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 286 species, and 150 is just over half that number.
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ACT Birders’
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Observer’s name |
ACT life list |
ACT |
ACT |
ACT |
ACT 2010 list |
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No. of |
Most recent |
No. of |
No. of |
No. of |
No. of |
Most recent |
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Peter Milburn |
262 |
Dec 2009 |
220 |
176 |
181 |
136 |
31 Jan |
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Marnix
Zwankhuizen |
243 |
Dec 2009 |
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Steve Holliday |
242 |
Dec 2009 |
191 |
195 |
189 |
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Ian Fraser |
242 |
Dec 2009 |
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Anthony Overs |
242 |
Dec 2009 |
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Martyn
Moffat |
242 |
Jan 2010 |
186 |
175 |
176 |
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Frank Antram |
239 |
Dec 2009 |
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Harvey Perkins |
238 |
Dec 2009 |
161 |
179 |
159 |
61 |
01 Jan |
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David McDonald |
235 |
Dec 2009 |
163 |
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64 |
01 Jan |
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Sue Lashko |
233 |
Dec 2009 |
171 |
144 |
57 |
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Paul Taylor |
233 |
Dec 2009 |
175 |
130 |
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Martin Butterfield |
233 |
Dec 2009 |
169 |
155 |
166 |
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Yarden Oren |
232 |
Dec 2009 |
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Noel Luff |
232 |
Dec 2009 |
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Benj Whitworth |
226 |
Oct 2007 |
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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 |
222 |
Dec 2009 |
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Damien Farine |
219 |
Nov 2009 |
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David Landon |
215 |
Dec 2007 |
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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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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 |
152 |
Apr 2009 |
106 |
104 |
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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 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
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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: 07 Feb
2010