2006 Bird List Update

[urbpan]

I figured I'd better update my bird list for this year, before I go on vacation (and confuse myself with Caribbean birds) and before warbler season (when I could add half again my list in a week). Previous 2006 list.


Double-crested cormorant Phalocrocorax auritus
Mute swan (feral) Cygnus olor
Swan goose (feral) Anser cygnoides
Greylag goose (feral) Anser anser
Wood duck Aix sponsa
Bufflehead Bucephalus albeola
Hooded merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
Common merganser Mergus merganser
Turkey vulture Cathartes aura
Red-tailed hawk Buteo jamaicensis
Wild turkey Meleagris gallpavo
Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
Great black-backed gull Larus marinus
Belted Kingfisher Ceryle alcyon
Red-bellied woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
Northern flicker Colaptes auratus
Eastern phoebe Sayornis phoebe
Fish crow Corvus ossifragus
Brown creeper Certhia americana
Golden-crowned kinglet Regulus satrapa
Veery Catharus fuscescens
Wood thrush (heard only) Hylocichla mustelina
Northern mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
Cedar waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
Red-winged blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
Common grackle Quiscalus quiscula
Brown-headed cowbird Molothrus ater
Common redpoll Carduelis flammea

Comments

[serendith.livejournal.com]

Where are you going on vacation?

I keep meaning to put a life list together but never actually getting around to it. By the by, I never realized how many red bellied woodpeckers there were around here until I learned their call - now I hear them all the time but I can rarely find them (normally water is in the way). It is amazing how much we can be unaware of if we don't know what to look for.

[violet-flames.livejournal.com]

Well, when you get around to making a life list... make 2. My uncle had his life list in his birdbook, probably 30 years worth, and the book was in his car when his car got stolen.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Anitigua.

I have had a similar experience with the red-bellies. I hear them calling constantly nowadays.

[ankhanu.livejournal.com]

I should keep a yearly record of what I see too. I have a life list, but I haven't actually updated it in a while; I've been thinking about transferring it to an electronic DB and filling in any holes I see.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

My life list is on 10 different sheets of paper in 5 different notebooks scattered around my house. I wish there were an easy, non-cdrom complete world bird list program available. All I want is a list of the 9000 or so species with check boxes, and maybe a place to write some comments, and the dates and places.

My own criteria for whether a bird goes on the list is whether I would recognize it again if I saw it now. Therefore my lifelist should be shrinking as I forget stuff. Would I recognize a tawny ant-pitta today? I doubt it. Or the dozen different hummingbirds and tanagers in Costa Rica, and so on.

[ankhanu.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting method for keeping your list; it has its merits. There are several birds on my life list right now that I'm not sure if I should keep on it; mostly being ones I saw in places like sanctuaries and the like and only once (of course, I was 10-12 when they were added). Your method would eliminate questionables like that.

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

As long as you're compiling lists, how about a list of your 365 species project so far?