Showing Records 1 through 34 of 34 Total Listers

Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights

1

Jonathan Rossouw/Apex Expeditions

South African 2883 birds & 298 mammals
DEC: Home in South Africa, with Christmas in the E Cape adding the final few for the year; NOV: Madagascar, with most eastern rainforest endems and incomparable Madagascan Ibis on nest (plus mating Fosas, Giant Jumping Rat, Pygmy Mouse Lemur, Perrier’s & Diademed Sifakas); OCT: Namibian dry west endemics (plus Peringuey’s Adder, Brown Hyena, Ratel); SEP: Pantanal (Jaguar, Brazilian Tapir & striped young, Ocelot & Giant Anteater); Cristalino, with Bare-eyed & Xingu Scale-backed Antbirds (plus Black-headed Night Monkey); Mamiraua, with multiple Wattled Curassows (plus White Uakari & Black-headed Squirrel Monkey); Manaus area, with Pelzeln's & Snethlage's Tody-Ts, Klages's Antwren, Dotted Tanager and the incomparable Guianan COTR on the lek (plus White-faced Saki, Pied & Golden-handed Tamarins); AUG: Congo, with Akun & Fraser's Eagle-Owls, displaying Lyre-tailed Honeyguides, Black-headed Bee-eater, combined with Rwanda, for Rwenzori Turaco, Kungwe Apalis (plus Western Lowland AND Eastern Mountain Gorillas, Chimps; De Brazza's, L'Hoest's, Dent's, Moustached & Virunga Golden Monkeys); JULY: Pacific NW of USA; JUNE: Costa Rica, with Resplen Quetzal, 3-wattled Bellbird, Cabanis’s Gr-Sparrow; home in SA, with Drakensberg Rockjumper & Siskin, Wattled & Blue Cranes, & Pink-throated Twinspot (plus White Rhino, Af Wild Dog, Cheetah & Sloggett's Ice Rat); MAY: Uganda, with Shoebill, papyrus & Albertine Rift specialties (plus chimps hunting Ashy Red Colobus); Brazil, with Manaus & Cristalino APR: Ecuador, returning to Sacha Lodge after almost 20 years, with Uniform Crake below the cabins (!); Cordillera del Condor, with numerous Wetmorethraupis, family of 4 RED-WINGED WOOD-RAILS (!); Jocotoco experience; Canande, with Tawny-faced Quail, crippling Brown Wood-Rail, Semi-plumbeous Hawk, Choco trio of Scr-Owl, Poorwill & Tapaculo (plus Brown-headed Spider Monkey & incredible Spectacled Bear & cubs on Papallacta); MAR: Chile, with Pincoya Storm Petrel, Rufous-tailed Hawk (plus amazing Pumas in T del Paine, Blue Whale, Orcas hunting); FEB: India (Tigers, Dhole, Gaur), ending in Chitwan NP with Slender-billed Babbler, Grey-crowned Prinia; JAN: Ladakh, with Ibisbill, Him Snowcock, Streaked Rosefinch (plus 5 Snow Leopards); New Year in Horn of Africa, with 3rd bird of 2015 being Djibouti Francolin (plus Pectinator), then Ethiopia, with beaut Abyssinian Long-eared Owl, Harwood's Francolin, Blanford's Lark & Cinereous Bunting (plus Geladas, Walia Ibex, Ethiopian Wolf).

2

Ross Gallardy

USA 2448
Recent: fall migrants in VA. Ecuador: El Oro Parakeet, Jocotoco Antpitta, Gray-headed Antbird, White-necked Parakeet, Foothill Eleania, Orange-throated Tanger, Pale-headed Brushfinch. Peru: 970 species, 92 endemics including Purple-backed Sunbeam, Scarlet-banded Barbet, and Long-whiskered Owlet (2 meters away for 30 min), also Wattled Currasow and Cloudforest Screech-Owl (3 meters away) Japan: Blakiston's Fish Owl, Short-tailed Albatross, RC Crane, and Steller's Sea Eagle. Thailand: 5 pittas, WF Scops Owl, Oriental Bay Owl, Spoon-billed Sand, Nordmann's Greenshank, WF Plover, Hodgson's Frogmouth on nest, Grey Peacock and Hume's Pheasants. Cambodia: Bengal Florican, Giant Ibis, Manchurian Reed Warbler, Mekong Wagtail, Cambodian Tailorbird. USA: Island Scrub Jay, Mountain Quail, Sinaloa Wren, Golden-cheeked Warbler, Smith's Longspur. Chile: all mainland endemics, Magellanic Woodpecker and Plover, Rufous-tailed Hawk, Yellow and White Bridled Finches, WB Seedsnipe. Bolivia: RF Macaw, Bolivian Blackbird/Earthcreeper, Wedge-tailed Hillstar, Cochabamba Mountain Finch, Bolivian Spinetail. www.budgetbirders.com

3

Rich Lindie/Rockjumper Birding Tours

South African 2411
Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, South Africa, Mauritius, India, Kenya, Tanzania, Reunion, 4 months in Brazil - Alta Floresta Antpitta actually seen, Argentina, Ghana.

4

Forrest Rowland / Rockjumper Birding

USA 2320
Colombia, Ecuador (i.e. the usuals) and some great birding here in the Western US. One month in Bolivia was spectacular!!! 765 species there, including all hoped-for endemics and nearly all regional endemics. Three weeks in Costa Rica also turned up some 550 species, including a few sought-after lifer Quail Doves and the like.

5

Dave Sargeant

British 2070
Last update: Dec 2015.

6

John Clark

UK 1805
20 December 2015: Thailand, India, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina and UK

7

Markus Lilje / Rockjumper Birding Tours

South African 1721
Gabon, Madagascar, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Started the year in Antarctica and Bhutan/Nepal/India

8

Denzil Morgan

British 1670
Great trips to Mexico , NE India, Alaska and Australia and West Papua so far with 'bits and pieces' in the UK

9

K. David Bishop/David Bishop Bird Tours

Aust./Brit 1668 birds 114 mammals
Dec 18: White-browed Woodsallows nesting on our property. Nov. Sichuan, Yunnan, Jiangxi -- not a usual time to bird this part of the world but the Autumn colours were wonderful as were some groups of birds such as rose finches: Three-banded Rosefinch, Lady Amherst's Pheasant, male Chine Monal, Short-tailed Parrotbill, Scaly-sided Merganser. Sept. - Sarawak & Sabah - Rail-babbler; Grey-breasted Babbler but no Bristlhead. August / September - a few days in the wonderful Arfaks produced superlative views of displaying Black Sicklebill, Western Parotia, Long-tailed Paradigalla, Vogelkop bowers and bowerbird, Dwarf Cassowary and Palm Cockatoo. July - three week tour for RBT to SW Pacific with several outstanding birds incl. 15 Kagu, male Orange Dove, Silktail, Long-legged Warbler, Santo Thicketbird and Pink-billed Parrotfinch. May - June: An outstanding 25 day safari to Tanzania including the Usambaras, Mikumi and Udzungwa NP - so many highlights but three Dwarf Bitterns was out there! Long-billed Tailorbird now so very endangered. But best of all the unbelievably spectacular Zanj Giant Elephant Shrew!!!! April - May: In Kent, Uk for my son's wedding - based at Stodmarsh - lovely to be in England in Spring for the first time in 35 years. Finally caught up with Dotterel en passage in N. Norfolk. March - April: Bhutan was as good as ever including a pair of fishing & displaying White-bellied herons, Satyr Tragopan, a party of four Beautiful Nuthatches and some wonderful encounters with both Greater and lesser Rufous-Headed plus Grey-headed parrotbills plus Coral-billed Scimitar-Babbler. What a fabulous place this is - my 21st year and 29th trip to Bhutan. Home in Armidale, Australia already found two new species for our property including Horsfield's Bronze Cuckoo. Cyclone Marcia and the rains brought Painted Buttonquail and our second ever Black-faced Monarch. A weekend trip to Brisbane produced a handful of new birds including Aus. Brush-turkey and Bush Stone-Curlew. First bird of the year was a superb group of Siamese Fireback in Cat Tien NP, Vietnam. Other highlights included Grey-crowned Crocias, Orange-breasted and Collared laughingthrushes, Yellow-billed Nuthatch and Vietnamese Greenfinch.

10

Andrew Self

Terran 1574
UK, 4 weeks in Colombia, 10 days SE Brazil, 2 weeks South Africa. Updated Nov 2015

11

Nigel Voaden

UK 1564
3.5 months through Mexico and western USA, starting at El Triunfo and finishing in Alaska, West Papua and Madagscar

12

Mike Nelson/Birdtour Asia

US/UK 1488
Trips to Cambodia, Laos, Borneo, Sumatra, Sichuan, Lesser Sundas, Peninsular Malaysia, Sulawesi & Halmahera, Philippines, a few days in Austria and some local TN birding

13

Keith Valentine/Rockjumper Birding Tours

South African 1457
Trips to Ethiopia, Morocco, Brazil and Ghana. Highlights included Star-spotted Nightjar, Scaly Chatterer and Abyssinian Crimsonwing in Ethiopia. Egyptian Nightjar, Houbara Bustard, Spotted and Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, Northern Bald Ibis and many more in Morocco. Brazil was phenomonal with almost too much quiality to mention and Ghana produced Rufous-rumped Lark, Gambaga Flycatcher, Nkulengu Rail, Yellow-bearded Greenbul, Red-fronted Antpecker, Hartlaub's Duck and Yellow-throated Cuckoo

14

Luc Bekaert

Belgian 1401
Singapore(2X),Maleisia(2X),West-Papoea,Spain,Ethiopia

15

Stu Elsom/Sunbird

UK 1292
Sri Lanka, Cuba x 3 (2 spring, 1 autumn), Texas, Belarus, Hungary, St Lucia and Brazil (Atlantic Forest & Pantanal)

16

Hans Westerlaken

Dutch 1170
20-8 Scarlet-banded Barbet, Pale-billed Antpitta, Long-whiskered Owlet, Rufous-crested Coquette,Philippine Eagle

17

Dominic Le Croissette

British 1110
Final two additions were Ringed Kingfisher and Wood Duck in New Braunfels, Texas. December 14th: 3-day weekend in far south Texas with lots of Rio Grande specialities seen. Whooping Cranes at Aransas and self-found Prairie Warbler. Most birds seen in Oriental Asia (c.800 species, including 466 in Thailand) also Europe (c.130 species). Oct 8th: Sooty Babbler at Phong Nha, north central Vietnam. Late Sep: Dalat (Vietnam) specialities including Collared Laughingthrush, Grey-crowned Crocias and Yellow-billed Nuthatch. Other highlights during the year: Oriental Stork, Nordmann's Greenshank, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Rusty-naped Pitta, Malayan Banded Pitta, Giant Nuthatch, Mrs Hume's Pheasant, Hodgson's Frogmouth, Himalayan Cutia, Kalij Pheasant, Ratchet-tailed Treepie, Nepal Wren-Babbler, Himalayan Monal, Grandala, Ural Owl, Eastern Imperial Eagle, Saker, Java Sparrow, Yellow-crested Cockatoo, Elegant Pitta, White-rumped Kingfisher, Wallace's Hanging Parrot, Mangrove Pitta. No heard-only birds. Independent birder, no tour groups, almost all birds self found.

18

Mike May

UK in Spain 1098
Updated 1st Oct: 2 days in iSimangaliso/Durban South Africa: Pink Throated Twinspot, Rudd's Apalis, Woodward's Batis, Eastern Nicator, Swamp Nightjar, Senegal Lapwing, Bat Hawk, Bush Blackcap. 2 days in Tarifa/Doñana, Spain: Northern Bald Ibis, Marbled Duck and Common Bulbul. Updated 18th August. 3 days in Ceará, Brazil with Ciro Albano; local subspecies/several soon-to be described species: Gould's Toucanet, Short-tailed Antthrush, Spot-winged Wood Quail, Rufous Gnateater. Other highlights: Pinnated Bittern, Pygmy Nightjar, Ochre-backed Woodpecker, Grey Breasted Parakeet, White-browed Antpitta, Silvery-cheeked Antshrike, Band-tailed and Araripe Manakin, Great Xenops. 3hours in Estaçao Veracel, Brazil: Golden-tailed Parrotlet, Blue-throated Parakeet, Red-headed and White-crowned Manakin, White-bellied and Silvery-breasted tanager, Swallow-winged Puffbird, Orange-bellied Euphonia, Golden-spangled Piculet. Updated 13th July. 2 days in Shanghai and Nanjing in June: Japanese Swamp Warbler (displaying), Von Schrenck's Bittern, Chestnut-winged Cuckoo, Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher, Fairy Pitta, Reed Parrotbill. Updated 31 May. Spring migration in Spain plus 2 days in Washington DC and 3 days in Pretoria area. Some highlights: Cerulean Warbler, Blue Korhaan, Red Crested Korhaan, Double Banded Sandgrouse, Lanner, Great Snipe, Lammergeir, Citril Finch, Red Footed Falcon. 31/03/2015 Odd days birding tagged onto business trips and home in Spain: 2 days in Brazil Jan, Chile March, 1 day in Helsinki Jan, 1 day in Israel, March: Hawk Owl, Slaty Bristlefront, Half Collared Sparrow, White Bibbed Antbird, Temminck's Horned Lark, Finsch's Wheatear, Moustached Turca, Crag Chilia, Diademed Sandpiper Plover, and then Pygmy Cormorant, Pallid Harrier home.

19

Clayton Burne / Rockjumper Birding Tours

South African 1086 birds / 51 mammals
Few days in Ecuador, western Panama [Volcano Hummingbird, Volcano Junco, Sooty Thrush, Glow-throated Hummingbird, Veraguan Mango, Yellow-green Finch amongst others]. Puerto Rico [All endemics and near endemics], Jamaica [All endemics and near endemics], Dominican Republic [All endemics ], Cuba [All viable endemics, lifer Gundlach's Hawk], Mexican Yucatan [Almost all Yucatan specialities and Cozumel Endemics]. 2015 will be a quiet year, few Caribbean trips and South Africa - desk job...

20

Mika Ohtonen

Finnish 1063
Howard&Moore (incl. heard only, most recent updates not included). In January, two weeks in Thailand and two weeks in Ecuador. Highlights in Thailand (Krabi & Phuket) Mangrove Pitta, Chestnut-naped Forktail, Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler and 6 species of Malkohas. Highlights in Ecuador Crescent-faced Antpitta, Mountain Avocetbill and Dusky Piha (Papallacta-Guango Lodge), Harpy Eagle, Agami Heron, Zigzag Heron, Cocha Antshrike, Gray-winged Trumpeter, White-lored and Ochre-striped Antpitta, Chestnut-belted and Ash-throated Gnateater, Black-and-white and Banded Antbird, Orange-crowned Manakin and Bicolored Conebill (Sani Lodge), Nocturnal Curassow (2 birds seen, few more heard), Salvin's Curassow, 5 species of Tinamous, Rufous Potoo, Spotted and White-chested Puffbird, Fiery Topaz, Striated Ant-thrush, Yellow-browed Antbird, Yasuni and Rio Suno Antwrens, Ringed Antpipit (Shiripuno Lodge), Yellow-throated Spadebill, Foothill Elaenia, Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant, Spectacled Bristle-Tyrant, Fiery-throated Fruiteater, Coppery-chested Jacamar, Gorgeted Woodstar, White-streaked Antvireo, Plain-winged Antwren and Yellow-cheeked Becard (Wild Sumaco). February - 5 September 258 species in Finland including a number of rarities e.g. Black-necked Grebe, Little Egret, Green-winged and Blue-winged Teal, Steller's and King Eider, Red Kite, Steppe Eagle, Little Crake, Mediterranean Gull, Pectoral Sandpiper, Red Phalarope, White-winged Black Tern, Pomarine Skua, Calandra and Crested Lark, Tawny Pipit, Collared Flycatcher, Woodchat and Lesser Gray Shrike, Corn Bunting.

21

Petri Hottola

Finnish (Karelian) 1049
So far, Finland, Sweden, Canary Islands, China (Sichuan), Indonesia (Flores, East Java), Philippines (Bohol, Palawan), Japan (Karuizawa), USA (Santa Cruz Island, Missouri, Miami), Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia and Trinidad & Tobago (both islands) this year. In the end of August, Finnish Lapland and Finnmark in Norway added 14 species.Towards the end of the year, too ill to travel.IOC.

22

Kurt Pohlman

USA- Hawaii 967
Singapore, Australia, Indonesia, Peru and USA

23

Steve Lister

British 893
England (Little Bustard, Alpine Swift, Hudsonian Godwit and Pallid Harrier all new), Costa Rica (57 lifers in c465 species) and southern Argentina (109 lifers in 244 species).

24

Christoph Zockler

German 782
Reeves Pheasant, Crested Ibis and Spoon-billed Sandpiper in China October, Iceland gull, three divers Little Auk and Balck Guillemot on Mull

25

Gregor Tims

New Zealand/English/Aussie 718
Good year coming up- UK (including Scotland for first time) until July, then month on non-birding trip to USA, week in Kenya, month in NZ and then moving to Australia. Target for this year is 500. Lifers in 2015: Long-eared Owl, Green-winged Teal, Penduline Tit, Bonaparte's Gull, White-billed Diver, Red Grouse (Willow Ptarmigan), Black Grouse, Scottish Crossbill, Rock Ptarmigan, Harlequin Duck, King Eider in UK; 21 in USA so far. Latest: White-throated Needletail, Boondall Wetlands, Qld 31/10/15

26

Peter Bayly

British 645

27

Russ Lamb

Australian 440
12 week trip to Spain, Scotland , Netherlands produced 285 species, Australian list 177

28

Fred Dentello

Brazil 435
Last species, Dec 31, 2015: Helmeted Manakin

29

mike davidson

british 332
not much activity since my trip to scotland . highlights have been a Brambling and Fieldfare here on the south coast

30

Gary Prescott aka Biking Birder 2015

British Green Birder 288
grey phalarope, hoopoe, shore lark, rough-legged buzzard, Balearic shearwater, little auk, long-billed dowitcher, bean goose, green-winged teal, chestnut bunting (not on the year list yet . . here's hoping it is accpeted), siberian rubythroat, ortolan bunting, red-breasted flycatcher, raddes, lanceolated and pallas' grasshopper warbler, red-flanked bluetail, pallid harrier, 111 yellow-browed warblers, common rosefinch, eastern subalpine, bluethroat, richards pipits, sooty shearwaters, arctic warbler, greenish warbler, barred warbler, american golden plover, olive-backed pipits, citrine wagtails, blyth's reed warbler, rose-coloured starling, capercaillie, ptarmigan, spotted crake, corncrake, white-tailed and golden eagle, honey buzzard, red-backed shrike, pomarine skua, little bittern, bee-eater, citril finch, moltoni's warbler, 6 temminck's stints, white rumped sandpiper, 3 red-necked phalaropes, wryneck, glossy ibis, dotterel, surf scoter, Laughing gull, black & red grouse, velvet scoter, lesser scaup. lesser spotted woodpecker, Goshawk, Ring-necked drake, Kumlein's and Iceland gull, 100+ long-tailed ducks, King eider, Little bunting, Pacific diver, american wigeon, ferruginous duck, penduline tits, 10 red-necked grebes, water pipit, cirl bunting, 3 ring-billed gull, lesser yellowlegs, night heron, cattle egret, rc pochard. My 100th bird was the great grey shrike at Chilham, Kent. (15/1) Now on the way to Middleton RSPB reserve. I am cycling to every RSPB and WWT nature reserve this year, as I did in 2010. Please have a look at my facebook page - Biking Birder 2015 Also the list is on Bubo. http://www.bubo.org/Listing/view-all-lists.html#listtop

31

David Daniels

USA 240
West Virginia and Connecticut so far. Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Eurasian Wigeon, Black-crowned Night Heron, Northern Goshawk, Virginia Rail, Common Gallinule, Curlew Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope, Iceland Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Glaucous Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Caspian Tern, White-winged Dove, Barn Owl, Snowy Owl, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Rufous Hummingbird, Loggerhead Shrike, Snow Bunting, Prothonotary Warbler, Nelson's Sparrow

32

Terry Smith

English 226
Latest: Dec 12 - American Wigeon. Mostly UK, but Spain, France, Italy, Vatican City, Morocco visited on a cruise. Highlights : Hudsonian Godwit, Penduline Tit (3), Gull-billed Tern, Squacco Heron, Alpine Swift, American Golden Plover, Caspian & Bonaparte's Gulls, Great White Egret (4), Yellow-browed Warbler, 2 Great Grey Shrikes, Green-winged Teal, [Black Brant]. Lifers include Western Olivaceous Warbler, Monk Parakeet, Common Bulbul, African Blue Tit & House Bunting.

33

Colin Lunt

N.Z. 203
10/10/15 Chesnut-breasted Shelduck, Far-eastern Curlew, Brown Booby, Little Whimbrel, Banded Rail,Spotted Quail-thrush.

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Bennet Porter

Massachusetts, USA 136
Common Raven, Black-billed Magpie, Gray Jay, Mountain Chickadee, Clark's Nutcracker, White-winged Crossbill, Red Crossbill, White-crowned Sparrow, American Coot, American Dipper, Bald Eagle, Eastern Bluebird, Savannah Sparrow, Mountain Bluebird 10/13/15 - 12/6/15
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