Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings

2008 Young Birder's Year List Showing Records 1 through 22 of 22 Total Records Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights 1 Phil Chaon Ohio 1277 ECUADOR- Hoary Redpoll, Black Turnstone, Rock Sandpiper, Surfbird, Broad-billed Hummingbird (FL), Smith's Longspur, Wood Sandpiper, Roseate Tern, Fea's Petrel, BERMUDA PETREL, South Polar Skua, Long-tailed Jaeger, Black Rail in OH, most Lower Rio Grande Specialties, Flame-colored Tanager, Black Swift, Black-capped Gnatcatcher, Colima Warbler 2 Ian Davies USA-Massachusetts 1071 California, Northeastern US, and Ecuador. Not including a month in Spain, still need to add. (Last updated 4/11/09) 3 Michael Woodruff US - WA 745 5 weeks in Costa Rica birding & studying Spanish, 2 week mission trip to Borneo, & a good deal of birding around Washington state and a little bit in other parts of the west coast 4 Daniel Riley Canadian 633 7 Weeks in Costa Rica and the rest spent in Ontario 5 Ben Griffith USA-NH 482 11/19/08. Lower 48. 23 Lifers. Unfortunately, very little chance of hitting 500. Highlights: White-tailed Ptarmigan (winter plumage!); Ruff (CO); Bridled Tern (MA); Band-rumped Storm-Petrel (MA); Royal Tern (NH); Mississippi Kite (NH); Baird's Sparrow; Sprague's Pipit; 3 Rosy-Finches 6 Erik Enbody USA - MI (currently CO) 471 Highlights this year: Brown Noddy, Sooty and Bridled Terns, Masked and Brown Booby, Yellow Rail, Bermuda and Fea's Petrel, Gray Vireo, Fulvus W. Duck, Y-f Gull, Bery Hum, Mtn Quail, Hermit Warb 7 Chris West USA, WI 461 Elegant Trogon, Buff-breasted Flycatcher, Spotted Owl, Whiskered Screech Owl, Black-chinned Sparrow, Sabine's Gull, Red-throated Loon 8 Scott Schuette USA- MO 459 updated Nov 8th 9 Neil Gilbert California 415 Yeah... birded Texas, California, and Minnesota (very briefly) only 10 Bret McCarty (15) Lakewood, OH 401 ND/MI/Manitoba: Baird's Sparrow, WW Crossbills, Kirtland's Warblers. AZ: FC Tanager, BC Gnatcatcher, WE Hummingbird :: 12-21-08: Pomarine Jaeger 11 Trey Mccuen GA 366 Flame colored tanager, Black capped gnatcatcher, Masked and Brown boobies, Brown noddy, Long tailed jaeger 12 Hope Batcheller NY state 366 Final total 13 Tyler Loomis AZ 353 14 David Hollie USA -- GA 349 15 Sean Williams MA 346 7/12/08 16 Marcel Such (13) Colorado 343 FINAL TOTAL. Highlights: Sage Sparrow, Long-eared Owl (CO), Rufous-winged Sparrow, Bridled Titmouse (AZ), All Code 1-2 Rails, Bachman's Sparrow, Red-cockaded Woodpecker (TX) 17 Christian Brinkman Dutch 276 Black-winged Pratincole, Booted warbler, Citrine wagtail, Lesser Grey Shrike. 29th September 18 John Garrett USA - California 255 05/03/08 - Semipalmated Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, Franklin's Gull, Painted Redstart 19 Dennis Riederer Swiss 251 Pallied Harrier, Great Northen Diver, Purple Sandpiper, Sabine`s Gull, Long tailed Jaegger, Great Skua, Yellowe browed Warbler, Spectacled Warbler, Slender Billed Gull etc. all in Switzerland! 20 Oliver Simms British 173 Trip to Scotland with 9 lifers, including Golden + White Tailed Eagles, Spoonbill, Crested Tit and Corncrake 21 Tucker Lutter USA-IA 108 11 New LB-Golden Eagle, Glaucous Gull, Band-tailed Pigeon, Snowy Owl, Bohemian Waxwing, Scott's Oriole, Common Redpoll 22 Josh Covill USA, MT 70 2/6/08 Barred Owl, Gyrfalcon, Red-breasted Merganser, Northern Shrike, Barrow's Goldeneye, E C Dove, Short-eared Owl, Merlin, Prairie Falcon, and Harris's Sparrow Not entered in these rankings and want to enter yourself? Update or Delete your ranking Back to Life and Year List Home