Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (3 Viewers)

[TicoTyler]

This one was a half lifer for me on Monday. I count heard only birds for my Life List but also maintain a list of those heard onlys. I was finally able to see (and film, photograph and audio record!) a central American Pygmy Owl.

Video: ML619090227 - Central American Pygmy-Owl - Macaulay Library

 

[Patudo]

Chimney swift - over Central Park, NYC

 

[Xenospiza]

Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher was the last one of some 70 IOC ticks (more according to BirdLife or Brazilian list) on Fernando de Noronha and in Amazonia.
The most exclusive tick was probably Chestnut-headed Nunlet, but this will likely receive a steady stream of visitors as long as the water level is high enough.
Not many people go to Noronha, but you need just 10 minutes on the island to see the endemic birds. The line for the entry payment takes longer.

 

[Snapdragyn]

Swinhoe's Pheasant, Dasyueshan, Taiwan.

 

[cutlera1976]

West Indian Whistling-Duck, at the Montego Bay sewage ponds, Jamaica

 

[TerryL]

Honey - Buzzard (208) from friends garden

 

[lammergeier05]

8 lifers from the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe, highlights on top of all the available endemics (all quite easy) being Bridled Quail-Dove and White-tailed Nightjar

 

[Ozprey1]

Black-billed Cuckoo heard in back woods behind our yard. Did not know that Minnesota was a common breeding area.

 

[timsg80]

Black Woodpecker this morning in the Danube Delta in Romania. What a stunning bird! And so pleasing to finally see one after countless attempts to see them across Europe.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Tawny Owl and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in Belgrad Forest outside of Istanbul.

 

[TicoTyler]

White-bellied Emerald. First one seen in almost a century in Costa Rica!

ML619544812 - White-bellied Emerald - Macaulay Library

Macaulay Library ML619544812; © Tyler Wenzel; Alajuela, Costa Rica

macaulaylibrary.org

 

[Swindon Addick]

Bluethroat this morning. Specifically the one that got confused about where it should migrate to and has spent the early summer of each of the last few years at Slimbridge wondering why no female ever turns up in the excellent bit of habitat it's claimed as its territory.