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White-faced Herons

10,000 Birds

New Zealand, where I live, am the 10,000 Birds Beat Writer of, and of which I very occasionally actually write about, is home to several species of heron. Like most of the rest of the world this species is kind of new here, having recently colonised from, well, wherever those things actually came from. It wasn’t always this way.

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Collaborative list – August 2019

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In publishing the most current thinking, eBird have become the month’s biggest contributor to the life list, expanding it by 7 brand new species and pushing it to 3774. 7 species were added to the life list in the time-honoured fashion of actually identifying the birds in the field. Guinea Turaco – Tauraco persa.

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Collaborative list – December 2019

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They contributed 150 lists accounting for 1032 species and more than 36,000 individual birds. Thus 100 species were missed by the time he woke up and noticed that eBird had reset the counters at midnight(do you guys have nothing better to do?). Speckled Pigeon – Columba guinea. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis.

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Collaborative List – October 2019

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172 lists were shared and 1004 species were seen, both records for October, so well done beats! Speckled Pigeon – Columba guinea. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. 14 countries were birded this month by 13 beats; a record participative effort! has reached 54. Amazon Kingfisher – Chloroceryle amazona. 18 Oct 2019.

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Collaborative List – November 2019

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Whatever it was, Corey was found at his keyboard 2 hours later, covered in blood and snot and sporting a cut lip, having announced that he and Mike would rescue the failing list by taking personal responsibility for adding 300 species. Speckled Pigeon – Columba guinea. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. 24 Nov 2019.

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Collaborative List – March 2019

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978 species were tallied this month from 163 checklists. Only 123 species appear on both sides of the life list. Guinea Turaco – Tauraco persa. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. The yearly total has reached 1538 while the life list has been pushed to 3676.

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Combined Beats’ List, May 2016

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All birds are equal on this list; parking lot birds or pelagic species, breeders or fly-overs, all will be accorded the same status and each shall be worth 1 credit on the list. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Speckled Pigeon – Columba guinea. Costanera Sur, Promenade.

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