{"id":1005198,"date":"2016-01-01T06:27:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T11:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1005198"},"modified":"2022-04-24T08:36:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T12:36:44","slug":"2015-the-year-in-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2016\/01\/01\/2015-the-year-in-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"2015: The Year in Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between my eye surgery in March that took 6 months to fully recover from and a major writing commitment that occupied most of my weekends before that, 2015 was not my best birding year. Nonetheless, I did manage trips to Oregon and Hawaii; and some rarities visited my &#8220;backyard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to eBird, I added 20 species to my life list in 2015, though many of those are introduced exotics in Hawaii. Hawaii doesn&#8217;t seem to have a bird records committee, so there&#8217;s no one to rule on which ones &#8220;count&#8221; and which ones don&#8217;t. Clearly native birds like Wedge-tailed Shearwater and Hawaiian Coot count, but what to do about Red-crested Cardinal and Hwamei?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tundra Bean-Goose\t\tNestucca Bay NWR \tUS-OR \t28 Feb 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tPacific Loon\t\tD River Beach Wayside \tUS-OR \t02 Mar 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tMarbled Murrelet\t\tBoiler Bay State Wayside \tUS-OR \t06 Mar 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tBicknell&#8217;s Thrush\t\tProspect Park&#8211;Vale of Cashmere \tUS-NY \t22 May 2015 (Almost certainly present every year, but unless they sing they&#8217;re really hard to distinguish from the more common Gray-cheeked Thrush)<\/li>\n<li>\tSpotted Dove\t\tMaluaka Beach \tUS-HI \t27 Jul 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tZebra Dove\t\tMaluaka Beach \tUS-HI \t27 Jul 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tRed-crested Cardinal\t\tMaluaka Beach \tUS-HI \t27 Jul 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tHawaiian Coot\t\tKealia Pond NWR \tUS-HI \t27 Jul 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tJapanese White-eye\t\tMaluaka Beach \tUS-HI \t27 Jul 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tAfrican Silverbill\t\tMaluaka Beach \tUS-HI \t27 Jul 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tWedge-tailed Shearwater\t\tMolokini Islet \tUS-HI \t28 Jul 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tGreat Frigatebird\t\tMolokini Islet \tUS-HI \t28 Jul 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tHawaiian Goose (Nene)\tHanalei NWR &#8212; Ohiki Rd. \tUS-HI \t01 Aug 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tHawaiian Duck\t\tHanalei NWR &#8212; Ohiki Rd. \tUS-HI \t01 Aug 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tWhite-rumped Shama\t\tHanalei NWR &#8212; Ohiki Rd. \tUS-HI \t01 Aug 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tChestnut Munia\t\tHanalei NWR &#8212; Ohiki Rd. \tUS-HI \t01 Aug 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tRed-tailed Tropicbird\t\tKilauea Point NWR \tUS-HI \t01 Aug 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tRed-footed Booby\t\tKilauea Point NWR \tUS-HI \t01 Aug 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tChinese Hwamei\t\tWestin Princeville Path \tUS-HI \t04 Aug 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tGreater Necklaced Laughingthrush\t\tWestin Princeville Path \tUS-HI \t04 Aug 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Closer to home I added 10 species to my Kings County list including my life Bicknell&#8217;s Thrush, my ABA area Black-headed Gull,<br \/>\nand our visiting superstar Painted Bunting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\tWhite-winged Scoter\t\tBush Terminal Piers Park \tUS-NY \t21 Feb 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tGlaucous Gull\t\tBush Terminal Piers Park \tUS-NY \t21 Feb 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tBicknell&#8217;s Thrush\t\tProspect Park&#8211;Vale of Cashmere \tUS-NY \t22 May 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tAlder Flycatcher\t\tProspect Park \tUS-NY \t24 May 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tFranklin&#8217;s Gull\t\tPlumb Beach \tUS-NY \t30 May 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tDickcissel\t\tBrooklyn Botanic Garden \tUS-NY \t15 Oct 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tCommon Raven\t\tBush Terminal Piers Park \tUS-NY \t07 Nov 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tCave Swallow\t\tConey Island Creek \tUS-NY \t15 Nov 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tPainted Bunting\t\tProspect Park \tUS-NY \t30 Nov 2015<\/li>\n<li>\tBlack-headed Gull\t\tProspect Park \tUS-NY \t13 Dec 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My total for Brooklyn is around 259 although that includes several obvious escapees like Budgerigar and European Goldfinch. There are still a few birds I should have in Brooklyn that I don&#8217;t including Short-eared Owl, Cliff Swallow, Eastern Screech Owl, Iceland Gull, Evening Grosbeak, Glossy Ibis, and Northern Wheatear. Maybe in 2016. And of course there&#8217;s usually a mega-rarity or two. I don&#8217;t think anyone expected Painted Bunting this year, Gray-hooded Gull in 2011, or Western Reef Heron in 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between my eye surgery in March that took 6 months to fully recover from and a major writing commitment that occupied most of my weekends before that, 2015 was not my best birding year. Nonetheless, I did manage trips to Oregon and Hawaii; and some rarities visited my &#8220;backyard.&#8221; According to eBird, I added 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005198"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005204,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005198\/revisions\/1005204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}