ACT Birders' Totals

ACT Birders’ Totals

A site at which birders who have observed 150 or more wild bird species in the Australian Capital Territory may have their totals listed.

Why 150 species? Because the ACT list contains 286 species, and 150 is just over half that number.

ACT Birders’ Totals
Observer’s name	ACT life list		ACT 2007 list	ACT 2008 list	ACT 2009 list	ACT 2010 list
Observer’s name	No. of species	Most recent addition	No. of species	No. of species	No. of species	No. of species	Most recent addition
Peter Milburn	262	Dec 2009	220	176	181	136	31 Jan
Marnix Zwankhuizen	243	Dec 2009
Steve Holliday	242	Dec 2009	191	195	189
Ian Fraser	242	Dec 2009
Anthony Overs	242	Dec 2009
Martyn Moffat	242	Jan 2010	186	175	176
Frank Antram	239	Dec 2009
Harvey Perkins	238	Dec 2009	161	179	159	61	01 Jan
David McDonald	235	Dec 2009	163			64	01 Jan
Sue Lashko	233	Dec 2009	171	144	57
Paul Taylor	233	Dec 2009	175	130
Martin Butterfield	233	Dec 2009	169	155	166
Yarden Oren	232	Dec 2009
Noel Luff	232	Dec 2009
Benj Whitworth	226	Oct 2007
Michael Wright	223	Oct 2007
Andrew Cockburn	223	Jan 2008
Rosemary Bell	223	Feb 2009
Mat Gilfedder	222	Dec 2009
Damien Farine	219	Nov 2009
David Landon	215	Dec 2007
Hazel & Allan Wright	209	Jan 2007
Ian McMahon	203	Mar 2005
Jeannie Gray	201	Dec 2007
Cath Gilfedder	200	Feb 2006
Phil Hansbro	199	May 2005
David Rosalky	197	Jun 2004
John Leonard	194
Julie McGuiness	193	Sep 2005
Phyl Goddard	192	Apr 2003
Matthew Frawley	189	Nov 2007	173
Pete Cowper	186	Oct 2006
Maurits Zwankhuizen	183	May 2008
Jochen Brocks	181	Nov 2007
Scott Gilmore	180	Oct 2004
Lindsay Hansch & Rhonda Abbott	179	Oct 2004
Bruce Ramsay	152	Apr 2009		106	104

Note re year totals

Alastair Smith set himself the challenge of observing 200 wild bird species in the ACT in one year, a target not previously known to have been attained.

Between 1 Jan and 31 Dec 2006 he actually observed 208 species in the ACT.

This provided the benchmark for others embarking upon an ACT Big Year. The details are in Smith, A. 2008, ‘A record of the first Big Year for the Australian Capital Territory’, Canberra Bird Notes, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 125-35.

Peter Milburn took on the challenge for 2007.

On 30 August he reached the 200 mark and on 4 October passed Alastair’s 208 for the 2006 year. Milburn’s 2007 ACT total was 220 species, a fantastic achievement.

Here are a few simple rules covering the inclusion of your total so as to obtain consistency between the totals listed:

1. All species counted should be seen alive and in the wild within the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). Please note that the Jervis Bay Territory is not part of the ACT.
2. Taxonomy should follow Christidis, L & Boles, W 2008, Systematics and taxonomy of Australian birds, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Vic.

4. Submissions should be honest, accurate and dated.

The national list, maintained by Tony Palliser (upon which this list is based, with Tony’s agreement) is at http://users.bigpond.net.au/palliser/pelagic/totals.html .

An annotated ACT checklist, produced by the Canberra Ornithologists Group, is at http://www.canberrabirds.org.au/chklist.htm .

To have your total added to the list on this page, please email David McDonald.

This page is maintained in conjunction with the Canberra Birding email announcement and discussion list. Membership of the list is open to everyone with an interest in the study and conservation of the wild native birds and their habitats in Canberra, the ACT and the surrounding region. Details are at http://www.canberrabirds.org.au/discuss.htm .

For information on the Canberra Ornithologists Group, which auspices the Canberra Birding email list, please visit http://www.canberrabirds.org.au/ .

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Page maintainer: David McDonald

Created: 2003

Last updated: 07 Feb 2010