Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings

North America Region Life List Showing Records 1 through 50 of 106 Total Records NEXT Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights 1 Dan L. Canterbury USA 1749 2 Craig Faanes USA 1720 3 Rick Waldrop USA 1654 In 2006, new species seen in Mexico: Nava's Wren, Sumichrast's Wren, Mexican Sheartail, Flammulated Flycather, Red-breasted Chat, and White-naped Brush-Finch; (July, 2006) in the Carribean, St. Vincent Parrot, Whistling Warbler, Lesser Antillean Tanager, Grenada Flycatcher, Grenada Dove, Yellow-breasted Crake, Black-rumped Waxbill and Java Sparrow; and in Costa Rica (November): Coppery-headed Emerald, Magneta-throated Woodstar, Great Green Macaw, Black-throated Wren, Silvery-fronted Tapaculo, Zeledonia, Spotted Wood-Quail, Mangrove Hummingbird. In May, 2007, 23 new species from Oaxaca, Mexico, and 8 new species from Panama, including Slaty-backed Forest-Falcon, White-eared Conebill, Western Sirystes, Flammulated Attila and Bare-crowned Antbird; Bicknell's Thrush in 2008; Greater Sand Plover (Florida) in 2009. 4 Dave Klauber USA 1612 another 16 heard only; Martinique Oriole, Grenada Dove, Barbados Bullfinch, Panama - Spotted Rail, Yellow-breasted Crake, Crested Eagle -1,600, Ochraceous Pewee, Violaceous Quail-Dove, Cattle Tyrant, Wedge-tailed Grass-Finch, Aplomado Falcon, Russet-crowned Quail-Dove, Green Manakin, Xenornis; all North American warblers excepting Cuba, Jan 2009 5 Greg R. Homel USA 1591 Native Only Alaska to Panama, Caribbean, all countries and all 50 US States: Short-tailed Albatross, Gray-tailed Tattler, Little Stint, Common Ringed Plover, Common Swift, Bluethroat, Red-flanked Bluetail, AK; Mongolian Plover, Red-necked Stint, CA; Eared Quetzal, Buff-collared Nightjar, Blue Mockingbird, AZ; Fork-tailed Flycatcher, White-throated Thrush, Blue Bunting, TX; La Sagra's Flycatcher, FL 6 Philip Rostron British 1574 Update to Clements VI 7 Martin Edwards Canadian 1501 2009 Eared Quetzal etc. 2009 April Dusky Grouse, Sierra Madre Sparrow;Horned Guan,2008 March;Cuban Black Hawk,Black Storm-Petrel,White-faced Quail-Dove,Guatemalan Pygmy-Owl,Wagler's Toucanet,Giant Wren,Mexico June 2006,Puerto Rican Vireo, Yellow-shouldered Blackbird,April, 2006;Grenada Dove,StLucia Parrot,Barbuda Warbler April 2005 8 Howard Laidlaw UK, resident in USA 1453 Le Conte's Thrasher 9 Dennis Rogers USA/CR 1439 1995 year list 1027 10 Hugh Buck British 1432 March - April 09, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Caymans, Florida, Jamaica, Puerto Rico - near clean up of the west Indies 11 Garry George USA 1412 White-necked Crow, Stygian Owl, Gr. Antillean Oriole 12 Peter Boesman Belgium 1379 13 Claes-Göran Cederlund Swedish 1357 Updated 12 June 2005. All gettable Cuban endemics in March-April + Lesser Black-backed Gull. 14 Dale Herter USA 1341 Feb. 2008: all but 2 Hispaniolan endemics, including Ridgway's Hawk, plus Key West quail-dove; (no introduced birds) 15 Alan Greensmith Independent 1340 19 Nov. 2009. San Andres Vireo. 18 August 2009. 45 new in the Lesser Antilles. 24 April 2009. Birding Cuba (four visits) without doubt. 16 Jim Holmes, Jr USA 1336 2009 highlights: Ridgway's Hawk in Dominican Republic, Dusky and Gunnison Sage Grouse in Colorado 17 Bill/Beth Clark US (AZ) 1332 August 2006 Aztec Thrush (AZ) San Blas Jay, Sinaloa Wren, West Mexican Chachalaca, Golden Vireo 18 Dave Sargeant British 1320 Last upd: Feb-05. Trips to USA (multiple), Belize, Costa Rica (2), Panama, Mexico (2) and the Caribbean (2). 19 Russ Namitz USA - OR 1317 List is from US, Mexico, Caribbean & Costa Rica 20 Don Roberson USA 1303 most recently Costa Rica: Ornate Hawk-Eagle, 3 mainland C.R. endemics, Zeledonia, Black-and-yellow Silky-Flycatcher 21 Dave Czaplak USA 1275 Panama: Golden-headed Quetzal, Varied Solitaire, Viridian Dacnis, Costa Rica: Ochraceous Pewee, Belize: Orange-breasted Falcon, Mexico: Horned Guan, Azure-rumped Tanager, Scaled Antpitta, Tufted Jay, DE: Whiskered Tern, NJ: Brown-chested Martin, MD: Ross's Gull, Yellow-legged Gull, AK: Jacksnipe, Little Bunting, Siberian Rubythroat, Ivory Gull 22 Timothy Boucher South African 1256 Kirtland's Warbler, Short Yucatan Trip - Great Curassow, Y Jay, Y Wren, Y Viroe, Chat, Rose-throated Tanager. Cozumel Island Mexico, Nov 05 - Great trip to Durango Hwy and San Blas - highlights - Tufted Jay, Blck-thrtd Magpie Jay, Red-breasted Chat March 05 - Fun trip to Panama - Spotted Woodquail (seen well), Turq Cotinga, Rosy-thrush Tanager, Ocellated Antbird, Spectacled Antpitta, Resp Quetzal, 3-W Bellbird. 23 Jim McConnell USA 1241 lots of fun in many places, recently enjoyed Puerto Rico - Elfin Woods Warblers feeding juveniles, Yellow-shouldered Blackbird, Antillean Crested Hummer, etc. 24 Mike Haldeman USA 1223 25 Bruce Barrett British/Canadian 1205 Southern Lapwing - Belize 26 Rafael G. Campos-Ramirez Costa Rica 1159 countries & territories visited: Belize,Canada, Costa Rica,El Salvador, Guatemala,Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico & USA., 27 Jeff Peters USA 1134 Clements a/o 7/09 - all birds seen from Honduras north; most recent in Belize (e.g., Stygian Owl, Ornate Hawk-Eagle), Honduras ( Honduran Emerald, Keel-billed Motmot, Solitary Eagle, Bicolored Hawk), Yucatan (all endemics seen except Cozumel Thrasher); includes 698 ABA (most recent Nome and Barrow AK specialties) 28 Edge Wade USA (MO) 1106 Eurpean Storm-petrel, NC; Green Violet-ear, IA; Rufous-Necked Wood-Rail, Great Green Macaw, Silvery-throated Jay, Snowcap, Costa Rica. 4 Nov 05 update 29 Samuel Hansson Swedish 1099 Four new in western Mexico, March-April 2009: Sinaloa Martin, Stygian Owl, Dwarf Vireo, White-throated Flycatcher. Two new in central US, June: Great Gray Owl and Gunnison Sage-Grouse. 30 Brad Bergstrom USA 1095 Great Potoo, Thicket Antpitta, Snowy Cotinga, Panama Flycatcher 31 Dennis Serdehely USA 1082 White-winged Crossbill in Elko, Nevada 32 Nicholas Block IL, USA 1059 Lower 48 U.S.; northeastern, southern, and western Mexico; Isla Cozumel; western Costa Rica 33 Daniel Jones USA 1050 White-crested Elaenia, updated 2/11/08, USA, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica 34 Carroll Richard USA 1042 35 Philip Johnson USA 1025 36 Brian A. Allen USA, MI 1013 Nayarit, Mexico Purplish-backed Jay, Spotted Wren, Golden Vireo,Blue-hooded Euphonia,Rusty-crowned Ground Sparrow 37 Tom Pavlik USA - Michigan 1007 38 Peter Bono USA 1007 (8 Oct 04) USA, Yucatan, Costa Rica principally 39 Bryn Martin USA 986 Ivory Gull 40 Oscar Johnson USA-Mexico 970 12/12/05. Baikal Teal, Fulvous Whistling-Duck, Cape Pygmy-Owl, Whooping Crane, Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Snowy Owl (in Florida), Three-wattled Bellbird, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Ruff (2), Colima Warbler, Cook's and Parkinson's Petrels, Townsend's Shearwater, San Andres Vireo, Yellow-headed Warbler, Cuban Tody, Trogon. 41 Kevin Guse USA 970 Plain-capped Starthroat (Turkey Track Rd, Huachuca Mtns, AZ, August 16, 2002) 42 Mike Passant British 961 After Jamaica and Cuba March 2005. 43 Hans Holbrook USA 961 03/07 Costa Rica: 226 new species for the region, 34 new hummingbirds 44 David Trently USA 960 45 David Vander Pluym Ca 942 most of the birds from from the lower 48 and Costa Rica with a couple in Canada and Baja 46 Mark Gawn Canada 936 47 Paul Hudson USA 934 48 Nick A. Smith English 930 Updated Jan 08 after visits to Arizona. 49 Olivier Barden Canada 930 50 Erling Jirle Swedish 921 West Mexico and Baja + Texas March 2007 Not entered in these rankings and want to enter yourself? 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