Michael´s Eighth Year

[michael-ibk]

Quite a limited year - for the time being this will only act as a companion piece to my Guyana Trip Report. I thought I would skip this Big Year altogether but I went through all my Guyana birds for ebird, so might as well dump them on you. And can´t litter the report with all the subpar rainforest "photos", but I´m sure you will have fun with my ebcs.

 

No locals - at the beginning of the year I had still been a bit fed up with photo processing after my not so little 2022. When migration season got started my camera fingers got itchy again. But then my back took the issue (and my camera) out of my hands - I had to have surgery and it will be a while before I can carry a camera again.

 

Maybe I´ll get to it in late summer or autumn migration, and there´s always Mozambique in October - hopefully! We´ll see.

 

All upcoming photos taken in Guyana, Feb 10th to 24th

 

1/G1) Orange-Winged Parrot aka Amazon (Amazona amazonica) / Venezuelaamazone

 

Georgetown Botanical Gardens. Probably the most common Parrot we saw.

 

 

Edited May 21, 2023 by michael-ibk

[Tdgraves]

Sorry @michael-ibki hadn’t even noticed that you were yet to start the year! Hopefully the surgery went well.

[michael-ibk]

Thank you @Tdgraves!

 

2/G2) Yellow-Crowned Parrot aka Amazon (Amazona ochrocephala) / Gelbscheitelamazone

 

Georgetown Botanical Gardens and Karanambu. Much less common than its predecessor, three sightings only.

 

 

Edited May 21, 2023 by michael-ibk

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3/G3) Grey Kingbird (Tyrannus dominicensis) / Graukönigstyrann

 

Georgetown Botanical Gardens. A Kingbird of the Carribean and the Guyanas, one of (many) lifers.

 

 

 

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4/G4) Boat-Billed Flycatcher (Megarynchus pitangua) Starkschnabel-Maskentyrann

 

Georgetown Botanical Gardens. A familiar bird I´ve seen during all my trip to South and Central America. Only a handful of sightings, but it never is a super numerous species.

 

 

 

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5/G5) Smooth-Billed Ani (Crotophaga ani) / Glattschnabelani

 

Georgetown Botanical Gardens. Another familiar one. Widespread in the Neotropics.

 

 

 

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6/G6) Pale-Vented Pigeon (Patagioenas cayennensis) / Rotrückentaube

 

Georgetown Botanical Gardens.  A common Pigeon I´ve seen both in Costa Rica and Ecuador before.

 

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7/G7) Festive Parrot aka Amazon (Amazona festiva) / Blaubrauenamazone

 

Georgetown Botanical Gardens. Veeeeeeery distant, the only sighting. Quite sparse, mostly occurring in seasonally flooded forests along large rivers or in coastal regions.

 

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8/G8) Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana) / Rotstirn-Blatthühnchen

 

Georgetown Botanical Gardens. Super common around any wetlands.

 

 

 

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9/G9) Yellow aka Mangrove Warbler (Setophaga petechia) / Mangrovewaldsänger

 

Georgetown Botanical Gardens. One of two sightings. Seen before in Costa Rica.

 

 

 

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10/G10) Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) / Virginiauhu

 

Georgetown Botanical Gardens. The star of the gardens - apparently it´s found pretty much every day, and it likes to roost right next to the main path. Very practical.

 

 

 

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11/G11) Southern Beardless Tyrannulet (Camptostoma obsoletum) / Haubenkleintyrann

 

Georgetown Botanical Gardens. Tyrannulets are a real nuisance in Neotropical birding - there is about a zillion different ones, and they all look the same! Hiding in deep shadows.

 

 

 

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12/G12) Blood-Coloured Woodpecker (Veniliornis sanguineus) / Blutrückenspecht

 

Georgetown Botanical Garden. An endemic of the Guyanas, a main target bird here.

 

 

 

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13/G13) Ashy-Headed Greenlet (Hylophilus pectoralis) / Aschkopfvireo

 

Georgetown Botanical Gardens. Time to get serious about the real game of the Big Year, ebc-fun. The first of many very good ones if I dare say so myself.

 

 

 

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14/G14) Violaceous Euphonia (Euphonia violace) / Veilchenorganist

 

Georgetown Botanical Gardens. The next splendid ebc.

 

 

 

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15/G15) Mealy Parrot (Amazona farinos) / Mülleramazone

 

Georgetown Botanical Garden. A pretty common (and widespread) Parrot but mostly seen when flying over only. This perching (albeit hiding) one was a welcome change.

 

 

The normal way to see them, from Atta:

 

 

 

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16/G16) House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) / Hauszaunkönig

 

Georgetown Botanical gardens. Extremely similar to "our" European Wren. Only two sightings.

 

 

 

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17/G17) Ruddy Ground Dove (Columbina talpacoti) / Rosttäubchen

 

Georgetown Botanical Gardens. I´m proud I remembered to take a photo - very common.

 

 

 

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18/G18) Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis) / Schneckenbussard

 

Georgetown Botanical Gardens. The most common bird of prey along the Coast.

 

 

 

 

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19/G19) Grey-Lined Hawk (Buteo nitidus) / Silberbussard

 

Georgetown Botanical Gardens. The only (very distant) sighting - a lifer.

 

 

 

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20/G20) Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor) / Dreifarbenreiher

 

Georgetown Mudflats. A new Heron for me.

 

 

At the end of the trip in the Mangroves:

 

 

 

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21/G21) Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) / Schmuckreiher

 

Georgetown Mudflats. The Little Egret twin.

 

 

 

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22/G22) Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) / Tüpfelgelbschenkel

 

Georgetown Mudflats. Many American waders are extremely similar to our Eurasian ones, this one probably most akin to our Greenshank.

 

Edited May 21, 2023 by michael-ibk

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23/G23) Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) / Gelbschenkel

 

Georgetown Mudflats. Little Brother. A mixture of Marsh/Wood Sandpiper?

 

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24/G24) (Hudsonian) Whimbrel (Numenius hudsonicus or Numenius phaeopus) / Regenbrachvogel aka Hudsonbrachvogel

 

Georgetown Mudflats. Depending if you´re following IOC or Clements taxonomy this is either a different Whimbrel from ours or not.