{"id":1005636,"date":"2024-01-01T17:51:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T22:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1005636"},"modified":"2024-01-01T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T22:51:16","slug":"2023-the-year-in-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2024\/01\/01\/2023-the-year-in-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 The Year in Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2023 was a decent year, especially here in Brooklyn where I added eight birds (almost 9) to my county list. I still haven\u2019t left the country since quarantine, but I did make two trips to New Orleans and two to Arizona, so there were a few life birds to add. I finished the year with 345 species total (20 fewer than 2022) and 6 life birds (all in Arizona).<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Montezuma Quail 06 Aug 2023 Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary <\/li>\n<li>Blue-throated Mountain-gem 06 Aug 2023 Ramsey Canyon Preserve<\/li>\n<li>Lark Bunting 04 Aug 2023 De Anza, Tubac US-AZ<\/li>\n<li>Plain-capped Starthroat 03 Aug 2023 Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary<\/li>\n<li>Bendire&#8217;s Thrasher 06 May 2023 Willcox&#8211;Lake Cochise and Twin Lakes Golf Course | US-AZ<\/li>\n<li>Rufous-capped Warbler 04 May 2023 Patagonia Rest Stop<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In recent years I&#8217;ve only added one or two Brooklyn birds to my list, but this year<br \/>\nI added a shocking 8 birds to my home county list, even though I whiffed on the Gray Kingbird at Canarsie Park, which I missed by a day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Long-billed Dowitcher<\/li>\n<li>Western Kingbird<\/li>\n<li>Wild Turkey<\/li>\n<li>Anhinga<\/li>\n<li>Swainson&#8217;s Hawk<\/li>\n<li>Western Meadowlark<\/li>\n<li>Eared Grebe<\/li>\n<li>Black Vulture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Black Vulture I should have had before now, but I just got unlucky. Wild Turkey, Anhinga, and maybe Western Meadowlark were first county records though.<\/p>\n<p>I also ticked Purple Gallinule on eBird for Kings County for the first time, though it&#8217;s not the first time I&#8217;ve seen it in Prospect Park. My first sighting there in the early 2000s came before eBird was a thing. <\/p>\n<p>My Brooklyn total is now 297. Maybe in 2024 I can hit 300, especially if I spend more time at Plumb Beach where several uncommon shorebirds show up every summer. Regular birds I&#8217;m still missing here include Purple Martin, Brown Pelican, Whimbrel, Pectoral Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper, and Hudsonian and Marbled Godwits. And of course there&#8217;s always the possibility of a good Western, Caribbean, or South American vagrant or two. Even Limpkin isn&#8217;t out of the question these days. <\/p>\n<p>I added Black-chinned Hummingbird to my New York State list the day after Thanksgiving, thanks to a very cooperative first state record on Randall&#8217;s Island.<\/p>\n<p>I added four birds to my Orleans Parish list, though none on the Christmas count:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Snow Goose<\/li>\n<li>Bronzed Cowbird<\/li>\n<li>Chipping Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>Black Scoter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My total in Orleans now stands at 186 and there are many more obvious birds there if I can travel at the right times of year.<\/p>\n<p>My Arizona list is now at 242, behind only New York (343) and California (318). Still lots of birds to find there though, including multiple possible lifers, especially if I can visit in the Fall or Winter. <\/p>\n<p>My US list is around 600, my world list around double that. Possibly in 2024 I can get to Japan. That should add a few dozen birds. We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 was a decent year, especially here in Brooklyn where I added eight birds (almost 9) to my county list. I still haven\u2019t left the country since quarantine, but I did make two trips to New Orleans and two to Arizona, so there were a few life birds to add. I finished the year with [&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-1005636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005636","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=1005636"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005642,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005636\/revisions\/1005642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}