dragon49 Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 Just curious, out of the >10,000 species of birds, who here has seen the most, and what is that number? Any world-famous birders not on the forum with more known counts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God's Child Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 Just now, dragon49 said: Just curious, out of the >10,000 species of birds, who here has seen the most, and what is that number? Any world-famous birders not on the forum with more known counts? Not I. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalmWarbler Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 1 minute ago, God's Child said: Not I. Nor I, but maybe @Connor Cochrane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 probably @BigOly. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 eBird shows @Tony Leukering has 462. For some reason, I'm not sure I like this topic. It just feel competitive to me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 41 minutes ago, Charlie Spencer said: eBird shows @Tony Leukering has 462. For some reason, I'm not sure I like this topic. It just feel competitive to me. Don't pay attention to it then. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipperatl Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 1 hour ago, Charlie Spencer said: eBird shows @Tony Leukering has 462. For some reason, I'm not sure I like this topic. It just feel competitive to me. That is just in Colorado. eBird Top 100 - World. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Spencer Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 58 minutes ago, chipperatl said: That is just in Colorado. I forgot to zoom out. Thanks for catching that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 Tony probably was the biggest ABA list for any member, but I think @blackburnian probably has the highest list of any active member (though that might change after my trip to Texas in April). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackburnian Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 I’m at 588 ABA. Need to go to California badly. Have about 20 easy ones still on the board out there. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meghann Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 Liam's up there too, at 577. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 (edited) On 2/13/2022 at 8:37 AM, chipperatl said: That is just in Colorado. eBird Top 100 - World. Amazing! If only I had the resources... I only see 2 names I recognize on the list but not from Whatbird.com. Edited February 20, 2022 by Clip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 Seems like too big of a gap between 1st and 2nd. I expected it to be way more competitive 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulK Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 I'm at 69,814 in the world list, which is honestly closer to the top than I'd have expected 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 4 hours ago, PaulK said: I'm at 69,814 in the world list, which is honestly closer to the top than I'd have expected I'm at 19867 so I think you can jump up pretty quickly. Every bird you add probably boost by a several hundred points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 23 hours ago, Clip said: Amazing! If only I had the resources... I only see 2 names I recognize on the list but not from Whatbird.com. It is actually only one name I recognize as the other one isn't who I thought it was. Same name different people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 17 hours ago, Aaron said: Seems like too big of a gap between 1st and 2nd. I expected it to be way more competitive I am pretty sure there are several other birders who are way up there, even one above Peter Kaestner, they just aren't eBirders. I believe @Connor Cochrane will know more than me about that though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 19 minutes ago, Kevin said: I am pretty sure there are several other birders who are way up there, even one above Peter Kaestner, they just aren't eBirders. I believe @Connor Cochrane will know more than me about that though. You can also make yourself go dark so no one can see your numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 "As of 11 January 2022 according to the Surfbirds website, there are 16 birders who have added 9,000 or more species of birds to their life list. An additional 41 birders have added at least 8,000 species of life birds." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birdwatchers 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Just now, Clip said: You can also make yourself go dark so no one can see your numbers. True. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 6 minutes ago, Kevin said: "As of 11 January 2022 according to the Surfbirds website, there are 16 birders who have added 9,000 or more species of birds to their life list. An additional 41 birders have added at least 8,000 species of life birds." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birdwatchers WOW! Old timers I'm guessing using historical listing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 13 minutes ago, Kevin said: "As of 11 January 2022 according to the Surfbirds website, there are 16 birders who have added 9,000 or more species of birds to their life list. An additional 41 birders have added at least 8,000 species of life birds." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birdwatchers Agatha Christie was a birder!!! COOL! I see Sibley and Kaufman in there. I have a couple of Kaufman's other books for butterflies and insects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Most older world listers are not on eBird. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 6 minutes ago, Connor Cochrane said: Most older world listers are not on eBird. It would be difficult for them to get all their sightings entered. I didn't use ebird for the first several years I birded and it was tough enough just with my very limited numbers and territories. Can't image being a a world traveler birder with years of birding and thousands of species trying to get it all in ebird. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonestranger Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 8 minutes ago, Kevin said: "As of 11 January 2022 according to the Surfbirds website, there are 16 birders who have added 9,000 or more species of birds to their life list. An additional 41 birders have added at least 8,000 species of life birds." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birdwatchers When I see those kind of numbers I can't help but think that there's some pretty wealthy birders out there. Let's face it, if you want to keep adding birds to a life list, you have to travel more and more to get new birds. To get that many birds, you need to travel to an awful lot of different places, and probably need to hit some of those locations more than once. I suppose there could be some of those birders traveling on their company's expense and getting in some birding on their business trips, or some birders getting funding for research purposes, but I suspect that you have to have some pretty deep pockets to be able to afford that many birds on your life list. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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