2008 Day-by-Day New Birds

1. Jan. 1 (Aransas Co., TX) Common Loon
2. White Ibis
3. Long-billed Dowitcher
4. Great Blue Heron
5. Great Egret
6. Brown Pelican
7. Double-crested Cormorant
8. Turkey Vulture
9. Tricolored Heron
10. White Pelican
11. American Coot
12. Northern Harrier
13. Bufflehead
14. Caspian Tern
15. Eared Grebe
16. Long-billed Curlew
17. Common Grackle
18. Greater Yellowlegs
19. Orange-crowned Warbler
20. Winter Wren
21. Herring Gull
22. Reddish Egret
23. American Pipit
24. Killdeer
25. Least Sandpiper
26. Redhead
27. Northern Cardinal
28. Sandhill Crane
29. Laughing Gull
30. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
31. Black-bellied Plover
32. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
33. Ring-billed Gull
34. White-winged Dove
35. Eur. Starling
36. Great-tailed Grackle
37. Common Goldeneye
38. Northern Shoveler
39. Northern Pintail
40. Mottled Duck
41. Blue-winged Teal
42. Snowy Egret
43. Lesser Yellowlegs
44. Eastern Meadowlark
45. Mallard
46. Black Vulture
47. Brown-headed Cowbird
48. Red-shouldered Hawk
49. Eastern Phoebe
50. Red-winged Blackbird
51. Pied-billed Grebe
52. Black-crowned Night-Heron
53. Common Moorhen
54. Common Yellowthroat
55. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
56. Canvasback
57. Sharp-shinned Hawk
58. American Wigeon
59. Boat-tailed Grackle
60. Gadwall
61. Forster's Tern
62. Osprey
63. Northern Mockingbird
64. American Kestrel
65. Loggerhead Shrike
66. Cattle Egret
67. Mourning Dove
68. Lesser Scaup
69. Ruddy Duck
70. Eurasian Collared-Dove
71. Red-tailed Hawk
72. Willet
73. Dunlin
74. White-faced Ibis
75. Green-winged Teal
76. Crested Caracara
77. Savannah Sparrow
78. Pyrrhuloxia
79. (Refugio Co, TX) Black-necked Stilt
80. (Aransas Co., TX) American Avocet
81. Roseate Spoonbill
82. Gull-billed Tern
83. (San Patricio Co., TX) House Sparrow
84. Rock Pigeon
85. (Nueces Co., TX) Hooded Merganser
86. Yellow-rumped Warbler
87. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
88. Great Kiskadee
89. Vermilion Flycatcher
90. Belted Kingfisher
91. Inca Dove
92. Royal Tern
93. Sanderling
94. Common Tern
95. Bonaparte's Gull
96. Peregrine Falcon
97. Semipalmated Plover
98. Cinnamon Teal
99. Ruddy Turnstone
100. White-tailed Hawk
101. (Aransas Co., TX) Snow Goose
102. Jan. 2 (Nueces Co., TX) Harris's Hawk
103. (Kleberg Co., TX) Lark Sparrow
104. White-crowned Sparrow
105. White-fronted Goose
106. Ross's Goose
107. (Kenedy Co., TX) Golden-fronted Woodpecker
108. Green Jay
109. Curve-billed Thrasher
110. Ring-necked Duck
111. Brewer's Blackbird
112. (Cameron Co., TX) Olive Sparrow
113. White-tipped Dove
114. Black-crested Titmouse
115. Wilson's Warbler
116. Carolina Wren
117. Spotted Sandpiper
118. Least Grebe
119. House Wren
120. Plain Chachalaca
121. White-eyed Vireo
122. Couch's Kingbird
123. White-tailed Kite
124. Horned Lark
125. Chihuahuan Raven
126. Green Parakeet
127. Yellow-throated Warbler
128. Jan. 3 (Cameron Co., TX) Ringed Kingfisher
129. Groove-billed Ani
130. Long-billed Thrasher
131. Gray Hawk
132. Broad-winged Hawk
133. Nashville Warbler
134. Dusky-capped Flycatcher
135. (Hidalgo Co., TX) Verdin
136. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
137. Ovenbird
138. Cooper's Hawk
139. Blue-headed Vireo
140. Anhinga
141. Black-throated Green Warbler
142. Chipping Sparrow
143. American Goldfinch
144. Lesser Goldfinch
145. Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet
146. Cave Swallow
147. Western Tanager
148. Common Pauraque
149. Great Horned Owl
150. Jan. 4 (Hidalgo Co., TX) Altamira Oriole
151. Tropical Parula
152. Lincoln's Sparrow
153. Rufous Hummingbird
154. Clay-colored Robin
155. Rough-winged Swallow
156. Green Kingfisher
157. Tropical Kingbird
158. Neotropic Cormorant
159. Little Blue Heron
160. Swamp Sparrow
161. Northern Bobwhite
162. Sora
163. Jan. 5 (Aransas Co., TX) Wild Turkey
164. Whooping Crane
165. Wilson's Snipe
166. Clapper Rail
167. Gray Catbird
168. (Refugio Co., TX) Ferruginous Hawk
169. (Aransas Co., TX) Le Conte's Sparrow
170. Grasshopper Sparrow
171. (Nueces Co., TX) Cedar Waxwing
172. American Robin
173. Jan. 6 (Refugio Co., TX) Eastern Bluebird
174. (Victoria Co., TX) American Crow
175. (Fayette Co., TX) Pine Warbler
176. (Williamson Co., TX) Carolina Chickadee
177. Vesper Sparrow
178. Jan. 7 (Tarrant Co., TX) Short-eared Owl
179. (Parker Co., TX) Field Sparrow
180. (Tarrant Co., TX) Merlin
181. Harris's Sparrow
182. Tufted Titmouse
183. Downy Woodpecker
184. Horned Grebe
185. Fox Sparrow
186. Blue Jay
187. Red-bellied Woodpecker
188. White-throated Sparrow
189. Brown Creeper
190. Northern Flicker
191. Hermit Thrush
192. Bewick's Wren
193. Jan. 8 (MN) Common Raven
194. Rough-legged Hawk
195. Bald Eagle
196. Black-capped Chickadee
197. Red-breasted Nuthatch
198. Pileated Woodpecker
199. Jan. 9 (MN) Pine Grosbeak
200. Gray Jay
201. Snow Bunting
202. Northern Hawk-Owl
203. Black-backed Woodpecker
204. American Three-Toed Woodpecker
205. Hairy Woodpecker
206. Evening Grosbeak
207. Common Redpoll
208. Hoary Redpoll
209. White-breasted Nuthatch
210. Varied Thrush
211. Boreal Chickadee
212. Common Merganser
213. Glaucous Gull
214. Red-breasted Merganser
215. Snowy Owl
216. Jan. 10 (MN) Sharp-tailed Grouse
217. Dark-eyed Junco
218. Red Crossbill
219. Bohemian Waxwing
220. Northern Shrike
221. Black-billed Magpie
222. Great Gray Owl
223. Jan. 11 (MN) White-winged Crossbill
224. House Finch
225. Jan. 12 (Tarrant Co., TX) Monk Parakeet
226. Spotted Towhee
227. Jan. 14 (Ward Co., TX) Crissal Thrasher
228. Lark Bunting
229. Jan. 15 (El Paso Co., TX) Greater Roadrunner
230. Long-eared Owl
231. Gambel's Quail
232. Song Sparrow
233. Black Phoebe
234. Marsh Wren
235. Burrowing Owl
236. (NM) Say's Phoebe
237. Cactus Wren
238. Scaled Quail
239. Black-throated Sparrow
240. Jan. 16 (AZ) Acorn Woodpecker
241. Yellow-eyed Junco
242. Aztec Thrush
243. Bridled Titmouse
244. Arizona Woodpecker
245. Mexican Jay
246. Northern Jacana
247. Anna's Hummingbird
248. Jan. 17 (CA) Western Gull
249. California Gull
250. Heermann's Gull
251. Barn Swallow
252. California Towhee
253. Surf Scoter
254. Townsend's Warbler
255. Western Scrub-Jay
256. California Quail
257. Oak Titmouse
258. Golden-crowned Sparrow
259. Chestnut-backed Chickadee
260. Jan. 18 (CA) Brant
261. Greater Scaup
262. Western Grebe
263. Mew Gull
264. Black Turnstone
265. Black Oystercatcher
266. Pelagic Cormorant
267. Brandt's Cormorant
268. Whimbrel
269. Western Meadowlark
270. Surfbird
271. Glaucous-winged Gull
272. Barn Owl
273. Red-breasted Sapsucker
274. Western Bluebird
275. Canada Goose
276. Thayer's Gull
277. Marbled Godwit
278. Long-tailed Duck
279. Jan. 19 (CA) Common Murre
280. Marbled Murrelet
281. Pacific Loon
282. Rhinoceros Auklet
283. Black-legged Kittiwake
284. Black-vented Shearwater
285. Northern Fulmar
286. Short-taile Shearwater
287. Pink-footed Shearwater
288. Sooty Shearwater
289. Pomarine Jaeger
290. Jan. 20 (CA) Yellow-billed Magpie
291. Tricolored Blackbird
292. Golden Eagle
293. Mountain Plover
294. Mountain Bluebird
295. Prairie Falcon
296. Sage Sparrow
297. Lewis's Woodpecker
298. Band-tailed Pigeon
299. Bushtit
300. Cackling Goose
301. Jan. 21 (CA) Eurasian Wigeon
302. Wrentit
303. Hutton's Vireo
304. Jan. 23 (AZ) Yellow-headed Blackbird
305. Abert's Towhee
306. Gila Woodpecker
307. Brewer's Sparrow
308. Canyon Towhee
309. Rufous-backed Robin [Catalina SP, Tucson]
310. Chestnut-collared Longspur
311. Jan. 24 (AZ) Cassin's Finch
312. Crescent-chested Warbler [finally! 3rd time up Madera Canyon]
313. Pine Siskin
314. Jan. 25 (NM) Black Rosy-Finch
315. Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
316. Brown-capped Rosy-Finch
317. Steller's Jay
318. Mountain Chickadee
319. (Hartley Co., TX) Ring-necked Pheasant
320. Wood Duck
321. Jan. 26 (Dallam Co., TX) American Tree Sparrow
322. Jan. 30 (Kleberg Co., TX-King Ranch) Solitary Sandpiper
323. Masked Duck
324. Fulvous Whistling-Duck
325. Bronzed Cowbird
326. Common Ground-Dove
327. Sprague's Pipit
328. Green Heron
329. (Nueces Co., TX) Black Skimmer
330. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
331. Jan. 31 (Harris Co., TX) Calliope Hummingbird
332. Allen's Hummingbird
333. (Jefferson Co., TX) Tree Swallow
334. Feb. 1 (Johnson Co., TX) Rusty Blackbird
335. (Parker Co., TX) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
336. Feb. 2 (Tarrant Co., TX) Barred Owl
337. Brown Thrasher
338. American Woodcock
339. Feb. 5 (Tarrant Co., TX) Eastern Screech-Owl
340. Feb. 6 (Grayson Co., TX) Purple Finch
341. Red-headed Woodpecker
342. Feb. 10 (Cameron Co., TX) White-crested Elaenia!
343. Buff-bellied Hummingbird
344. (Hidalgo Co., TX) Purple Martin
345. Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
346. Feb. 11 (Starr Co., TX) Audubon's Oriole
347. (Zapata Co.) Wood Thrush
348. (Starr Co.) Hooded Oriole
349. Red-billed Pigeon
350. Feb. 12 (Hidalgo Co., TX) Black-and-White Warbler
351. Yellow Warbler
352. Stilt Sandpiper
353. Feb. 14 (Harris Co., TX) Lesser Black-backed Gull
354. Feb. 15 (NC) Great Black-backed Gull
355. Great Cormorant
356. American Oystercatcher
357. Purple Sandpiper
358. Northern Gannet
359. American Black Duck
360. Feb. 16 (NC) Red-throated Loon
361. Great Skua
362. Razorbill
363. Red Phalarope
364. Manx Shearwater
365. Dovekie
366. Feb. 17 (NC) Tundra Swan
367. Eastern Towhee
368. Palm Warbler
369. Feb. 18 (NC) Baltimore Oriole
370. (FL) Bananaquit
371. Feb. 19 (FL) Fish Crow
372. White-crowned Pigeon
373. Red-whiskered Bulbul
374. Spot-breasted Oriole
375. Painted Bunting
376. White-winged Parakeet
377. Snail Kite
378. Purple Gallinule
379. Short-tailed Hawk
380. Wood Stork
381. Glossy Ibis
382. Limpkin
383. Dickcissel
384. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
385. Shiny Cowbird
386. Feb. 20 (FL) Northern Parula
387. Prairie Warbler
388. American Redstart
389. Feb. 23 (NY) Mute Swan
390. Black Scoter
391. White-winged Scoter
392. King Eider
393. Common Eider
394. Pink-footed Goose
395. Feb. 24 (NJ) Barnacle Goose [and I'm headed home to Texas, but just for a couple of days]
396. Feb. 28 (OR) Harlequin Duck
397. Golden-crowned Kinglet
398. Pigeon Guillemot
399. Red-necked Grebe
400. Feb. 29 (OR) American Dipper
401. Mar. 1 (OR) Black-footed Albatross
402. Laysan Albatross
403. Cassin's Auklet
404. Trumpeter Swan
405. Mar. 2 (WA) Barrow's Goldeneye
406. Mar. 3 (WA) Ancient Murrelet
407. (BC) Northwestern Crow
408. Sky Lark
409. (WA) Western Sandpiper
410. Mar. 6 (Dallas Co., TX) Little Gull
411. Mar. 12 (NE) Greater Prairie-Chicken [the consolation prize in my unsuccessful Common Crane chase]
412. Mar. 13 (AR) Smith's Longspur
413. Mar. 14 (Smith Co., TX) Brown-headed Nuthatch
414. Mar. 16 (Jefferson Co., TX) Fork-tailed Flycatcher [thanks Jana & John Whittle, and Elaine Sherman]
415. Mar. 17 (Chambers Co., TX) Seaside Sparrow
416. (Galveston Co., TX) American Golden-Plover
417. Piping Plover
418. Short-billed Dowitcher
419. Wilson's Plover
420. Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
421. Mar. 18 (Nueces Co., TX) Sandwich Tern
422. (Hidalgo Co., TX) White-throated Robin
423. Chuck-will's widow
424. Red-crowned Parrot
425. Mar. 19 (Zapata Co., TX) Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
426. Mar. 20 (Hidalgo Co., TX) Swainson's Hawk
427. Brown-crested Flycatcher
428. (Cameron Co., TX) Clay-colored Sparrow
429. Snowy Plover
430. Mar. 21 (Refugio Co., TX) Cliff Swallow
431. Mar. 23 (Dublin, GA) Green-breasted Mango
432. Mar. 24 (GA) Red-cockaded Woodpecker
433. Mar. 25 (GA) Great Crested Flycatcher
434. Prothonotary Warbler
435. Mar. 28 (Burnet Co., TX) Black-capped Vireo
436. (Travis Co., TX) Golden-cheeked Warbler
437. (Nueces Co., TX) Louisiana Waterthrush
438. Mar. 29 (Calhoun Co., TX) Sedge Wren
439. Black Rail
440. Eastern Kingbird
441. Pectoral Sandpiper
442. Mar. 30 (Chambers Co., TX) American Bittern
443. Least Bittern
444. Yellow Rail
445. (Jefferson Co., TX) Orchard Oriole
446. Hooded Warbler
447. Mar. 31 (Jefferson Co., TX) King Rail
448. (Galveston Co., TX) Black Tern
449. Least Tern
450. Semipalmated Sandpiper
451. Red Knot
452. (Ellis Co., TX) Upland Sandpiper
453. Apr. 2 (Ward Co., TX) Cassin's Sparrow
454. (Brewster Co., TX) Ash-throated Flycatcher
455. Common Black-Hawk
456. Canyon Wren
457. Rock Wren
458. Apr. 3 (Brewster Co., TX) Common Poorwill
459. White-throated Swift
460. Colima Warbler
461. Painted Redstart
462. Blue-throated Hummingbird
463. Flammulated Owl
464. Western Screech-Owl
465. Apr. 4 (Brewster Co., TX) Rufous-crowned Sparrow
466. Phainopepla
467. Bell's Vireo
468. Scott's Oriole
469. Black-chinned Hummingbird
470. Lucy's Warbler
471. Elf Owl
472. Apr. 5 (Brewster Co., TX) Green-tailed Towhee
473. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
474. Gray Vireo
475. Violet-green Swallow
476. (Jeff Davis Co., TX) Zone-tailed Hawk
477. Apr. 6 (Tarrant Co., TX) Chimney Swift
478. Apr. 8 (Lipscomb Co., TX) Lesser Prairie-Chicken
479. Apr. 9 (CO) Sage Thrasher
480. Apr. 10 (CO) Franklin's Gull
481. Apr. 11 (CO) Pinyon Jay
482. Greater Sage-Grouse
483. Apr. 13 (CO) Gunnison Sage-Grouse
484. Clark's Nutcracker
485. Apr. 14 (NM) Western Kingbird
486. Apr. 15 (Travis Co., TX) Ruff (Reeve)
487. Baird's Sandpiper
488. Wilson's Phalarope
489. Apr. 17 (FL) Florida Scrub-Jay
490. Apr. 18 (FL) Common Nighthawk
491. Magnificent Frigatebird
492. Gray Kingbird
493. Swallow-tailed Kite
494. Apr. 19 (FL) Northern Waterthrush
495. Red-eyed Vireo
496. Black-throated Blue Warbler
497. Apr. 20 (FL) Blackpoll Warbler
498. Cape May Warbler
499. Indigo Bunting
500. Apr. 21 (FL) Black-whiskered Vireo
501. Blue Grosbeak
502. Apr. 22 (FL) Brown Noddy
503. Audubon's Shearwater
504. Bridled Tern
505. Sooty Tern
506. Brown Booby
507. Masked Booby
508. Black Noddy
509. Bobolink
510. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
511. Swainson's Thrush
512. Bank Swallow
513. Apr. 24 (FL) Worm-eating Warbler
514. Apr. 27 (Jackson Co., TX) Mississippi Kite
515. (McMullen Co., TX) Bullock's Oriole
516. Apr. 28 (Live Oak Co., TX) Yellow-breasted Chat
517. Least Flycatcher
518. (Kleberg Co., TX) White-rumped Sandpiper
519. (Hidalgo Co., TX) Lesser Nighthawk
520. Apr. 29 (Zapata Co., TX) White-collared Seedeater
521. (Hidalgo Co., TX) Blackburnian Warbler
522. Eastern Wood-Pewee
523. Tennessee Warbler
524. Warbling Vireo
525. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
526. Black-billed Cuckoo
527. Chestnut-sided Warbler
528. Kentucky Warbler
529. Willow Flycatcher
530. Acadian Flycatcher
531. Philadelphia Vireo
532. Veery
533. (Cameron Co., TX) Botteri's Sparrow
534. Apr. 30 (Hidalgo Co., TX) Scarlet Tanager
535. (Cameron Co., TX) Magnolia Warbler
536. Summer Tanager
537. May 1 (Live Oak Co., TX) Whip-poor-will
538. (Nueces Co., TX) Canada Warbler
539. Cerulean Warbler
540. Bay-breasted Warbler
541. (Matagorda Co., TX) Hudsonian Godwit
542. Buff-breasted Sandpiper
543. May 2 (Angelina Co., TX) Bachman's Sparrow
544. (Jasper Co., TX) Swainson's Warbler
545. Yellow-throated Vireo
546. (Jefferson Co., TX) Golden-winged Warbler
547. (Chambers Co., TX) Gray-cheeked Thrush
548. May 3 (Jefferson Co., TX) Olive-sided Flycatcher
549. May 4 (Nueces Co., TX) Piratic Flycatcher
550. May 9 (Tarrant Co., TX) Lazuli Bunting
551.May 11 (Adak Is., AK) Tundra Bean-Goose
552. Parasitic Jaeger
553. Lapland Longspur
554. Rock Ptarmigan
555. Tufted Duck
556. Kittlitz's Murrelet
557. May 12 (Adak Is., AK) Red-faced Cormorant
558. Rock Sandpiper
559. May 15 (Adak Is., AK) Pacific Golden-Plover
560. May 16 (Adak Is., AK) Arctic Loon
561. Arctic Tern
562. Aleutian Tern
563. Common Snipe
564. Tufted Puffin
565. Red-necked Phalarope
566. May 17 (Adak Is., AK) Horned Puffin
567. Parakeet Auklet
568. Crested Auklet
569. Whiskered Auklet
570. Least Auklet
571. Wandering Tattler
572. Bar-tailed Godwit
573. May 22 (MI) Kirtland's Warbler
574. Ruffed Grouse
575. May 26 (St. Paul Is., AK) Common Sandpiper
576. May 27 (St. Paul Is., AK) Thick-billed Murre
577. Red-legged Kittiwake
578. May 30 (St. Paul Is., AK) Long-tailed Jaeger
579. May 31 (Eagle River, AK) Alder Flycatcher
580. (Anchorage, AK) Townsend's Solitaire
581. June 2 (Gambell, AK) White Wagtail
582. Black Guillemot
583. Steller's Eider
584. Little Bunting
585. Bluethroat
586. McKay's Bunting*
587. June 3 (Gambell, AK) Ivory Gull
588. Common Ringed Plover
589. Yellow Wagtail
590. Red-throated Pipit
591. June 4 (Gambell, AK) Sabine's Gull
592. Jack Snipe!!
593. June 5 (Gambell, AK) Yellow-billed Loon
594. Slaty-backed Gull
595. Gray-tailed Tattler
596. June 7 (Nome, AK) Willow Ptarmigan
597. Bristle-thighed Curlew
598. Northern Wheatear
599. Gyrfalcon
600. June 8 (Nome, AK) Emperor Goose
601. Arctic Warbler
602. June 11 (Barrow, AK) Spectacled Eider
603. June 13 (Fairbanks, AK) Hammond's Flycatcher
604. June 16 (Arctic NWR) Gray-headed Chickadee (!!)
605. July 1 (ME) Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
606. Roseate Tern
607. Blue-winged Warbler
608. Spruce Grouse
609. Bicknell's Thrush
610. July 2 (ME) Mourning Warbler
611. Atlantic Puffin
612. July 3 (ME) Northern Goshawk

* On May 29, a McKay's Bunting hybrid was seen on St. Paul--the guess is that it's about 3/4 McKay's and about 1/4 Snow Bunting. Until June 2nd, I whimsically "counted" it as 3/4 of a bird species, but now it's for real!