Australia, Cambodia, Ecuador, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Thailand, USA

Recent: California and AZ OVERALL:Nocturnal Curassow, Jocotoco Antpitta, Red-winged Wood-Rail, Orange-throated Tanager, Scarlet and White Tanager, Double-banded and Equatorial Graytails, Henna-hooded Foliage Gleaner, Waved Albatross, Esmereldas Woodstar, Black-crested Tit-tyrant, Pacific Royal Flycatcher with crest flared. Scottish Crossbill, Capercaillie, Great Skua, Arctic Loon, Willow and Rock Ptarmigan,Crested Tit, Elegant Trogon, Sinaloa Wren, Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

First two weeks of the year in Ecuador, 10 days in Panama in March, Feb-early April in D.C., last six weeks of the year in Peru, all else in MA. (Last updated 6/10/10)

Last: spain: spotted sandpiper, lammergeier. Turkey: Iraq Babbler, Imperial Eagle, Pallid Scops Owl....Cancun: Royal flycatcher, Black headed Trogon, 20 sp of N.A . warblers, .... Ecuador: Indigo Flowerpiercer, Golden Chested Tanager, Moss Backed Tanager, Lanceolated Monklet, Black and White and Black Hawk Eagles, Crested Guan, Moustached Antpitta, Long Wattled Umbrellabird, Great Jacamar.... Thailand: Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Baer´s Pochard, Siberian Rubythroat, ... France: Ivory Gull... Spain: Ross´s Gull, Spanish Imperial Eagle, American Coot, Greater Yellowlegs, Bonaparte´s Gull, Dupont´s Lark, Tengmalm´s Owl, Terek Sandpiper, Lesser Scaup, American Golden Plover, Eleonora´s Falcon....

Florida (Least Grebe, Yellow Rail, Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Western Spindalis, Harris' Sparrow, La Sagra's Flycatcher, Masked Duck); California (Mountain Quail, Yellow-footed Gull, Island Scrub-Jay, Yellow-billed Magpie, California Gnatcatcher); Costa Rica (Silvery-fronted Tapaculo, Nightingale Wren, Mangrove Hummingbird, Double-striped Thick-knee, Coppery-headed Emerald, Mottled Owl); Australia (Buller's Albatross, Grey-headed Albatross, Southern Cassowary, Black Falcon, Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush, White-browed Treecreeper, Ground Cuckooshrike, Great-billed Heron, etc)

All within the ABA area and lower 48 states as well: Gray-collared Becard, Brown-backed Solitiare, Tufted Puffin, Marbled Murrelet, South Polar Skua, Crested Caracara, Audubon's Oriole, Black Swift, Black-bellied Whistling-duck, Sinaloa Wren, Rufous-capped Warbler, Buff-collared Nightjar, Five-striped Sparrow, Flame-colored Tanager, Berylline Hummingbird, White-tailed Hawk, Green Jay, Magnificent Frigatebird, Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Nelson's Sparrow, Horned Grebe, Black-legged Kittiwake, Black Scoter, Little Gull, Ancient Murrelet

SE Arizona: Sinaloa Wren, Berylline, White-eared, Lucifer Hummers, etc.

FINAL [CO, TX, WA, WY, NM]

9-12-09: Black-capped Petrel, Wilson's and Band-rumped Storm-petrels, Cory's Shearwater, Greater Shearwater, Manx Shearwater, Audobon's Shearwater, Sooty and Bridled Terns, Northern Wheatear

Year listed with my dad and mum, Chris and Helena Craig. Beat both my targets for the year - to get to 300 and to beat my mum! 155 lifers in the year. My full list is at www.bubo.org. Favourite bird of the year - puffin. Highlights of the year - black-browed albatross (best birding experience), eastern crowned warbler (rarest bird of the year), glaucous winged gull, sandhill crane (furthest twitch), brown shrike, crested lark, white-thoated sparrow, pallid swift, pacific diver, collared flycatcher, red-flanked bluetail, great spotted cuckoo, river warbler, black-winged pratincole, collared pratincole, pacific golden plover, barred warbler, rb fly, ortolan bunting, short-toed lark, citrine wagtail, sabine's gull, wilson's storm petrel, long-tailed skua, wilson's phal, subalpine warbler, penduline tit, snowy owl (cutest bird of the year), r.l. buzzard, american golden plover, long-billed dowitcher, baird sand, buff-breasted sand, lesser yellowlegs, blue-winged teal, black duck, lesser scaup, r.b. goose, glossy ibis, squacco heron, little bittern, white-winged black tern, whiskered tern and red rumped swallow.

Latest: MacGillivray's Warbler, Lazuli Bunting

4-14 CO, TX, and a bit in NM Latest: Common Grackle, Spotted Towhee, and Swainson's Hawk (in CO)

updated 4/27/09:pileated woodpecker, yb loon, rufous-crowned sparrow, rock sandpiper, slaty-backed gull, northern shrike, black-legged kittiwake, mt. plover, brown thrasher, yellow-bellied&red-naped sapsuckers

Jan 2 - Snowy Owl, Horned Lark, Iceland Gull, Razorbill, King Eider