Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings

Indian Ocean Region Life List Showing Records 1 through 24 of 24 Total Records Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights 1 Jonathan Rossouw South African 286 All extant Madagascar, Seychelles and Mauritius endemics except Sakalava Rail & (?) Madagascar Pochard; Sabine's Gull (1st country record) in Madagascar in April 04 2 Peter Kaestner USA 271 Feb 1999 Grande Comore Drongo, Mt. Karthala White-Eye 3 Pete Morris British 255 All Comoro endemics, Red Owl, Madagascar Pochard, Sakalava Rail etc, October 2008. All in Madagascar and Comores... 4 Dave Sargeant British 246 Last up: Nov-05: Visited Madagascar, Reunion, Mauritius and Seychelles. 5 Hugh Buck British 242 Comoro Islands Oct 08: 17 Comoro endemics. Madagascar Oct - Nov 08: Madagascar Pochard, Teal, Long-Eared and Red Owls, Sakalava Rail, Short-Legged Ground-Roller, Schegel's and Yellow-Bellied Sunbird Asities, Red-Tailed Newtonia, Bernier's, Pollen's, Red-Shouldered and Van Dam's Vangas. 6 Martin Edwards Canadian 241 7 Mark Van Beirs Belgian 236 8 John Penhallurick Australian 223 Madagascar, Mauritius,Reunion and Rodrigues 9 Justin Jansen Holland 204 Visited Maldives, Reunion, Mauritius and Madagascar. Seen 1 Salvins Albatross for Mauritius! Also nice onces where 4 species of ground-roller, all but 2 species of vanga's (no Berniers and Helmeted), Banded Kestrel, Bat Hawk, Berniers Teal, Mauritius Kestrel, Olive White-eye, Barrau's Petrel and Reunion Cuckoo-Shrike! 10 Gerald Broddelez Belgian 203 11 Don Roberson USA 201 Mauritius Kestrel, Long-tail Gr-Roller, Seychelles White-eye, Cryptic Warbler 12 Claes-Göran Cederlund Swedish 201 13 Garry George USA 200 Red-tailed Newtonia (thanks Pete!), Helmet Vanga 14 Mike Passant British 188 Pectoral Sandpiper ,-1st record for Madagascar ,+ 15 Trevor Warren British 186 All Ground Rollers, Asities, Mesites, 13 Vangas 16 Jenny Norman South African 177 All 5 ground rollers 17 Alan Greensmith Independent 166 24 April 2009. One trip only. 18 Couronne Bernard FRANCE 164 update following Clements ... 19 John Pilgrim English 115 20 Yvon Princen Belgian 112 Strictly South and Central Hights of Madagascar 21 Colin Fenn British 101 22 Geoff Morgan British 82 Reunion (1990): Barau's petrel, Shy Albatross (white capped), Reunion Harrier, Broad-billed Roller, Grey & Olive White-eyes, R Cuckoo-shrike in song only. Seychelles (1991): Seychelles Kestrel, Blue Pigeon, Black Parrot, Swiftlet, Bulbul, Paradise Flycatcher, Warbler, Magpie Robin, Sunbird, Fody & Scops Owl. Also migrant Garganey, Shoveler, Temmink's Stint, Long-toed Stint, Pintail Snipe, Common Snipe, Eurasian Swift, Sand MArtin, Tree Pipit, Grey Wagtail. 23 Keith Betton British 68 Mauritius Kestrel, Seychelles Magpie Robin 24 Peter Carnall South African 47 Seychelles Black flycatcher/scops owl/white-eye June 99 Not entered in these rankings and want to enter yourself? Update or Delete your ranking Back to Life and Year List Home