Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings

2008 North American (ABA Area) Year List Showing Records 1 through 39 of 39 Total Records Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights 1 Lynn Barber US 723 Details of sighting dates and states can be seen at web site: www.lynnbarber.com (final total for year) 2 James P. Smith UK/USA - MA 627 Updated: 12/30/08 - Good year end in New England: European Golden Plover, Black-tailed Gull, Snowy Owls, Barnacle Goose, Saltmarsh ST Sparrow. Major misses this year; Black-billed Cuckoo (!!), Hammond's Flycatcher in the West, several southern TX species. Still a very good and enjoybale year though: - California in Sept and Arizona in July/August; July Pelagic Highlights from MA - Band-rumped, Wilson's and Leach's SPs, Cory's Shearwater, Bridled Tern. AK in June, not including Barrow. Additions in MA - Saw-whet Owl, Mourning, Worm-eating and Cerulean Warblers; from TX April in A: CC Robin, Swainson's Warbler, Black Rail: Yellow-billed and Pacific Loons (AZ/CA), plus FL in Feb (Masked Booby, Snail Kite, Limpkin, Yellow Rail, Bananaquit): MA/AZ: Highlights; Nortern Jacana (AZ), Slaty-backed Gull, Pine Grosbeak, Dovekie, King Eider, Thayer's Gull - all MA. Pics at http://pioneerbirding.blogspot.com/ 3 Roy Morris USA / FL 564 12/30/08. Best Birds... Barnacle Goose, Tufted duck, Bahama Mockingbird, Piratic Flycatcher, Forktailed Flycatcher, Flame-colored Tanager. 4 Jay Keller California, USA 559 12/31 - (All Lower 48 & no S. TX) - FINAL 2008 BIRD: Red-breasted Sapsucker (San Diego) - HIGHLIGHTS: (CA) RED-THROATED PIPIT, RED-FOOTED BOOBY, RED-NECKED STINT, YELLOW-GREEN VIREO, Arctic Tern, Craveri's Murrelet, LeConte's Thrasher, Spotted Owl, Yellow-footed Gull, Spotted Dove; (AZ) Lucifer, Violet-crowned & White-eared Hummers, Thick-billed Kingbird, Black-capped GC, Flame-colored Tanager, Elegant Trogon, Mexican Chickadee; (TX) Harris's Sparrow, Neotrop Corm, Least Grebe; (DE) WOOD SANDPIPER, Yellow Rail, WHITE-WINGED TERN; (MD) White-winged Crossbill; (FL) WW Parakeet, Mangrove Cuckoo, Black-whiskered Vireo, FL Scrub-Jay; (Niagara) Black-headed Gull; (PA) Henslow's Sparrow 5 Kirk Zufelt Canadian 555 Latest-Hawk Owl.Snowy Owl,Purple Sandpiper,Brant,Dipper#550,Clark's Nutcracker,Mountain Quail (finally!!!!)Sooty Grouse,Wood Sandpiper!!!(OR)Surfbird,W-H.Woodpecker,Least Storm-Petrel,Xantu's Murrelet,Yellow-footed Gull, BB Woodpecker,WW Crossbill,Kirtland's Warbler,Green Violet-ear(UP of MI),Conn. Warbler,Spuce Grouse, OS Fly.,Henslow's Sparrow(UP MI)Black Rail(seen & heard), Fea's & Trinidade Petrel, SP Skua, Swainson's Warbler, Bachman's Sparrow, Tufted Duck( a mile from home),Red-footed, Brown and Maked Booby,Black & Brown Noddy, Sooty, Bridled & Roseate Terns,Mangrove Cuckoo, Antillean Nighthawk, SB Ani (feeding young)-Lesser Prairie Chicken, Colima Warbler, WC Seedeater,Golden-cheeked Warbler, F-P Owl, Tropical Parula & amazing fall-out at Laguna Atascosa 19/04,Green Breasted Mango(GA),Bannanaquit, Brown Booby,Masked Duck,N. Jacana,Baird's Sparrow, Smith's,C.C, & McCown's Longspurs, 3 Rosy-Finches 6 Jennifer Rycenga USA 523 Highlight of ABA Year: Chuck-will's-widow in Alabama to complete project of seeing at least one life bird in every state! 7 Matt Wood US 519 Green Jay, Altamira Oriole, Grey Hawk 8 Edge Wade USA Missouri 517 total no heard birds 9 Phil Chaon Ohio 507 Hoary Redpoll, Wood Sandpiper, Most Lower Rio Grande Specialties, Rock Sandpiper, Surfbird, Berylline Hummningbird, Colima Warbler, Flame-colored Tanager, Black-capped Gnatcatcher 10 Chris Charlesworth Canadian 489 Tufted Duck, Yellow Rail, Little Gull, Flammulated Owl, Snowy Owl, Northern Hawk-Owl, Chuck-will's Widow, Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Black-capped Vireo, Tropical Parula, Connecticut Warbler, Bachman's Sparrow, Baird's Sparrow, Lark Bunting, McCown's Longspur, Chestnut-collared Longspur, Hoary Redpoll, Buller's Shearwater, South Polar Skua, Spotted Dove, Ashy Storm-Petrel, Yellow-footed Gull 11 Sean Williams Massachusetts 482 Eastern US, CA and OR- Much thanks to Jennifer Rycenga, Jeff Gilligan and Ida Giriunas. They took me to the birds. 12 Ed Slattery Seekonk, MA - USA 476 13 Chris West USA, WI 475 Latest year birds: Sabine's Gull, Red-throated Loon Best year birds found as of 4/3: Buff-bellied hummingbird (lifer #400), Flame-colored Tanager (lifer #500) 14 Erik Enbody USA - Michigan (currently CO) 471 Bermuda and Fea's Petrels, Gray Vireo, Fulvus w-duck, Y-f Gull, Bery Humm, Mtn Quail, Hermit Warb 15 Nicholas Block IL, USA 468 Chicago area birding, the Southwest, Portland, and the Lower Rio Grande Valley 16 Scott Schuette Missouri 459 AK, AZ, CA, NM, MO, and TX; updated Nov 8th 17 Adam Sabatine USA 437 just added 20 or so new birds for the year on St. Paul including Tufted Duck, Red-necked Stint, Slaty-backed Gull, Fork-tailed Storm Petrel and Yellow-billed Loon 18 Zachary Loman California 401 Wood Sandpiper (OR), Northern Jacana (AZ), Slaty-backed Gull (CA), Colima Warbler (TX), Arctic Loon (CA) 19 Bret McCarty (15) OHIO 401 ND/MI/Manitoba: Baird's Sparrow, WW Crossbills, Kirtland's Warblers. AZ: FC Tanager, BC Gnatcatcher, WE Hummingbird :: 12-21-08: Pomarine Jaeger 20 Scott Jennex Michigan - USA 400 thru 12/5 Michigan, Arizona, RosyFiches in NM, Mottled Duck in Ontario + last 3 in VA 21 Philip Kline AZ 395 (12/24) AZ, NM, CO, ID, DC, VA, NC, CA - Blackburnian warbler, Pacific loon, Ross's goose, Dunlin, Baird's sparrow, Varied Thrush, Mexican chickadee, Northern parula, Black-backed woodpecker, Red-breasted sapsucker, white-headed woodpecker, Clark's nutcracker 22 Ian Davies USA-Massachusetts 395 (Last updated 4/11/09) 23 John Berner Texas 382 Final. Last: Northern Hawk-Owl, White-Winged Crossbill, Great Gray owl, Sharp-tailed Grouse in Duluth (-3) 24 Phil Jeffrey Ex-pat Brit (NJ) 369 Wood Sandpiper (DE) 25 Dan Jones USA 362 Updated 12/25/08 26 Eddie Ehrman 325 Trip to Cape May. Purple Sandpiper, White-winged Scoter and American Oystercatcher 27 David Bell Canadian - ON 324 NC Highlights: Fea's + Trindade Petrels, SP Skua, Black Rail seen, nearly all the SE warblers including Swainson's, Bachman's Sparrow, RC Woodpecker: MB Highlights: Loggerhead Shrike, Sprague's Pipit, Prairie Falcon, 23 shorebird sp. including Hudsonian Godwit and Piping Plover - Last 5: Red-throated Loon, Dickcissel, Black-legged Kittiwake, Cave Swallow, Snowy Owl - Nov 15, 2008 28 Simon Harvey UK/USA 322 SC Mourning Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Pine Siskin Updated 11/19/08 29 Rob Fanning NJ 318 30 Tom Pavlik USA - Michigan 317 Michigan, Long Island, S. Texas, Central Texas, Barrow Alaska (YB Loon, 4 Eiders, Slaty-backed Gull, Sabine's Gull, 3 Jaegers, B. Guillemot, Thick-billed Murre) 31 John Walshe British 309 Took the wife to NYC in May and had some good times in Central Park early mornings. Had proper birding trip with my dad to CA/NV in May/June. Highlights many, mental birding at Salton Sea, Monterey Bay & Point Reyes. Got 5 new warblers (which I care about over all others), Hermit, Black-throated Gray, Lucy's, Grace's & Virginia's. 32 Michael Woodruff Washington State 294 Mostly birded in Washington state. 33 Steven J Walker USA-New Jersey 292 New Jersey + S. Texas 34 J.D. Cortez Texas 281 Jabiru!!!!! 8/24/08 35 Tom Magarian 261 36 Ryan Johnston Canadian 250 Tropical Kingbird, Northern Hawk Owl 37 David Daniels USA 248 Just Indiana so far. 2008 ABA Area lifers: Fork-tailed Flycatcher. Latest bird: Prairie Falcon (12/17/08). 38 Norman Erthal USA 166 39 Bennet Porter Falmouth, MA USA 149 Snowy Owl 12/24/08 Not entered in these rankings and want to enter yourself? Update or Delete your ranking Back to Life and Year List Home