Lifers
This is a topic for you to share what some of your most recent, favorite, or least favorite lifers are. If you’d like to include location, that’s fine. Pictures are also great. I’ll start. Yesterday I saw a Common Yellowthroat for the first time.
I went to Arizona for a week around Thanksgiving -- and my first birding excursion outside of Southern California. I went to 6 birding hotspots, but 2 of them were a bust. I saw a lot of birds at 4 of the locations -- 2 southeast of Phoenix and 2 in Prescott. I got 11 lifers. Was hoping for a few more (especially a Cactus Wren), but I'm happy with what I got:
Abert's Towhee
Black Vulture
Canvasback
Common Gallinule
Curve-billed Thrasher
Gambel's Quail
Gila Woodpecker
Great
