[Birdtalk] A fun little game: The NEXT 10

[Mark Stackhouse]

O.K., I'll play this time - I like this game. I'm sorry, but I can't 
seem find my original post. I think I was using a different computer 
then (the one my teenager is currently playing on), and don't have my 
e-mail archives from that long ago on this computer. Does anyone 
remember the approximate date of my original post? I could probably 
find it if I knew when it was.

Anyway, for this round, he's my NEXT 10:

Mississippi Kite* - O.K., so I'm cheating here, as I have an old 
sighting of this species that I'm about to submit for review, so this 
one won't count. You should look for them Aug.-Sept. in hawk migration 
sites (I saw it at Big Mountain summit).

My real NEXT 10, with a guess as to order:

Clapper Rail (4)
Iceland Gull (1)
Whip-poor-will (5)
Gilded Flicker (3)
Tropical Kingbird (9)
Olive Warbler (10)
Red-faced Warbler (6)
Hepatic Tanager (7)
Baird's Sparrow (8)
Brown-capped Rosy-Finch (2)

Another 45 we should be looking for (the remainder of my "working 
list"):

Whooper Swan
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Least Grebe
Sooty Shearwater
Black Storm-Petrel
Blue-footed Booby
Black Vulture
Harris's Hawk
Short-tailed Hawk
Crested Caracara
Yellow Rail
Black Rail
Piping Plover
Lesser Sand-Plover
Eurasian Dotterel
Spotted Redshank
Red-necked Stint
American Woodcock
Black-headed Gull
Slaty-backed Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Arctic Tern
Long-billed Murrelet
Blue-throated Hummingbird
Allen's Hummingbird
Gila Woodpecker
Greater Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Buff-breasted Flycatcher
Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Thick-billed Kingbird
Hutton's Vireo
Chihuahuan Raven
Northern Wheatear
Sprague's Pipit
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Mourning Warbler
Kentucky Warbler
Flame-colored Tanager
Pyrrhuloxia
Eastern Meadowlark
Streak-backed Oriole
Purple Finch

This is a bunch of birds to look for - lot's of potential "firsts." If 
you'd like I can annotate this list with my rationale and where and 
when I think they might be seen.

Mark Stackhouse
mark at westwings.com
801-487-9453 (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
011-52-323-285-1243 (San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico)

On Oct 27, 2007, at 2:12 PM, Tim Avery wrote:

> So a while back, several years I thin Mark started a little game to 
> guess what
> the next 10 species of bird recorded in Utah would be.  (at least I 
> think it
> was Mark).  I have been trying to find the post, without luck to see 
> what some
> of the responses were, but can't find it.  Birds like Neotropic 
> Cormorant,
> Gilded Flicker, etc, were some of the birds listed.  In any event, as 
> I sit
> here this afternoon, not birding (I know, whats going on), I decided 
> it would
> be a good time to stir this pot up again!
>
> So below is my list of the predicted NEXT 10 SPECIES for Utah... 
> Everyone is
> welcome to join in and post their own lists as well!  Let's see what 
> some of
> the predictions are!
>
>  1. Red-necked Stint
>  2. Great Black-backed Gull
>  3. Arctic Tern
>  4. Allen's Hummingbird
>  5. Tropical or Couch's Kingbird
>  6. Chihuahuan Raven
>  7. Sprague's Pipit
>  8. Black-throated Green Warbler
>  9. Red-faced Warbler
>  10. Hepatic Tanager
>
> The only rules are, the bird isn't on the current checklist (or being 
> reviewed
> by the records committee currently).  And no particular order is 
> needed unless
> you want to be extremely adventurous!  It will be interesting looking 
> back in a
> few years to see how these lists worked out!
>
> I look forward to others lists!
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim
> Salt Lake City, UT
> tanager at timaverybirding.com
> http://www.timaverybirding.com
> http://www.timavery.com
>
>
>
>
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