ACT Birders’ Totals
A site at which birders who
have observed 150 or more wild bird species in the
Why 150 species? Because
the ACT list contains some 280 species, and 150 is just over half that number.
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ACT Birders’ Totals |
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Observer’s name |
ACT life list |
ACT 2007 |
ACT 2008 list |
ACT 2009 |
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No. of |
Most recent |
No. of |
No. of |
No. of |
Most recent |
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Peter
Milburn |
259 |
Jun 2008 |
220 |
176 |
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Anthony Overs |
240 |
Oct 2007 |
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Martyn
Moffat |
240 |
Sep 2008 |
186 |
175 |
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Marnix
Zwankhuizen |
239 |
Apr 2008 |
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Steve Holliday |
239 |
Nov 2008 |
191 |
195 |
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Ian Fraser |
239 |
Jan 2009 |
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Harvey Perkins |
235 |
Jun 2008 |
161 |
179 |
104 |
26 Jan |
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Frank Antram |
234 |
Oct 2008 |
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David McDonald |
233 |
Oct
2007 |
163 |
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Sue Lashko |
232 |
Jan 2009 |
171 |
144 |
57 |
22 Jan |
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Paul Taylor |
231 |
Dec 2008 |
175 |
130 |
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Yarden Oren |
230 |
Oct 2007 |
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Benj Whitworth |
226 |
Oct 2007 |
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Noel Luff |
226 |
Dec 2007 |
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Martin Butterfield |
225 |
Jan 2008 |
169 |
155 |
64 |
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Michael Wright |
223 |
Oct 2007 |
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Andrew Cockburn |
223 |
Jan 2008 |
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Rosemary Bell |
223 |
Feb 2009 |
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Mat Gilfedder |
220 |
Oct 2007 |
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David Landon |
215 |
Dec 2007 |
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Damien Farine |
210 |
Nov 2008 |
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Hazel & Allan Wright |
209 |
Jan 2007 |
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Ian McMahon |
203 |
Mar 2005 |
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Jeannie Gray |
201 |
Dec 2007 |
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Cath Gilfedder |
200 |
Feb 2006 |
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Damien Farine |
200 |
Jan 2008 |
195 |
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Phil Hansbro |
199 |
May
2005 |
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David Rosalky |
197 |
Jun
2004 |
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John Leonard |
194 |
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Julie McGuiness |
193 |
Sep
2005 |
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Phyl Goddard |
192 |
Apr
2003 |
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Matthew
Frawley |
189 |
Nov 2007 |
173 |
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Pete
Cowper |
186 |
Oct 2006 |
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Maurits Zwankhuizen |
183 |
May 2008 |
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Jochen Brocks |
181 |
Nov 2007 |
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Scott
Gilmore |
180 |
Oct 2004 |
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Lindsay
Hansch & Rhonda Abbott |
179 |
Oct 2004 |
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Bruce Ramsay |
150 |
Feb 2009 |
106 |
88 |
Feb |
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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 01 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 04 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. Please
note that the Jervis Bay Territory is not part of the ACT.
2. Taxonomy should follow Christidis,
L & Boles, WE 1994, The taxonomy and species of birds of
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
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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
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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: 19 Feb 2009