World Life List

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151 lifers in 2020

December 30

Purple Sandpiper

December 1

White-winged Crossbill

November 28

Snowy Owl

November 5

Redpoll

November 4

Northern Shrike

October 31

Snow Bunting

3

Lapland Longspur

October 28

Fish Crow

3

Northern Saw-whet Owl

October 10

Great Black-backed Gull

October 9

Winter Wren

Eastern Screech-Owl

October 7

American Black Duck

Black-billed Cuckoo

7

Rusty Blackbird

September 27

Wood Stork

September 17

American Golden-Plover

September 13

Gray-cheeked Thrush

September 9

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper

September 4

Philadelphia Vireo

August 24

Little Gull

July 26

Swainson's Warbler

July 11

Kentucky Warbler

2

Eastern Whip-poor-will

July 1

White-eyed Vireo

June 21

Yellow-throated Warbler

June 17

Henslow's Sparrow

June 14

Eastern Towhee

3

Cerulean Warbler

May 30

Acadian Flycatcher

May 25

Mississippi Kite

May 15

Spotted Owl

May 6

Blue-headed Vireo

April 29

Crescent-chested Warbler

2

Botteri's Sparrow

April 19

LeConte's Sparrow

April 16

Mexican Chickadee

2

Scaled Quail

5

Chihuahuan Raven

March 7

Mourning Warbler

5

Ochre-bellied Flycatcher

Blue-black Grassquit

4

Buff-throated Saltator

6

Crimson-fronted Parakeet

5

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

2

Yellow Tyrannulet

Yellow-olive Flatbill

5

Barred Antshrike

2

Green-breasted Mango

Broad-billed Motmot

March 6

Swallow-tailed Kite

7

Common Pauraque

5

Crested Guan

3

Gray-chested Dove

2

Fasciated Tiger-Heron

3

Long-billed Gnatwren

2

Rufous-tailed Jacamar

7

Southern Rough-winged Swallow

4

Streak-headed Woodcreeper

Bay Wren

Emerald Tanager

2

Carmiol's Tanager

Bicolored Antbird

3

Bay-headed Tanager

March 5

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Streak-crowned Antvireo

Rufous Mourner

3

Fawn-throated Foliage-gleaner

4

Buff-rumped Warbler

6

Red-legged Honeycreeper

3

Violet-headed Hummingbird

3

Scale-crested Pygmy-Tyrant

7

Crowned Woodnymph

3

Spotted Woodcreeper

3

Rufous Motmot

3

Shining Honeycreeper

2

Gray-headed Chachalaca

2

Bright-rumped Attila

2

Mistletoe Tyrannulet

Tawny-capped Euphonia

4

Green Hermit

2

Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush

4

Spotted Antbird

Western Woodhaunter

4

Ochre-crowned Greenlet

Cinnamon Woodpecker

Scarlet-thighed Dacnis

March 4

Tawny-crested Tanager

3

Wedge-billed Woodcreeper

6

Golden-hooded Tanager

3

Long-billed Hermit

4

Lineated Woodpecker

2

Chestnut-colored Woodpecker

2

White-necked Puffbird

2

Northern Barred-Woodcreeper

March 3

White-collared Manakin

Rufous-tailed Hummingbird

4

Yellow-crowned Euphonia

4

Orange-billed Sparrow

4

White-browed Gnatcatcher

5

Lesser Greenlet

4

Gray-capped Flycatcher

3

Black-crowned Antshrike

Black-and-white Owl

Stripe-breasted Wren

2

Olive-backed Euphonia

Boat-billed Heron

7

Boat-billed Flycatcher

Great Green Macaw

Yellow-winged Flatbill

4

Cinnamon Becard

3

Black-cheeked Woodpecker

Chestnut-headed Oropendola

Great Potoo

March 2

Bananaquit

6

Thick-billed Seed-Finch

4

Chestnut-backed Antbird

4

Collared Aracari

4

Pale-billed Woodpecker

4

Black-striped Sparrow

Dusky-faced Tanager

5

Gartered Violaceous Trogon

3

Yellow-throated Toucan

4

Plain-brown Woodcreeper

8

Variable Seedeater

2

Montezuma Oropendola

4

Keel-billed Toucan

4

Scarlet-rumped Tanager

Blue-chested Hummingbird

9

White-collared Swift

4

Double-toothed Kite

5

Southern House Wren

3

Northern Tropical Pewee

5

Slaty-tailed Trogon

4

Black-striped Woodcreeper

5

Mealy Amazon

2

Red-capped Manakin

8

Red-lored Amazon

3

Cocoa Woodcreeper

Scarlet-rumped Cacique

2

Sulphur-rumped Tanager

March 1

Hook-billed Kite

6

Rufous-collared Sparrow

7

Yellow-faced Grassquit

2

Cabanis's Wren

4

Hoffmann's Woodpecker

5

Gray-rumped Swift

2

Elegant Euphonia

February 9

Masked Booby

January 19

Nanday Parakeet

Tufted Duck