Global Big Day 2018

West Indian Whistling Duck seen during GBD 2018

Global Big Day 2018 is in the bag and it was another success.  Internationally over 28,000 person in more than 250 countries, recorded in excess of 6900 species of birds from the more than 74,960 checklist submitted to ebird.  These stat were all higher than last year’s total.  

Here, in Barbados, we had two participants, Dr. John Webster and myself.  Together we equaled 2017 total of 53 species with John recording 50 species and I 49.

Here is a list of the 53 bird species seen during the Global Big Day:

1. Black-bellied Whistling Duck - Dendrocygna autumnalis
2. West Indian Whistling Duck - Dendrocygna arborea
3. Masked Duck - Nomonyx dominicus
4. Pied-billed Grebe - Podilymbus podiceps*           
5. Red-billed Tropicbird - Phaethon aethereus
6. Magnificent Frigatebird - Fregata magnificens
7. Great Egret - Ardea alba
8. Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
9. Snowy Egret - Egretta thula
10. Cattle Egret - Bubulcus ibis
11. Green Heron - Butorides virescens
12. Eurasian Spoonbill - Platalea leucorodia
13. Osprey - Pandion haliaetus*
14. Purple Gallinule - Porphyrio martinica*
15. Common Gallinule - Gallinula galeata
16. Black-bellied Plover - Pluvialis squatarola
17. Pacific Golden-Plover - Pluvialis fulva
18. Semipalmated Plover - Charadrius semipalmatus
19. Ruddy Turnstone - Arenaria interpres
20. Sanderling - Calidris alba
21. Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla
22. Semipalmated Sandpiper - Calidris pusilla
23. Short-billed Dowitcher - Limnodromus griseus
24. Spotted Sandpiper - Actitis macularius
25. Solitary Sandpiper - Tringa solitaria#
26. Greater Yellowlegs - Tringa melanoleuca
27. Willet - Tringa semipalmata
28. Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes
29. Laughing Gull - Leucophaeus atricilla
30. Roseate Tern - Sterna dougallii#
31. Royal Tern - Thalasseus maximus
32. Rock Pigeon - Columba livia
33. Scaly-naped Pigeon - Patagioenas squamosa
34. White-crowned Pigeon - Patagioenas leucocephala#
35. Eurasian Collared-Dove - Streptopelia decaocto
36. Common Ground-Dove - Columbina passerina
37. Zenaida Dove - Zenaida aurita
38. Eared Dove - Zenaida auriculata
39. Green-throated Carib - Eulampis holosericeus
40. Antillean Crested Hummingbird - Orthorhyncus cristatus
41. Rose-ringed Parakeet - Psittacula krameri
42. Caribbean Elaenia - Elaenia martinica
43. Gray Kingbird - Tyrannus dominicensis
44. Black-whiskered Vireo - Vireo altiloquus
45. Caribbean Martin - Progne dominicensis
46. Northern Waterthrush - Parkesia noveboracensis*
47. Yellow Warbler - Setophaga petechia
48. Grassland Yellow-Finch - Sicalis luteola
49. Bananaquit - Coereba flaveola
50. Black-faced Grassquit - Tiaris bicolor
51. Barbados Bullfinch - Loxigilla barbadensis
52. Shiny Cowbird - Molothrus bonariensis
53. Carib Grackle - Quiscalus lugubris

* - Birds seen only by Dr. Webster on the day
# - Birds seen only by Me on the day