{"id":1005608,"date":"2023-01-01T15:39:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T20:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1005608"},"modified":"2023-03-12T16:00:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T20:00:35","slug":"2022-the-year-in-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2023\/01\/01\/2022-the-year-in-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 The Year in Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2022 was a slower year than 2021. I still haven&#8217;t left the country since Covid, but I did make four trips to New Orleans and two to Arizona, so there were a few life birds to add. I finished the year with 365 species total and 19 life birds as well as a Brooklyn first Townsend&#8217;s Warbler.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In total I added 19 birds to my life list, all but one in Arizona. The one I saw in New York was a Slaty-backed Gull on the Central Park reservoir early in the year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slaty-backed Gull<\/li>\n<li>Berylline Hummingbird<\/li>\n<li>Gray Flycatcher<\/li>\n<li>Nutting&#8217;s Flycatcher<\/li>\n<li>Thick-billed Kingbird<\/li>\n<li>Five-striped Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>Buff-breasted Flycatcher<\/li>\n<li>Elegant Trogon<\/li>\n<li>Elf Owl<\/li>\n<li>Whiskered Screech-Owl<\/li>\n<li>Mexican Whip-poor-will<\/li>\n<li>Olive Warbler<\/li>\n<li>Mexican Chickadee<\/li>\n<li>Plumbeous Vireo<\/li>\n<li>Spotted Owl<\/li>\n<li>Virginia&#8217;s Warbler<\/li>\n<li>Cassin&#8217;s Vireo<\/li>\n<li>Gilded Flicker<\/li>\n<li>Gray Vireo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Olive Warbler and Mexican Chickadee were especially good gets, since they require climbing a lot higher than I&#8217;m comfortable driving. They&#8217;re usually only found at the highest elevations, 9,000 feet and up. Five-striped Sparrow I saw multiple times after missing it in 2021. Nutting&#8217;s Flycatcher was the rarest of the batch, at least in the United States. Most of these were with guided groups, were known stakeouts, or both. However I did find Gilded Flicker, Gray Vireo, Cassin&#8217;s Vireo, and Virginia&#8217;s Warbler completely on my own.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the Slaty-backed Gull, it was a relatively quiet year in home territory. My only new bird for Kings County was a Townsend&#8217;s Warbler that Doug Gochfeld found in Fort Greene Park late in the year and that cooperatively hung around through Christmas bird count. This was particularly satisfying since I&#8217;d tried and failed to find one that visited Greenwood Cemetery in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>I did add 22 species to my Louisiana list, 23 to my Orleans Parish list, 10 to my Jefferson Parish list, and 6 to my St. Tammany Parish list. I visited the state multiple times, including months I hadn&#8217;t previously birded there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2022 was a slower year than 2021. I still haven&#8217;t left the country since Covid, but I did make four trips to New Orleans and two to Arizona, so there were a few life birds to add. I finished the year with 365 species total and 19 life birds as well as a Brooklyn first [&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-1005608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005608","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=1005608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005611,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005608\/revisions\/1005611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}