Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings

Irish Self-found List Showing Records 1 through 8 of 8 Total Records Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights 1 Owen Foley Irish 257 Richards pipit, Buff bellied pipit, Common rosefinch, Rose coloured starling, Glossy ibis, Bairds sandpiper, Subalpine warbler...300 here i come....so I had to make some room! ;) Cattle egret(x7), Gullbilled tern (x3), Stilt sandpiper, Fea's Petrel(x6), Great white egret(x2), Lesser yellow legs (x4), AGP(x6), Spoonbill (x3),Laughing gull (x3), Wilsons petrel(x20), Bee-eater, Little Shearwater!, Black duck, Bonapartes gull (x2). Woodchat shrike.Red Breasted Flycatcher.Lesser Scaup(x2). White Billed Diver. Buff breasted sandpiper(x4). Semipalmated sandpiper(x3). 2 barred crossbill. 2 Dermot Breen Irish 226 Top three highlights Little Blue Heron, Western Sandpiper and Blackpoll Warbler (all in Galway). Latest addition - Red-crested Pochard (Galway). Also Wilson's Petrel (10+), Cattle Egret, American Wigeon, Green-winged Teal (10+), American Black Duck, Ring-necked Duck (c. 20), Lesser Scaup (3+), Surf Scoter, Osprey, Hobby, American Golden Plover (2), Temminck's Stint, Baird's Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper (5), Long-billed Dowitcher, Long-tailed Skua, Laughing (4), Bonaparte's, American Herring, Kumlien's Gull (6+), Little Auk, Citrine Wagtail, Barred Warbler, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Rose-coloured Starling. Passerine list v. poor. 3 Robert Vaughan Irish 225 Latest finds;-l r plover, ladies Island. bonapartes gull-swords estuary april 2009, two barred crossbill-baltimore sept 2008, barred warbler-toe head sept 2008, ring-necked duck-lough Owel oct 2008, Great spotted woodpecker-pair and Irelands 5th breeding record, plus another heard on a bird race!. Black tern-brandon head sept 2008, Grey Phal- blackrock sept 2008includes 2 heard only finds-quail x2, spotted crake, a few co. finds- bee-eater, two barred crossbill and golden eagle. best of the rest- cattle egret(the last good one!!), ortolan bunting, alpine swift, hobby x 4, buff b x 3, would be ahead of dermot if not for double pucture!! I'll get l b dow again! 4 Harry Hussey Irish 218 Doesn't include relocations (like the Baltimore Chimney Swift in 2005), birds at known colonies (i.e. Little Tern), birds where my part in the finding process wasn't important enough (i.e. LB Dowitcher) etc. Latest finds: Ortolan Bunting at the Old Head of Kinsale, Ring-necked Duck and Goosander at Lough Gill, Richard's Pipit and Green-winged Teal at Ballycotton. Highlights include Ireland's first Hume's Warbler, the second Red-necked Stint and Isabelline Shrike, Cork's first Caspian Gull, Laughing and Franklin's Gulls, Alpine Swift (x5), Semipalmated Sandpiper, AGP, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Wilson's Petrel (x2), Subalpine, Greenish and Pallas's Warblers (x2), Hawfinch, Golden Oriole, Water Pipit etc. Need to work on my wader finds list! 5 Mark Carmody Irish 218 won't be finding much else seeing as I am in Japan now!!!! 6 Hugh Delaney Irish 217 Highlights - Ross's Gull, Lesser Yellowlegs (2), Semipalmated Sandpiper, Icterine Warbler, Surf Scoter, Red-brested Flycatcher, American Wigeon, Avocet (6), Ring-necked Duck, Wilson's Petrel (c. 15), Golden Oriole, Short-toed Lark, White-rumped Sandpiper (2), Buff-brested Sandpiper, Great White Egret, Long-tailed Skua, Richard's & Water Pipit, Hobby & Little Auk. All records accepted by the IRBC, no 'co-finds'. 7 Conor Foley Irish 213 Buff bellied pipit, Terek sand. Franklins gull. White billed diver. Tawny pipit. Bee-eater. Lesser yellowlegs. Agp x2. Montagus harrier. Gullbilled tern. Buffbreasted sandpiper x 2. Rednecked grebe. 8 Antonio Salvadori Italo/Canadian 140 Not entered in these rankings and want to enter yourself? Update or Delete your ranking Back to Life and Year List Home