Rank | Name | Nationality | Total | Highlights |
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1 |
Andrew Spencer |
US-Colorado | 1660 | Give or take one or two. ABA area, two trips to Mexico, three months in Ecuador, and a month in Venezuela (though some of the first MX trip and the VZ trip were in different years). Best bird of the year was Banded Ground-Cuckoo in Ecuador. |
2 |
Olivier Barden |
Canada - Québec | 1069 | Odds 'n sods from southern+central Peru July/August: Junin Grebe, Cape Petrel, Solitary Eagle, Marbled Godwit, Peruvian Tern, Pale-rumped Swift, Wire-crested Thorntail, Fire-throated Metaltail, Fine-barred Piculet, White-browed Tit-Spinetail, Creamy-bellied Antwren, Black Antbird, Amazonian Antpitta, White-cheeked Cotinga, Red-billed Tyrannulet, Unstreaked Tit-Tyrant, Black-and-white Tody-Tyrant, Golden-bellied Warbler, Brown-flanked Tanager, Huallaga Tanager, Yellow-bellied Dacnis, Short-billed Honeycreeper, Slaty Finch, Apurimac Brush-Finch, Band-tailed Oropendola; QC: Pink-footed Goose, Yellow-breasted Chat; ON: White-winged Dove, Kirtland's Warbler, Chuck-will's-Widow; NWT: Willow Ptarmigan, Long-tailed Jaeger, Smith's Longspur, Lark Sparrow; NH: Western Reef-Heron, Black-headed Gull. (Updated 23/10) |
3 |
Daniele Mitchell |
Canadian | 592 | Turquoise Cotinga, Yellow-billed Cotinga, Streak-chested Antpitta, Resplendent Quetzal (Costa Rica) |
4 |
Mike Harvey |
US - NH | 533 | updated 3/5: Ecuador and New York (plus some from NH I have yet to tally) |
5 |
Ian Davies |
USA-Massachusetts | 520 | Costa Rica for 2 weeks, Maine for 4 days. Rest are from Mass. (Last updated 3/5/07) |
6 |
Ies Goedbloed |
Dutch | 500 + | oliath heron, Painted snipe, Spotted honeyguide, Black francolin, Cyprus wheatear, Sooty falcon Holland, Gambia Senegal, Israël, Egypt, Jordan and Cyprus also 200 species in South Africa. I visit a lot of countries, most of the time as a groupleader and not much time for birding. |
7 |
Scott Schuette |
USA- Missouri | 450 | AZ, CO, KS, MO, NE, Sonora, and WY |
8 |
Ryan Merrill |
US-WA | 450 | madagascar sandgrouse; whitebrowed owl; hookbilled vanga; running coua; greater crested tern yesterday... more to come; 15 sept |
9 |
Erik Enbody |
USA- MI | 447 ABA, 296MI | Ahhh..so close to 300 in MI =/ |
10 |
Taj Schottland |
USA Vermont | 446 all in ABA | In new england: WESTERN REEF HERON, Black-tailed Godwit, Black-headed Gull, Little Gull, Baird's Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, CT warbler, Cackling Goose. 2 weeks in AZ and CA Highlights:ARCTIC LOON!!Montezuma Quail White-eared Hummingbird, Rufous-backed Robin and Flame-colored Tanager. Pelagic out of Monterey: Black-footed Albatross, Ashy Storm-petrel, Bullers Shearwater and Sabine's Gull. |
11 |
Oscar Johnson |
USA-Mexico | 437 | A week in CO, and AZ (Aztec Thrushes). California: Piping Plover (self found, 4th state record), Dark-rumped Petrel, Bar-tailed Godwit, Little Stint, Upland Sandpiper, Slaty-backed and Vega Gulls, Snowy Owl, Crested Carcara, American Oystercatcher, 2 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons, Blue Jay, Thick-billed Kingbird, Broad-billed Hummingbird, Dusky-capped Flycatcher, Pine Warbler, 2 Grace's Warblers, Common Grackle. Updated 8/20/06 |
12 |
David Pavlik |
Michigan | 418 | |
13 |
Craig Bateman |
USA- Michigan | 406 | 279 in Michigan, the rest in northern OH and southeast AZ, Marbled Godwit |
14 |
Charlie Wright |
Washington | 371 | Washington plus a week in California and a week in se Arizona. Update 27 April. |
15 |
Robert Furrow |
USA - PA | 366 | 9/8/06. Recent highlights include Curlew Sandpiper, Black and Roseate Terns. |
16 |
Michael Woodruff |
USA - Washington | 282 | |
17 |
Alex Harper |
USA- FL | 255 | 10/14/06 Red-billed Tropicbird, Ruff, and Northern Wheatear in Florida |
18 |
Rob Poniatowski |
MI, USA | 245 | 200 from MI and the rest of them are from Florida. |
19 |
Hen |
British | 228 | Wilson's Phal (Stithians) Trip to 'Bridges of Ross' - W.Ireland 21st-24th August, Picked up, 2 FEA'S + Storm Petrels, Sooty, Balearic, Great + Cory's Shears, Med, Sabine's, Ring-billed + Smithsonians Gull, Great, Arctic + Pom Skuas, Ruff, Arctic Tern |
20 |
Dennis Riederer |
Switzerland | 228 | Franklins Gull, Ring-necked Duck, Chinese Shrike Helgoland: Dusky,-Pallas,- yellow browed Warbler, Little Bunting, Isabelline Wheatear, Little Auk |
21 |
Philip Chaon |
Cleveland OH | 211 all OH | White-rumped Sandpiper, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher |
22 |
Andy Bankert |
Florida | 210 | Short-tailed Hawk, Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Bell's Vireo, Fulvous Whistling-Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Nashville Warbler, Allen's Hummingbird, Rusty Blackbird |
23 |
Morgan Churchill |
USA-California | 189 - San Diego County only | Red-necked Grebe, Common Grackle, Eastern Phoebe, Stilt Sandpiper, Northern Parula, Black-and-white Warbler, Brown Thrasher, Gray Catbird, Crissal Thrasher |
24 |
Carlos Ross |
USA - Arizona | 140 | Phoenix Area - Vaux's Swift, Townsend's Warbler (Apr 2006) |
25 |
Thomas Kirk |
Canadian | 99 | Canada: Snow geese, Canada Geese, Mallard Ducks, Canvasback, Blue-winged Teal, Ruddy Ducks, Gray Partridge, Ring-necked Pheasant, Sharp-Tailed Grouse, Common Loon, Red-necked Grebe, American White Pelican, Great Blue Heron, Turkey Vulture, Bald Eagle, Northern Harrier, Swainson's Hawk, Red-Tailed Hawk, Broad-winged Hawk, American Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, Killdeer, Piping Plover, American Avocet, Marbled Godwit, Wilson's Phalarope, Franklin's Gull, Ring-billed Gull, Common Tern, Rock Dove, Mourning Dove, Eurasian-Collared Dove, Great Horned Owl, Snowy Owl, Burrowing Owl, Barn Owl, Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, Northern Flicker, Downy Woodpecker, Western Kingbird, Eastern Kingbird, Loggerhead Shrike, Blue Jay, Black-billed Magpie, American Crow, Horned Lark, Purple Martin, Tree Swallow, Bank Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Barn Swallow, Black-Capped Chickadee, Red-Breasted Nuthatch, House Wren, Mountain Bluebird, American Robin, Gray Catbird, Brown Thrasher, European Starling, Bohemian Waxwing, Cedar Waxwing, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped warbler, Wilson's Warbler, American Tree Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Common Redpoll, White-crowned Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Red-Winged Blackbird, Western Meadowlark, Yellow-headed Blackbird, Brewer's Blackbird, Common Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird, Baltimore Oriole, House Finch, American Goldfinch, House Sparrow Hawaii: Zebra Dove, Japanese White-eye, Java Sparrow, Northern Cardinal, Red-crested Cardinal, Cattle Egret, Spotted Dove, Common Myna, Hawaiian Hawk (Io), Hawaiian Creeper, Pacific Golden Plover, Domestic birds: Yellow and Blue Macaw, Farm Chicken, Love birds, Budgies, Ring-neck Dove, Fan-tailed dove, Diamond Dove, Peacock, Zebra Finch |
26 |
Sean Fitzgerald |
MI/WI - USA | 87 | 1/15 - California Condor, Black-throated Sparrow, Black-chinned Sparrow, Snowy Owl, Northern Pygmy-Owl, and Red-naped Sapsucker (UT, AZ, NV, WI, IL, MI) |
27 |
Ben Griffith |
NH - US | 76 | Northern Hawk Owl, Yellow-headed Blackbird, Dickcissel, Bohemian Waxwing, King Eider, Hoary Redpoll |
28 |
Ross Gallardy |
PA | 67 | 45 Sandhill Cranes in PA & Glacous Gull(1st lifer of the year) |