Life list

[redbird]

The birdlovers community is collecting life lists. Specifically, the request is for members to post our life lists to our journals, and provide a link.

When I went to type mine in, I discovered obvious gaps. Specifically, I copied everything [except a few that cattitude saw and I didn't] from the list in the back of the Audubon Society guide to birds of eastern North America, and thought "okay, where are my British notes?" The answer appears to be that they are in several different notebooks, at least one of them water-damaged. And some of my US notes, of birds seen while traveling, are also in random notebooks and were never transcribed. I've reconstructed as best I can, then sorted alphabetically in three groups.


This is my list as of 13 March 2004 3 July 2006. I'm going to add this to memories and update it as appropriate, if I remember.

North America, mostly in and around New York City:

American coot
American redstart
Bald eagle
Barn swallow
Black-and-white warbler
Black-chinned hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) Seattle, 9 June 2005
Black-crowned night heron
Black duck (some consider this a subspecies of mallard)
Brown thrasher
Bufflehead
Calliope hummingbird
Canvasback
Cardinal
Carolina wren
Cedar waxwing, 10 June 2007
Chickadee
Common flicker
Common loon
Common merganser
Common snipe
Common yellowthroat
Double-crested cormorant
Downy woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
Eastern kingbird
Eastern screech owl, 30 April 2007, Strawberry Fields
Eastern wood pewee
Evening grosbeak (Hesperiphona verspertina) Seattle 9 June 2005
Gadwall
Goldfinch
Gray catbird
Gray-cheeked thrush
Great blue heron
Great egret
Greater Yellow-legs (Tringa melanoleuca): 8/8/04
Green winged teal
Hairy woodpecker
hermit thrush (Catharus guttatus) 10/23/05
Hooded merganser
Horned grebe
House finch
Junco
Kestrel
Killdeer
Kingfisher
Laughing gull
Little green heron
Mockingbird
Northern (Baltimore) oriole
Northern harrier (marsh hawk)
Northern parula
Northern shoveler
Olive-sided flycatcher
Osprey--July-August 2004
Palm warbler
Peafowl (male, just off I-84 in NE Connecticut)
Peregrine falcon
Pied-billed grebe
Pine warbler
Pintail
Red-bellied woodpecker
Red-breasted merganser, 4 April 2005
Red-eyed vireo
Red-tailed hawk
Red-winged blackbird
Ring-billed gull
Ring-necked duck
Ring-necked pheasant
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Ruddy duck
Rufous-sided towhee
Sanderling
Scarlet tanager
Snow goose
Snowy egret
Song sparrow
Spotted sandpiper
Steller's jay
Surf scoter
Tufted titmouse
Veery
Western robin
Western scrub-jay
Whistling swan
White-breasted nuthatch
White-fronted goose
White-throated sparrow
Wild turkey
Winter wren
Wood duck
Yellow-crowned night heron
Yellow-rumped warbler
Yellow-throated vireo

United Kingdom:
Blue tit
Coal tit
Grey heron
Jay (that's all I wrote down)
Magpie
Mistle thrush
Robin
Skylark
Wood pigeon

Seen early and repeatedly, including around home:
American robin
Blue Jay
Canada goose
Crow
English sparrow
Grackle
Herring gull
Mallard
Pigeon (rock dove)
Starling

Comments

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

I think of you every time I see a Mountain Bluebird. At least I assume they are Mountain Bluebirds and not Eastern Bluebirds, since I live right on the edge of of the Pike National Forest of the Front Range.

When the Bluebirds aren't around, I wonder whether I am mistaking bluebirds for jays, but it only takes one look at a male bluebird to remind me of how super-saturated is their blue color.

[timill]

Jay (that's all I wrote down)

Assuming that's your British list, that would be correct. The Siberian Jay occurs in Scandanavia, so could be accidental in Britain, but we have only the one Jay resident.

[miwasatoshi.livejournal.com]

I'm in the process of adding this ... but since it's in alphabetical order and the community list is in taxonomic order, it's going to take a little longer than usual. No problems, though, if I come across anything weird I'll let you know! ^_^

[redbird]

Thanks. I probably should have added at least the N. American taxonomic names (I don't have proper UK references, having borrowed them from my mother and from papersky while there).

[miwasatoshi.livejournal.com]

Done, will be added shortly. ^_^