Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings

Showing Records 1 through 28 of 28 Total Records Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights 1 Andrew Spencer US-Colorado 1660 Give or take one or two. ABA area, two trips to Mexico, three months in Ecuador, and a month in Venezuela (though some of the first MX trip and the VZ trip were in different years). Best bird of the year was Banded Ground-Cuckoo in Ecuador. 2 Olivier Barden Canada - Québec 1069 Odds 'n sods from southern+central Peru July/August: Junin Grebe, Cape Petrel, Solitary Eagle, Marbled Godwit, Peruvian Tern, Pale-rumped Swift, Wire-crested Thorntail, Fire-throated Metaltail, Fine-barred Piculet, White-browed Tit-Spinetail, Creamy-bellied Antwren, Black Antbird, Amazonian Antpitta, White-cheeked Cotinga, Red-billed Tyrannulet, Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant, Black-and-white Tody-Tyrant, Golden-bellied Warbler, Brown-flanked Tanager, Huallaga Tanager, Yellow-bellied Dacnis, Short-billed Honeycreeper, Slaty Finch, Apurimac Brush-Finch, Band-tailed Oropendola; QC: Pink-footed Goose, Yellow-breasted Chat; ON: White-winged Dove, Kirtland's Warbler, Chuck-will's-Widow; NWT: Willow Ptarmigan, Long-tailed Jaeger, Smith's Longspur, Lark Sparrow; NH: Western Reef-Heron, Black-headed Gull. (Updated 23/10) 3 Daniele Mitchell Canadian 592 Turquoise Cotinga, Yellow-billed Cotinga, Streak-chested Antpitta, Resplendent Quetzal (Costa Rica) 4 Mike Harvey US - NH 533 updated 3/5: Ecuador and New York (plus some from NH I have yet to tally) 5 Ian Davies USA-Massachusetts 520 Costa Rica for 2 weeks, Maine for 4 days. Rest are from Mass. (Last updated 3/5/07) 6 Ies Goedbloed Dutch 500 + oliath heron, Painted snipe, Spotted honeyguide, Black francolin, Cyprus wheatear, Sooty falcon Holland, Gambia Senegal, Israël, Egypt, Jordan and Cyprus also 200 species in South Africa. I visit a lot of countries, most of the time as a groupleader and not much time for birding. 7 Scott Schuette USA- Missouri 450 AZ, CO, KS, MO, NE, Sonora, and WY 8 Ryan Merrill US-WA 450 madagascar sandgrouse; whitebrowed owl; hookbilled vanga; running coua; greater crested tern yesterday... more to come; 15 sept 9 Erik Enbody USA- MI 447 ABA, 296MI Ahhh..so close to 300 in MI =/ 10 Taj Schottland USA Vermont 446 all in ABA In new england: WESTERN REEF HERON, Black-tailed Godwit, Black-headed Gull, Little Gull, Baird's Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, CT warbler, Cackling Goose. 2 weeks in AZ and CA Highlights:ARCTIC LOON!!Montezuma Quail White-eared Hummingbird, Rufous-backed Robin and Flame-colored Tanager. Pelagic out of Monterey: Black-footed Albatross, Ashy Storm-petrel, Bullers Shearwater and Sabine's Gull. 11 Oscar Johnson USA-Mexico 437 A week in CO, and AZ (Aztec Thrushes). California: Piping Plover (self found, 4th state record), Dark-rumped Petrel, Bar-tailed Godwit, Little Stint, Upland Sandpiper, Slaty-backed and Vega Gulls, Snowy Owl, Crested Carcara, American Oystercatcher, 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons, Blue Jay, Thick-billed Kingbird, Broad-billed Hummingbird, Dusky-capped Flycatcher, Pine Warbler, 2 Grace's Warblers, Common Grackle. Updated 8/20/06 12 David Pavlik Michigan 418 13 Craig Bateman USA- Michigan 406 279 in Michigan, the rest in northern OH and southeast AZ, Marbled Godwit 14 Charlie Wright Washington 371 Washington plus a week in California and a week in se Arizona. Update 27 April. 15 Robert Furrow USA - PA 366 9/8/06. Recent highlights include Curlew Sandpiper, Black and Roseate Terns. 16 Michael Woodruff USA - Washington 282 17 Alex Harper USA- FL 255 10/14/06 Red-billed Tropicbird, Ruff, and Northern Wheatear in Florida 18 Rob Poniatowski MI, USA 245 200 from MI and the rest of them are from Florida. 19 Hen British 228 Wilson's Phal (Stithians) Trip to 'Bridges of Ross' - W.Ireland 21st-24th August, Picked up, 2 FEA'S + Storm Petrels, Sooty, Balearic, Great + Cory's Shears, Med, Sabine's, Ring-billed + Smithsonians Gull, Great, Arctic + Pom Skuas, Ruff, Arctic Tern 20 Dennis Riederer Switzerland 228 Franklins Gull, Ring-necked Duck, Chinese Shrike Helgoland: Dusky,-Pallas,- yellow browed Warbler, Little Bunting, Isabelline Wheatear, Little Auk 21 Philip Chaon Cleveland OH 211 all OH White-rumped Sandpiper, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 22 Andy Bankert Florida 210 Short-tailed Hawk, Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Bell's Vireo, Fulvous Whistling-Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Nashville Warbler, Allen's Hummingbird, Rusty Blackbird 23 Morgan Churchill USA-California 189 - San Diego County only Red-necked Grebe, Common Grackle, Eastern Phoebe, Stilt Sandpiper, Northern Parula, Black-and-white Warbler, Brown Thrasher, Gray Catbird, Crissal Thrasher 24 Carlos Ross USA - Arizona 140 Phoenix Area - Vaux's Swift, Townsend's Warbler (Apr 2006) 25 Thomas Kirk Canadian 99 Canada: Snow geese, Canada Geese, Mallard Ducks, Canvasback, Blue-winged Teal, Ruddy Ducks, Gray Partridge, Ring-necked Pheasant, Sharp-Tailed Grouse, Common Loon, Red-necked Grebe, American White Pelican, Great Blue Heron, Turkey Vulture, Bald Eagle, Northern Harrier, Swainson's Hawk, Red-Tailed Hawk, Broad-winged Hawk, American Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, Killdeer, Piping Plover, American Avocet, Marbled Godwit, Wilson's Phalarope, Franklin's Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Common Tern, Rock Dove, Mourning Dove, Eurasian-Collared Dove, Great Horned Owl, Snowy Owl, Burrowing Owl, Barn Owl, Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, Northern Flicker, Downy Woodpecker, Western Kingbird, Eastern Kingbird, Loggerhead Shrike, Blue Jay, Black-billed Magpie, American Crow, Horned Lark, Purple Martin, Tree Swallow, Bank Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Barn Swallow, Black-Capped Chickadee, Red-Breasted Nuthatch, House Wren, Mountain Bluebird, American Robin, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher, European Starling, Bohemian Waxwing, Cedar Waxwing, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped warbler, Wilson's Warbler, American Tree Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Common Redpoll, White-crowned Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Red-Winged Blackbird, Western Meadowlark, Yellow-headed Blackbird, Brewer's Blackbird, Common Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird, Baltimore Oriole, House Finch, American Goldfinch, House Sparrow Hawaii: Zebra Dove, Japanese White-eye, Java Sparrow, Northern Cardinal, Red-crested Cardinal, Cattle Egret, Spotted Dove, Common Myna, Hawaiian Hawk (Io), Hawaiian Creeper, Pacific Golden Plover, Domestic birds: Yellow and Blue Macaw, Farm Chicken, Love birds, Budgies, Ring-neck Dove, Fan-tailed dove, Diamond Dove, Peacock, Zebra Finch 26 Sean Fitzgerald MI/WI - USA 87 1/15 - California Condor, Black-throated Sparrow, Black-chinned Sparrow, Snowy Owl, Northern Pygmy-Owl, and Red-naped Sapsucker (UT, AZ, NV, WI, IL, MI) 27 Ben Griffith NH - US 76 Northern Hawk Owl, Yellow-headed Blackbird, Dickcissel, Bohemian Waxwing, King Eider, Hoary Redpoll 28 Ross Gallardy PA 67 45 Sandhill Cranes in PA & Glacous Gull(1st lifer of the year) Not entered in these rankings and want to enter yourself? 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