Your Most Recent "Life" Bird (5 Viewers)

[fbeeldens]

red-wattled lapwing in Oostkapelle (Netherlands) today.

 

[Bick]

Shore plover, Motutapu Island, New Zealand.

 

[bufflehead1]

Here they are, 2 of my favorite 70 or so lifers from Australia (2nd time birding out US): a pair of Black swan and Australasian gannets in their natural environment,( photo taken while out whale watching. )

 

[Mysticete]

3 Lifers last week on a pair of pelagics out of San Diego: Least and Townsend's Storm Petrel, and the highlight of the two days, South Polar Skua. Plus an ABA Cocos Booby.

 

[Lisa W]

Red-necked Phalarope, today on the Southern Oregon coast.

 

[in vitrio]

Work this week to me to Boston, Lincs, so before starting I popped into Freiston, first visit for me. Some shorebirds were right on the limit of my camera, and I can't ID most of them, but in the middle I think there's a golden plover - which would be my first.

 

[in vitrio]

Looking at it afresh, are there knots in there as well? They would also be firsts for me...

 

[Nightjar61]

I just finished a weeklong birding trip to India. I ended up with 111 lifers, the last of which was Bronze-winged Jacana.

Dave

 

[Paul Chapman]

Looking at it afresh, are there knots in there as well? They would also be firsts for me...

Well I certainly cannot see a Golden Plover in the photo. I can see Redshanks & Dunlin and a Knot in the centre. If you have a series of pics, that could assist with some of the less clear birds.

All the best

Paul

 

[in vitrio]

I don't have anything better - right at the limit of my camera - and I may have mistaken a dunlin with a bigger black patch than normal for golden plover. But I can claim knot as a new one anyway.

 

[hookem2010]

Got my first ever jaeger, but after reviewing online photos of parasitic and pomarine, I frustratingly couldn't pull the trigger on a species to bump up to #531.
Still, this was one of my best self-found birds. I live 250 miles from the coast in central Texas, so jaeger was definitely not on my list of potential targets when I went out to a nearby neighborhood lake that can't be more than 50 acres. While scanning the surface of the lake for my county first tree swallow, I looked up to see a gull-like shape approaching. It would be a bit early for Franklin's gull, and as the bird got nearer, it was all dark brown. I immediately went to jaeger although I'm not super familiar with them, and immediately started noting features, seeing the white flash on the underside of the primaries and very slightly longer central tail feathers that appeared rounded.
I didn't think I was going to be able to call the species, but got my hopes up thumbing through a field guide that showed pointed tail feathers in juvenile parasitic jaegers, which my bird definitely didn't have. Further research seemed to show that the tail feathers may vary in appearance, especially with molt, so I had to take my lifer off the board.
If I ever get lucky enough to stumble on another one, I should have a better idea what to look for, and hopefully a camera. Ugh!!!

 

[Georgebirds]

Wheatear! I've been wanting to see one for such a long time, I keep being places other people see Wheatears regularly but finally I can tick off this always-eludes-me species! It was a great long sighting, too, not some fleeting glimpse through twigs - the bird flew from post to post along the footpath, perching long enough for me to catch up and do a little watching and photo-taking every time.

 

[Swindon Addick]

It was MigFest weekend at Spurn last weekend and I was all set to mention that my latest lifer was now Red-breasted Flycatcher due to MigFest's spooky ability to deliver lifers. But then just as everyone was packing up and the final round of walks were returning to North Field, a Honey Buzzard flew over. So now that's the most recent.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

In Bolivia right now. The most recent lifer of 32 so far was Cream-backed Woodpecker.

 

[Green Sandpiper]

Great Grey Shrike (steppe ssp) Dunbar, E. Lothian

 

[Warixenjalka]

American invasion continues in Finland: last Friday Franklin's Gull in Säkylä... this must have something to do with joining NATO

 

[Edward]

Having gone through numerous flocks of numerous Collared Pratincoles in eastern Anatolia and Israel without success in the past, I was delighted to finally see Black-winged Pratincole on a gravel road in southern Iceland yesterday.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Now up to 86 lifers in Bolivia (including 21 today!). The last of the day was White-browed Ground-tyrant at Cerro Tunari outside Cochabamba.

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Picked up another 8 lifers today in Bolivia so I'm up to 94 - the last of the day was Chestnut-tipped Toucanet.

 

[Jinac]

European Roller for me, just next to my house. I knew that theses blue bird can be seen in my country but for 10 years...never, and this summer, every weeks ! And wahou... Such a beautiful plumage's contrast !