"Tails" of a New Birder's Journey

Although I’d wanted to a write a blog for each day of Birdathon, in the end, Birdathon got the best of me! It’s one thing to see 376 species in a month; it’s quite another to blog about them all. Posts about my Costa Rica will be coming soon.

Until there, here are all the stats for Birdathon 2025!! What a whirlwind! I am so proud of the fact that I raised over $6,000 for the Tucson Bird Alliance.

Pledges:

• Robert: $0.25/species. Happy birding!
• Pierce: $0.30/species and an extra $5 for each different species of honeycreeper you might find. Have so much fun!
• Britney: $0.10/species and an extra $5 if you see a pheasant cuckoo in Costa Rica. Good luck Aunt Dawn, we ❤️ you! – jonah and brit
• Marcia: $12/species

All the species I saw:

In the US:

Song Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
European Starling
Hutton’s Vireo
Say’s Phoebe
Mitred Parakeet
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night Heron
Double-crested Cormorant
Killdeer
Anna’s Hummingbird
Mourning Dove
House Sparrow
Northern Mockingbird
Cassin’s Kingbird
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Great-tailed Grackle
House Finch
American Robin
Western Bluebird
American Crow
Black Phoebe
White-faced Ibis
Ring-billed Gull
American Coot
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mallard
American Wigeon
Egyptian Goose
Canada Goose
Common Yellowthroat
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
White-crowned Sparrow
Bushtit
Tree Swallow
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Green Heron
Western Grebe
Caspian Tern
American Avocet
Black-necked Stilt
Allen’s Hummingbird
Green-winged Teal
Gadwall
Northern Shoveler
Cinnamon Teal
Blue-winged Teal
Lesser Goldfinch
Barn Swallow
Red-crowned Amazon
Great Egret
Pied-billed Grebe
California Gull
American White Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Forster’s Tern
Ruddy Duck
Bullock’s Oriole
Hooded Oriole
American Goldfinch
Vermilion Flycatcher
Townsend’s Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Chipping Sparrow
Cactus Wren
Bewick’s Wren
Northern House Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
White-breasted Nuthatch
Wrentit
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Oak Titmouse
California Scrub-Jay
Warbling Vireo
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Western Flycatcher
American Kestrel
Northern Flicker
Acorn Woodpecker
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Turkey Vulture
White-throated Swift
Band-tailed Pigeon
Sanderling
Willet
Brewer’s Blackbird
Common Raven
Downy Woodpecker
Rock Pigeon
Wilson’s Snipe
Brown-headed Cowbird
Yellow-breasted Chat
Scaly-breasted Munia
California Thrasher
Marsh Wren
Swinhoe’s White-eye
Cliff Swallow
Osprey
Clark’s Grebe
Black Skimmer
Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Curlew
Bufflehead
Red-winged Blackbird
Greater Yellowlegs
Western Kingbird
Horned Grebe
Western Gull
Spotted Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Semipalmated Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Phainopepla
White-tailed Kite
Common Gallinule
Virginia Rail
Black-headed Grosbeak
Wilson’s Warbler
Indian Peafowl
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Western Sandpiper
Vaux’s Swift

In Costa Rica:

Blue-gray Tanager
Tropical Kingbird
White-fronted Amazon
Lesson’s Motmot
Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
Clay-colored Thrush
Rufous-backed Wren
Blue-and-white Swallow
Piratic Flycatcher
Boat-billed Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
White-winged Dove
Inca Dove
Bat Falcon
Morelet’s Seedeater
Chestnut-sided Warbler
American Redstart
Spot-breasted Oriole
Black-cowled Oriole
Tricolored Munia
Mangrove Swallow
Rufous-browed Peppershrike
Social Flycatcher
Northern Tropical Pewee
Cocoa Woodcreeper
Yellow-headed Caracara
Green Kingfisher
Amazon Kingfisher
Ringed Kingfisher
Black-headed Trogon
Gray Hawk
Common Black Hawk
Plumbeous Kite
Brown Pelican
Tricolored Heron
Little Blue Heron
Boat-billed Heron
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron
Roseate Spoonbill
White Ibis
Neotropic Cormorant
Anhinga
Wood Stork
Northern Jacana
Collared Plover
Southern Lapwing
Ruddy Ground Dove
Plain-breasted Ground Dove
Muscovy Duck
Magnificent Frigatebird
Scarlet Macaw
Blue-black Grassquit
Stripe-headed Sparrow
Yellow-crowned Euphonia
Scrub Euphonia
White-throated Magpie-Jay
Yellow-green Vireo
Yellow-olive Flatbill
Rose-throated Becard
Orange-chinned Parakeet
Turquoise-browed Motmot
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
Western Cattle-Egret
Groove-billed Ani
Double-striped Thick-knee
Cinnamon-bellied Saltator
Scarlet Tanager
Chestnut-capped Warbler
Cabanis’s Wren
Southern House Wren
Barred Antshrike
Hoffmann’s Woodpecker
Fiery-billed Aracari
Black Vulture
Blue-throated Goldentail
Cinnamon Hummingbird
Plain-capped Starthroat
Squirrel Cuckoo
Red-billed Pigeon
Western Wood-Pewee
Tawny-winged Woodcreeper
Black-hooded Antshrike
American Pygmy Kingfisher
Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
Bananaquit
Red-legged Honeycreeper
Blue Dacnis
Golden-hooded Tanager
Buff-rumped Warbler
Orange-billed Sparrow
Spot-crowned Euphonia
Yellow-throated Euphonia
Swainson’s Thrush
White-browed Gnatcatcher
Long-billed Gnatwren
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Eye-ringed Flatbill
Red-capped Manakin
Scaly-breasted Hummingbird
Long-billed Hermit
Short-billed Pigeon
Crested Guan
Buff-throated Saltator
Green Honeycreeper
Shining Honeycreeper
Streaked Flycatcher
Gray-capped Flycatcher
Yellow-throated Toucan
White-necked Jacobin
White-tipped Dove
Variable Seedeater
Thick-billed Seed-Finch
Palm Tanager
Scarlet-rumped Tanager
Northern Waterthrush
Melodious Blackbird
Montezuma Oropendola
Common Tody-Flycatcher
Wedge-billed Woodcreeper
Crimson-fronted Parakeet
White-crowned Parrot
Snail Kite
Green Ibis
Purple Gallinule
Gray-cowled Wood-Rail
Gray-headed Chachalaca
Roadside Hawk
Sandwich Tern
Charming Hummingbird
Riverside Wren
Rufous-and-white Wren
Lesser Greenlet
Northern Plain-Xenops
Chestnut-backed Antbird
Red-crowned Woodpecker
White-whiskered Puffbird
Northern Black-throated Trogon
Masked Tityra
Crested Caracara
Eastern Kingbird
American Barn Owl
Common Potoo
Common Pauraque
Ruddy-breasted Seedeater
Giant Cowbird
Red-breasted Meadowlark
Isthmian Wren
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Rusty-margined Flycatcher
Yellow-bellied Elaenia
Red-lored Amazon
Blue-headed Parrot
Lineated Woodpecker
Golden-naped Woodpecker
Smooth-billed Ani
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Black-striped Sparrow
Swallow-tailed Kite
King Vulture
Crowned Woodnymph
Gray-headed Tanager
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet
Orange-collared Manakin
Purple-crowned Fairy
Band-tailed Barbthroat
Great Curassow
Great Tinamou
Yellow-faced Grassquit
Scarlet-thighed Dacnis
Silver-throated Tanager
Rufous-collared Sparrow
Common Chlorospingus
Thick-billed Euphonia
Rufous-breasted Wren
Olivaceous Woodcreeper
Snowy-bellied Hummingbird
Garden Emerald
Least Grebe
Shiny Cowbird
Brown-throated Parakeet
Gray-lined Hawk
Glossy Ibis
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Wilson’s Phalarope
Short-billed Dowitcher
Bronzed Cowbird
Gray-breasted Martin
Scrub Greenlet
Black-cheeked Ant-Tanager
Baird’s Trogon
Double-toothed Kite
Mottled Owl
Tropical Screech-Owl
Streaked Saltator
Slaty Spinetail
Olivaceous Piculet
Long-billed Starthroat
Costa Rican Swift
Bay-headed Tanager
Slate-throated Redstart
Tropical Parula
White-throated Thrush
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Golden-olive Woodpecker
Pale-billed Woodpecker
Gartered Trogon
Slaty-tailed Trogon
Crested Oropendola
Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher
Hairy Woodpecker
Slaty Flowerpiercer
Flame-colored Tanager
Yellow-thighed Brushfinch
Large-footed Finch
Mountain Thrush
Volcano Hummingbird
Fiery-throated Hummingbird
Talamanca Hummingbird
Lesser Violetear
Volcano Junco
Sooty Thrush
Violet Sabrewing
White-throated Mountain-gem
Green-crowned Brilliant
Brown Violetear
Speckled Tanager
Tropical Mockingbird
Torrent Tyrannulet
Scaled Antpitta
Stripe-tailed Hummingbird
Resplendent Quetzal
Spangle-cheeked Tanager
Collared Redstart
Black-cheeked Warbler
Flame-throated Warbler
Sooty-capped Chlorospingus
Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush
Ochraceous Wren
Yellow-winged Vireo
Yellowish Flycatcher
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Ruddy Treerunner
Spot-crowned Woodcreeper
Ruddy Pigeon
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren
Sulphur-winged Parakeet