ABA Area Life List

2011 - Aztec Thrush (Madera Canyon, AZ) and Masked Duck (King Ranch, Texas)

Little Stint, Atlantic Puffin

2019 - Thick-billed Murre, Horned Puffin, Red-faced Cormorant, Boreal Chickadee, Sharp-tailed Grouse

9/13 Mottled Petrel; 1/13 Citrine Wagtail, Red-flanked Bluetail; 10/12 Cook's Petrel; 8/11 Hawaiian Petrel; 8/11 Red-necked Stint; 7/11 Cerulean, Golden-winged & Swainson's Warbler, Bicknell's Thrush, Philadelphia Vireo, Atlantic Puffin & Little Gull; 1/11 Brown Shrike, 9/10 Lesser Sand-Plover

Roadside Hawk

recent: Ross's Gull (NY); highlights: Black-vented Oriole, Bare-throated Tiger-Heron; Golden-crowned Warbler; Gray-hooded Gull

Kelp Gull (721), Pine Flycatcher (722), Slate-throated Redstart (723), Tufted Flycatcher (724) -- All my photographs can be viewed at kiwifoto.com.

January 13, 2017 (Friday the 13th!), ROSS'S GULL - San Mateo Co. Ca; addition of Hawaiian ABA birds. 1/08/19: Red-flanked bluetail, Los Angeles Co., CA; 1/27/19: White-throated Thrush, Madera Canyon, AZ; 7/13/19: Black-capped Vireo and Golden-cheeked Warbler, Balcones Canyonlands NWR, Texas, 9/04/20: Eared Quetzal: Rucker Canyon AZ; 10/10/21: Dusky Warbler, Woodley Park area, Encino, Los Angeles Co. CA

(Started in 2007) Pink-footed Goose, Tundra Bean-Goose, Graylag Goose, Barnacle Goose, Common Shelduck, Gargany, Smew, Plain-capped Starthroat, Yellow-billed Loon, Barolo Shearwater, White-faced Storm-Petrel, Little Egret, Corn Crake, European Golden-Plover, Northern Lapwing, Common Ringed Plover, Wood Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, Red-necked Stint, Little Stint, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Terek Sandpiper, Great Skua, South Polar Skua, Gray-hooded Gull, Ivory Gull, Ross's Gull, Black-tailed Gull, Slaty-backed Gull, Kelp Gull, Whiskered Tern, White-winged Tern, Steller's Sea-Eagle, Great Black Hawk, Red-billed Tropicbird, Masked Booby, Common Crane, Ruddy Ground-Dove, Common Cuckoo, Buff-collared Nightjar, Gyrfalcon, Aplomado Falcon, Eurasian Kestrel, La Sagra's Flycatcher, Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Gray-breasted Martin, Fieldfare, Redwing, Mistle Thrush, Black-tailed Gnatcatcher, White Wagtail, Kirtland's Warbler, Black-backed Oriole, Brambling

Western Spindalis, Loggerhead Kingbird--Fla.; Flesh-footed Shearwater, Xantus's Murrelet--Calif.

Boreal Owl, Kodiak, Alaska, March 23, 2018; McKay's Bunting, Nome, Alaska, March 27, 2018

Kirtland's Warbler, Connecticut Warbler

Prairie Warbler - This list is current as of Dec 2020

updated on 10/22/2018

Jan 2011: Black-vented Oriole, White-throated Thrush, and Crimson-collared Grosbeak

Black-footed Albatross

Updated 4/1/12

#710 Nutting's Flycatcher, Irvince CA, 5 Jan 2001

Wood Sandpiper, Brambling, Dark-sided Flycatcher, Rufous-tailed Robin

I'm going to Colorado on 2/24 to chase Brown-Capped and Black Rosyfinch and White-tailed Ptarmigan.

Adding Hawaii

Eurasian Bullfinch, Plain-capped Starthroat, Blue Mockingbird

Narcissus Flycatcher seen on Attu Is. Alaska in 1994

2012: Muscovy, THICK-BILLED VIREO, Mangrove Cuckoo, Antillean Nighthawk, Black Noddy, RED-FOOTED BOOBY (all FL in May). 2011: GRAY-HOODED GULL. May 2012.

Dec 2011 Smew; Jan 2011 Northen Lapwing, Yellow-legged Gull (Newfoundland); White-eared Hummingbird (2007 Arizona for 700)

Latest additions: Western Spindalis, Gray-headed Swamphen, Egyptian Goose, and Nanday Parakeet

Black-browed Albatross, C. Stripe-headed Tanager, Rufous-backed Robin

Sharp Tailed Grouse and Evening Grosbeak in Montana

Black Noddy at Fort Jefferson 4/26/03

Falcated Duck

doing a big year in 2012

Fork-tailed Flycatcher (FL), Herald Petrel (NC), Northern Jacana (TX)

Most recent ABA lifers - Curlew Sandpiper (NJ)

My best bird, a Bachman's Warbler, is not on my life list because I only heard it. See my story in Birding, 12/99.

Dec 20

Hoping to add a few more this week!

Akiapolaau, Palila, Sinaloa Wren, Tufted Flycatcher, Amazon Kingfisher

Gray-crowned Yellowthroat April 2004 Texas

thru 2010