2001) stewart island kiwi, whitethroated quaildove, heuglin's bustard (2000) 40 John Hopkins British 6380 To 10/10/08 41 David Van den Schoor Belgian 6360 New total after recent trips to Ecuador (November 08) - The Philippines (December 08 - January 09) - Ghana (March 09) - West Papua (July - August 09) - United States (December 09) and Colombia (December 09 - January 10). My list follows the taxonomy, names and sequence of James F. Clements (6th Edition 2007) with a few exceptions of recent taxonomic decisions, updated till 18 December 2009. Species heard only are not counted. 42 Roger Stansfield English 6352 14 Sept 2009 update. Latest trip to China with Jesper Hornskov. Best bird was Przevalski's Rosefinch (final family- until another is spit!). Other highlights included Tibetan Snowcock, Black-capped Kingfisher, White-bellied Redstart, Elliot's Laughingthrush and Chinese Hill Warbler. 77 lifers and 10 new genera. IOC Taxonmy. 43 Stephen F. Bailey USA 6343 Patagonia in Dec. 2009: White-bellied Seedsnipe (completed the family) and Magellanic Plover (penultimate world bird family by Clements 6th Edition taxonomy). 44 Malcolm Roxby British 6331 Colorado June 2008, c50 new species. Southern Patagonia, Argentina, South Georgia and Antarctica Nov/Dec 2008. 45 Garry George USA 6310 Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush, Pied Thrush, Marshall's Iora, Sri Lanka Wood Pigeon, Indian Pitta 46 Terry Witt usa 6208 n argentina - Horned Coot, Cinnamon 47 Fay Enright British 6203 All time top birds: Horned Guan, Wilson’s Bird-of-Paradise, Wallace’s Standardwing, Unspotted Saw-whet, Philippine Eagle, Ivory-breasted & Steere’s Pittas, Shoebill, Chinstrap Penguin, Snow Petrel, Kagu, Marvelous Spatuletail, Cuban Tody, Ruwenzori & Prince Ruspoli’s Turacos, Palm Cockatoo, White-bellied Seedsnipe, Orange-throated & White-capped Tanagers, Golden-backed Mountain-Tanager, Helmet Vanga, Short-crested Coquette, Plains-Wanderer, Kokako, Swallow-tailed Cotinga, Black-and-red Broadbill. 2008/09 Update: Southern Crowned Pigeon, Superb Pitta, Blue & Twelve-wired B-o-Ps, Brown Sicklebill, Ploughbill, Crested Berrypecker, Shovel-billed & Red-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher, Mountain Owlet-Nightjar, Northern Hawk Owl, 3 sp Tody, Antillean Crested Hummer, Elfin Woods Warbler, etc. 48 Dave Chantler USA 6170 Colombia, Mar 08; Blue-billed Curassow,Pavonine Cuckoo,Northern Screamer,Tolima Dove,CHestnut-capped Piha,Red-bellied Grackle 49 Denzil Morgan British 6156 Nov 09 - Great trip to Madagascar - all the ground-rollers,couas,mesites and all available vangas! 50 Barry Wright British 6126 Latest update including the Clements 'thin pickings' and India, best birds Green Avadavat, Forest Owlet, Mottled Wood Owl, Bengal Eagle Owl,Great Indian Bustard, Stoliczas Bushchat, Indian Courser, Dalmatian Pelican, Red-tailed Wheatear etc . Cameroon, a great trip with Mt Kupe and Green breasted BushShrike, Egyptian Plover, Brown-chested Lapwing, Standard winged Nightjar, Quail Plover, Picathartes, Swallow-tailed Kite, Yellow-breasted Boubou, White-throated Francolin, Grey headed and Rufous sided Broadbill, Thrush Babbler and Cricket Warbler. NE India, Bar winged Wren Babbler, Ward's Trogon, Dark rumped Swift, Beautiful Nuthatch, Spot winged Grosbeak, Snow Partridge and Black-breasted Parrotbill. Schneider's and Graceful Pitta, Large Frogmouth and Bay Owl in Sumatra, Giant and White sh Ibis, Chestnut-hd Partridge, White-rumped Falcon, Black-hd Woodpecker and Mekong Wagtail in Cambodia, Prince Ruspoli's Turaco, Rouget's Rail, African Finfoot, Stresseman's Bush Crow in Ethiopia, Brown-banded and Bicolored Antpitta, Multicolored Tanager, Bogota Rail in Colombia, and Hildebrant's Francolin, Hinde's Pied Babbler, Abyssinian Crimsonwing and lots more in Kenya. Not entered in these rankings and want to enter yourself? 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