Young Birders State Life List

Showing Records 1 through 40 of 40 Total Listers

Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights

1

Ryan Terrill

Californian 521
Brown Shrike and Gray-cheeked Thrush on SEFI this fall. All NAB and CBRC accepted (which mean I had to strike Gray-tailed Tattler. Boo.)

2

Matt Brady

USA - CA 502
NIB only. Latest: Golden-winged Warbler, Baird's Sparrow, Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Cook's Petrel and Gray-tailed Tattler from Southeast Farallon Island. Highlites: Cory's Shearwater, Common Rosefinch, two Little Stints, Baikal Teal, Alder Flycatcher, Magnificent Hummingbird

3

Matt Baumann

USA-New Mexico 480
Latest: Blue-winged Warbler (Boone's Draw, Roosevelt Co. 5/7/2011)

4

Oscar Johnson

California 473
7/8/08. NIB. Latest: Black-backed Woodpecker, Juniper Titmouse, Golden-winged & Canada Warblers. Highlights: Ross's, Slaty-backed, (#400) Iceland, and Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Smew, Cook's and Dark-rumped Petrels, Streaked and Greater Shearwaters, Neotropic Cormorant, Brown Booby, Roseate Spoonbill, Bar-tailed Godwit, Little Stint, Upland Sandpiper, Piping Plover (self found, 4th state record), Parakeet Auklet (Self found), Snowy Owl, Cave Swallow, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Arctic Warbler, Rufous-backed Robin, Smith's Longspur, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Baikal Teal, Glossy Ibis, Common Black-Hawk, Mississippi Kite, Crested Caracara, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, American Oystercatcher, Greater Pewee, Thick-billed Kingbird, Sedge Wren, 37 Warblers including Red-faced, Grace's, Worm-eating, Yellow-throated, and Pine, Curve-billed Thrasher, Common Grackle.

5

Cole Wolf

USA (NM) 467
Blue-footed Booby, Swallow-tailed Kite, Crested Caracara, Aplomado Falcon, Black & Clapper Rails, Black Turnstone, Ruff, Black-tailed & Iceland Gulls, Black-billed Cuckoo, Groove-billed Ani, Vaux's Swift, Green Kingfisher, Yellow-bellied, Acadian, & Buff-bellied Flycatchers, Couch's & Tropical Kingbirds, Black-capped Vireo, Gray-cheeked Thrush, Rufous-backed Robin, Snow Bunting, 42 Wood-Warbler sp (incl Fan-tailed & Rufous-capped), Rufous-winged Sparrow, Common Redpoll, White-winged Crossbill

6

Raymond VanBuskirk

USA (NM) 458
Black-tailed Gull, Rufous-capped Warbler, Aplomado Falcon, Black Rail, Little Gull, Iceland Gull, Eastern Screech-Owl, Barred Owl, Green Violet-ear, Black-capped Gnatcatcher, Canada Warbler, Golden-crowned Warbler, Yellow Grosbeak, and Vaux's Swift

7

Andrew Spencer

Colorado 445
All of the breeders, five species of Loon (including 2 different Arctics), Kelp Gull, Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher, 9 hummingbird species, Harlequin Duck, Purple Gallinule, all 3 Jaegers, Smith's Longspur, 41 warbler species, 2 Long-billed Thrashers, Curlew Sandpiper, Sprague's Pipit, Sooty Tern, Henslow's Sparrow, Streak-backed Oriole

8

Andy Bankert

Florida 402
Mangrove Swallow, Western Spindalis (2), Black-faced Grassquit (2), Yellow-faced Grassquit, Slaty-backed Gull, La Sagra's Flycatcher (2), Fork-tailed Flycatcher (4), Bahama Mockingbird, Eurasian Kestrel, 8 Hummingbirds, Lazuli Bunting, Black Noddy, Heerman's Gull, Elegant Tern, Harris's Sparrow, Sulfur-bellied Flycatcher, Western Grebe, Thick-billed Vireo, Ruff, Horned Lark, Western Meadowlark, Hammond's Flycatcher, Loggerhead Kingbird, Spotted Towhee

9

Charlie Wright

WA-USA 402
Bean & Emperor geese; Whooper Swan; Falcated Duck; Baikal Teal; Common & King eiders; Murphy's Petrel; White Ibis; Mountain Plover; Red-necked and Temminck's stints; Black-tailed, Slaty-backed & Great Black-backed gulls; Long-billed Murrelet, Red-legged Kittiwake; Northern Hawk-Owl; Broad-tailed Hummingbird; Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers; Alder Flycatcher; Black & Eastern phoebes; Scissor-tailed Flycatcher; Blue-headed Vireo; Redwing; Magnolia, Cape May, Bay-breasted, & Blackpoll warblers; Ovenbird; Painted Bunting; Baltimore & Hooded orioles. Last update: Horned Puffin on 4/3/07.

10

John Garrett

California 387
04/26/08: most recent to least recent: Chestnut-sided Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Eastern Yellow Wagtail, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Ruff, Long-tailed Jaeger, South Polar Skua, Buller's Shearwater, Black-footed Albatross, Stilt Sandpiper, Flesh-footed Shearwater, Black-backed Woodpecker, Greater Pewee, Harris's Sparrow, Worm-eating and Yellow-throated Warblers, Rock Sandpiper, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Upland Sandpiper, Prairire Warbler, Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel, Dusky-capped FLycatcher, Thick-billed Kingbird, Painted Redstart, Golden-winged Warbler, Tropical Kingbird, Ruddy Ground-Dove, American Redstart, Swamp Sparrow, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Northern Parula, Great Gray Owl, McCown's Longspur, Red-throated Pipit, Hooded Warbler, Anhinga

11

Scott Schuette

USA- Arizona 382
Blue Mockingbird; updated February 27, 2009

12

Karl Fairchild

Oregon-US 375
Little Blue Heron, Slaty-backed Gull

13

Leslie Tucci

USA - California 367
(NIB) YB loon, eastern phoebe, harris's sparrow, sharp-tailed sandpiper, cape may warbler, worm eating warbler, whip-poor-will, brown booby

14

Ian Davies

USA-Massachusetts 361
Black Rail (Last updated 6/10/10)

15

Josh Vandermeulen

Canada - Ontario 360
self found: 320. 2012 additions: Fish Crow, Gray-crowned Rosy-finch, Band-tailed Pigeon, A. Three-toed Woodpecker, Bell's Vireo, Western Tanager, Le Conte's Sparrow, Western Meadowlark, Yellow Rail, Curlew Sandpiper, King Rail, Northern Bobwhite, Black-billed Magpie, Sharp-tailed Grouse, Magnificent Frigatebird, Little Blue Heron, Black Guillemot, Arctic Tern, Thick-billed Kingbird, Yellow-crowned Night-heron, Townsend's Solitaire, Gyrfalcon, Common Eider, Northern Gannet, Northern Fulmar, Great Cormorant

16

Ken Burrell

Ontario, Canada 355
Great Cormorant, Anhinga, Mississippi Kite, King Rail, Heermann's and Slaty-backed Gulls, Band-tailed Pigeon, Common Ground-Dove, Lewis's Woodpecker, Gray Flycatcher, Tropical Kingbird, Black-throated Gray (2), dominica Yellow-throated and Swainson's Warblers, Smith's Longspur, Burrowing Owl, Mottled Duck, Fish Crow, Snowy Plover and Barn Owl

17

Michael Hilchey

USA - New Mexico 350
Woodcock, Scarlet tanager, Pomerine and Long-tailed Jeagers, Lousiana Waterthrush, Eastern Wood-Pewee,

18

Tyler Loomis

USA - AZ 347
Roseate Spoonbill, Stilt SandpiperFive Stripped Sparrow, Allen's Hummingbird, Yellow billed loon, N. Parula, Common Loon, Golden Crowned Sparrow, Tundra Swan, N. Jacana, Sabine's Gull, Greater White Fronted Goose, Pectoral Sandpiper, Black Tern, hooded warbler, prothonotary warbler(self found), Blue Mockingbird, Cresent Chested Warbler, Swamp Sparrow

19

Tom Reed

New Jersey 346
1/27/06

20

Koen Stork

Dutch 336
Siberian Rubythroat

21

Michael Woodruff

Washington 336
Updated Apr 2009 - Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Hudsonian Godwit, Broad-winged Hawk, Black-headed Gull, Northern Hawk Owl, Great Gray Owl, Boreal Owl, Tufted Duck, Northern Mockingbird, Alder Flycatcher, Cape May Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Redwing, Great-tailed Grackle, Rusty Blackbird, Swamp Sparrow, Harris's Sparrow, Mountain Quail, Yellow-billed Loon, Rose-breasted Grosbeak

22

David Bell

Ontario 334
#300 = Nelson's Sparrow, Townsend's Solitaire most recent

23

Sean Fitzgerald

WI - USA 332
9/2/07 - Wisconsin 332 (Slaty-backed Gull latest - 12/06). Also in the running are TX with 309, CA with 303, MI with 247, and AZ with 206.

24

Erik Enbody

MI 328
Bell's Vireo and Yellow Rail in the same day!

25

Jen Brumfield (24)

Ohio 320
Additions 2007: Piping Plover, King Rail. HIGHLIGHTS: Northern Gannet, Long-billed Murrelet, Common Eider, King Eider, Tricolored Heron, Glossy Ibis, Brant, Ross's Goose, Eurasian Wigeon, Swallow-tailed Kite, Mississippi Kite, Snowy Plover, Ruff, 38 sp. of shorebirds, Gyrfalcon, Mew Gull, Sabine's Gull, California Gull, Pomarine and Parasitic Jaegers, Anna's Hummingbird, Rufous Hummingbird (4), Eurasian Collared-Dove, Barn Owl, Chuck-will's-widow, Brown-headed Nuthatch, Townsend's Solitaire, Bohemian Waxwing, Varied Thrush (2), Vermilion Flycatcher, Say's Phoebe, Western Tanager, Spotted Towhee, Lark Bunting, Harris's Sparrow, Lark Sparrow, Clay-colored Sparrow, LeConte's Sparrow, Red and White-winged Crossbills, Evening Grosbeak (one flock of 100+ in southern Ohio backyard feeders in early '90's is now extraordinarily rare), Hoary Redpoll, 37 sp. of warblers incl. ad male Kirtland's in '06.

26

Ben Griffith

US-NH 318
Latest: Hooded Warbler, MISSISSIPPI KITE (1st state record, self found)

27

Craig Bateman

Michigan 316
2 different Curlew Sandpipers in just over a week, WHITE-EARED HUMMINGBIRD, GB Tern, Anhinga, Connecticut Warbler Eurasian Tree Sparrow, Bullock's Oriole, Cattle Egret, Tricolored Heron

28

Nigel Bates

New Jersey- since 2004 314
Purple Gallinule at Cape May Point in July

29

Tim Snieder

Ontario 308
Eurasian Wigeon, Ruff, summer tanager, pt pelee: kirtland's warbler, harris's sparrow, clay-colored sparrow, Nelson's Sharp tailed sparrow (banded @ Pinery), piping plover, RECENT: Long-tailed jaeger, virginia rail, buff-breasted sandpiper@Long Point, lake erie. brewer's blackbird@Tobermory. parasitic jaeger@Pt Edward (9/28), gyrfalcon (Forest Dec), Niagara Kittiwake, razorbill, california gull...Algonquin three toed woodpecker, red crossbill...Pelee may 5/6: Henslow's sparrow, Marbled godwit, 12/13: Kentucky warbler, chuck will's widow, Algonquin Spruce grouse Barred owl BB woodpecker, Boreal chickadee...cattle egret 10/07, gray partridge( Nov.), Hawk owl (Jan 08) Pelee 08: Willet, GW warb, mottled duck, lark bunt, Brant (nov.22). Boreal owl 31/1/10. hudsonian godwit. Gannet nov.20/10

30

Sam Manning

US-NE 300
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, Red-throated Loon, Neotropic Cormorant, Long-tailed Jaeger, Black-legged Kittiwake, Laughing Gull, Mew Gull, Glaucous-winged Gull, Mountain Chickadee, Brown-headed Nuthatch, Golden-winged Warbler, White-winged Crossbill, Lesser Goldfinch, Evening Grosbeak

31

Bentley Colwill

British Columbia 291
American Tree Sparrow - 1/1/24

32

Luke Seitz

USA- Maine 289 i think
Mag Frigate, BT Gray Warb, Lark Bunt, Redhead

33

Nick Varvel

USA - Kansas 286

34

Miles Brengle

USA 283
Western Tanager on 11/17/13; Red-necked Stint on 06/28/13 (updated December 2013)

35

Chris West

USA, WI 278
Green-breasted Mango!!, Anna's Hummingbird, Hudsonian Godwit, Chuck-wills-widow, Ruff!, Sabine's Gull, Red-throated Loon, White-winged Crossbill, Rufous Hummingbird

36

Ross Gallardy

PA 278
Harris's Sparrow

37

Josh Covill

Montana 235
Long-tailed Duck, Red-breasted Merganser, and Harris's Sparrow in NW Montana

38

Sergey Pavlov

USA - California 190
Hermit Warbler, 2/14, last updated 2/14

39

Ryan Justice

US- NC 187
Wilson's Snipe, Lapland Longspur, Great Comorant

40

Omar Bronstein

US-CT 83
Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Purple Finch, Hermit Thrush
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