Birds of 2021

I added 15 new birds to my lifelist in 2021, of course they are all from my trip to Corpus Christie TX.
Black skimmers

Mottled ducks
Reddish egret
Tri color herons
Wilson’s plover
Roseate spoonbills

Roseate spoonbill

Ruddy turnstone
Laughing gulls
Sandwich tern
Least terns
Royal terns

Reddish Egret

Black skimmers
Groove billed anis
Couch’s kingbirds
Great kiskadees
Boat tailed grackles

Crested caracara

I did enough birding this year to see 160 species. Most are in my region which includes Idaho: Camas WR, Market Lake WR, Mud Lake, Island Park, Pocatello, American Falls, Blackfoot and of course Pocatello. My region also includes Utah: Bear River NMBR, Antelope Island and Montana/Wyoming Yellowstone National Park.

Yellow headed blackbird

I think I will do more targeted birding this coming year. I expect that Covid will continue to have an impact on my travel plans so for the most part I will be continuing to bird my region. I’ve been compiling a list of birds that are common-occasional to Idaho/Utah and will try to see as many of them as possible. We’ll see how this goes.