Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings

Vietnam Life List Showing Records 1 through 20 of 20 Total Records Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights 1 Craig Robson British 641 Black-crowned Barwing 2 Richard Craik / Vietnam Birding British 638 2009 additions include White-eared Night-heron, Asian Dowitcher, Yellow-crowned, Rufous-bellied & Crimson-breasted Woodpeckers, Rufous-bellied Niltava, Scaly, Black-faced & Red-tailed Laughingthrushes and House Sparrow! 3 James Eaton / Birdtour Asia English 587 Latest: White-bellied Green Pigeon. Previous highlights: Spot-bellied Eagle Owl & Black-necked Stork, Sooty Babbler, Hodgson's & Blyth's Frogmouth, Black-crowned Barwing, Blue-naped & Rusty-naped Pittas, Pale-headed & Red-collared Woodpecker, Red-winged, Chestnut-crowned, Scaly, Collared, Rufous-cheeked, Red-tailed & Black-faced Laughingthrush, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Saunder's Gull, Slender-billed & Spot-breasted Scimitar Babblers, Pale-throated Wren-babbler, Bar-backed, Tonkin, Annam, Rufous-throated & Orange-necked Partridge, Tristram's Bunting, Asian Golden Weaver, White-browed Bush-Robin, Dusky Thrush, Green Cochoa, Sapphire Blue Flycatcher 4 John Pilgrim English 567 August 2009: White-eared Night-heron, Ring-necked Pheasant, Malayan Night-heron, Spot-billed Pelican 5 Toon De Bruyn Belgian 566 November 2008: Eurasian Woodcock 6 Susan Myers Australian 565 Most recently January 2008; 2007 - an update from a couple of recent trips - most interesting for me was Slender-billed Scimitar-Babbler at Sa Pa. 2006- at last I saw Mountain Scops Owl at Cuc Phuong! 7 Stephane Doppagne Belgian 554 Hill Partridge, Germain's Peacock Pheasant, Green Peafowl, Fulvous-breasted, Rufous-bellied, Crimson-breasted & Red-collared Woodpeckers, Lesser Cuckoo, Alexandrine Parakeet, Yellow-footed & White-bellied Green Pigeons, White-browed Crake, Asian Dowitcher, Grey-tailed Tattler, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Long-toed Stint, Pied Avocet, Saunder's Gull, Grey-headed Fish Eagle, Bonelli's & Rufous-bellied Eagle, White-rumped & Amur Falcons, Collared & Pied Falconets, Malayan Night heron, Von Schrenk's Bittern, Black-faced Spoonbill, Asian Openbill, Woolly-necked Stork, 5 Pittas incl. Blue-naped & Fairy, 5 Broadbills, Tiger Shrike, White-winged Magpie, Ratchet-tailed Treepie, Slender-billed & Maroon Oriole, 7 Minivets, Japanese Paradise Flycatcher, Dark-sided Thrush, Green Cochoa, Ferruginous, White-gorgeted, Rufous-browed, Blue-and-White, Yellow-rumped, Little Pied, Sapphire, Pale Blue & Pygmy Blue Flycatchers, 3 Niltavas, White-browed Bush Robin, 4 Forktails, Blue-fronted Redstart, White-tailed Nuthatch, Asian House Martin, 2 Finchbills, Brown Prinia, Mandchurian & Aberrant Bush Warblers, Buff-throated, Radde's, Sulphur-breasted & Chestnut-crowned Warblers, Pale-legged Leaf Warbler, Black-hooded, Grey, White-cheeked, Orange-breasted, White-browed, Black-faced, Collared & Red-winged Laughingthrushes, Coral-billed & Short-tailed Scimitar Babblers, Limestone Wren Babbler, Sooty Babbler, Grey-faced Tit Babbler, Cutia, Black-eared Shrike Babbler, 10 Fulvettas, Grey-crowed Crocia, 6 Yuhinas, Short-tailed Parrotbill, 9 Sunbirds, Indochinese Bushlark, 4 Sparrows incl. House, 3 greenfinches incl. Vietnamese, 7 Buntings 8 Peter Bijlmakers Dutch 533 Fairy pitta two weeks in a row at Xuan Thuy, 9 and 23 Sept 07. 9 János Oláh, Jr Hungarian 531 6 species of pitta; Spoon-billed Sandpiper; probably the first Long-billed Dowitcher for Vietnam in 1996; Black-crowned Barwing; Sooty Babbler; Short-tailed Scimitar Babbler; Green Cochoa; 11 species of Laughingthrush; 6 species of Parrotbill;Yellow-billed Nuthatch; Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl;Saunder's Gull;Black-faced Spoonbill. Latest Hodgson's and Blyth's Frogmouth, Blunt-winged Warbler, Rufous-winged Buzzard etc. 10 Hanno Stamm German 501 Mekong Wagtail 11 Nguyen Hoai Bao Vietnam 471 Purple Sunbird, White-shouldered Ibis in Yokdon National Park, Central Highland of Vietnam 12 Remco Hofland Dutch 386 Updated Sept 12, 2006. Excl heard-only: Chestnut-necklaced Partridge, Indian Cuckoo, White-tailed Robin, Lesser Shortwing, Grey-bellied Tesia, Pygmy Wren Babbler and White-hooded Babbler. Trips in Jan 2002 (N) and March 2005 (S). Highlights incl Nordmann’s Greenshank, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Elliott’s Pitta*, Long-tailed & Silver-breasted Broadbill, Chestnut-headed Tesia, Short-tailed Parrotbill, Spectacled Barwing, Grey, Black-throated (all N), White-cheeked, Black-hooded, Orange-breasted and the absolutely stunning Collared Laugher & Vietnamese Cutia*, Grey-crowned Crocias, Black-headed & Rufous-backed Sibia, Germain’s Peacock-Pheasant, Siamese Fireback, Banded Kingfisher, Banded, Black-and-Red & the cute Dusky Broadbill, Dark-sided Thrush & Green Cochoa* (all S). Three of the species seen in Vietnam (*) are in my Top 10 most beautiful birds ever……….. 13 Claes-Göran Cederlund@swipnet.se Swedish 386 One trip in 2006. Orange-necked Partridge best. 14 Martin Edwards Canadian 309 15 Luc Bekaert Belgian 302 Visit only South-Vietnam in 2006&2007. 16 Mikael Bauer Swedish 274 Sooty Babbler & Lesser Rufous-headed Parrotbill 17 Mario Renden Dutch 271 Collared Laughing-thrush, Black-faced Spoonbill, Bar-bellied Pitta, Blue-rumped Pitta 18 Garry George US 265 one visit. Will be back as we missed much. 19 Mike Passant British 257 Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl , plus 4 Pitta sp. and all 5 Broadbills, despite very cold weather. 20 Rick Waldrop USA 38 all seen on one short non-birding trip in 1996 Not entered in these rankings and want to enter yourself? Update or Delete your ranking Back to Life and Year List Home