My first lifer for 2017 and a new bird for Barbados was
the highlight of week 12. Last week I
posted about an unidentified bird. This
bird was first seen by Dr. John Webster at a Christ Church Swamp about two weeks
ago and by myself on March 18th. I posted images of the bird in
question on the website www.birdforum.net and straight
away got a responds from Michael “Nutcracker” Frankis, of Newcastle, UK,
that the images was without a doubt a female (43)Tufted Duck. Dr. Webster also
sent images to noted ornithologist and birders around the world who all agreed
that it was in deed a Tufted Duck. The males of this Eurasian diving duck is black
on the head, neck, breast with a white flank while the females are brown all
over. Both genders has yellow eyes and a tuft of feathers on back of the head. Tufted
can be found breeding along the high and middle latitudes from Iceland eastward to
Siberia and winters farther south in Europe, Africa, and Asia. Significant
numbers reach North America in fall migration and spend the winter, mostly
along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and now also Barbados, West Indies 👍. This bird increased my life count for Barbados
to 128, for the West Indies 145, Life count 242 and year count to 63 species.
The other birds for my big year
album: (44)Belted Kingfisher, (45)Lesser
Yellowleg and (46) Grassland Yellowfinch moving
my tally to 46 birds.
See 2017 Photographic Big Year images here.
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| 43 -Tufted Duck - Aythya fuligula- New bird for Barbados and a lifer |
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| 44 - Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon |
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| 45 - Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes |
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| 46 - Grassland Yellow-Finch - Sicalis luteola |
See 2017 Photographic Big Year images here.
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