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274 lifers in 2017


December 29

4

Snow Goose

December 28

Rosy-faced Lovebird

3

Gila Woodpecker

3

Curve-billed Thrasher

3

Gambel's Quail

2

Gilded Flicker

3

Abert's Towhee

December 27

2

Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch

2

Clark's Nutcracker

December 22

5

Wild Turkey

December 17

4

Black-billed Magpie

4

Rough-legged Hawk

December 14

5

Nazca Booby

5

Greater Pewee

December 3

3

Prairie Falcon

8

White-winged Scoter

November 28

3

Rufous-backed Robin

November 26

3

Brant

4

Red-breasted Merganser

9

Common Loon

9

Horned Grebe

7

Surf Scoter

7

Groove-billed Ani

3

Painted Redstart

Mountain Plover

3

Thick-billed Kingbird

5

Bonaparte's Gull

3

Short-billed Dowitcher

3

Pacific Loon

3

Eurasian Wigeon

November 18

7

Lark Sparrow

November 5

9

American Herring Gull

October 28

6

Red Crossbill

October 22

7

Golden-crowned Kinglet

October 15

14

Hermit Thrush

5

American Avocet

5

Dunlin

2

Red-naped Sapsucker

3

Cassin's Finch

October 13

5

Tricolored Blackbird

October 10

10

Black-bellied Plover

10

Belted Kingfisher

4

Forster's Tern

2

Ridgway's Rail

9

Tricolored Heron

5

Reddish Egret

3

Northern Pintail

October 6

11

Blue-winged Teal

September 24

13

Vesper Sparrow

September 22

5

Brandt's Cormorant

4

Black Turnstone

September 17

2

Dickcissel

3

Long-eared Owl

September 13

6

Rock Wren

September 10

5

Baird's Sandpiper

8

Horned Lark

6

Lazuli Bunting

8

Pectoral Sandpiper

6

Western Wood-Pewee

2

Chukar

September 9

11

Willet

3

Pelagic Cormorant

4

Caspian Tern

6

Elegant Tern

September 7

3

Allen's Hummingbird

September 6

6

Cassin's Kingbird

3

Bewick's Wren

September 3

5

Bell's Vireo

August 19

6

Burrowing Owl

August 6

3

Long-billed Curlew

10

Bank Swallow

5

Bell's Sparrow

4

LeConte's Thrasher

7

Lesser Yellowlegs

6

Marsh Wren

10

Willow Flycatcher

August 4

8

Costa's Hummingbird

July 30

2

Wilson's Phalarope

8

Bullock's Oriole

July 29

8

Black-chinned Hummingbird

July 28

2

American Dipper

12

Plumbeous Vireo

2

California Condor

July 25

6

Red-crowned Amazon

July 16

11

Black-throated Sparrow

4

Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

11

Summer Tanager

2

Brown-crested Flycatcher

July 15

11

Loggerhead Shrike

5

Lesser Nighthawk

July 9

Flammulated Owl

5

Common Nighthawk

3

Mexican Whip-poor-will

July 8

5

Mountain Chickadee

3

Williamson's Sapsucker

June 27

2

Eye-ringed Flatbill

6

Lesson's Motmot

5

Ruddy Ground Dove

Ruddy Woodcreeper

3

Cinnamon-bellied Saltator

2

Collared Trogon

June 26

3

Melodious Blackbird

3

White-bellied Emerald

14

Social Flycatcher

5

Northern Jacana

8

Morelet's Seedeater

6

Ivory-billed Woodcreeper

10

Little Blue Heron

3

Brown Jay

3

Black-cowled Oriole

6

Neotropic Cormorant

3

Least Grebe

June 25

14

Osprey

11

Brown Pelican

6

Tropical Mockingbird

4

Least Tern

4

Common Black Hawk

5

Yellow-bellied Elaenia

5

Sandwich Tern

5

Olive-throated Parakeet

June 23

6

Eurasian Collared-Dove

5

Plain Chachalaca

7

Great Kiskadee

5

White-fronted Amazon

5

Golden-fronted Woodpecker

4

Red-billed Pigeon

9

Gray-breasted Martin

3

Black-headed Saltator

3

Rufous-browed Peppershrike

June 22

4

Turquoise-browed Motmot

4

Yellow-throated Euphonia

Black-headed Trogon

5

Yellow-green Vireo

8

Roadside Hawk

5

Rose-throated Becard

4

Clay-colored Thrush

4

Black Catbird

6

Black Vulture

8

Masked Tityra

3

Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher

5

Squirrel Cuckoo

2

Scaled Pigeon

2

Orange Oriole

June 21

3

Altamira Oriole

3

Yucatan Jay

12

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

6

Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl

8

Royal Tern

2

Yucatan Woodpecker

10

Magnificent Frigatebird

June 20

3

Red-headed Woodpecker

June 12

4

Red-eyed Vireo

June 3

4

Pygmy Nuthatch

May 13

9

Swainson's Thrush

May 6

4

Hermit Warbler

April 29

9

Purple Finch

April 27

11

Olive-sided Flycatcher

April 25

9

Solitary Sandpiper

April 23

11

Vaux's Swift

6

White-faced Ibis

April 18

5

Western Screech-Owl

April 16

4

Common Raven

12

Swainson's Hawk

April 15

8

Semipalmated Plover

8

Western Sandpiper

3

Yellow-headed Blackbird

April 14

7

Great Horned Owl

April 13

7

Blue Grosbeak

April 10

14

Great-tailed Grackle

April 9

4

Franklin's Gull

April 5

9

Scaly-breasted Munia

April 3

2

Common Poorwill

March 31

10

Green-winged Teal

7

Ruddy Duck

5

Long-billed Dowitcher

9

Greater Yellowlegs

7

Bufflehead

5

Gadwall

7

Cliff Swallow

March 27

2

Bar-throated Apalis

Kurrichane Thrush

Lesser Honeyguide

2

Laughing Dove

Arrow-marked Babbler

Purple-crested Turaco

Streaky-headed Seedeater

Southern Yellow White-eye

Red-billed Firefinch

Red-winged Starling

Speckled Mousebird

White-browed Robin-Chat

March 26

5

Striated Heron

4

Great Cormorant

Piping Cisticola

Hamerkop

Rock-loving Cisticola

Gray-hooded Gull

Southern Masked-Weaver

Common Ostrich

Little Bee-eater

Dideric Cuckoo

White-bellied Sunbird

Natal Spurfowl

Cardinal Woodpecker

Common Waxbill

2

Variable Sunbird

March 25

2

Pin-tailed Whydah

2

Spotted Flycatcher

Rattling Cisticola

Cinnamon-breasted Bunting

Green-winged Pytilia

2

Yellow Bishop

March 23

Familiar Chat

March 22

2

Fork-tailed Drongo

Pied Crow

Western Barn Owl

March 21

13

Western Cattle-Egret

2

Tawny-flanked Prinia

2

Black Sawwing

Reed Cormorant

March 20

Lanner Falcon

Black-throated Canary

March 19

2

Red-collared Widowbird

3

Gray Heron

Common Bulbul

2

Southern Red Bishop

2

Red-eyed Dove

Scaly Weaver

Village Indigobird

Black-collared Barbet

March 18

2

Eastern Miombo Sunbird

Scarlet-chested Sunbird

Southern Gray-headed Sparrow

African Palm Swift

White-rumped Swift

Bronze Mannikin

4

Common Myna

Yellow-fronted Canary

Greater Striped Swallow

Lilac-breasted Roller

Black-headed Heron

Shikra

Little Swift

March 17

8

Black Kite

Speckled Pigeon

Greater Blue-eared Starling

Dusky Turtle-Dove

White-collared Pigeon

March 13

2

Western Kingbird

March 12

4

Dusky Flycatcher

March 11

8

Black Phoebe

March 9

4

Lawrence's Goldfinch

March 7

8

Brown Creeper

March 4

4

Gray Flycatcher

February 26

3

California Gull

February 24

3

Cinnamon Teal

February 23

9

Mountain Bluebird

6

Mourning Dove

February 20

6

Cactus Wren

5

Canvasback

12

California Gnatcatcher

7

Common Ground Dove

5

Lesser Scaup

February 8

19

Merlin

12

Snowy Egret

February 4

5

Eared Grebe

5

Common Goldeneye

February 1

8

Pied-billed Grebe

9

Dusky-capped Flycatcher

January 27

5

Sage Thrasher

January 15

13

Ferruginous Hawk

January 8

3

Tropical Kingbird

January 6

7

Wrentit

January 1

8

Common Merganser

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