Birding life list (a rough draft)

[destabee]

I will probably find a few more that I missed as I cross check various lists but what I have so far is behind the cut. The thing that surprised me is that I have photos for more than 75 percent of these



* = Australian birds; all others except Black-billed magpie (seen in Colorado Springs) were seen in western Oklahoma, NW Indiana, SW Michigan, Eastern North Carolina or Orlando.

American Avocet
Rainbow Bee-eater*
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Bluebird
Bufflehead
Painted Bunting
Pied Butcherbird
Northern Cardinal
Black-capped Chickadee
Carolina Chickadee
American Coot
Dusky Moorhen*
Double-breasted Cormorant
Brown-headed Cowbird
Sandhill Crane
Brown Creeper
Emerald Dove*
White-headed Pigeon*
Rock Dove
Crested Pigeon*
Laughing Turtle Dove*
Mourning Dove
Wood Duck
Northern Shoveler
Blue-winged Teal
Mallard
Pacific Black Duck*
Lesser Scaup
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Australian Wood Duck*
Bald Eagle
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Cattle Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Little Blue Heron
Little Egret
Black-Crowned Night Heron
American Kestrel
Common Redpoll
Pine Siskins
American Goldfinch
House Finch
Purple Finch
Evening Grosbeak
Crimson Finch*
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Noisy Friarbird*
Canada Goose
Common Goldeneye
Boat-tailed Grackle
Common Grackle
Pied-billed Grebe
Ring-billed Gull
Silver Gull *
Cooper's Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Noisy Miner*
Ruby-throated hummingbird
White-faced Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Australian White Ibis*
Blue Jay
Belted Kingfisher
Laughing Kookaburra*
Brahminy Kite*
Mississippi Kite
Masked Lapwing*
Magpie-lark*
Australian Magpie*
Black-billed Magpie
Eastern Meadowlark
Hooded Merganser
Northern Mockingbird
Common Nighthawk
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Baltimore Oriole
Figbird*
Southern Cassowary*
Pied Oystercatcher*
Galah*
Rainbow Lorikeets*
Australian Pelican*
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Ring-necked Pheasant
Eastern Phoebe
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Northern Bobwhite
American Crow
Torresian Crow*
Pied Currawong*
Greater Roadrunner
Dark-eyed Juncos
Song Sparrow
House Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
American Tree Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Harris's Sparrow
European Starling
Black-necked Stilt
Black-necked Stork *
Brolga*
Barn Swallow
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
Black Swan
Mute Swan
Summer Tanager
Crested Tern*
Brown Thrasher
American Robin
Tufted Titmouse
Australian Brush Turkey*
Wild Turkey
Turkey Vulture
Willie Wagtail *
Palm Warbler
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Carolina Wren



One of the things on my 101 in 1001 will be increasing this list by X (I just haven't decided what number X should be). I have actually seen more birds than this but I didn't start keeping track until I was living in North Carolina and then only casually. I have only been seriously birding since moving here.

Comments

[robinskij.livejournal.com]

Wow.

I wish I'd been journaling birds all along. The problem is I have a hard time seeing and identifying birds - I just don't have very good vision - so sometimes I see one and cannot figure out what it is.

The most exciting bird I ever got was an indigo bunting. That was sooooo coool!!!

[celestialsight.livejournal.com]

Wow! I've never kept record of all of the birds I've seen. I probably should start doing so. :)