January 1st joint Birdforum list (2025 edition) (1 Viewer)

[opisska]

I can add for "France":

Blackish Nightjar
Wing-barred Seedeater

I may have some more from photos later, but only next week.

 

[Richard Prior]

Your annoyance must account for your spelling of "didn't" !!!!

Oops, I haduin’t noticed that

 

[birdmeister]

I'm guessing Jos will fill in many gaps for the US list, but there are probably a few unique ones from a non-birding day in southern Arizona yesterday. Here's what I haven't seen on the US list yet:

Gila Woodpecker
Verdin
Gambel's Quail
Phainopepla
Harris's Hawk
Black-throated Sparrow
Cooper's Hawk
Cactus Wren
Prairie Falcon
Curve-billed Thrasher
Red-naped Sapsucker
Inca Dove
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Gilded Flicker
Great Horned Owl

 

[raymie]

I can add for the US (and possibly wider regions, didn't check):

-American Herring Gull
-Mourning Dove
-European Starling
-Tundra Swan
-American Black Duck
-Bald Eagle
-Redhead
-Ring-necked Duck
-Pileated Woodpecker
-Hairy Woodpecker
-Red-tailed Hawk
-Rock Pigeon
-American Kestrel
-American White Pelican
-Greater Scaup
-Wild Turkey
-Northern Harrier
-Rough-legged Hawk
-American Tree Sparrow
-Snowy Owl
-White-crowned Sparrow
-Red-breasted Merganser
-Iceland Gull
-Bufflehead
-Hooded Merganser
-Ring-billed Gull

 

[Oldnintheway]

Had a quick look and didn't see Fox Sparrow for the U.S. I can add if not already. I forgot to add it to my original list.

 

[David_]

Missed a couple of easy birds and didn’t try for owls. Velvet Scoter and Black-necked grebe where city ticks so overall a great start for the year.
Most of the species I saw are probably already added but I think Velvet Scoter might be new and maybe some others are new for the rest of Europe list.

1. Mute Swan
2. Canada Goose
3. Graylag Goose
4. Egyptian Goose
5. Ruddy Shelduck
6. Gadwell
7. Eurasian Widgeon
8. Mallard
9. Northern Shoveler
10. Common Pochard
11. Tufted Duck
12. Velvet Scoter
13. Common Goldeneye
14. Little Grebe
15. Great Crested Grebe
16. Black-necked Grebe
17. Great Cormorant
18. Great White Egret
19. Grey Heron
20. Goshawk
21. Sparrowhawk
22. Common Buzzard
23. Common Kestrel
24. Common Moorhen
25. Eurasian Coot
26. Black-headed Gull
27. Yellow-legged Gull
28. Feral Pigeon
29. Wood Pigeon
30. Rose-ringed Parakeet
31. Great Spotted Woodpecker
32. Magpie
33. Eurasian Jay
34. Carrion Crow
35. Jackdaw
36. Blue Tit
37. Great Tit
38. Long-tailed Tit
39. Goldcrest
40. Firecrest
41. Wren
42. Nuthatch
43. Blackbird
44. Robin
45. White Wagtail
46. Chaffinch
47. Bullfinch
48. Greenfinch
49. Eurasian Goldfinch
50. Siskin

 

[Keith Dickinson]

The only bird I could add to the UK list would be jack snipe at a local nature reserve in Leeds, Yorkshire

 

[Swindon Addick]

Just about to post the current list for the UK, in case anyone fancies looking through to see if there's anything we're missing which they saw on 1 Jan (birds seen today don't count!!).

Before that, someone signing themselves RI has posted a list on the spreadsheet, of which these are the ones that hadn't already been mentioned by someone else:

Western Barn Owl
Cetti's Warbler
Black Redstart
Black-throated Diver/Loon
Sanderling
Bar-tailed Godwit
Common Ringed Plover
Common Scoter
Eurasian Bullfinch
Fieldfare
Common Firecrest
Glossy Ibis
Green Sandpiper
Meadow Pipit
Red-billed Chough
Balearic Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Northern Fulmar
Common Guillemot/Murre
Great Skua

 

[Swindon Addick]

Here's the current UK list, 126 species. They're a bit of a random mix of British names and IOC ones, which makes it harder to check for gaps than it ought to be. Sorry about that.

Balearic Shearwater
Bar-tailed Godwit
Barnacle Goose
Black Redstart
Black-headed Gull
Black-tailed Godwit
Black-throated Diver
Blackbird
Blackcap
Blue tit
Brent Goose
Buzzard
Canada Goose
Carrion Crow
Cetti's Warbler
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Cirl Bunting
Coal Tit
Collared dove
Common Firecrest
Common Guillemot
Common Gull
Common Ringed Plover
Common Scoter
Coot
Cormorant
Dipper
Dunlin
Dunnock
Eider
Eurasian Bullfinch
Eurasian Curlew
Feral Pigeon
Fieldfare
Gadwall
Glossy Ibis
Goldcrest
Golden Plover
Goldfinch
Goosander
Goshawk
Great Black-backed Gull
Great Crested Grebe
Great Northern Diver
Great Skua
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Great Tit
Green Sandpiper
Green Woodpecker
Greenfinch
Greenshank
Grey Heron
Grey Wagtail
Greylag goose
Hawfinch
Herring Gull
House Sparrow
Jack Snipe
Jackdaw
Jay
Kestrel
Kingfisher
Kittiwake
Lapwing
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Lesser Redpoll
Linnet
Little Egret
Little Grebe
Long-eared Owl
Long-tailed Tit
Magpie
Mallard
Mandarin
Manx Shearwater
Marsh Harrier
Marsh Tit
Meadow Pipit
Mediterranean Gull
Moorhen
Mute Swan
Northern Fulmar
Northern Gannet
Northern Shoveler
Nuthatch
Oystercatcher
Pheasant
Pied Avocet
Pied Wagtail
Pintail
Pochard
Purple Sandpiper
Raven
Razorbill
Red Kite
Red-billed Chough
Red-breasted Merganser
Redshank
Redwing
Robin
Rock Pipit
Rook
Sanderling
Shag
Shelduck
Siskin
Skylark
Snipe
Song Thrush
Sooty Shearwater
Sparrowhawk
Spoonbill
Starling
Stock dove
Stonechat
Teal
Treecreeper
Tufted Duck
Turnstone
Water Rail
Western Barn Owl
Wigeon
Wood Pigeon
Woodcock
Woodlark
Wren

 

[Jos Stratford]

Full day beginning at Blyth on the Colorado River (border of Arizona/California), then shifting westward to the excellent Salton Sea, both north and southern ends.

As well as the 108 bird species, superb views of a Bobcat, plus a nice dawn chorus of Coyoti song.

Snow Goose - 2000+ Salton Sea
Ross's Goose - 20+ Salton Sea
Greater White-fronted Goose - one Blyth
Blue-winged Teal - 15 Salton Sea
Cinnamon Teal - 25+ Salton Sea
Northern Shoveler - abundant Salton Sea
Gadwall - two Blyth, 40+ Salton Sea
American Wigeon -20+ Blyth, 60+ Salton Sea
Mallard - 15+ Blyth, several Salton Sea
Mexican Duck - one Salton Sea
Northern Pintail - common Salton Sea
Green-winged Teal - common Salton Sea
Canvasback - one Blyth
Ring-necked Duck - six Blyth, 40+ Salton Sea
Lesser Scaup - two Blyth
Bufflehead - 25+ Salton Sea
Common Goldeneye - two Blyth
Ruddy Duck - 40+ Salton Sea
Gambel's Quail - ten Blyth, 12 Salton Sea
Pied-billed Grebe - two Blyth
Eared Grebe - 40+ Salton Sea
Feral Pigeon - several Blyth
Eurasian Collared Dove - abundant Salton Sea
Inca Dove - 12 Blyth
Mourning Dove - common Salton Sea
Greater Roadrunner - five Blyth, two Salton Sea
White-collared Swift - 35+ Salton Sea
Anna's Hummingbird - one Blyth
Common Gallinule - one Salton Sea
American Coot - 30+ Blyth, abundant Salton Sea
Sandhill Crane - 40+ Blyth
Black-necked Stilt - 250+ Salton Sea
American Avocet - 40+ Salton Sea
Black-bellied Plover - five Salton Sea
Killdeer - four Blyth, several Salton Sea
Snowy Plover - four Salton Sea
Long-billed Curlew - one Salton Sea
Sanderling - two Salton Sea
Least Sandpiper - 30+ Blyth, 500+ Salton Sea
Western Sandpiper - one Salton Sea
Long-billed Dowitcher - 200+ Salton Sea
Wilson's Snipe - two Salton Sea
Spotted Sandpiper - two Blyth
Willet - six Salton Sea
Greater Yellowlegs - two Blyth, ten Salton Sea
Bonaparte's Gull - common north of Salton Sea
Ring-billed Gull - Salton Sea
California Gull - Salton Sea
Caspian Tern - five Salton Sea
Double-crested Cormorant - 150+ Salton Sea
Snowy Egret - common Salton Sea, two Blyth
Great Egret - 16 Salton Sea, two Blyth
Western Cattle Egret - common Salton Sea
Great Blue Heron - two Salton Sea, three Blyth
White-faced Ibis - ten Salton Sea
Turkey Vulture - 25+ Salton Sea, 40+ Blyth
Osprey - two Blyth
Northern Harrier - ten Salton Sea
Sharp-shinned Hawk - one Blyth
Cooper's Hawk - two Salton Sea
Red-tailed Hawk - three Blyth, two Salton Sea
American Kestrel - five Blyth, ten Salton Sea
Prairie Falcon - one Salton Sea
Burrowing Owl - three Salton Sea
Belted Kingfisher - two Salton Sea
Gila Woodpecker - three Blyth
Red-naped Sapsucker - one Blyth
Ladder-backed Woodpecker - two Blyth
Northern Flicker - one Blyth
Gray Flycatcher - one Blyth
Black Phoebe - two Blyth, five Salton Sea
Say's Phoebe - five Blyth, 10 Salton Sea
Vermilion Flycatcher - three Blyth
Loggerhead Shrike - two Blyth, five Salton Sea
Common Raven - 20+ Salton Sea
Verdin - four Salton Sea, eight Blyth
Horned Lark - 40 Salton Sea
Tree Swallow - 15 Blyth, two Salton Sea
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 25+ Salton Sea, five Blyth
Barn Swallow - 35+ Blyth, 20 Salton Sea
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - one Salton Sea, three Blyth
Phainopepla - one Blyth
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - five Blyth
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher - two Blyth
Crissal Thrasher - one Blyth
Sage Thrasher - one Salton Sea
Northern Mockingbird - two Salton Sea
European Starling - several Blyth
Western Bluebird - 12 Salton Sea
Mountain Bluebird - flock of c40 Blyth
House Sparrow - common Salton Sea
American Pipit - three Salton Sea
House Finch - 15 Blyth
Lesser Goldfinch - ten Blyth
Lark Sparrow - one Blyth
Chipping Sparrow - ten Blyth
Brewer's Sparrow - 25+ Blyth
White-crowned Sparrow - 40+ Blyth, 25+ Salton
Vesper Sparrow - five Blyth
Song Sparrow - two Blyth
Lincoln's Sparrow - five Blyth
Abert's Towhee - four Salton Sea, ten Blyth
Western Meadowlark - 15 Blyth
Red-winged Blackbird - 80+ Blyth, 15 Salton Sea
Brewer's Blackbird - 20 Blyth
Great-tailed Grackle - common Salton Sea 15 Blyth
Orange-crowned Warbler - ten Blyth
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 40+ Blyth, ten Salton Sea

 

[Jonny721]

I've reordered the UK list from post #129 into taxonomic order, which is on 127 (not 126) species:

1. Brent Goose
2. Canada Goose
3. Barnacle Goose
4. Greylag Goose
5. Mute Swan
6. Shelduck
7. Mandarin
8. Shoveler
9. Gadwall
10. Wigeon
11. Mallard
12. Pintail
13. Teal
14. Pochard
15. Tufted Duck
16. Eider
17. Common Scoter
18. Goosander
19. Red-breasted Merganser
20. Pheasant
21. Black-throated Diver
22. Great Northern Diver
23. Fulmar
24. Sooty Shearwater
25. Manx Shearwater
26. Balearic Shearwater
27. Little Grebe
28. Great Crested Grebe
29. Glossy Ibis
30. Spoonbill
31. Grey Heron
32. Little Egret
33. Gannet
34. Shag
35. Cormorant
36. Sparrowhawk
37. Goshawk
38. Marsh Harrier
39. Red Kite
40. Buzzard
41. Water Rail
42. Moorhen
43. Coot
44. Oystercatcher
45. Avocet
46. Lapwing
47. Golden Plover
48. Ringed Plover
49. Curlew
50. Bar-tailed Godwit
51. Black-tailed Godwit
52. Turnstone
53. Sanderling
54. Dunlin
55. Purple Sandpiper
56. Woodcock
57. Jack Snipe
58. Snipe
59. Green Sandpiper
60. Redshank
61. Greenshank
62. Kittiwake
63. Black-headed Gull
64. Mediterranean Gull
65. Common Gull
66. Great Black-backed Gull
67. Herring Gull
68. Lesser Black-backed Gull
69. Great Skua
70. Guillemot
71. Razorbill
72. Feral Pigeon
73. Stock Dove
74. Woodpigeon
75. Collared Dove
76. Barn Owl
77. Long-eared Owl
78. Kingfisher
79. Great Spotted Woodpecker
80. Green Woodpecker
81. Kestrel
82. Jay
83. Magpie
84. Chough
85. Jackdaw
86. Rook
87. Carrion Crow
88. Raven
89. Coal Tit
90. Marsh Tit
91. Blue Tit
92. Great Tit
93. Woodlark
94. Skylark
95. Cetti's Warbler
96. Long-tailed Tit
97. Chiffchaff
98. Blackcap
99. Firecrest
100. Goldcrest
101. Wren
102. Nuthatch
103. Treecreeper
104. Starling
105. Blackbird
106. Fieldfare
107. Redwing
108. Song Thrush
109. Robin
110. Black Redstart
111. Stonechat
112. Dipper
113. House Sparrow
114. Dunnock
115. Grey Wagtail
116. Pied Wagtail
117. Meadow Pipit
118. Rock Pipit
119. Chaffinch
120. Hawfinch
121. Bullfinch
122. Greenfinch
123. Linnet
124. Redpoll
125. Goldfinch
126. Siskin
127. Cirl Bunting

I can add the following 14 species from my NYD out around Lancashire:
Pink-footed Goose
Bewick's Swan
Whooper Swan
Goldeneye
Red-legged Partridge
Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Hen Harrier
Little Owl
Merlin
Peregrine
Brambling
Corn Bunting
Reed Bunting

 

[Jonny721]

The following 'easy' UK species are missing from the combined list of 141 species in post #131 above, if anybody recorded any of these:

• Taiga Bean Goose
• Tundra Bean Goose
• White-fronted Goose
• Egyptian Goose
• Red-crested Pochard
• Any scarce duck (Yank Wigeon, Ring-necked Duck, Green-winged Teal, Lesser Scaup, Surf Scoter etc)
• Velvet Scoter
• Long-tailed Duck
• Smew
• Black Grouse
• Ptarmigan
• Red Grouse
• Grey Partridge
• Red-throated Diver
• Any scarce Grebe species
• Bittern
• Golden Eagle
• White-tailed Eagle
• Crane
• Grey Plover
• Knot
• Ruff
• Common Sandpiper
• Spotted Redshank
• Any scarce Gull species (Iceland, Glaucous, Caspian, Yellow-legged)
• Sandwich Tern
• Tawny Owl
• Short-eared Owl
• Ring-necked Parakeet
• Hooded Crow
• Crested Tit
• Willow Tit
• Bearded Tit
• Shorelark
• Mistle Thrush
• Tree Sparrow
• Water Pipit
• Twite
• Crossbill
• Yellow Warbler
• Yellowhammer
• Snow Bunting

 

[Swindon Addick]

Here's the "Rest of Europe" list to date, mostly translated into IOC names but not quite all:

Atlantic Canary
Bar-tailed Godwit
Black Kite
Black Redstart
Black Woodpecker
Black-headed Gull
Black-necked Grebe
Black-tailed Godwit
Bohemian Waxwing
Brambling
Brant Goose / Brent Goose
Bullfinch
Canada Goose
Canary Island Chiffchaff
Carrion Crow
Coal Tit
Common Blackbird
Common Buzzard
Common Chiffchaff
Common Crane
Common Firecrest
Common Goldeneye
Common Gull
Common Magpie
Common Merganser (Goosander)
Common Moorhen
Common Murre (Guillemot)
Common Raven
Common Redshank
Common Ringed Plover
Common Scoter
Common Starling
Common Waxbill
Common Wood Pigeon
Corn bunting
Crag Martin
Crested Tit
Dartford Warbler
Dunlin
Dunnock
Egyptian Goose
Eurasian Blackcap
Eurasian Blue Tit
Eurasian Chaffinch
Eurasian Collared Dove
Eurasian Coot
Eurasian Curlew
Eurasian Goldfinch
Eurasian Jay
Eurasian Nuthatch
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Eurasian Siskin
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Eurasian Teal
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
Eurasian Widgeon
Eurasian Wren
European Golden Plover
European Greenfinch
European Herring Gull
European Serin
European Shag
Feral Pigeon / Rock Dove
Fieldfare
Gadwell
Goldcrest
Graylag Goose
Great Black-backed Gull
Great Cormorant
Great Crested Grebe
Great Grey Shrike
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Great Tit
Great White Egret
Green Woodpecker
Greenshank
Grey Heron
Grey Plover
Grey Wagtail
Hawfinch
Hooded Crow
House Sparrow
Iberian Magpie
Italian Sparrow
Kestrel
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Little Egret
Little Grebe
Long-tailed Tit
Mallard
Marsh Tit
Meadow Pipit
Mediterranean Gull
Mistle Thrush
Mute Swan
Northern Goshawk
Northern Shoveler
Red Knot
Ring-necked Pheasant
Robin
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Ruddy Shelduck
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Short-toed Treecreeper
Song Thrush
Spotless Starling
Stonechat
Theklas Lark
Tufted Duck
Velvet Scoter
Western Jackdaw
White Wagtail
Willow Tit
Willow Warbler
Woodcock
Yellow-legged Gull
Yellowhammer
Zitting Cisticola

 

[Swindon Addick]

For clarity, that's Europe except for the UK and the bit of France that's in South America, both of which have their own lists.

 

[tonyfenn]

I can add white-fronted goose and claucous gull. Still joing though my list

 

[gerald762]

For clarity, that's Europe except for the UK and the bit of France that's in South America, both of which have their own lists.

Just added Cattle Egret to the spreadsheet. I forgot about it!

 

[gerald762]

For clarity, that's Europe except for the UK and the bit of France that's in South America, both of which have their own lists.

I can't see Raven on your list, though it is in the spreadsheet.

 

[Swindon Addick]

Just added Cattle Egret to the spreadsheet. I forgot about it!

Easy to do - we already had it from Turkey, but that list isn't for the European bit of Turkey.

I can't see Raven on your list, though it is in the spreadsheet.

It's under C for Common.

You asked earlier about a Redstart. I don't know about Spain specifically, but Black does seem a lot more likely than Common, and we've had Black reported several other times so it's probably best that we don't laim Common Redstart. The ID ought to be confident in order to claim it, so if there's doubt it's best not to.

 

[Swindon Addick]

Global list is up to the end of page 5 and is on 440. That excludes a few that have been added to the UK or Europe lists from pages 6 and 7 because I'm trying to add to the World list in order so as to reduce duplicates, of which there are always lots.

 

[Frank van Drogen]

Global list is up to the end of page 5 and is on 440. That excludes a few that have been added to the UK or Europe lists from pages 6 and 7 because I'm trying to add to the World list in order so as to reduce duplicates, of which there are always lots.

That's an impressive job you are doing!! I would probably get confused after bird #7, fustrated around bird species #22 and give up before reaching #100

Thanks so much for your efforts!!!!