Kerfuffle-to-Go: 2019 - Annual Bird List (6 lifers for 2019)

2019 - Annual Bird List (6 lifers for 2019)

Whoo hooo! Have finally broken that 'I've been stuck at 664 lifers for more than a year' evil spell. All it took to break the spell was a trip to Alaska. YAY! Had hoped for 3 lifer Eider species but oh well - will just have to go again next year. in late summer I moved to Port Angeles Washington. What a change in the birdie scenery. Now my most common duck is American Wigeons, and I see Harlequins all the time, and White-winged Scoters often. My feeder birds are so exotic to me - Black-capped Chickadees, Varied Thrush a host of others. Now it is Oak Titmouse, Yellow-billed Magpie (GASP!) and California Scrub Jays that are no longer every day birds. My tally of species of ABA species for the year is 210. Oh dear... so that means the list below is missing several. I'll figure it out. And thanks to a trip to New Zealand, my world species tally for the year is up an an additional 24 species. Whoo hoo!

Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Cackling Goose
Brant
Mute Swan
Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Common Eider
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ring-necked Pheasant
Willow Ptarmigan
Rock Ptarmigan
Wild Turkey
California Quail
Gambel's Quail
Red-throated Loon
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Earred Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brant's Comorant
Neotropic Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Red-faced Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
White-tailed Kite
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Golden Eagle
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden Plover
Pacific Golden Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Black Oystercatcher
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Wandering Tattler
Spotted Sandpiper
Bristle-thighed Curlew
Bar-tailed Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Black Turnstone
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
Red-necked Phalarope
Red Phalarope
Pomarine Jaeger
Parasitic Jaeger
Long-tailed Jaeger
Heerman's Gull
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Glaucous Gull
Sabine's Gull
Black-legged Kittiwake
Common Tern
Arctic Tern
Aleutian Tern
Common Murre
Pigeon Guillemot
Kittlitz's Murrelet
Horned Puffin
Tufted Puffin
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Western Screech Owl (heard)
Barred Owl
Short-eared Owl
White-throated Swift
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Acorn Woodpecker
Gila Woodpecker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Vermillion Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Cassin's Kingbird
Western Kingbird
Canada Jay
Stellar's Jay
California Scrub Jay
Black-billed Magpie
Yellow-billed Magpie
American Crow
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Oak Titmouse
Verdin
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Canyon Wren (heard)
Bewick's Wren
Pacific Wren
American Dipper
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Arctic Warbler
Bluethroat
Northern Wheatear
Western Bluebird
Grey-cheeked Thrush
American Robin
Varied Thrush
Northern Mockingbird
Curve-billed Thrasher
Eurasian Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Phainopepla
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson's Warbler
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
American Tree Swallow
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow (red arctic)
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Lapland Longspur
Snow Bunting
Northern Cardinal
Black-headed Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Hooded Oriole
House Finch
Common Redpoll
Hoary Redpoll
Pine Siskin
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Bristle Thighed Curlew - June 6, 2019

Aleutian Tern - June 7, 2019

Bluethroat - June 6, 2019

Northern Wheatear - June 7, 2019

Arctic Warbler - June 6, 2019

Kittlitz's Murrelet - June 13, 2019

The birds below were viewed and enjoyed in New Zealand, and they padded my
'world list' with new species seen

Australian Magpie
Paradise Shelduck
New Zealand Scaup
Tomtit
Little Pied Cormorant
Australasian Gannet
Spotted Shag
Pukeko (New Zealand Swamphen)
Mask-faced Lapwing
Black Swan
Swamp Harrier
Fantail
New Zealand Grebe (dabchick)
Little Black Shag
Pied Stilt
Sacred Kingfisher
Welcome Swallow
Black Shag
Australian Coot
New Zealand Pigeon
Tui
Bellbird
Eurasian Goldfinch
Grey Gerygone (Grey Warbler)

And now, for no good reason at all, here are...

Mammals of 2019
In no order in particular (as per usual):

Muskoxen ('lifer' mammal)
Humpback Whale
Minke Whale
Orca
Bottlenosed Dolphin
Southern Fur Seals (lifer!)
Stellar's Sea Lion
Harbor Seal
Arctic Ground Squirrel
Grizzly Bear
Caribou
Dall Sheep
Mountain Goats (squeee!)
Javalina (heard, as the lumps squabbled amid themselves)
Moose
Snowshoe Hare