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Bird Listers Corner

gulls in California

Western, Heerman’s and Glaucous-winged Gulls in California – R. Cunningham

Bird Lister’s Corner is an opportunity for PAFN club members to list their most recent total number of Life birds in four recognized categories. It is a great opportunity for club members to share in some friendly competition and to watch and measure your own progress over the upcoming months and years.

The four categories include:

Pembroke Circle (50 km circle) Pembroke Count Circle

Ontario (anywhere in the province of Ontario)

North America (ABA area-Canada and the United States including Alaska but excluding Hawaii).

ABA website ABA 2011 checklist

World – Includes all bird species from anywhere in the world including the ABA area. Must not include duplicates- a Mallard is a Mallard no matter what country. If there are any doubts, Latin names of the two birds must be compared. For example the Northern Gannet is not the same as the Gannet in Europe (two different Latin names).

To register, just forward your total life bird number for each of the categories and your best new lifer bird for each category and where you saw it to Ken Hooles at hooles@bell.net

for example: Pembroke Circle – 120 ( Rufous Hummingbird, etc. The list will be updated quarterly including the best new Lifer bird.

Bird Lister’s Corner – compiled by Ken Hooles    (December 19, 2024)

World

Ken Hooles               1148             Purple Swamp Hen   Sarasota, Fla    

Christian Renault       1019            Says Phoebe         British Columbia 

Mike Macdonald       800            Yellow-billed Chough  Montenegro

Sandra MacDonald    709            Rose-ringed Parakeet        Italy

Manson Fleguel         566              Marsh Sandpiper            Thedford, ON

Susan Ellis                  549              White Stork                Hungary

Rob Cunningham      399              Roseate Spoonbill      Florida

Ken Brown                 362              Tinkerbird              Kenya

Martin Roncetti         283              Clay-colored Sparrow      Haldimand, ON

ABA Area

Jaques Bouvier             590            White-tailed Ptarmigan     Jasper, AB

Ken Hooles                  *589             Purple Swamp Hen          Florida      

Christian Renault         552             Prairie Warbler                 Ontario

Mike MacDonald         547            Taiga Bean Goose             Quebec

Manson Fleguel           546            Marsh Sandpiper               Haldimand, ON

Sandra MacDonald      483            Lewis’s Woodpecker       British Columbia                   

Rob Cunningham        384             Purple Gallinule            Florida

Vincent Agnesi            307             Orange-crowned Warbler   Quebec         

Mark Dojczman          261              Common Eider         Baffin Island                      

Ken Brown                  233              Clapper Rail                Connecticut

Martin Roncetti          232              Clay-colored Sparrow        Haldimand, ON

 

 

Ontario     

Jacques Bouvier       357                Western Tanager     Ottawa                   

Ken Hooles              322                Tufted Duck        Brighton, ON        

Rob Cunningham    292                Tufted Duck        Brighton, ON                  

Mike MacDonald    279                 Brambling          North Bay          

Mark Dojczman      254                Common Eider      N. Ontario 

Christian Renault    252                 Prairie Warbler     Kaladar area   

Martin Roncetti      215                  Clay-colored Sparrow      Haldimand

Ken Brown              162                  Whip-poor-will   Pembroke

 

Pembroke Circle

Manson Fleguel           281                Dickcissel                                Pembroke

Ken Hooles                  280                American White Pelican       Pembroke

Mark Dojczman           255               Golden-winged Warbler     Renfrew County

Jacques Bouvier           249               Thick-billed Murre                Cobden

Christian Renault         246              Yellow-billed Cuckoo   Laurentian Valley         

Rob Cunningham        232                Willet                                     Pembroke

Mike MacDonald         224                Sabine’s   Gull                        Lake Dore

Ken Brown                   155                Whip-poor-will                      Pembroke

 

Congratulations to everyone who was able to add to their Fall list.  Congrats to Mike and Sandra McDonald for adding some new European birds to their list.  Good birding this Winter.

*miscount 1 bird and failed to record one bird (swamp hen in aba.)