Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings

2008 World Year List Showing Records 1 through 50 of 52 Total Records NEXT Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights 1 The Biggest Twitch, Alan Davies and Ruth Miller British 4341, a new world record!! Arizona, Mexico, 15 days in Ecuador, a birding day in the UK, Ethiopia. Ghana, Cyprus, Spain, Texas at High Island, Panama, back to Texas, California, Canada, Cape May, 1 day in Wales, Cyprus and Turkey, Finland, Estonia, Norway, Brazil . Spent 5 days at Caiman Ecological Refuge, Pantanal, then 6 days at Cristalino Jungle Lodge. Six days in Argentina. Six days REGUA, Brazil. Peru. Back to UK for British Bird Fair, Tawny Owl only year tick! Back to South Africa briefly after quick trip to Zambia and Malawi. Took a fantastic Tropical Birding tour down the east coast of Australia, which boosted our world list with over 400 new species. Bluebonnet Parrot was world record breaking bird no. 3663. But we're still birding..... Just finished 5 amazing birding days in Malaysia with Keith Barnes from Tropical Birding adding 181 new species to our total. Next Northern India birding with Peter Lobo. Now in the North East where we've added such specialities as Rufous-throated Wren-Babbler, Blyth's Tragopan, Bengal Florican, Mishmi Wren-Babbler, Bugun Liocichla, Blood Pheasant, Snow Partridge. Finished the year birding in Southern Ecuador Tumbes Tyrant new species for Ecuador! Visit www.thebiggesttwitch.com for more details 2 David Shackelford / Rockjumper Birding Tours USA 3085 Blakiston's Fish-Owl and Steller’s Sea-Eagle in Japan, Stresemann’s Bush-Crow and Prince Ruspoli’s Turaco in Ethiopia, Akiapola’au in Hawaii, Bengal Florican in Assam, Sikkim Wedge-billed Wren-Babbler in Bhutan, Lear’s Macaw and Araripe Manakin in NE Brazil, Long-bearded Melidectes and Forbe’s Forest-Rail in PNG, Yellow-legged Pigeon in New Britain, Kagu in New Caledonia – final bird family of the world, Spruce Grouse in Montana, Rosy Thrush-Tanager and Tody Motmot in Panama, Horned Guan and Gray-throated Chat in Guatemala, Magellanic Woodpecker and Hooded Grebe in Argentina, both Sooty Albatross and King Penguin on an Antarctic voyage. 3 Mark Van Beirs/Birdquest Belgian 2747 31 December: Great trips to Venezuela (Northern Helmeted Curassow, Scallop-breasted Antpitta), Thailand (Nordmann's Greenshank, Bay Owl), Myanmar (Hooded Treepie, White-browed Nuthatch), West Papua (White-striped Forest-Rail and 19 Birds of Paradise), Papua New Guinea (New Ireland, Manus, the Huon and the Adelbert with fantastic Fire-maned Bowerbird and Superb Pitta), Namibia, two trips to Brazil, the southern Moluccas (Lesser Masked Owl and Salmon-crested Cockatoo), Ecuador (Buckley's Forest-Falcon, Rufous-crowned and Bicoloured Antpittas) + some local birding in Belgium (Snowy Owl). 4 Sam Woods/Tropical Birding British (based in Ecuador) 2565 seen India added Ibisbills, Indian Coursers, Wallcreepers, Marshall's Iora, Indian Spotted Eagle, Tawny & Brown Fish-Owls, Koklass Pheasant, Rufous-chinned Laughingthrush, and Hodgson's Bushchat. Just back from Chile: where Moustached Turcas, White-throated & Chucao Tapaculos, Chestnut-throated & Black-throated Huet-huets, Slender-billed Parakeets, Diademed Sandpiper-plover, along with Rufous-chested & Tawny-throated Dotterels, Magellanic Plover, Black-headed Duck, Ruddy-headed Goose, White-throated Caracara, Tamarugo Conebill, Magellanic Woodpecker and two Austral Rails seen. Eastern Australia and Tasmania: Regent and Painted Honeyeaters, Aussie Owlet-Nightjar, Superb Lyrebird, Superb Parrot, Gang-gang Cockatoo, Pink, Flame, Dusky and Scarlet Robins in Tasmania and Red-capped and Rose Robins on the mainland, Chowchillas, Tooth-billed Catbird, Beautiful Firetail, all 3 Aussie Frogmouths, Blue-faced Parrotfinch, Black-throated Finch, Freckled and Pink-eared Ducks, Hooded Plover, Little Penguin and others. Papua New Guinea: 23 BOPs (including male Mag BOP and Carola's Parotia in the same tree and male Brown Sicklebill calling from the Kumul bird table!), male Flame Bowerbird, pair of Papuan Whipbirds sound recorded and seen, Shovel-billed Kingfisher, New Guinea Harpy Eagle, nesting Doria's Hawk, Southern Crowned Pigeon, Mountain and Barred Owlet-nightjar, Little Paradise Kingfisher, Painted Quail-thrush (the last of the worlds quail-thrushes for me in the last two months!), Grand Munia, Wattled Ploughbill and White-bellied Whistler. A stint out to Cunnamulla in Queensland, Aus produced my final Quail-thrush (Chestnut-breasted), Hall's Babblers, Bourke's Parrots and a showy group of Ground Cuckoo-shrikes. Just finished in Western Australia picking up many of the endemics including Noisy Scrub-bird, Western Bristlebird, Rufous Treecreeper, Western Corella, and Red-eared Firetail. In Southern Australia where seen 4 species of Grasswren in 4 days (Striated, Short-tailed, Thick-billed & Eyrean), Inland Dotterel, Cinnamon & Chestnut Quail-thrushes, Plains-wanderer added. In Borneo adding Black-headed, Hooded and Blue-headed Pittas, Bornean Bristlehead, Bornean barbet, Fruit-hunter, Whitehead's Trogon and Spiderhunter. In Malaysia adding Mountain Peacock-pheasant, Cutia, Rusty-naped, Garnet and Banded Pittas, Malaysian Railbabbler, Large Frogmouth, Reddish Scops Owl and others to the year list. A few good birds in Arizona, including Tufted Flycatcher in the Portal area, Five-striped Sparrow in Cal Gulch, Flame-colored Tanager in Madera, and finally Spotted Owl (nesting) in SE Arizona. In High Island, Texas adding a more migrants like Veery, Philly Vireo, Ovenbird, and others, Swainson's Warbler, Painted Bunting, and Worm-eating Warbler, before I head to SE Arizona. Also added spome pineywoods birds including Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Brown-headed Nuthatch and Bachman's Sparrows. A few others in Ghana including Western Bluebill. Yellow-headed Picathartes, Black & Rosy Bee-eaters and Pel's Fishing-Owl in Ghana. Five-colored Barbet, Black-tipped & Blue Cotingas, Black-breasted Puffbird, Brown Wood-Rail, Hoary Puffleg (at Tandayapa Bird Lodge), and Stub-tailed Antbird in northern Ecuador. 5 Samuel Hansson/Heliangelus Swedish 2562 Sweden, Venezuela (Jan), Guatemala (Feb-Mar), Western Mexico (Mar-Apr), SW USA (May), Tanzania (Jun-Jul), Colombia and Palmarí lodge (July-August), SW Brazil (Sep). Madagascar (Oct-Nov), Bahia, Brazil Dec: Lucky with about everything, including Banded Cotinga, Bahia Tyrannulet, Diamantina Tapaculo, Sincora Antwren, Giant Snipe, Racket-tailed Coquette and you name it. 6 Jonathan Rossouw/ZEGRAHM Expeditions South African 2341 13 November. Just back from 2 months in S Pacific & New Zealand, with sweep of NZ endemics, and Niauof'ou Megapode, Atiu Swiftlet, Rarotonga Monarch, Blue Lorikeet; Madagascar; Gabon, with African River Martin, White-crested Tiger Heron, Black-headed Bee-eater, Lyre-tailed Honeyguide, Dja River Warbler; Alaska, with Northern Hawk Owl, Three-toed Woodpecker etc; Russian Far East, with Short-tailed Albatross (3 ads & 5 imms), Whiskered Auklet, Steller's Sea-Eagle; S Africa, with Red Lark, Long-tailed Pipit, Cinnamon-breasted Warbler; India, with Indian Skimmer, Finn's Weaver; Borneo, with Bornean Ground-Cuckoo, Giant & Blue-breasted Pittas, Bristlehead; Palau endemics 7 David Fisher/Sunbird British 2068 My lowest annual total for many years, due to having to cancel several trips for reasons beyond my control. Still, lots of superb birds to look back on during 2008 including Horned Guan, Aztec Thrush, Rose-bellied Bunting, White-breasted Thrasher, Beesley’s Lark, Maleo, Moluccan Owlet-Nightjar (my 7,000th species), Ivory-breasted Pitta, Wallace’s Standardwing, Masked Owl, etc. 8 Scott Olmstead/Tropical Birding US 2024 Ecuador, Brazil, China, Peru, Texas coast, Galapagos, Connecticut, and a morning in Panama City. Latest: Sapayoa, Lemon-spectacled Tanager, Ocellated Antbird, Great Green Macaw, Tawny-faced Quail, Choco Poorwill, Streak-chested Antpitta, White-tipped Sicklebill, Choco Woodpecker, Crested Guan, & Olive-backed Quail-Dove at Playa de Oro in far northwest Ecuador. Got Calliope Hummingbird in Simsbury, Connecticut in December! 9 Pete Morris/Birdquest UK 2007 Just back from Antarctica and Patagonia where highlights included a mega encounter with Emperor Penguins in the Weddell Sea, Hooded Grebes, Patagonian Tinamou and Austral Rail on the mainland. Comoros and Northern Madagascar in October: excellent tour with all Comoro endemics, Red Owl, Sakalava Rail, Madagascar Pochard, Amber Mountain Rock Thrush etc. PNG - very wet but great birds including Shovel-billed K, plenty of great BoPs including Buff-tailed Sicklebill, NG Harpy etc etc Red-legged Crake, a long overdue tick in Singapore en route. In May, tours to France (Rock Partridge, Wallcreeper etc) and Taiwan (great views of both endemic pheasants, partridge, Fairy Pitta, Little Curlew, Asiatic Dowitcher etc). Previously, excellent Western Mexico tour with just about all specialities seen very well (inc 15 nightbirds, 9 jays inc Tufted, Aztec Thrushes, Slaty and Dwarf Vireos, Elegant and Banded Quails plus Baja endems etc) and a great tour to Colombia - 670+ species inc great views of 11 Antpittas and many many more! 10 Gerald Broddelez Belgian 1879 Rufous Owl down under, Egypt Sinai Rosefinch,Tristrams Grackle etc Spain with Imperial Eagle, White-headed Duck etc Estonia found first breeding Great Grey Owl for this century!! Brazil with loads of Hyancinth Macaw, Bare-faced Curassow, Matto Grosso Antbird, Helmeted Mannakin, White-lored Spinetail; Estonia with Pygmy and Ural Owl, Citrine Wagtail, Bhutan with 12 male Himalayan Monals in 2 hours, some at less then 20 m! Trips to Central America-Cuba-France-Estonia-Spain-Peru-Egypt 11 Vaughan Ashby - BIRDFINDERS ENGLISH 1588 Last updated 24 December 2008, strictly in accordance with Clements, seen only; An average year with visits to Nepal (February), Costa Rica (March/April), Finland & Norway (May/June), Madeira (July), Arizona (July/August), Uganda (September/October), Isles of Scilly (October), Azores (November) and the last trip of year Panama with Black-eared Wood-quail, Stripe-cheeked Woodpecker, Blue Cotinga and Yellow-green Tyrannulet amongst others. Report & photos on http://www.birdfinders.co.uk 12 Matt Denton/Birdquest USA 1512 Year list of birds seen in Peru, Costa Rica and local birding in central Texas only. From Costa Rica highlight a lifer Nicaraguan Grackle, then from Northern Peru a spectacular trip with Yellow-faced Parrotlet, 3 species of Inca-Finch, Ochre-fronted Antpitta, Russet-bellied Spinetail, Cinnamon-breasted Tody-Tyrant and many more endemics then Manu where we recorded over 700 species with personal highlights being Slaty Elaenia, Purple Martin, Tropical Pewee plus Chestnut-crested Cotinga and Rufous-breasted Wood-Quail then over 600 species in Loreto, Peru with Nocturnal Curassow, Black-banded Crake, Festive Parrot, Purplish Jacamar, Iquitos Gnatcatcher, Allpahuayo Antbird, Mishana Tyrannulet and more. 13 Philip W. Johnson USA 1482 Twite (Northern Ireland); Little Bunting, Red-Breasted Goose and Eagle Owl (Netherlands); Caracas Tapaculo, Handsome Fruiteater (Venezuela), also Brazil, Peru, Oman and India 14 K. David Bishop VENT Australian/Brit 1443 Seen + 126 mammals seen 31 Dec. Waxwing wasn't the last species after all; added Whooper Swan; Long-tailed Tit and several other common British winter birds today! 20 Dec. Final new bird of the year - a flock of gorgeous Cedar Waxwings in Suffolk; 30 Nov. Helmet Vanga; all five ground-rollers and a vagrant African Spoonbill rounded out a superb return to Madagascar after an absence of 25 years! 30 Oct. a handful of backyard English birds en route to Madagascar; 5 Oct. a handful of Aussie birds near home including nesting Regent Honeyeater and Aus. Hobby; 26 Aug. ca. 300 spp in Sabah, Borneo incl. Bornean Ground-Cuckoo; Whitehead's Trogon male and several White-crowned Hornbills; 7 Aug. Just concluded a wonderful trip to PNG incl. West New Britain: hunting New Guinea Harpy Eagle; displaying Southern Crowned Pigeon; Little Paradise- and Shovel-billed kingfishers; 21 spp birds of paradise. Jan: Gujarat, India: Grey Hypocolius, superb views of Syke's Nightjar, Great Indian and McQueen's bustards, out of range Water Rail; 27 Jan. - local birding around home = Armidale, NSW added several spp incl. Blue-billed Duck and Little Eagle. Feb: Thailand highlights: 14 Siamese Firebacks, a sensational male Silver Pheasant, a very responsive and confiding Long-tailed Broadbill, 2 Black-faced Spoonbills, White-necked Laughingthrush, and Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Mar: Central India 15 Tigers, 1 Leopard, Painted Francolin, Spot-bellied Eagle-owl - out of range?April/May Assam and Bhutan: 7 male Satyr Tragopans; Spectacled Finch - first for Bhutan; Ward's Trogon; Beautiful Nuthatch. Micronesia: Palau Scrubfowl, Palau Owl, Golden White-eye, Kosrae White-eye. 15 Roger Ahlman Swedish but living in Ecuador 1402 Prothonotary Warbler in Quito 22 nov!, N Peru: Long-whiskered Wolet (h), American Redstart, Jet Manakin, Great Spinetail, Gray-bellied Comet, White-tailed Hawk (a significant range extension!), Chestnut Antpitta and 520 0thers incl most of the specialities.Black-and-white Warbler in Quito! SE Peru sept: Cerulean-capped Manakin, Black-backed Tody-Fly, Pale-eyed Blackbird, Chestnut-shouldered Antwren, White-browed Balckbird, Fiery-capped Manakin, Striolated Puffbird, Slender-billed Xenops, Masked Fruiteater etc. Marbled Godwit and other waders at the coast, Great Green macaw, Plumbeous F-F at Canande, Brown wood-rail and Chestnut-headed Oropendola at San Lorenzo, Yasuni and Dugand's Antwrens at Gareno etc,, Greater Scythebill and Barred Antthrush-Guacamayos, Am Umbrellabird and Fulvous-breasted Flatbill-San Rafael, Blue Seedeater-Tanayapa etcFar NW Ecuador: Rufous-crowned Antpitta, Indigo-crowned Quail-Dove, Ruddy-breasted Seedeater, Golden-chested Tanager, Five-coloured Barbet, Blue Cotinga etc,Wildsumaco: Andean laniisoma, Fiery-throated Fruiteater, Foothill Elaenia and Screech-Owl etc, Tenessee Warbler Quito, Olive Finch San Rafael, Mottle-backed Elaenia Baeza, Masked Mt-Tanager, Coppery-chested Jacamar, Cattle Tyrant, Galapagos clean-up february. La Selva: Zigzag Heron, Collared Puffbird etc, A few days in Florida for the Spacecoast Bird Festival gave 49 lifers. Lanceolated Monklet at Milpe and Hoary Puffleg at Tandayapa lodge, Started off at San Isidro lodge, Ecuador with Semi-collared Hawk, Gorgeted Woodstar, Dusky Piha, Powerful Woodpecker, White-tailed Hillstar, Chestnut-breasted Chlorophonia and White-capped Tanager etc... 16 Dion Hobcroft: Victor Emanuel Nature Tours Australia 1371 (seen) 7 Dec: Since September Grey Falcon, Kalkadoon Grasswren and Northern Shrike-tit amongst many highlights ranging from Southern Cassowary, Kermadec Petrel, Regent Honeyeater, Gouldian Finch and Red-bellied Pitta. Some recent birds include Eungella Honeyeater, Lesser Sooty Owl, Lewin's Rail, Marbled Frogmouth, Blue-faced Parrotfinch and Great-billed Heron. A family holiday to Java added Blue-tailed Trogon, Banded Pitta, White-breasted and White-bibbed Babbler, White-bellied Fantail and Black-winged Starling. Other highlights have included Milky Stork in Cambodia; Grey-sided Thrush, Mountain Bamboo-Patridge, White-necked Laughingthrush and Grey Peacock-Pheasant in Thailand; Indian Pitta, Malabar Trogon, Forest Owlet, Mottled Wood Owl, Rock Eagle Owl, Great Indian Bustard, Trumpeter Finch, White-browed Bush-Chat, 6000 Demoiselle Cranes, Rock Bush-Quail and Red-necked Falcon in India. Latest good birds include Lesser Rufous-headed Parrotbill and Grey-bellied Cuckoo in Bhutan and Sooty Owl in NSW. Some globally threatened species on the year list include Giant and White-shouldered Ibis, Bengal Florican, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Red Goshawk, Golden-shouldered Parrot and White-bellied Heron. 17 Phillip Cram Canadian 1362 18 Steve Lister British 1359 England (264), NE India (372), Thailand (379), northern Ecuador (567), Spain (137). Bugun Liocichla, Black-necked Crane, Snow Pigeon (and lots of snow), Black-tailed Crake, Ibisbill, Long-billed Plover in India. Chinese Egret, Black-faced Spoonbill and Spoon-billed Sandpiper in Thailand, plus 'White-faced Plover'. Harpy Eagle, Fiery Topaz, Pavonine Quetzal and Rufous Potoo in Ecuador. British highlights White-crowned Sparrow and Stilt Sandpiper. Adjusted after Clements update. 19 Benji Schwartz - Tropical Birding USA 1320(seen) A great customized tour to Kenya with highlights including Sokoke and Golden Pipits, Fischer's and Schalow's Turacos, Red-throated Tit, Abbott's and Sharpe's Starlings. Customized Namibia tour picking up almost all the specialties including Shelley's Sunbird, Souza's Shrike, Pel's Fishing Owl, Herero Chat, Dune and Grey's Larks. Another Kenya trip picking up almost all the Aberdare specialties including Aberdare Cisticola, Scarlet-tufted Malachite Sunbird, Slender-billed Starling, and Jackson's Francolin. Regal Sunbird and Archer's Robin-Chat found while Gorilla trecking in Rwanda. A final Malawi trip to end the year with almost all the local specialty species including, Olive-headed Weaver, Boulder Chat, Green-headed Oriole, and White-winged Apalis. 20 Remco Hofland Dutch 1282 Excl heard-onlies (such as Scops Owl and River Warbler). Visited NE India (Nameri and Kaziranga, 209), Syria (62), Ecuador (534), China (Yunnan, 111), Ireland (seawatching, 10), New Zealand (103) and single days in Hong Kong (3) and Shanghai (4). Furthermore, a year’s birding (and modest twitching) in The Netherlands (246). Highlights include Black-throated Diver (2nd for India), Greater Adjutant, White-winged Duck, Swamp Francolin and both rubythroats (India); Bald Ibis, Sociable Lapwing, Hoopoe Lark, Cyprus Wheatear, Iraq Babbler, Pine Bunting (Syria); Torrent Duck, Oilbird, Crested Owl, Lyre-tailed Nightjar, Great and White-eared Jacamar and Orange-throated Tanager (Ecuador); Long-billed Thrush, Masked, Rufous-necked, Greater Necklaced and Elliott’s Laughingthrush, Yunnan Nuthatch, Grey-headed, Gr. Rufous-headed and Brown-winged Parrotbill (China); Balearic Shearwater and Roseate Tern (Ireland); Tristram’s Bunting and Mugimaki Flycatcher (Shanghai airport); Stewart Island Kiwi, Wandering, Salvin’s and Black-browed Albatross, NZ, White-faced and Wilson’s Stormpetrel, Cook’s, Black-winged and Mottled Petrel, Fiordland Crested Penguin, Blue Duck, Spotted Shag, NZ Dotterel, Black Stilt, Black-fronted Tern, Kokako, Saddleback, Yellowhead and Rock Wren (New Zealand); Red-breasted and Lesser White-fronted Goose, Common Eider, Smew, Eurasian Dotterel, Black-winged Pratincole, Lesser Yellowlegs, Mediterranean Gull, Long-tailed Skua, Subalpine Warbler, Eagle, Snowy, Short-eared and Pygmy Owl, Firecrest, Hawfinch, Little and Rustic Bunting (Netherlands). 21 Keith Betton British 1275 Bulgaria, Fuerteventura, Spain, Bhutan, Java, Bali, South Africa, Argentina, UK 22 Chris Gladwin Australian/British 1258 2008 Trips: Antarctica, Fiji, Queensland, Nepal, Ghana, St Lucia, Scotland, Spain, Sulawesi & Halmahera 23 Andrew Whitehouse British 1168 UK: Upland Sandpiper, King Eider, Ring-billed Gull; NE Spain (March): Lammergeier, Wallcreeper, Pin-tailed and Black-bellied Sandgrouse, Dupont's Lark, Great-spotted Cuckoo; Eastern USA (May) 25 warbler species; Finland (June) Siberian Jay, Terek and Broad-billed Sandpipers; Mato Grosso and Para, Brazil (July) Bald Parrot, Tapajos Hermit, Kawall's Amazon, Yellow-browed Antbird, Sunbittern, Black-banded and Spectacled Owl, Chapada Flycatcher; Southeast Brazil (Aug-Sep) Stresemann's Bristlefront, Rio de Janeiro Antbird, Pinnated Bittern, Shrike-like Cotinga, Red-eyed Thornbird, Least Pygmy Owl, Buff-bellied Puffbird, Salvadori's Antwren, Russet-winged Spadebill, Eastern Striped Manakin, Slaty Bristlefront and lots of others. November-December, New Zealand: Rock Wren, Kokako, NZ Storm Petrel, Mottled Petrel, Kea, Kaka, Fernbird, Stitchbird, Saddleback, Southern Brown Kiwi. December, 1 night in Japan: Meadow Bunting, Japanese Sparrowhawk, Pygmy Woodpecker, Varied Tit. 24 Joe Cockram English 1120 All independent travel/backpacking: Jan and Feb in India and Nepal, Fall spent banding at Long Point, Canada, November/December travelling across USA and Mexico www.joesbirding.blogspot.com 25 Sean Fitzgerald USA - WI 1116 Ecuador (10 days), Tamil Nadu - India (six weeks), Sri Lanka (1 day), Thailand (11 days), Hong Kong (layover), USA (CA, AZ, NV, WI, MI, NJ) 26 Charlie Moores, 10000birds.com British (airline cabin crew) 1104 (all seen) (28 September): A great day in Kuwait with Mike Pope: species incuded Pallid and Monty's Harriers, Crab Plover, Collared Pratincole, Bonelli's, Short-toed, and Steppe Eagles, Short-toed, Bar-tailed, and Hoopoe Larks, 4 wheatears, and Masked Shrike 27 Jim Holmes, Jr USA (Calif) 1082 Year highlights: Thailand in February: Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Nordmann's Greenshank, Gurney's Pitta, Banded Pitta, and Green Broadbill; March Israel trip with White-tailed, Imperial, Greater and Lesser Spotted Eagles, White-eyed Gull, Crowned Sandgrouse, several Larks and Wheatears and Syrian Serin; March/April Lesser Antilles trip with Grenada Dove and all the St. Lucian, St Vincent and Dominican endemics; Costa Rica in August: Snowcap, Black Guan, Purple-backed Quail Dove, Tawny-chested Flycatcher 28 Ian Davies USA-Massachusetts 1071 California, Northeastern US, and Ecuador. Not including a month in Spain, still need to add. (Last updated 4/11/09) 29 Bradley Davis Canadian 1056 Brasil only. Highlights include Squacco Heron, Red-spectacled and Bald Parrots, Pavonine Cuckoo, Black-bellied Gnateater, White-throated Antbird and Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock. 30 Craig Howat British 1056 Harpy Eagle, Fiery Topaz, Mountain Avocetbill, Pavonine Quetzel, Crested Quetzel, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Ornate Hawkeagle, Noble Snipe, Rofous Bellied Seedsnipe, Rofous Potoo, Powerful Woodpecker, Andean tit-spinetail, White Bellied Antpitta, Olivaceous Piha, Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush, Rofous Bellied Niltava,Siberian Rubythroat,White-crowned Forktail, Red-faced Lioichla, Silver-eared Mesia, Chestnut-fronted Shrike BabblerMrs Gould's Sunbird, Coral billed Cuckoo,Banded Kingfisher, Pied Harrier, Great Slaty Woodpecker 31 C. Zockler German 931 Last bird Middle-spotted Woodpecker in Germany. Best year list so far, incl. heard species only! Update October: Narina Trogon, Grey-crested Helmet Shrike and Crab Plover in Kenya, Surfbird, Black Turnstone and Willet in Vancouver; Bee-eater in Germany, Buff-breasted Sand in Ireland and Baird's Sandpiper in EnglandStellers Sea Eagle, Aleutian Tern and Rufous-tailed Robin in Kamchatka; Spoon-billed Sandpiper and Violet Cuckoo in Myanmar, White-tailed Eagle in Germany, Bufflehead and other American Ducks Gulls and Sparrows in Washington DC, Rufous bellied Niltava and Bay-banded Cuckoo in Nepal, Pied Flycatcher in Germany end of April, Red-footed falcon and Roseate Tern in UK 32 Claes-Göran Cederlund Swedish 923 Sweden,England, India, Taiwan, Malaysia, French Polynesia and Pitcairn. 33 Dave Sargeant British 850 Last upd: 31-Dec-08: Oman and Thailand plus short visits to Taiwan, Thailand, Philippines, Cyprus, Jordan and UK. 34 Hans Westerlaken Dutch 797 Shoebill, African Finfoot (Uganda) , Forest Wagtail, Amur Falcon, Saunders Gull,White's'Thrush (China) 35 David Daniels USA 770 Indiana, Honduras, and Amazonian Peru. Fork-tailed Flycatcher in Indiana. Ten days in Honduras netted 137 lifers, including Spotted Rail, Keel-billed Motmot, Green-breasted Mountaingem, Honduran Emerald, and Prevost's Ground Sparrow. Two weeks in Amazonia Peru netted 303 lifers, including Nocturnal Curassow, Allpahuayo Antbird, Mishana Tyrannulet, Orange-eyed Flatbill, and Iquitos Gnatcatcher. 36 Nigel Voaden UK (working in Cameroon) 725 Latest: Cassin's Malimbe. Cameroon and a few days in UK so far. Mount Kupe and Green-breasted Bush-Shrike, Red-headed Picathartes, Quail-Plover, Bannerman's Turaco, Nkulengu Rail and many others. 37 Jennifer Rycenga US 722 US + eight days in Costa Rica 38 Carl Downing British 648 All in Colombia: Lesser Black-backed Gull, Magnolia Warbler. 39 Nick Upton / thaibirding.com British 647 Bay Woodpecker, Dusky Thrush, Aberrant Bush Warbler, Crimson-breasted Woodpecker, Slaty-blue Flycatcher, Mounatin Hawk Eagle 40 Tor Egil Høgsås www.hogsas.blogspot.com Norwegian 645 Southern Peru, including Manu road + Santa Eulalia, Lima pelagic and a couple of days in Colombia 41 Charlie Jackson English 603 Gujurat and Arizona + UK 42 Alf King British 594 Mainly Thailand & Ethiopia with a smidgeon of UK and a touch of Romania 43 Peter Bijlmakers Dutch 594 Netherlands 126, Germany 20, Belgium 33, West Malaysia 395, Bali 80 and Philippines 111. 44 mike davidson british 551 at Tsavo and Lake Jipe,Woolly -necked Stork,Black-chested Snake Eagle,Brown Snake Eagle,Grasshopper Buzzard,Amur Falcon, Sooty Falcon,Great-painted Snipe,African Emerald Cuckoo,Blue Cheeked Beeeater,Southern Gorund Hornbill,Golden-tailed Woodpecker,Firedmann's Lark,Red-winged Lark,Chestnut-backed Sparrowlark,Nigfhtingale,Rufous Bushshrike,Sedge Warbler,Basra Reed Warbler,Marsh Warbler,Olivacious Warbler, Olive-tree Warbler,Red-naped Bushshrike,Hildebrandt's Starling,Taveta Golden Weaver,Jameson's Firefinch,Harelequin Quzail,Zanzibar Red Bishop 45 Andrew Self Terran 550 Madagascar, Nepal, Biscay & rest in UK. 46 Peter Kaestner USA (New Delhi) 523 47 Matt Wood US 513 Aplomado Falcon, Green Jay, Altamira Oriole 48 Nick Sismey English 443 China - Baikal Teal, Siberian Rubythroat, Shikra, Painted Snipe, Green Shrike Babbler, Barred Laughingthrush. England Great Grey Shrike, Waxwing, Long Eared Owl 49 Jon Turner British 390 30 April: a few on a 2 day Spansh trip inc Black-shouldered Kite and Wryneck, 197 in Trinidad & Tobago inc Trinidad Piping Guan, 10 on a 4-hr stopover in Miami the rest in the UK 50 Mike Prince British (living in India) 344 All in SW India. Full list on BUBO Listing. Not entered in these rankings and want to enter yourself? Update or Delete your ranking Back to Life and Year List Home