Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings

West Indies and the Caribbean Life List Rankings Showing Records 1 through 46 of 46 Total Records Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights 1 Craig Faanes USA! 488 Barbuda Warbler, Barbuda, April 25, 2002 2 Larry Manfredi U.S.A. 394 On a recent trip to Grand Bahama 10-3-4, 2009 I added: Yellow-breasted Chat, Clay-colored Sparrow, Red-eyed Vireo, Tennesse Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, TOWNSEND'S WARBLER, Blue Grosbeak, Eastern Wood-Pewee. I did not add but saw a COUNCH'S/TROPICAL KINGBIRD. The bird did not call, darn it! Perhaps from pictures taken we can figure out which species! 3 Alan Greensmith Independent 378 19 November 2009. Seven new in San Andres including San Andres Vireo. Aug. 2009. 58 new in Lesser Antilles. 22 April 2009. Greater Antilles only, plus a week in Barbados. 4 Guy Kirwan English 361 Still all in the Greater Antilles (plus Caymans). Must do Bahamas and Lsr Antilles sometime, and flesh out that list. Great perched looks at Puerto Rican Parrot in spring 2009. All-time highlight Cuban Kite (videotaped with Mike Flieg). 5 Guy Kirwan English 347 all in the Greater Antilles 6 Keith Betton British 332 June 2007: Grenada for Grenada Dove & Grenada Flycatcher, Puerto Rico for all the endemics. 7 Rob Morris English 331 Ridgeway's Hawk and Double-striped Thick-knee DR 2005, Crested Quail-Dove Jan 05, Cuba in March 04 (did NOT see Cuban Kite, Zapata Rail or IB Woodpecker!) but everything else - Blue-headed Quail-Dove the highlight. Other recent and very successful trips to Puerto Rico, Anguilla, Guadeloupe, Dominica etc. 8 Mark Van Beirs Belgian 327 9 Martin Edwards Canadian 321 Adelaide's Warbler,Green Mango,2006 Apr;Vitelline Warbler, Thick-billed Vireo 2006 Feb,Imperial Parrot,Blue-headed Hummingbird,Guadeloupe Woodpecker,Montserrat Oriole April 2005 10 Dave Klauber USA 298 Martinique Oriole, Grenada Flycatcher, Barbados Bullfinch, Little Egret, Black-headed Gull, BB Grassquit, YB Seedeater, another 4 species heard only, still missing Cuba 11 Mark Gawn Canadian resident in Geneva 295 24 afro-eurasian vagrants eg Terek Sandpiper, House Martin; most L. Antillies endemics, not Cuba or DR 12 Peter Kaestner USA 290 May 2000 Zapata Rail, Bee Hummingbird 13 Jeff Peters USA 289 Clements a/o 7/09 - Last lifers: Montserrat (Forest Thrush, Montserrat Oriole), Abaco: Olive-capped Warbler; Best lifers: Puerto Rican Parrot (PR); Ridgway's Hawk, Hispaniolan Quail-Dove (DR); Yellow-breasted Crake (Jamaica) 14 Simon Gawn Canadian 278 March 2009; All of the Jamaican endemics including 8 Jamaican Blackbirds plus Prothonotary and Swainson's Warblers and Lincoln's Sparrow 15 Rick Waldrop USA 277 New for 2006: St. Vincent Parrot, Whistling Warbler, Lesser Antillian Tanager, Grenada Flycatcher, Short-tailed Swift (St. Vincent), Grenada Dove (Grenada), and Yellow-breasted Crake, Black-rumped Waxbill, Java Sparrow, White-winged Parakeet, Bridled Tern, Brown Noddy, American Oystercatcher (Puerto Rico), among others. 16 Claes-Göran Cederlund Swedish 274 Updated 12 June 2005. All gettable Cuban endemics in March-April. 17 E. Massiah British/Barbadian 273 Lesser Antilles only. 18 Steeman Chris Belgium 273 19 Ian Lewis British 273 Greater Antilles only 20 Chris Bradshaw British 262 Cuba, Dominican Republic & Puerto Rico only. 21 Garry George US 259 114 endemics. DR, PR, Cuba 22 Hugh Currie Canadian 258 23 Ray Belding US 256 24 Howard Laidlaw UK 254 25 Jim Holmes, Jr. USA (Calif) 246 March/April 2009 trip to Dominican Republic and crusie through the Lesser Antilles: highlights include Ridgway's Hawk and Ashy-faced Owl; Lesser Black-backed Gull and Caribbean Coot in Antigua, Little Egret on Barbados, Red-billed Tropicbird, Audubon's Shearwater, Greater Shearwater, and Bridled Tern at sea; Best bird: Found first North American record of Eurasian Spoonbill in St. Lucia (April 2008) 26 Dave Sargeant British 245 Last upd: Apr 02. Bee Hummingbird, Blue-headed Quail-Dove, Jamaican Owl 27 Steve Lister British 235 Cory's Shearwater actually in the Caribbean. 28 Peter Gilchrist Canadian 230 29 Karl Overman USA 205 Finally caught up on Bahama Woodstar on 2nd trip to Grand Bahama 8/23/04 30 Mike Spicer British 202 First Bahama Woodstar for Cuba. First Indigo Bunting for Barbados. White-breasted Thrashers on St. Lucia Barbados Bullfinch split 31 Mike Passant British 200 Jamaica and Cuba ,50 out of 51 "available" endemics. 32 Mario Renden Dutch 196 Fernandina's Flicker, West Indian Whistling Duck, Stygian Owl, Painted Bunting, White Pelican (Cuba, april 2003) 33 Jim Dennis USA - MD 150 34 Mikael Bauer Swedish 149 Whole Zapatan Trio within 5 minutes! 35 Chris Baines British 146 Cayman islands only lived there for two years, best Bird Audubons Shearwater found by me and potographed a first for the Island.. 36 Philip Johnson USA 145 37 Russ Namitz USA - Oregon 83 7 day Cruise 3/09 highlights on ELEUTHERA = Bahama Woodstar, Gr Ant Bullfinch, Bah Mockingbird, WC Pintail, Zen Dove; ST MARTIN = Antillean Cr. Hummingbird, Gr. Carib, L Ant Bullfinch, Carib Grackle; ST JOHN = Pearly-eyed Thrasher, Scaly-naped Pigeon 38 John E. Hunter USA 78 7 days in Jamaicia only 39 Oscar Johnson USA-Mexico 77 Cuba: non birding, Cuban Tody, Trogon, and Woodpecker, Yellow-headed Warbler. San Andres and Providencia: San Andres Vireo, Jamaican Oriole. 40 Ric Zarwell USA - Iowa 76 1.5 days of birding only, updated 12-21-07 41 Chris Litherland U.S. 50 only visited Aruba for a week on a non-birding trip. Rufous-collared Sparrow, Ruby-topaz Hummingbird, Brown-throated Parakeet, Brown Booby, Groove-billed Ani, Cape May Warbler, and Crested Bobwhite. updated 11/04/03 42 Chris Tynan British 44 A week on St Martin in 00. Passing Osprey, lots of waders, no hummers. 43 John Brett Canadian 43 Dominica only 44 Mickey McNaghten British 39 A few days in the Dominican Republic. Highlights: CLIFF SWALLOW, Smooth-billed Ani, American Radstart, Hispaniolan Parrot, Vervain Hummingbird, Brown Noddy, Laughing gull, Greater Antilean Bullfinch, Antilean Nighthawk. 45 Spencer Galen USA 27 Based on one days worth of birding around our hotel, highlight being Antillean Crested Hummingbird- March 02' 46 David Daniels USA 26 Zenaida Dove, Smooth-billed Ani, Bahama Woodstar, Red-legged Thrush, Bananaquit, Cuban Grassquit, Black-faced Grassquit Not entered in these rankings and want to enter yourself? Update or Delete your ranking Back to Life and Year List Home