Holarctic Life List

Latest change 13-06-2023. Everything, but Short-tailed Albatross, Spoonbilled Sandpiper, Scalysided Merganser, Swinhoe's Rail, Slenderbilled Curlew!!, Blakiston's and Turkish Fishowl, Raso Lark, Relict Gull, Siberian White Crane, Oriental White Stork, Bourne's Heron, Crested Ibis, Chinese Crested Tern , Amami Woodcock, Rufous Headed Robin, Blackthroat and Jankowski's Bunting, Yemen endemics, Tibetan Sandgrouse and White-faced Plover, Przewalskii's Parrotbill, Siberian Grouse. Latest additions: Japanese Nightheron (late 2017) Sillem's Rosefinch (June 2018) and Omani Owl, Algerian Nuthatch and Bonin Honeyeater (feb, Mai/June. 2019), Caucasian Snowcock (2021). I do NOT count introduced species (C list) and HAVE NOT SEEN AL THE SPECIES IN the holarctic (seen Holarctic species, with the correct subspecies). I follow mostly Klim on the list of Holarctic birds (see his website under his name) with some extinct species included and of course seen outside the Holarctic, after 2016 (Klim died) I follow IOC + HBW changes. On https://observation.org/user/lifelist/10891 you see the threatened species and lokal rare species I found worthwile to mention. I only count species seen not heard. Last trip was Georgia (03/04 2021) and Cyprus (05 2021). Travelled to Western Mexico in March/April 2022 and to Northern Spain in April 2022. In 2023 did a short trip to Spain and a big trip to North-Eastern Mexico.

11 July 2023. This is a real list of birds seen in the Holarctic without recourse to introductions, many recent splits, and certainly not visits to India, sub-Saharan Africa and anywhere else north (or even south) of the equator that I felt like including. Latest trips to Western Sahara (March 2017), with Golden Nightjar, Sudan Golden Sparrow, Cricket Warbler (Longtail) and the Western Palearctic's second White-throated Bee-eater, China (April/May 2017), where among just over 20 new birds, four were seen within the Holarctic boundaries sensu Beaman; California, with eight new birds sensu Voous (thus not including Sooty Grouse, Sagebrush Sparrow and Island Scrub Jay); and Japan (Steller's Sea Eagle, Blakiston's Fish Owl, Okinawa Rail, Amami Woodcock, etc.).

Total of 1979 Holarctic species recorded. Latest was Zino's and Fea's Petrels off Madeira in July, and Balearic Warbler and Shearwater in Mallorca in Apr 2012. Pleske´s, Pander´s, Biddulph´s and Henderson´s Ground-Jays. Hyrcanian Tit, Black-headed Penduline-Tit in Iran. Japanese Night-Heron, Biet's Laughingthrush, Przewalski's Parrotbill and Blackthroat in China. Menzbier's Pipit in Russia. Grass Owl near Happy Island. Short-tailed Albatross and Providence Petrel around Torishima.

Updated 18 May 2011. Colorado & Kansas in April

Wild California Condor seen in the 70's no recent splits included

Update January 2018 - Clements taxonomy and all birds seen. Corsica May 2017 : Moltoni's Warbler. Georgia-Armenia April-May 2017 : Caucasian Snowcock & Grouse, Mountain Chiffchaff, Green Warbler, Radde's Accentor and Great Rosefinch. Morocco April 2017 : Double-spurred Francolin, Crested Coot, Marsh Owl, Levaillant's Woodpecker, Dupont's & Dunn's Larks, Cricket Warbler, Tristram's Warbler, Desert & Sudan Golden Sparrows. Alaska May-June 2016 : Spectacled Eider, Emperor Goose, Short-tailed Shearwater, Hudsonian Godwit, Bristle-thighed Curlew, Surfbird, Rock Sandpiper, Kittlitz's Murrelet, Parakeet and Crested Auklets, Horned Puffin, American Three-toed and Black-backed Woodpeckers, Pacific Wren and Smith's Longspur. Oman and Bahrain October-November 2015 : Cotton Pygmy Goose, Arabian Partridge, Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel, Flesh-footed and Persian Shearwaters, Jouanin's Petrel, Lappet-faced Vulture, Verreaux's Eagle, Spotted Thick-knee, Crab-plover, Pheasant-tailed Jacana, Great Knot, Brown Noddy, Jacobin Cuckoo, Arabian Scops Owl, Spotted Eagle-Owl, Omani Owl, Egyptian Nightjar, Grey Hypocolius, Variable, Hume's and Arabian Wheatears, Nile Valley Sunbird, Long-billed Pipit, Yemen Serin and Golden-winged Grosbeak. Kazakhstan and Kyrgystan May-June 2015 : Himalayan Snowcock, Shikra, Ibisbill, Yellow-eyed Pigeon, Blue-capped Redstart, White-tailed Rubythroat, Blue Whistling-Thrush and Chestnut-breasted Bunting. Baja California (cruise) plus Arizona = 22 days in April 2015 : Pacific Loon, Masked, Nazca and Blue-footed Boobies, Least Storm-Petrel, Neotropic Cormorant, Ridgway's Rail, Scripps's and Craveri's Murrelets, Xantus's Hummingbird, Gila Woodpecker, Gilded Flicker, California Gnatcatcher, Gray Thrasher, Belding's Yellowthroat and Varied Bunting ; Montezuma Quail, California Condor, Swainson's, Zone-tailed and Gray Hawks, Whiskered Screech-Owl, Northern Pygmy-Owl (seen also the ssp from Baja), Elf and Spotted Owls, Blue-throated, Violet-crowned, Magnificent, Broad-tailed, Broad-billed, Costa's and Black-chinned Hummingbirds, Elegant Trogon, Arizona Woodpecker, Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet, Greater Pewee, Buff-breasted, Vermilion, Dusky-capped and Brown-crested Flycatchers, Cassin's Kingbird, Bell's Vireo, Violet-green Swallow, Mexican Jay, Bridled Titmouse, Rufous-backed Robin, Bendire's and Crissal Thrashers, Olive Warbler, Red-faced, Lucy's, Black-throated Gray and Grace's Warblers, Painted Redstart, Yellow-breasted Chat, Abert's Towhee, Botteri's, Rufous-winged and Rufous-crowned Sparrows, Hepatic Tanager, Lazuli Bunting and Cassin's Finch. Madeira August 2014 : Zino's Petrel and Trocaz Pigeon. Israël March 2014 : Macqueen's Bustard, Hume's Owl, Semicollared Flycatcher and Pied Bushchat (!!). Japan February 2014 : Scaly-sided Merganser, Copper Pheasant, Short-tailed, Black-footed and Laysan Albatrosses, Steller's Sea-Eagle, Red-crowned Crane, Japanese Murrelet, Blakiston's Fish-Owl, Asian Stubtail, Pallas's Rosefinch. Mongolia 2012 : Black-billed Capercaillie, Altai Snowcock, Hooded Crane, Brown-cheeked Rail, Oriental Plover, Asian Dowitcher, Relict Gull, Pallas's Sandgrouse, Mongolian Accentor, Paddyfield and Sulphur-bellied Warblers, Mongolian Ground-Jay, Saxaul Sparrow, Asian Rosy-Finch and Long-tailed Rosefinch. Other highlights : Yellow-billed Loon in France, Fea's and Bulwer's Petrels, White-faced and Fork-tailed Storm-Petrels, Whooping and Demoiselle Cranes, Baillon's Crake, Sociable and White-tailed Lapwings (both in France), Ivory and Ross's Gulls (both in France), Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse, Pharaoh Eagle-Owl, Snowy and Great Gray Owls, Arctic, Rueppell's and Cyprus Warblers, Siberian Blue Robin, Mongolian and Razo Larks, Pechora Pipit in France.

Falcated Teal, Ibisbill, Himalayan Snowcock (Kyrgistan), Copper Pheasant, Grey-headed Lapwing, Altai Accentor, Japanese Accentor, Stoliczka's Tit-Warbler, Asian Paradise Flycatcher, Eversmann's Redstart, Himalayan Rubythroat, Siberian Thrush, Azure Tit, Oriental Greenfinch, Japanese Grosbeak, Azure-winged Magpie (Spain & Japan). [Also see North American (ABA Area) and Western Palearctic Life Lists].

Black-browed Albatross (France, 26/09/2014)

Brambling, Sprague's Pipit, Black-headed Weaver, Kashmir Flycatcher, Krüper's Nuthatch in 2014

Pied Wheatear, African desert Warbler added end 2014 I strictly follow the borders, UAE is included in this number, no other discussion possible, latest adaption Cornell august 2013 Parrot Crossbill added, purple gallinule belgium

As of 10 November 2006

European Storm-Petrel off Cape Hatteras, Green Violet-ear, Grundy Co. Iowa. updated 30 Sep 05.

Includes, USA (2 short trips), Morocco (1 time), Israel (1 time), Kazakhstan (1 time) and some scattered birding in several other europe countries, but mainly focussed on birding in Holland!

Western Grebe, Townsend's Solitaire, Mountain Plover 12/22/22 - 7/23/23

American White Pelican, Eurasian Wigeon, Purple Gallinule (NY); Western Kingbird (VA); Black-hooded Parakeet, White-crowned Pigeon, Snail Kite, White-crowned Pigeon (FL)