Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings

Australia Life List Rankings Showing Records 1 through 50 of 90 Total Records NEXT Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights 1 Rohan Clarke Australian 780 July 09 Latest additions Broad-billed Prion, Eurasian Little Grebe, Eurasian Curlew. Images of Australian vagrants can be found here For a more complete ranking of Australian life lists visit Tony Palliser’s site 2 Dion Hobcroft Australia 774 Most recent: Northern Shrike-tit, Kalkadoon Grasswren, Singing Starling, Pale White-eye, House Crow, Blue and White Flycatcher, Javan Pond Heron, Black-tailed Gull, superb Red-legged Crake, Lesser Yellowlegs, Western Reef-Egret and Saunder's Tern. For a more accurate listing google Tony Palliser's birders totals 2008. 3 Alan McBride 764 taking up full time guiding. http://web.mac.com/amcbride1 4 Carl Billingham Australian 700 March 2009: Buff-breasted Sandpiper. February 2009: Laughing Gull, Swinhoes Snipe. January 2009: Hudsonian Godwit, Asian Dowitcher. December 2008: Yellow-billed Kingfisher, Frilled Monarch, Black-winged Monarch, Yellow-legged Flycatcher, Spotted Whistling Duck, Trumpet Manucode, Red-bellied Pitta, Fawn-breasted Bowerbird, White-streaked Honeyeater, November 2008: Eurasian Grebe, Yellow-rumped Mannikin, Oriental Pratincole, White-lined Honeyeater, Black Grasswren, Chestnut-backed Button-quail, Matsudaira's Storm-petrel, Swinhoe's Storm-petrel, Red-necked Phalarope, Little-ringed Plover, Arctic Warbler, Yellow Chat, Island Monarch, Common Redshank 5 John Penhallurick Australian 689 Golden-shouldered Parrot,Red Goshawk,White-streaked Honeyeater,Kalkadoon Grasswren 6 Chris Gladwin British/Australian 676 Recent sitings: Red Goshawk, King, Gentoo, Rockhopper & Royal Penguins, Redpoll, Grey-headed Albatross, Kerguelen Petrel, Macquarie Shag, Antarctic Tern, Black-breasted Button-quail 7 Tony Clarke English 675 Hudsonian Godwit, Lesser Yellowlegs, Black-tailed Gull, Erect-crested Penguin, all honeyeaters, all nocturnal species, etc. 8 Rod Gardner Australian 668 Noisy Scrub-bird, Western Bristlebird and Western Whipbird at Waychinicup NP in SW 9 John Cox English/Australian 649 Latest addition Mottled Petrel 10 Graham Palmer The Earth 648 Initial entry. Scarlet Parrots at Gluepot, June 06. 11 Brian Fletcher Australian/British 644 Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Grey Falcon, Letter-winged Kite, Golden-shouldered Parrot, White-throated Grasswren, Chestnut-breasted Whiteface, Grey Wagtail, 2004 Eungella Honeyeater 05 Black Petrel, Grey Ternlet 12 Justin Jansen Holland 643 27/9/07 Some very nice subspecies seen and 31 potential splits! So remarkable birds where; Atherton Ground Thrush, Yellow Wagtail, Little Ringed Plover, Red Goshawk (7), Western & Northern Shrike Tit, Nullarbor Quail-thrush, White-bellied Monrach, Cape York Riflebird, Mallee & Western Whipbird, Helmeted Honeyeater, 8 species Grasswrens, 3 subspecies Yellow Chat, Tasmanian Boobook, Princess Alexandra's Parrot, Orange-bellied Parrot, Golden-shouldered Parrot, Australian Painted Snipe, Flock Pigeon (100-s) Letter-winged Kite(2) and Grey Falcon (2). 13 Stephen Blaber British/Australian 634 14 Russ Lamb Australia 626 Australasian Bittern 15 Gary and Marlene Babic US 621 Pied and Black Honeyeaters at Carnarvon 2005 16 Ben Blewitt Australian 620 Trip to outback Qld, Carpentarian, Kalkadoon, Eyrean, and Grey Grasswren, Rufous-crowned Emu-wren, Flock Bronzewing, Grey Falcon. Updated Jan. 09 17 Iain Campbell Australian 620 Last bird was White-quilled Rock-pigeon in August 1995, a few days before heading to richer shores for good. I need to return and nail the Letter-winged Kite, which just never seemed to co-operate when I lived there. 18 Rob Morris British (Aus Resident) 618 Updated May 2009 Recent new birds - White-faced Storm Petrel, Grey & Eyrean Grasswrens, Hudsonian Godwit, Black-chinned Honeyeater, Australian Little Bittern, Australian Painted Snipe, Red-backed Button-quail, Mottled & White-headed Petrels, Orange-bellied Parrots in Tasmania. Highlights 07-08 - Black-eared Miner, Regent Honeyeater, Black-eared Cuckoo, Black-breatsed Button-quail, 30 new seabirds in 2008 including Southern and Northern Royal Albatrosses, Tahiti, Black-winged, Gould's, Kermadec and White-chinned Petrels, all Tasmanian endemics, all the finches, quail-thrushes, babblers, hooded parrot, masked, sooty and lesser sooty owls, 7 Grasswrens, Malleefowl, 1000s Flock-bronzewings, Yellow, Orange and Crimson Chats, Painted, Pied, White-fronted, Black, Crescent and Banded Honeyeaters, all the frogmouths. 19 Pete Morris British 617 All the owls and Golden-shouldered Parrot. More recently, Pied Honeyeater, Red-lored Whistler and Short-tailed Grasswren 20 Terry Lewis English 612 8 species of Albatross (in one day), 65 species of Honeyeater, Palm Cockatoo 21 Mat Gilfedder Australian 611 July 09: Australasian Bittern, Laughing Gull, Western Yellow Robin, Plains Wanderer 22 Alastair Smith Australian 606 Black Bittern, Lesser Sooty Owl, Palm Cockatoo 23 David Fisher / Sunbird British 605 (no intros) 24 Nick Dymond British 604 Scarlet-chested Parrot, Chestnut-breasted Whiteface, all the honeyeaters, 8 grasswrens, Little Stint & Little Ringed Plover ! 25 Martin Edwards Canadian 599 Yellow Chat,Short-tailed Grasswren,Beautiful Firetail 26 Keith Betton British 579 Regent Honeyeater (Aug 2001) 27 Peter Waanders Dutch/Australian 572 last one was Grey-headed Lapwing 28 Antonio Salvadori Italo/Canadian 570 Banded Fruit Dove for my last Aussie doves; Chestnut-breasted and Banded Whitefaces; Inland Dotterel; Gibberbird; Carpenterian Grasswren - two more to go! 29 Peter Kaestner USA 554 Clements Taxonomy, Dec 2002 30 Enid Murphy British 552 Oriental Plover Spinifex Pigeon Gang Gang Cockatoo 31 Tony Murphy British 552 32 barry evans British 551 Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Red-rumped Swallow, Yellow Chat, 5 Grasswrens 33 Katarina Stenman swedish 547 isabelline wheatear, Qld Nov.2002 34 Dave Helliar British 541 Chestnut-breasted Whiteface, Cinnamon Quail-thrush, Thick-billed Grasswren, Short-tailed Grasswren, Red-lored Whistler, Gilbert's Whistler, Chirruping Wedgebill, Redthroat, Slender-billed Thornbill & Orange Chat in South Australia. Providence & Black-winged Petrels, Little Shearwater, Grey Ternlet & LH Woodhen on Lord Howe Island & CI Frigatebird, Abbott's Booby, CI Goshawk, CI Imperial Pigeon, CI White-eye, CI Glossy Swiftlet, Island Thrush, Java Sparrow & Little Ringed Plover on Christmas Island, Green Junglefowl on Cocos Island : March/April 2009 35 George Watola New Zealand/British 530 Noisy Pitta, Crimson Chat, Orange Chat, Superb Lyrebird, Double-eyed Fig Parrot, Pink-eared Duck, Cassowary were some highlights during my six years in Australia (1978-1983). 36 Julian Thomas British 525 Noisy Scrub-bird, Plains wanderer, Malleefowl, Chestnut-breasted Whiteface 37 Jeff Peters USA 519 Most recent highlights (Alice Springs-7/09) - Gray Honeyeater, Rufous-crowned Emu-Wren, Spinifex Pigeon, Dusky Grasswren, Painted Firetail; Cairns to Julatten (9/07) - So Cassowary, Golden Bowerbird, Fernwren 38 Erling Jirle Swedish 517 Australia 2 month trip 1989-90 39 Warwick Board South African 504 Gouldian Finch, all Quail-thrushes, Chestnut Rail, Dusky Grasswren, Masked Owl, Sooty Owl, Rufous Scrub-bird, Noisy Pitta feeding chicks, Rainbow Pitta, Star Finch, Scrubtit, Black Currawong calling in storm at High Moor, Whitebrowed Robin, Southern Scrub-Robin, Petroica robins, the lyrebirds, all honeyeaters (esp. Melithreptus) 40 Clare Moger (temporarily Vernon) Brit living in Slovakia 488 White-throated Grasswren, Ground Parrot, Powerful Owl, Lesser Sooty Owl, Painted Honeyeater, Crimson Chat, Freckled Duck, Western Whipbird, Noisy Scrubbird, Western Bristlebird. Three visits (2001, 2005 & 2006) covering East, Top End, SW, central West and Tasmania. 41 Claes-Göran Cederlund Swedish 483 Letter-winged Kite,Inland Dotterel,5 sp. Grasswren,Freckled Duck and many more during a month in Aug 2005. 42 Richard Fuller British 483 Malleefowl, Banded Whiteface, Flock Bronzewing, Carpentarian Grasswren, Golden Bowerbird 43 Steve Potter Australian 482 Sept 29 - Oct 7. FNQ - Daintree NP and Kingfisher Park. 118 species, 22 lifers - Papuan Frogmouth, Wompoo Fruit-dove, RUFOUS FANTAIL (Nemesis), Chowchilla, Tooth-billed Bowerbird, Lovely Fairy-wren, Double-eyed Fig-Parrot, Atherton Scrub-wren, Fairy and Large-billed Gerygone, Macleay's, Graceful, Yellow-spotted, Bridled, Brown-backed Honeyeater, Grey-headed Robin, Spectacled Monarch, Spotted Catbird. 44 Alex Farias Australian / Brazilian 480 Yellow Wagtail, Hudsonia Godwit, Werribee, VIC. Chestnut Rumped Heatwren, Waterfall NSW, Australian Painted Snipe, Edithvale VIC. 45 Rick Franks New Zealand 471 Grey falcon, Regent honeyeater, Ground parrot 46 Mike Haldeman USA 463 47 Joe Cockram English 462 Rufous Scrub-bird, Eastern and Rufous Bristlebird, Tahiti Petrel, Orange and Crimson Chat, Cassowary, 48 Mike Potter Australian 460 Black-faced Monarch, Channel-billed Cuckoo, Pale-headed Rosella, Russet-tailed Thrush 49 Dave Sargeant British 454 Last upd: Sep-02. Three trips to west and east coast. 50 Garry George US 453 Regent Honeyeater, Swift Parrot, Malee Emuwren, 40 Spotted Pardalote, Rufous Owl Not entered in these rankings and want to enter yourself? Update or Delete your ranking Back to Life and Year List Home