Surfbirds Life and Year List Rankings

Holarctic Life List Showing Records 1 through 17 of 17 Total Records Rank Name Nationality Total Highlights 1 Guy Kirwan English 1797 22 May 2007. All birds recorded in the Holarctic region. Strictly following Voous's List of Recent Holarctic Birds (1977), and thus ignoring many recent taxonomic changes (principally splits). Like others, I follow Voous for New World boundaries and Beaman for those in the Old World, but I do not count Cape Verdes, as these islands are not equivocally part of the Palearctic and indeed possess biogeographical elements analagous to those of Socotra (which is most definitely not part of the Palearctic). For Mexican birds now known to occur in the Holarctic region (see e.g. maps in Howell & Webb), I follow taxonomy employed by AOU Checklist Committee (1998, and annual updates published in Auk), although species limits in Mexican birds might be too restrictive (see e.g. work by Town Peterson & Adolfo Navarro). 2007: Filled in a great many of my Mexican gaps during a six-week trip to the west and Baja California. http://www.freewebs.com/guykirwan/index.htm 2 Max Berlijn Dutch 1701 Latest change 15-11-2009. Everything, but Short-tailed Albatross, Spoonbilled Sandpiper, Scalysided Merganser, Swinhoe's Rail, Slenderbilled Curlew, Blakiston's Fishowl, Raso Lark, Relict Gull, Siberian White Crane, Oriental White Stork, Bourne's Heron, Crested Ibis, Chinese Crested Tern , Amami Woodcock and Jankowski's Bunting, Yemen endemics, Tibetan Sandgrouse and White-faced Plover are the highlights, latest addition Zino's Petrel and Great Shearwater (boogy bird for me) and castro Madeiran S.P (I do not split this species yet) : I do NOT count introduced species (C list) and have not seen all the species IN the holarctic (seen Holarctic species). I follow mostly Klim on the list of Holarctic birds (see his website under his name) with some extinct species included and of course seen outside the Holarctic. Next trip, hopefully Japan Feb 2010 for some missed species. 3 Richard Klim British (Somerset) 1694 (IOC) May 2009. Includes 8 heard only. Total 1749 following checklist at holarcticlisting.webs.com (but excluding Socotra). Recorded within Holarctic region as defined by Beaman (Palearctic) & Voous (Nearctic). Birding destinations: WP - GB, Ireland, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Poland, Germany, France, Corsica, Spain & Gibraltar, Mallorca, Lesvos, Madeira Is, Canary Is, Cape Verde, Mauritania, Morocco, Egypt, Israel & West Bank, Cyprus, Turkey, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen; E Palearctic - Bhutan, China (Qinghai, Beijing/Hebei), S Korea, Japan (Kyushu/Honshu/Hokkaido); Nearctic - USA (AK, CA, CO/KS, TX, FL, New England/NY/MI), Mexico (Son/Chih/Dgo, Coah/NL, Méx/DF), Bahamas. 4 Erica Klim British (Somerset) 1675 (IOC) May 2009. Geographical scope as Richard. 5 Bjorn Anderson Swedish, living in Panama 1592 Japanese Night-Heron. Biet's Laughingthrush, Przewalski's Parrotbill, Streaked Barwing and Blackthroat in China. Menzbier's Pipit in Russia. Pander's Ground-Jay in Uzbekistan, White-winged Lark & Eversmann's Stock-Dove in Kazakhstan, Grass Owl near Happy Island, Short-tailed Albatross and Providence Petrel around Torishima and Ryukyu sweep in March 2006. 1916 Holarctic species recorded in total. 6 Claes-G�ran Cederlund Swedish 1483 Strictly following Clements,although obsolete.Updated 21 July 2006 with a cleansweep of Eastern Tibetan plateau specialities. 7 Mike Passant British 1397 8 Ray O'Reilly English 1303 Wild California Condor seen in the 70's no recent splits included 9 Peter Landry Canadian 1146 Falcated Teal, Ibisbill, Himalayan Snowcock (Kyrgistan), Copper Pheasant, Grey-headed Lapwing, Altai Accentor, Japanese Accentor, Stoliczka's Tit-Warbler, Asian Paradise Flycatcher, Eversmann's Redstart, Himalayan Rubythroat, Siberian Thrush, Azure Tit, Oriental Greenfinch, Japanese Grosbeak, Azure-winged Magpie (Spain & Japan). [Also see North American (ABA Area) and Western Palearctic Life Lists]. 10 Georges Olioso French 1064 11 David Daniels USA 1005 ABA Area, England, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Kazakhstan, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Tunisia, and Yemen (excluding Socotra). Plus one species seen in Japan at the airport. 12 Per Ole Syvertsen Norwegian 933 As of 10 November 2006 13 Vincent Stork Dutch 898 14 Edge Wade USA (MO) 832 European Storm-Petrel off Cape Hatteras, Green Violet-ear, Grundy Co. Iowa. updated 30 Sep 05. 15 Justin Jansen Holland 751 Includes, USA (2 short trips), Morocco (1 time), Israel (1 time), Kazakhstan (1 time) and some scattered birding in several other europe countries, but mainly focussed on birding in Holland! 16 Bill Alexson U.S. 264 American White Pelican, Eurasian Wigeon, Purple Gallinule (NY); Western Kingbird (VA); Black-hooded Parakeet, White-crowned Pigeon, Snail Kite, White-crowned Pigeon (FL) 17 Bennet Porter Falmouth, MA USA 228 Monk Parakeet, Fox Sparrow 11/15/09 Not entered in these rankings and want to enter yourself? Update or Delete your ranking Back to Life and Year List Home