BUBO Listing News

29 September 2023

A few new features have just been launched.

Recent Tick

All rankings tables now show each lister's most recent tick. (This is their last added record, which may be historical.)

Species Search

You can now search for any particular species on a list and jump to that species.

Filter by Family

When editing a list using Batch Edit, you can choose to filter the list and show only the species for a selected family.

In addition, species searches now show matching results broken down by family.

27 August 2023

The IOC World List has been updated to support version 13.2 from July 2023. Of most interest to Western Palearctic listers will be the split of Lesser Sand Plover into Siberian and Tibetan, which will delight top British twitchers as both have occurred in England!

Also of relevance to Britain is that we have updated the BOU British List to include the split of Stejneger's Scoter from White-winged Scoter, giving another armchair tick to some of those who saw the Lothian bird last winter. 

26 March 2023

BUBO Listing has just had a major upgrade to the underlying system. Everything should work as before (and hopefully look a bit nicer, and run a bit faster!). There are a few changes that still need to be completed, and these will be done soon, including:

• Downloading lists
• Latest list update images
• Missing images from old articles
• Contact form not working

We have added some extra security features to reduce the number of spam and hacking attempts we unfortunately receive. You may get errors with some lists not loading (and just showing "loading..."). If you do please try again after a few hours, and also try clearing your browser cache and restarting it.

If you do encounter any other problems, please Contact Us. Thank you for your patience, and we hope you enjoy the improved BUBO Listing!

18 February 2022

It's a black vulture, but not a Black Vulture

Following on from our recent post about Azure-winged and Iberian Magpies, here are some other frequently confused (at least for entering on lists, if not identification) species. Please have a look through and correct any of your lists if you think you may have made one of these errors!

• Hepatic Tanager - 50+ people recording this from Costa Rica southwards instead of recording Tooth-billed or Red Tanager (Hepatic reaches no further south than Nicaragua)
• Black-shouldered Kite - 40+ people recording this outside of Australia when they've actually seen Black-winged Kite
• Purple Gallinule - 25+ people recording this in Western Europe (mostly from Spain), rather than Western (or another) Swamphen - there are a few validly ticked Purple Gallinules as a result of a vagrant in Lisbon, but these are the minority
• Black Vulture - 20+ people recording this on this side of the Atlantic (mostly from Spain), rather than Cinereous Vulture
• Cory's Shearwater - c.20 people recording this from the Balearics eastwards where Cory's is replaced by Scopoli's
• Great Grey Shrike - 10+ people recording this from Iberia instead of Iberian Grey Shrike
• Large-billed Crow or Eastern Jungle Crow - 50+ people recording either in south peninsular India or Sri Lanka (two areas where only Indian Jungle Crow should be found)
• Brown-throated Martin - 20+ people recording in Asia when what they saw would have been Grey-throated
• wrong Olivaceous Warbler (e.g. Eastern in Spain, Western in Greece) - c.10 people
• wrong Orphean Warbler - c.10 people
• wrong Subalpine Warbler - c.10 people recording mostly Western in the east, rather than the converse
• Red-flanked Bluetail instead of Himalayan in India or Nepal - c.10 people

As mentioned before, features such as the top targets and top blockers provide much better insights if there aren't too many mistakes on other people's lists.

Whilst we've put this list together mostly based on the IOC world list, similar mistakes appear on other lists too of course. If you spot any other common mistakes, do consider posting in the forum