Long Point’s Next 10

Virginia’s Warbler at the Tip of Long Point 1 June 2018. Photo Kyle Cameron.

As of June 2018, the Long Point, Ontario birding area checklist sits at 402 species with recent additions of Vermillion Flycatcher (Tip of Long Point, 27 April 2018), and Virginia’s Warbler (Tip of Long Point, 1 June 2018).

It’s always fun to try and predict the next bird to be added to the checklist, and usually fail doing so. Now that the checklist includes more than 81% of the species ever recorded in Ontario, the ‘next’ game is getting a little tricky, but there are still plenty of options, many low hanging fruit, and some more ambitous reaches. The complete Long Point Checklist can be found here: https://www.bsc-eoc.org/longpoint/index.jsp?targetpg=lpbolist&targetpg=lpbolist (needs updating to reflect 2018 additions).

Predictions in no particular order as of April 2018 (send your predictions to anousbirding@gmail.com):

Yousif Attia

1) Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

2) Tropical Kingbird

3) Grace’s Warbler

4) Chestnut-collared Longspur

5) Scott’s Oriole

6) Broad-tailed Hummingbird

7) Great Cormorant

8) Mew Gull

9) Burrowing Owl

10) Yellow-billed Loon

Stu Mackenzie

Hermit Warbler (should already be on, needs to be resubmitted to OBRC)

Chihuanuan Raven (is already on Long Point checklist, but needs to be resubmitted to OBRC)

1) Townsend’s Warbler

2) Dusky Flycatcher

3) Grace’s Warbler

4) Lucy’s or Virginia’s Warbler

5) Rock Wren

6) Mottled Duck

7) Black-bellied Whistling Duck

8) Barnacle Goose

9) Tropical or Couch’s Kingbird

10) Black-throated Sparrow

Extras…

A wagtail…

Any hummingbird

A storm petrel

Ron Ridout

1) Black-bellied Whistling Duck

2) Mottled Duck

3) Garganey

4) Tufted Duck

5) Mew Gull

6) Rufous Hummingbird

7) Burrowing Owl

8) Tropical Kingbird

9) Brambling

10) Townsend’s Warbler

Denis Lepage

Hermit Warbler

1) Anna’s Hummingbird

2) Rufous Hummingbird

3) Anhinga

4) Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

5) Mottled Duck

6) Tufted Duck

7) Wilson’s Plover

8) Mew Gull

9) Dusky Flycatcher

10) Tropical Kingbird

11) Black-throated Sparrow

12) Black-headed Grosbeak