kb57
Well-known member
My New Year's resolution is not to get sucked into trying to better my 2017 British year list...instead, I'm going to try and make 2018 a bit more about birding experiences.
If my plans come to fruition this will hopefully involve building my life list a little more. So this is going to be a 'world' list, using IOC taxonomy. For those who don't like lower case, I'm going to treat species as proper names, but in doing so, I'm afraid I'm also going to offend the loon-haters by sticking as faithfully I can to IOC taxonomy (within the limitations of my current version of Scythebill).
For those who viewed my 2017 year list (thank you BTW!) I'm ditching the asterisk for 'not seen previous year', and putting any lifers I'm lucky enought to see in bold, not capitals.
So, a slow start, only getting out of the house and reaching the coast with an hour of daylight left.
1st Jan, Northumberland
1. Common Chaffinch
2. Dunnock
3. European Robin
4. Common Blackbird
5. Great Tit
6. Eurasian Blue Tit
7. House Sparrow
8. European Greenfinch
9. Common Wood Pigeon
10. European Goldfinch
11. Lesser Redpoll
12. Eurasian Siskin
13. Coal Tit
14. Carrion Crow
15. Eurasian Bullfinch
16. Common Buzzard
17. Common Kestrel
18. Common Starling
Low Newton-by-the-Sea
19. Great Black-backed Gull
20. Black-headed Gull
21. European Herring Gull
22. Common Redshank
23. Eurasian Oystercatcher
24. Eurasian Rock Pipit
25. Purple Sandpiper
26. Ruddy Turnstone
27. European Stonechat
28. White Wagtail (yarrellii - pied wagtail)
29. Great Cormorant
30. Common Eider
31. Eurasian Collared Dove
32. Northern Lapwing
33. Eurasian Curlew
34. Eurasian Teal
35. Common Moorhen
36. Eurasian Wigeon
37. Dunlin
38. Mallard
39. Rook
40. European Golden Plover
41. Common Pheasant
2nd Jan
Longhorsley, Northumberland
42. Western Jackdaw
Co. Durham
43. Eurasian Magpie
44. Eurasian Coot
If my plans come to fruition this will hopefully involve building my life list a little more. So this is going to be a 'world' list, using IOC taxonomy. For those who don't like lower case, I'm going to treat species as proper names, but in doing so, I'm afraid I'm also going to offend the loon-haters by sticking as faithfully I can to IOC taxonomy (within the limitations of my current version of Scythebill).
For those who viewed my 2017 year list (thank you BTW!) I'm ditching the asterisk for 'not seen previous year', and putting any lifers I'm lucky enought to see in bold, not capitals.
So, a slow start, only getting out of the house and reaching the coast with an hour of daylight left.
1st Jan, Northumberland
1. Common Chaffinch
2. Dunnock
3. European Robin
4. Common Blackbird
5. Great Tit
6. Eurasian Blue Tit
7. House Sparrow
8. European Greenfinch
9. Common Wood Pigeon
10. European Goldfinch
11. Lesser Redpoll
12. Eurasian Siskin
13. Coal Tit
14. Carrion Crow
15. Eurasian Bullfinch
16. Common Buzzard
17. Common Kestrel
18. Common Starling
Low Newton-by-the-Sea
19. Great Black-backed Gull
20. Black-headed Gull
21. European Herring Gull
22. Common Redshank
23. Eurasian Oystercatcher
24. Eurasian Rock Pipit
25. Purple Sandpiper
26. Ruddy Turnstone
27. European Stonechat
28. White Wagtail (yarrellii - pied wagtail)
29. Great Cormorant
30. Common Eider
31. Eurasian Collared Dove
32. Northern Lapwing
33. Eurasian Curlew
34. Eurasian Teal
35. Common Moorhen
36. Eurasian Wigeon
37. Dunlin
38. Mallard
39. Rook
40. European Golden Plover
41. Common Pheasant
2nd Jan
Longhorsley, Northumberland
42. Western Jackdaw
Co. Durham
43. Eurasian Magpie
44. Eurasian Coot
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