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Peter R. Bono
Activities and Interests
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Contact: pbono@prba.com

Peter's interests include international travel, classical music,
"oldies-but-goodies," and reading.
However, his chief hobby is bird watching.
As of March 10, 2009:
- His
US life list (ABA area) stands
at 673 species (out of a
possible 800+). His latest ABA lifers
were a Northern Hawk-Owl seen and photographed in Center
Harbor, NH, in February
2009 and a Black-tailed Gull seen and photographed in Provincetown,
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in November 2008.
- His World life list
(Clement's 6th edition including updates through October 15, 2008)
stands at 5100 species (out
of a possible 9886): 4925
seen and 175 heard only. With the latest Clement’s
update, he had a NET LOSS of 23 species (5 splits and 28 lumps).
- In January 2009, he
added 16 species as a result of a 6-day birding get-away to the Yucatan
Peninsula of Mexico. Life
birds included Ocellated Turkey,
Ruddy Crake, Gray-headed Dove, Yucatan Poorwill, Yucatan Nightjar,
Wedge-tailed Sabrewing, White-bellied Emerald, Mexican Sheartail,
Tawny-winged
and Ruddy Woodcreeper, Stub-tailed Spadebill, Yucatan Wren,
Gray-throated Chat, Yellow-winged Tanager, Green-backed Sparrow and
Blue Bunting.
Click here for the whole trip report.
- In
July-August 2008, he added 202 species (174 seen and 28 heard only) as
a result of a 25-day Manu
Expeditions trip to the Manu Biosphere in Southeastern
Peru. Top birds seen included Pale-winged Trumpeter,
Peruvian Recurvebill, Wire-crested Thorntail, Rufous-crested Coquette,
Royal Cinclodes, Golden-collared Tanager, Black-backed Tody Flycatcher,
Bartlett’s Tinamou, Blue-headed Macaw, Ringed Antpipit, Horned
Screamer, Black Hawk-Eagle (perched at close range), Koepcke’s,
Rufescent and White-throated Screech Owls, Swallow-tailed and
Lyre-tailed Nightjars, Curl-crested Aracari, Crested and Golden-headed
Quetzal, Andean Cock-of-the-Rock, Slaty Gnateater, White-bellied
Tody-Tyrant, Golden-crowned and White-crested Spadebills,
Parodi’s Hemispingus, and Apurimac, Black-faced, and Cusco
Brush-Finches. Click here for the whole trip report.
- His home yard list
from July 1975 to February 2002 is available (click
here).
You may select from the following to see a sampling of his
photos and to download his trip reports. Not all the sets of photos are
available--these are marked with an asterisk. The trip reports are in HTML
format and may be printed after viewing.
Daughter Diane is a 1997
graduate of Mount Holyoke College.
She works as an HR Manager in the Boston
area.



