{"id":1005399,"date":"2019-01-05T08:27:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T13:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1005399"},"modified":"2019-05-05T08:51:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T13:51:33","slug":"2018-the-year-in-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2019\/01\/05\/2018-the-year-in-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 The Year in Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>eBird tells me I saw a reasonable 404 species last year. There are probably a few here and there I didn&#8217;t report. 146 of those were in Kings County. Thanks to trips to California, New Mexico, Florida, Louisiana, Vancouver, Portugal, and Morocco I managed a respectable 20 life birds including one in Brooklyn and one in Central Park:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spotless Starling \tA1, Casablanca-Settat, MA (33.033, -8.533) \tMA-10 \t02 Dec 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Brown-necked Raven \tEssaouira Lodge \tMA-11 \t01 Dec 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Sardinian Warbler \tEssaouira Lodge \tMA-11 \t01 Dec 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Moussier&#8217;s Redstart \tEssaouira Lodge \tMA-11 \t01 Dec 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Corn Bunting \tEssaouira Lodge \tMA-11 \t01 Dec 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Maghreb Magpie \tBoulevard Mohamed VI, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi, MA (31.61, -8.003) \tMA-11 \t30 Nov 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>House Bunting \tJemaa el-Fnaa \tMA-11 \t26 Nov 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Common Bulbul \tAvenue du 7\u00e8me Art, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi, MA (31.594, -7.99) \tMA-11 \t25 Nov 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>White Stork \tAvenue du 7\u00e8me Art, Marrakech, Marrakech-Safi, MA (31.594, -7.99) \tMA-11 \t25 Nov 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Northwestern Crow \tVancouver&#8211;Harbour Green Park \tCA-BC \t28 Aug 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Black Rail \tAlviso Marina County Park US-CA \t16 Aug 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Dusky Grouse \tElliot Barker Trailhead \tUS-NM \t25 Jun 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Brewer&#8217;s Sparrow \tEagle Nest SP &#8211; Moreno Day Use Area \tUS-NM \t23 Jun 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Lewis&#8217;s Woodpecker \tAngel Fire Resort \tUS-NM \t22 Jun 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Black-billed Magpie \tRandall Davey Audubon Center \tUS-NM \t16 Jun 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Scaled Quail \tEmbudito Canyon \tUS-NM \t15 Jun 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Black-chinned Sparrow \tEmbudito Canyon \tUS-NM \t15 Jun 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Kirtland&#8217;s Warbler \tCentral Park&#8211;Reservoir \tUS-NY \t12 May 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Bachman&#8217;s Sparrow \tHal Scott Regional Preserve and Park \tUS-FL \t18 Mar 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Rough-legged Hawk \tSalt Marsh Nature Center at Marine Park \tUS-NY \t20 Jan 2018 \t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Locally I added  three birds to my New York list, not counting the escaped Mandarin Duck in Central Park:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Virginia Rail \tProspect Park \tUS-NY \t19 Sep 2018<\/li>\n<li>Kirtland&#8217;s Warbler \tCentral Park&#8211;Reservoir \tUS-NY \t12 May 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Rough-legged Hawk \tSalt Marsh Nature Center at Marine Park \tUS-NY \t20 Jan 2018 \t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I added four birds to my California list bringing that state to 316:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clay-colored Sparrow \tFort Mason Park \tUS-CA \t21 Oct 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Blackburnian Warbler \tGolden Gate Park \tUS-CA \t20 Oct 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Chestnut-sided Warbler \tGolden Gate Park \tUS-CA \t20 Oct 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>Black Rail \tAlviso Marina County Park (please use a specific pond hotspot where possible) \tUS-CA \t16 Aug 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I made several trips to Louisiana at times of year I don&#8217;t usually visit so I managed to add<br \/>\n13 species to that state&#8217;s list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\t\tPurple Finch \tNorthwest Area, NOCBC \tUS-LA \t22 Dec 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>\t\tAmerican Redstart \tCity Park \tUS-LA \t14 Aug 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>\t\tReddish Egret \tSouth Shore Harbor \tUS-LA \t13 Aug 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>\t\tYellow Warbler \tCity Park \tUS-LA \t13 Aug 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>\t\tBarn Swallow \tBucktown Marina \tUS-LA \t13 Aug 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>\t\tRoss&#8217;s Goose \tLaFreniere Park \tUS-LA \t11 Aug 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>\t\tChimney Swift \tLaFreniere Park \tUS-LA \t11 Aug 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>\t\tMississippi Kite \tLaFreniere Park \tUS-LA \t11 Aug 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>\t\tPurple Martin \tCity Park \tUS-LA \t11 Mar 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>\t\tTufted Titmouse \tCity Park \tUS-LA \t11 Mar 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>\t\tNorthern Parula \tCity Park&#8211;Couturie Forest \tUS-LA \t11 Mar 2018 \t<\/li>\n<li>\t\tLimpkin \tHollywood Rd, Houma US-LA (29.6116,-90.7212) \tUS-LA \t10 Mar 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Kings County I added four bringing my total to 276:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\t\tVirginia Rail \tProspect Park \tUS-NY \t19 Sep 2018<\/li>\n<li>\t\tBaird&#8217;s Sandpiper \tFloyd Bennett Field \tUS-NY \t26 Aug 2018<\/li>\n<li>\t\tPiping Plover \tPlumb Beach \tUS-NY \t05 Aug 2018<\/li>\n<li>\t\tRough-legged Hawk \tSalt Marsh Nature Center at Marine Park \tUS-NY \t20 Jan 2018 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also added three species in Santa Clara, another 11 in New York County, 18 in San Francisco, and 57 in New Mexico. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eBird tells me I saw a reasonable 404 species last year. There are probably a few here and there I didn&#8217;t report. 146 of those were in Kings County. Thanks to trips to California, New Mexico, Florida, Louisiana, Vancouver, Portugal, and Morocco I managed a respectable 20 life birds including one in Brooklyn and one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005399","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=1005399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005400,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005399\/revisions\/1005400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}