World Life List

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331 lifers in 2018

December 31

Red-cockaded Woodpecker

2

Brown-headed Nuthatch

December 30

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

December 28

Pine Warbler

3

Roseate Spoonbill

Sedge Wren

Carolina Chickadee

5

Cave Swallow

December 23

Swamp Sparrow

6

Louisiana Waterthrush

Black-headed Gull

December 16

Virginia Rail

December 7

Harris's Hawk

4

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

4

Lesser Black-backed Gull

4

Red-necked Grebe

November 25

Swinhoe's White-eye

American Bittern

November 20

Long-tailed Duck

November 18

Black Scoter

October 27

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

October 14

Ross's Goose

7

Clay-colored Sparrow

October 7

Buller's Shearwater

7

Pomarine Jaeger

4

Pink-footed Shearwater

4

Red Phalarope

3

Black-vented Shearwater

3

Northern Fulmar

6

Sooty Shearwater

Cocos Booby

2

Sabine's Gull

6

Black Storm-Petrel

3

Long-tailed Jaeger

September 23

Stilt Sandpiper

September 16

Blue-footed Booby

4

Parasitic Jaeger

September 6

Sooty Grouse

September 4

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

September 3

Ruffed Grouse

September 2

Great Gray Owl

5

Marbled Murrelet

September 1

Wandering Tattler

7

Common Murre

August 31

Pacific Golden-Plover

August 29

Surfbird

3

Black Oystercatcher

August 14

Ruff

July 15

Fulvous Whistling-Duck

Least Bittern

July 4

Guadalupe Murrelet

June 26

Black Skimmer

June 17

Gray-tailed Tattler

Great Knot

Terek Sandpiper

June 16

Double-eyed Fig-Parrot

Gray Whistler

Australian Hobby

June 15

Far Eastern Curlew

Magpie Goose

Torresian Imperial-Pigeon

Red-capped Plover

June 14

Black-shouldered Kite

Pacific Emerald Dove

2

Gray Teal

3

Gray Goshawk

Southern Cassowary

Nankeen Kestrel

June 13

Pacific Baza

4

White-throated Honeyeater

Little Bronze-Cuckoo

June 12

Little Egret

7

Bar-tailed Godwit

Mangrove Robin

3

Black-fronted Dotterel

Torresian Kingfisher

Varied Honeyeater

Papuan Frogmouth

Radjah Shelduck

June 11

Spotted Catbird

2

Gray-headed Robin

Great Crested Grebe

Bridled Honeyeater

3

Brown Falcon

2

Yellow-throated Scrubwren

2

Chowchilla

2

Brown Gerygone

3

Eastern Cattle-Egret

5

Tree Martin

Tooth-billed Bowerbird

Blue-winged Kookaburra

2

Topknot Pigeon

Swamp Harrier

Sarus Crane

June 10

Lovely Fairywren

Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove

June 9

Chestnut-breasted Munia

Pied Oystercatcher

4

Golden-headed Cisticola

2

Green Oriole

Large-billed Gerygone

Azure Kingfisher

2

Comb-crested Jacana

3

Australasian Darter

Black Butcherbird

Yellow Honeyeater

3

Australian Reed Warbler

Black-necked Stork

Orange-footed Megapode

Green Pygmy-Goose

June 8

Buff-banded Rail

6

Brown Booby

2

Ashy-bellied White-eye

2

White-bellied Sea-Eagle

Bush Thick-knee

2

Black Noddy

June 7

Wompoo Fruit-Dove

Cryptic Honeyeater

3

Forest Kingfisher

4

White-breasted Woodswallow

2

Brown Cuckoo-Dove

2

Metallic Starling

2

Pale-yellow Robin

Macleay's Honeyeater

2

Yellow-breasted Boatbill

Eurasian Whimbrel

3

Dusky Myzomela

Victoria's Riflebird

Australian Swiftlet

Yellow-spotted Honeyeater

June 6

Pacific Reef-Heron

2

Little Kingfisher

4

Leaden Flycatcher

2

Sahul Sunbird

Helmeted Friarbird

White-bellied Cuckooshrike

June 5

Bar-shouldered Dove

4

Australian Rufous Fantail

Rainbow Bee-eater

2

Pale-headed Rosella

4

Peaceful Dove

Mangrove Gerygone

3

Plumed Egret

4

Royal Spoonbill

2

Little Friarbird

2

Eastern Shrike-tit

3

Eastern Whipbird

June 4

Variegated Fairywren

4

Sacred Kingfisher

3

Blue-faced Honeyeater

3

Olive-backed Oriole

4

Brown Honeyeater

3

Little Shrikethrush

Australasian Gannet

2

Torresian Crow

3

Australian Brushturkey

3

Spangled Drongo

2

Pied Butcherbird

4

Fairy Gerygone

2

Australasian Figbird

2

White-cheeked Honeyeater

2

Mistletoebird

3

Whistling Kite

4

Australian Spectacled Monarch

2

Varied Triller

Pied Cormorant

June 3

Noisy Friarbird

Brahminy Kite

3

Lewin's Honeyeater

3

Scarlet Myzomela

Double-barred Finch

June 2

Pilotbird

Crescent Honeyeater

June 1

Straw-necked Ibis

3

Gray Shrikethrush

Australian Boobook

May 31

Little Penguin

Bell Miner

2

Willie-wagtail

2

Spotted Dove

2

Australian Magpie

4

Golden Whistler

2

Little Black Cormorant

2

Australasian Grebe

Gray Currawong

May 30

Gray Fantail

4

Australasian Swamphen

2

Eurasian Coot

3

Eastern Yellow Robin

Olive Whistler

3

Chestnut Teal

Superb Lyrebird

3

White-throated Treecreeper

6

Large-billed Scrubwren

3

Hardhead

White-eared Honeyeater

Nankeen Night Heron

Spotted Pardalote

White-naped Honeyeater

Red-browed Firetail

Red-browed Treecreeper

Yellow Thornbill

White-plumed Honeyeater

May 29

Noisy Miner

2

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Red Wattlebird

3

Little Pied Cormorant

3

Masked Lapwing

5

Gray Butcherbird

3

White-faced Heron

2

Common Bronzewing

2

Magpie-lark

Crimson Rosella

2

Galah

2

Pied Currawong

2

White-browed Scrubwren

Long-billed Corella

2

Satin Bowerbird

2

Australian King-Parrot

3

Striated Thornbill

2

Silvereye

Little Raven

May 20

Gray Vireo

3

Hepatic Tanager

2

Black Swift

May 16

Mountain Quail

May 13

Lilac-crowned Amazon

May 6

Ruddy Turnstone

3

Snowy Plover

4

Gull-billed Tern

May 3

Red Knot

May 1

Black Tern

April 29

Sora

April 26

Black-chinned Sparrow

April 24

Red-necked Phalarope

5

MacGillivray's Warbler

8

Cassin's Vireo

April 22

Western Tanager

Scott's Oriole

4

Hammond's Flycatcher

2

Pinyon Jay

April 14

Townsend's Solitaire

April 8

Rufous Hummingbird

April 1

Golden Eagle

3

Lucy's Warbler

March 31

Calliope Hummingbird

March 24

Chestnut-bellied Seedeater

7

White-tipped Dove

7

Rusty-margined Flycatcher

Red-capped Cardinal

7

Ringed Kingfisher

4

Pale-breasted Thrush

Gray-lined Hawk

Rusty-backed Spinetail

Fuscous Flycatcher

Wing-barred Seedeater

Green Ibis

Cayenne Jay

March 23

Black-collared Hawk

Orange-fronted Yellow-Finch

3

Wattled Jacana

Brown-chested Martin

Plumbeous Kite

March 22

White-necked Jacobin

Spotted Tody-Flycatcher

6

Green Kingfisher

White-winged Swallow

5

Palm Tanager

Long-billed Woodcreeper

Black-tailed Tityra

5

Pale-vented Pigeon

Amazonian Tyrannulet

March 21

Blue-gray Tanager

Screaming Piha

Great Black Hawk

Yellow-rumped Cacique

Yellow-tufted Woodpecker

Black Caracara

4

Amazon Kingfisher

2

White-eyed Parakeet

Golden-winged Parakeet

Swallow-winged Puffbird

Dusky Parrot

Spangled Cotinga

Festive Amazon

March 19

Variegated Flycatcher

Black-fronted Nunbird

Gray-crowned Flatbill

6

Yellow-headed Caracara

3

Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch

Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher

Silver-beaked Tanager

Purple-throated Euphonia

March 18

Large-billed Tern

5

Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture

4

Short-crested Flycatcher

2

Lesser Kiskadee

Sulphury Flycatcher

Smooth-billed Ani

Shiny Cowbird

3

Striated Heron

2

Straight-billed Woodcreeper

6

Blue-headed Parrot

Yellow-browed Sparrow

2

Cocoi Heron

4

Orange-winged Amazon

2

Channel-billed Toucan

Chestnut-eared Aracari

Greater Ani

Fork-tailed Palm Swift

Savanna Hawk

March 17

Fork-tailed Flycatcher

6

Common Tody-Flycatcher

9

Thick-billed Euphonia

5

White Ibis

Yellow-crowned Night Heron

6

Orange-chinned Parakeet

4

Red-crowned Woodpecker

2

Short-tailed Swift

March 4

Hutton's Vireo

February 1

Tropical Parula

January 14

Laughing Gull

4

Red-throated Loon

Inca Dove

7

Redhead

3

Barrow's Goldeneye

5

Sandhill Crane

4

Greater Scaup

January 1

White Wagtail

2

Glaucous-winged Gull

4

Clark's Grebe