ZooChat Big Year 2017

[ThylacineAlive]

Two I missed off yesterday:

Birds
13) Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
14) Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos

~Thylo

One more I just noticed I forgot to list as well as a few from a very short round of birding before work:

Birds
15) American Robin Turdus migratorius
16) Red-Bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
17) Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
18) Ring-Necked Duck Aythya collaris
19) Common Merganser Mergus merganser
20) American Coot Fulica americana
21) Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
22) Red-Tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
23) American Kestrel Falco sparverius
24) Red-Shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
25) Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo

~Thylo

 

[boof]

7/1/17
45. Australian wood duck
46. dusky moorhen
47. eastern spinebill
48. laughing kookaburra
49. olive backed oriole

 

[Hix]

Birds
59. Galah
60. Silver Gull

Mammals
2. Grey-headed Fruit Bat



Hix

61. White-breasted Waterhen
62. White-tailed Tropicbird



Hix

 

[Chlidonias]

I love how this argument resurfaces every year on the Big Year threads.

speaking for myself, the only feral bird I count (I think) is feral pigeon just because they are so widespread. But then it was annoying when I saw genuine wild rock doves in Ladakh because they are "the same" as the ferals. In NZ lost of people count feral geese (as "greylag geese"), feral guineafowl, and even feral chickens ("red junglefowl"...).

I think if people want to count feral birds then that's fine, so long as they are actually established ferals and not just the released barnyard ducks at the local pond (for example).

With mammals I count all the ferals - pigs, goats, cats, etc. Last year I counted feral goat on my own year list but not on the Zoochat year list. Hix did count feral goat that year, so I could have done too and then I would have been one species higher.

 

[animal_expert01]

Birds:
18. Blue-Eyed Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis)

19. White-headed Pigeon (Columba leucomela)

Total:
26

Birds:
20. Grey-Butcher Bird (Cracticus torquatus)
21. Emerald Dove (Chalcophaps indica)
22. Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus)
23. Bush Turkey (Alectura lathami)

Reptiles:
4. Eastern Water Dragon (Intellagama lesueurii)

 

[DesertRhino150]

Added another two birds and a mammal on a walk this afternoon:

70. Common buzzard Buteo buteo
71. Common goosander Mergus merganser

6. Bank vole Myodes glareolus

A morning out at Abberton Reservoir got me nine new birds for the year:

72. Grey heron Ardea cinerea
73. Smew Mergellus albellus
74. Rook Corvus frugilegus
75. Common goldeneye Bucephala clangula
76. Great black-backed gull Larus marinus
77. Northern pintail Anas acuta
78. Gadwall Anas strepera
79. Slavonian grebe Podiceps auritus (Vu)
80. Bewick's swan Cygnus columbianus

 

[Macaw16]

Just the one more from today, still no Greylags though....

30. Canada Goose Branta canadensis

I finally got out birding, visiting Wheldrake Ings. Annoyingly, the mist and low light made it very difficult to identify many of the waterfowl and various gulls (probably including a number of vagrants).

31. Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope
32. Northern Pintail Anas acuta
33. Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
34. Mute Swan Cygnus olor
35. Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
36. Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
37. Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
38. Greylag Goose Anser anser
39. Northern Shoveller Anas clypeata
40. Pink-footed Goose Anser brachyrhynchus*
41. Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus

*Chances are I have seen this species before, but I have no record of it

 

[LaughingDove]

I actually went out birding properly today, but unfortunately temperatures had dropped and it was getting down to about -16 which got seriously unpleasant after a couple of hours. A fair few additions nonetheless.

43) Bearded Reedling
44) European Goldfinch
45) Eurasian Siskin
46) Short-toed Treecreeper
47) Marsh tit
48) Common Redpoll
49) Common Kingfisher
50) Hawfinch

Went out again today to another site. Still extremely cold, but managed a few nice species, though missed some birds of prey that I was hoping to get.

51) Rough-legged Buzzard
52) Black Woodpecker
53) Eurasian Bullfinch

 

[zooboy28]

2017 is off to a good start, with a few common species seen locally, and a trip to the Edithvale wetlands today netting a good number of species too (although I couldn't find the magpie goose which is apparently visiting the wetland at the moment).

1 Feral Pigeon Columba livia domestica
2 Spotted Dove Spilopelia chinensis
3 Indian Myna Acridotheres tristis
4 Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes
5 Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala
6 Common Blackbird Turdus merula
7 Silver Gull Chroicocephalus novehollandiae
8 House Sparrow Passer domesticus
9 Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
10 Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa
11 Australasian Coot Fulica atra australis
12 Australian Pelican Pelecanus conspicillatus
13 Magpie Lark Grallina cyanoleuca
14 Little Raven Corvus mellori
15 Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus haematodus
16 Galah Elophus roseicapillus
17 Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata
18 Australian Wood Duck Chenonetta jubata
19 Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita
20 Eurasian Starling Sturnus vulgaris
21 Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
22 Australian White Ibis Threskiornis molucca
23 Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia
24 Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles
25 White-headed Stilt Himantopus leucocephalus
26 White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae
27 Pacific Heron Ardea pacifica
28 Dusky Moorhen Gallinula tenebrosa
29 Purple Swamphen Porphyrio porphyrio
30 Black Swan Cygnus atratus
31 Chestnut Teal Anas castanea
32 Grey Teal Anas gracilis
33 Australasian Shoveller Anas rhynchotis
34 Little Pied Cormorant Microcarbo melanoleucos
35 Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
36 Australasian Grebe Tachybaptus novaehollandiae
37 White-plumed Honeyeater Lichenostomus flavescens

 

[Hevden]

1. Wood pigeon
2. Blackbird
3. Robin
4. Collard dove
5. Pheasant
6. Carrion crow
7. Jackdaw
8. Greylag goose
9. Black-headed gull
10. Red-legged partridge
11. Lesser-black backed gull
12. Mallard
13. Pink-footed goose
14. Lapwing
15. Golden plover
16. Moorhen
17. White-fronted goose
18. Water rail
19. Goldfinch
20. Chaffinch
21. Greenfinch
22. Blue tit
23. Great tit
24. Teal
25. Wigeon
26. Shoveller
27. Gadwall
28. Brent goose
29. Marsh harrier
30. Buzzard
31. Little egret
32. Redshank
33. Ringed plover
34. Dunlin
35. Knot
36. Black-tailed godwit
37. Avocet
38. Reed bunting
39. Grey plover
40. Long-tailed duck
41. Common scoter
42. Velvet scoter
43. Sanderling
44. Curlew
45. Oystercatcher
46. Herring gull
47. Little stint
48. Snipe
49. Little grebe
50. Brambling
51. Jay
52. Magpie
53. Bullfinch
54. Starling
55. Wren
56. Chiffchaff
57. Stonechat
58. Turnstone
59. Cormorant
60. Shelduck
61. Bean goose
62. Pintail
63. House sparrow
64. Kestrel
65. Tufted duck
66. Great black-backed gull
67. Common gull
68. Red-throated diver
69. Egyptian goose
70. Shore lark
71. Merlin
72. Hen harrier
73. Gannet
74. Goldeneye
75. Red-breasted merganser
76. Bar-tailed godwit
77. Skylark
78. Linnet
79. Feral pigeon
80. Great northern diver
81. Black-throated diver
82. Great-crested grebe
83. Coot
84. Eider
85. Long-tailed tit
86. Woodcock
87. Golden pheasant
88. Hedge sparrow
89. Slavonian grebe
90. Mute swan
91. Pochard
92. Redwing
93. Great white egret
94. Grey heron
95. Kingfisher
96. Nuthatch
97. Marsh tit
98. Coal tit
99. Goosander
100. Rook
101. Waxwing
102. Mistle thrush
103. Red grouse
104. Song thrush
105. Dusky thrush
106. Goldcrest
107. Great spotted woodpecker
108. Siskin
109. Tawny owl

110. Treecreeper
111. Lesser redpoll
112. Mandarin

 

[Ituri]

95 Eurasian Collared Dove - Streptopelia decaocto
96 Marsh Wren - Cistothorus palustris

Birds:
97 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Sphyrapicus varius
98 Pileated Woodpecker - Dryocopus pileatus
99 Least Bittern - Ixobrychus exilis
100 Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus
101 Crested Caracara - Caracara cheriway
102 House Wren - Troglodytes aedon
103 Vesper Sparrow - Pooecetes gramineus
104 Common Ground-Dove - Columbina passerina

Mammals:
2 North American River Otter - Lontra canadensis

 

[Pleistohorse]

Birds:
1. Common Raven

Mammals:
1. Arctic Fox
2. Caribou
3. Red Fox

 

[Vision]

BIRDS
30) Common chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs
31) Eurasian tree sparrow, Passer montanus

 

[Macaw16]

I finally got out birding, visiting Wheldrake Ings. Annoyingly, the mist and low light made it very difficult to identify many of the waterfowl and various gulls (probably including a number of vagrants).

31. Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope
32. Northern Pintail Anas acuta
33. Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
34. Mute Swan Cygnus olor
35. Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
36. Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
37. Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
38. Greylag Goose Anser anser
39. Northern Shoveller Anas clypeata
40. Pink-footed Goose Anser brachyrhynchus*
41. Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus

*Chances are I have seen this species before, but I have no record of it

A pleasant surprise from my garden:

42. Goldcrest Regulus regulus

 

[robmv]

A few bits and pieces picked up during the week:
67. Pied Wagtail (Motacilla alba)
68. Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris)
69. Lesser Redpoll (Carduelis cabaret)
70. Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
71. Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

Then a day out to North Wales to look for some coastal species:
72. Brent Goose (Branta bernicla)
73. Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)
74. Great Northern Diver (Gavia immer)
75. Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
76. Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
77. Slavonian Grebe (Podiceps auritus)
78. Peregrine (Falco peregrinus)
79. Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
80. Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
81. Curlew (Numenius arquata)
82. Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)
83. Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
84. Knot (Calidris canutus)
85. Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
86. Redshank (Tringa totanus)
87. Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle)
88. Guillemot (Uria aalge)
89. Chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax)
90. Dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
91. Stonechat (Saxicola rubicola)
92. Rock Pipit (Anthus petrosus)
93. Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)

Back to my local patch today:
94. Bewick's Swan (Cygnus columbianus)
95. Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus)
96. Bean Goose (Anser fabalis)
97. Gadwall (Anas strepera)
98. Green-winged Teal (Anas carolinensis)
99. Pochard (Aythya ferina)
100. Red-legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa)
101. Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus)

 

[Maguari]

Additions from a Humberside day out today; plenty going on at North Cave Wetlands but Blacktoft Sands eerily quiet (except for marsh harriers, of course!) until a late swan arrival.

Birds:
66. Northern Shoveler - Anas clypeata
67. Common Gull - Larus canus
68. Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
69. Greylag Goose - Anser anser
70. Common Shelduck - Tadorna tadorna
71. Eurasian Siskin - Spinus spinus
72. Common Kingfisher - Alcedo atthis
73. Eurasian Curlew - Numenius arquata
74. Western Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus
75. Dunlin - Calidris alpina
76. Whooper Swan - Cygnus cygnus

Mammals:
2. European Rabbit - Oryctolagus cuniculus

 

[jbnbsn99]

102 Cooper's Hawk - Accipiter cooperii
103 Redhead - Aythya americana
104 Brown Thrasher - Toxostoma rufum
105 Northern Harrier - Circus cyaneus
106 Prairie Falcon - Falco mexicanus

 

[animal_expert01]

Birds:
20. Grey-Butcher Bird (Cracticus torquatus)
21. Emerald Dove (Chalcophaps indica)
22. Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus)
23. Bush Turkey (Alectura lathami)

Reptiles:
4. Eastern Water Dragon (Intellagama lesueurii)

Birds:
24. Australian Wood Duck (Chenonetta jubata)

 

[ThylacineAlive]

One more I just noticed I forgot to list as well as a few from a very short round of birding before work:

Birds
15) American Robin Turdus migratorius
16) Red-Bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
17) Eastern Bluebird Sialia sialis
18) Ring-Necked Duck Aythya collaris
19) Common Merganser Mergus merganser
20) American Coot Fulica americana
21) Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
22) Red-Tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
23) American Kestrel Falco sparverius
24) Red-Shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
25) Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo

~Thylo

Was trapped after work at a friend's house due to a snowstorm last night and this morning I was watching his bird feeders and picked up a few more birds. The story behind the last one being all the other birds suddenly flew away at once and then it landed on the porch before flying to a nearby tree.

Birds
26) Black-Capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
27) European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
28) White-Breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
29) Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
30) Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii

Mammals
3) White-Tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus

~Thylo

 

[Hevden]

110. Treecreeper
111. Lesser redpoll
112. Mandarin

113. Hawfinch
114. Gargany
115. Smew
116. Scaup
117. Meadow pipit