World Life List

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274 lifers in 2017

December 29

Snow Goose

December 28

Rosy-faced Lovebird

3

Gila Woodpecker

3

Curve-billed Thrasher

3

Gambel's Quail

4

Gilded Flicker

3

Abert's Towhee

December 27

Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch

2

Clark's Nutcracker

December 22

Wild Turkey

December 17

Black-billed Magpie

4

Rough-legged Hawk

December 14

Nazca Booby

6

Greater Pewee

December 3

Prairie Falcon

8

White-winged Scoter

November 28

Rufous-backed Robin

November 26

Brant

4

Red-breasted Merganser

Common Loon

9

Horned Grebe

Groove-billed Ani

Surf Scoter

3

Painted Redstart

Mountain Plover

3

Thick-billed Kingbird

6

Bonaparte's Gull

4

Short-billed Dowitcher

3

Pacific Loon

3

Eurasian Wigeon

November 18

Lark Sparrow

November 5

American Herring Gull

October 28

Red Crossbill

October 22

Golden-crowned Kinglet

October 15

Hermit Thrush

6

American Avocet

5

Dunlin

4

Red-naped Sapsucker

3

Cassin's Finch

October 13

Tricolored Blackbird

October 10

Black-bellied Plover

Belted Kingfisher

5

Forster's Tern

2

Ridgway's Rail

Tricolored Heron

6

Reddish Egret

4

Northern Pintail

October 6

Blue-winged Teal

September 24

Vesper Sparrow

September 22

Brandt's Cormorant

5

Black Turnstone

September 17

Dickcissel

3

Long-eared Owl

September 13

Rock Wren

September 10

Western Wood-Pewee

5

Baird's Sandpiper

6

Lazuli Bunting

9

Horned Lark

Pectoral Sandpiper

2

Chukar

September 9

Willet

4

Pelagic Cormorant

4

Caspian Tern

6

Elegant Tern

September 7

Allen's Hummingbird

September 6

Cassin's Kingbird

3

Bewick's Wren

September 3

Bell's Vireo

August 19

Burrowing Owl

August 6

Long-billed Curlew

Bank Swallow

9

Bell's Sparrow

4

LeConte's Thrasher

7

Lesser Yellowlegs

Willow Flycatcher

9

Marsh Wren

August 4

Costa's Hummingbird

July 30

Wilson's Phalarope

9

Bullock's Oriole

July 29

Black-chinned Hummingbird

July 28

American Dipper

Plumbeous Vireo

2

California Condor

July 25

Red-crowned Amazon

July 16

Black-throated Sparrow

4

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

Summer Tanager

4

Brown-crested Flycatcher

July 15

Loggerhead Shrike

6

Lesser Nighthawk

July 9

Flammulated Owl

5

Common Nighthawk

3

Mexican Whip-poor-will

July 8

Mountain Chickadee

3

Williamson's Sapsucker

June 27

Eye-ringed Flatbill

6

Lesson's Motmot

7

Ruddy Ground Dove

2

Ruddy Woodcreeper

4

Collared Trogon

3

Cinnamon-bellied Saltator

June 26

Melodious Blackbird

3

White-bellied Emerald

Social Flycatcher

6

Northern Jacana

5

Least Grebe

8

Morelet's Seedeater

6

Ivory-billed Woodcreeper

Little Blue Heron

4

Brown Jay

3

Black-cowled Oriole

Neotropic Cormorant

June 25

Osprey

Brown Pelican

8

Tropical Mockingbird

6

Least Tern

5

Common Black Hawk

7

Yellow-bellied Elaenia

8

Sandwich Tern

5

Olive-throated Parakeet

June 23

Eurasian Collared-Dove

5

Plain Chachalaca

5

Golden-fronted Woodpecker

Great Kiskadee

6

White-fronted Amazon

6

Red-billed Pigeon

Gray-breasted Martin

3

Black-headed Saltator

3

Rufous-browed Peppershrike

June 22

Turquoise-browed Motmot

4

Yellow-throated Euphonia

Black-headed Trogon

6

Yellow-green Vireo

Roadside Hawk

6

Rose-throated Becard

5

Clay-colored Thrush

9

Masked Tityra

4

Black Catbird

7

Black Vulture

7

Common Squirrel-Cuckoo

5

Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher

2

Scaled Pigeon

2

Orange Oriole

June 21

Altamira Oriole

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

3

Yucatan Jay

6

Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl

Royal Tern

2

Yucatan Woodpecker

Magnificent Frigatebird

June 20

Red-headed Woodpecker

June 12

Red-eyed Vireo

June 3

Pygmy Nuthatch

May 13

Swainson's Thrush

May 6

Hermit Warbler

April 29

Purple Finch

April 27

Olive-sided Flycatcher

April 25

Solitary Sandpiper

April 23

Vaux's Swift

6

White-faced Ibis

April 18

Western Screech-Owl

April 16

Common Raven

Swainson's Hawk

April 15

Semipalmated Plover

9

Western Sandpiper

3

Yellow-headed Blackbird

April 14

Great Horned Owl

April 13

Blue Grosbeak

April 10

Great-tailed Grackle

April 9

Franklin's Gull

April 5

Scaly-breasted Munia

April 3

Common Poorwill

March 31

Ruddy Duck

Green-winged Teal

5

Long-billed Dowitcher

9

Greater Yellowlegs

7

Bufflehead

6

Gadwall

8

Cliff Swallow

March 27

Bar-throated Apalis

Kurrichane Thrush

Lesser Honeyguide

2

Laughing Dove

Arrow-marked Babbler

Purple-crested Turaco

Streaky-headed Seedeater

Southern Yellow White-eye

Red-billed Firefinch

Red-winged Starling

Speckled Mousebird

White-browed Robin-Chat

March 26

Great Cormorant

Hamerkop

Gray-hooded Gull

Piping Cisticola

Rock-loving Cisticola

Common Ostrich

Little Bee-eater

Dideric Cuckoo

2

Little Heron

White-bellied Sunbird

Natal Spurfowl

Cardinal Woodpecker

Southern Masked-Weaver

2

Variable Sunbird

Common Waxbill

March 25

Pin-tailed Whydah

2

Spotted Flycatcher

Rattling Cisticola

Cinnamon-breasted Bunting

Green-winged Pytilia

2

Yellow Bishop

March 23

Familiar Chat

March 22

Fork-tailed Drongo

Pied Crow

Western Barn Owl

March 21

Western Cattle-Egret

2

Tawny-flanked Prinia

2

Black Sawwing

Reed Cormorant

March 20

Lanner Falcon

Black-throated Canary

March 19

Red-collared Widowbird

3

Gray Heron

Common Bulbul

2

Southern Red Bishop

2

Red-eyed Dove

Scaly Weaver

Village Indigobird

Black-collared Barbet

March 18

Eastern Miombo Sunbird

Scarlet-chested Sunbird

Southern Gray-headed Sparrow

African Palm Swift

White-rumped Swift

Bronze Mannikin

4

Common Myna

Yellow-fronted Canary

Greater Striped Swallow

Lilac-breasted Roller

Black-headed Heron

Shikra

Little Swift

March 17

Black Kite

Speckled Pigeon

Greater Blue-eared Starling

Dusky Turtle-Dove

White-collared Pigeon

March 13

Western Kingbird

March 12

Dusky Flycatcher

March 11

Black Phoebe

March 9

Lawrence's Goldfinch

March 7

Brown Creeper

March 4

Gray Flycatcher

February 26

California Gull

February 24

Cinnamon Teal

February 23

Mountain Bluebird

7

Mourning Dove

February 20

Cactus Wren

7

Canvasback

California Gnatcatcher

6

Lesser Scaup

8

Common Ground Dove

February 8

Merlin

Snowy Egret

February 4

Eared Grebe

7

Common Goldeneye

February 1

Pied-billed Grebe

Dusky-capped Flycatcher

January 27

Sage Thrasher

January 15

Ferruginous Hawk

January 8

Tropical Kingbird

January 6

Wrentit

January 1

Common Merganser