Rank | Name | Nationality | Total | Highlights |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Phil Gregory Field Guides/Sicklebill Safaris |
Australian | 499 | White-throated Needletail was 499 Dec 11 |
2 |
David Fisher / Sunbird |
British | 469 seen (no intros) | The number of species that I saw personally on the Sunbird tour of Australia - Oct 2008 |
3 |
Steve Potter |
Australian | 400 | Masked Woodswallow! |
4 |
Rod Gardner |
Australian | 390 | Almost all the Cape York endemics in November |
5 |
Peter Taylor |
Australian | 385 | Buff-breasted Paradise-kingfisher, Ground Parrot, Regent Bowerbird, Albert's Lyrebird, Noisy Pitta |
6 |
Mat Gilfedder |
Australian | 361 | Dec 31 - highlights included: Albert's Lyrebird, Barred Cuckoo-shrike, Blue-winged Parrot, Cotton Pygmy-Goose, Forty-spotted Pardalote, Ground Cuckoo-shrike, Hooded Plover, Lovely Fairy-wren, Paradise Riflebird, Plum-headed Finch, Red-footed Booby, Scrubtit, Shy Heathwren, Southern Emu-wren, Square-tailed Kite, Streaked Shearwater, Wandering Tattler, White-eared Monarch. |
7 |
Alex Farias |
Brazilian / Australian | 324 | Dec 28, Tawny Frogmouth |
8 |
Russ Lamb |
Australian | 317 | All Tasmanian endemics, plus Pink Robin, Olive Whistler, Lewin's Rail,Swift Parrot, Plains Wanderer, Inland Dotterel |