Life List
You will note that paying more attention to domestic duck species and gulls and terns when abroad will make a significant improvement.
Never done a really good wader watch either!
Oh small owls in numbers at night on road in olive groves in zakynthos... any offers??
Total confident IDs at tender age of 36 140 is that any good? I have no idea.
corncrake was heard not seen
Gavia Stellata Red throated Diver Arran
Tachybaptus ruficollis Little Grebe S'Albufera mallorca
Podiceps Cristatus Great Crested Grebe
Fulmaris Glacialis Fulmar Arran
Puffinus Puffinus Manx Shearwater Arran
Morus bassanus Ganet Arran
pelican (but which one) Florida
Phalacrocorax carbo Cormorant
Phalacrocorax aristotelis Shag
Little Bittern Lake trasimeno Italy
Night Heron S'Albufera mallorca
Cattle Egret menorca
Little Egret Menorca mallorca Jersey
Herona
Purple heron S'Albufera mallorca
Grey Heron
Glossy Ibis Menorca
Mute
Geese
Canada
Shelduck
Mallard
Red Crested Pochard
Eider
Goldeneye
Red breasted merganser
Golden Eagle
Booted Eagle
Red Kite
Black Kite
Marsh harrier
Hen harrier
Common Buzzard
Honey Buzzard POYNTON THIS YEAR!
Sparrowhawk
Kestrel
Hobby Saw hooby take swallow in Arran last year
Peregrine (mediterranean form)
Merlin
Red Grouse
Black Grouse
Red legged partridge
Grey partridge
Moorhen
Coot
Purple swamp hen
Oystercatcher
Black winged Stilt
Ringed Plover
Kentish Plover
Golden Plover
Lapwing
Common Sandpiper
Redshank
Spotted redshank
Greenshank
Godwit Denmark Dad will remind me which one it was
Curlew
Woodcock TRAFFORD CENTRE CARPARK AT DUSK!
Snipe
Black headed Gull
Herring Gull
Black Guillemott
woodpigeon
collared dove
cuckoo
tawny owl
Short Eared owl
Barn Owl
nightjar
swift
hoopoe
kingfisher
Bee Eater
Great spotted woodpecker
skylark
sand martin
rock pipit
meadow pipit
pied wagtail
yellow wagtail
grey wagtail
iberian yellow wagtail
wren
dipper
dunnock
robin
nightingale
redstart
black redstart
wheatear
Pale form black eared wheatear]
stonechat
blue rock thrush
song thrush
mistle thrush
fieldfare
redwing
blackbird
ring ouzel
blackcap
sardinian warbler
whitethroat
zitting cisticola (fan tailed warbler when we first id it!
willow warbler
wood warbler
bonellis warbler
Goldcrest
spotted flycatcher
pied flycatcher
great tit
coal tit
blue tit
long tailed tit
nuthatch
woodchat shrike
treecreeper
red backed shrike
magpie
Jay
Nutcracker
jackdaw
Alpine chough
rook
hooded crow
raven
starling
house sparrow
chaffinch
linnet
goldfinch
greenfinch
siskin
bullfinch
common crossbill
reedbunting
yellowhammer
corn bunting
black vulture majorca
other vultures?
140 is not a bad start at all and there are some good species on there that others with much bigger lists would like to see.
You have to be careful though now you have your list. It is of course the first step to realising what you haven't seen and then you're sucked ever further in!
Matthew
Re your Pelican - should be easy to tell. If it was pure white, then it was a White Pelican. If it was brown, then (you guessed) it was Brown! White is much less common than Brown in Florida so I would suspect it was the latter.
A wonderful bird is the pelican, his beak can hold more than his belly can!
Oh, and is 'Black Vulture majorca' some kind of sub species?!