Bird Families of the wp (1 Viewer)

[Owene]

Sorry if this is the wrong forum

I know I could sit down and work this out but I’m on a trip. bubo has 104 bird families for the WP. Does anyone know how many of these are purely vagrants / how many regularly occurring breeding or wintering families there are

And which familes are purely vagrants if anyone has that info to hand

 

[Dortmundbirder]

Pretty sure Ostriches are listed as a former WP Breeder, now ungettable.
Egyptian Plover should be on the Vagrant side. Same goes for Albatrosses.

 

[Paul Chapman]

104 families is the full list including twelve vagrant families (Cardinalidae, Dicruridae, Diomedeidae, Fregatidae (now), Icteridae, Mimidae, Parulidae, Passerellidae, Pluvianidae, Struthionidae (now), Tyrannidae & Vireonidae) & eight Category C families (Estrildidae, Numididae (now), Odontophoridae, Paradoxornithidae, Ploceidae, Psittacidae, Psittaculidae & Viduidae).

Download a CSV species list & overlay a Pivot Table when you are back. Now for a quick personal tally... 😀

All the best

Paul

 

[DMW]

What about Skimmers? Is African more than a vagrant in S Egypt?

 

[Paul Chapman]

What about Skimmers? Is African more than a vagrant in S Egypt?

Aren't Skimmers in Laridae? In any event, all of those Southern Egyptian things are probably regular rather than vagrants but data deficient?

All the best

Paul

 

[Paul Chapman]

I have seen 96 of the 104 families recorded in the WP inside the traditional WP as I understand it.

So I am missing eight being Anhingidae (resident in Iraq - https://ebird.org/checklist/S214038530), Coliidae (Blue-naped Mousebird), Dicruridae (Ashy & Black Drongos), Pluvianidae (Egyptian Plover), Rostratulidae (Greater Painted-snipe), Steuthionidae (Ostrich), Turnicidae (Andalusian Hemipode) & Viduidae (Pin-tailed Whydah). Just missing one of those families outside the WP area.

All the best

Paul

 

[DMW]

Aren't Skimmers in Laridae? In any event, all of those Southern Egyptian things are probably regular rather than vagrants but data deficient?

All the best

Paul

So they are, I always thought they were in their own family.