David Mark's Best Birds, Favorite Birds, Birding Bests

Favorite Birds:

• Hoopoe (Upupa epops)

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)