David Mark's Best Birds, Favorite Birds, Birding Bests
Favorite Birds:
Best Bird:
- Spoonbill Sandpiper 30 Jul 78 Iona Island, British Columbia, Canada
Runners up:
- California Condor 4 Jan 83 Mil Potrero Road, California
- Noisy Scrub-bird 24 Oct 88 Two Peoples Bay, Western Australia
- Bulwer's Petrel 8 Aug 98 Off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
- Ross' Gull 11 Jun 80 Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
Records and Personal Bests:
- Canada Single Year Record
- 417 species, 1980. (Broken in 1986 or so)
- Best Day: 166 species, 24 April 1983
- Upper Texas Coast (High Island, Bolivar, Galveston)
- With Ben and Linda Feltner and Polly Rothstein
- Best Year: 1250 species, 2002.
- (Canada, USA, Japan, Europe (mainly Spain, Netherlands), Peru, Australia)
- Second Best Year: 1146 species, 1988.
- (Costa Rica, USA, Canada, England, France, Spain, Australia)