ZooChat Big Year 2017

[Macaw16]

A surprise from earlier today(13/3/2017)...

83. Common Raven Corvus corax

A bird that has been lingering in my garden for a few days...

84. Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus

 

[Maguari]

I was away this weekend on a friend's stag weekend in Krakow - a rare trip away for me that involves neither a zoo nor a wildlife expedition! That said, there was, pleasingly, a little incidental wildlife to record - a bird and a rodent from a park in Krakow, and an ungulate spotted at the roadside in Cambridgeshire on the way to Stansted airport.

Birds:
111. Hooded Crow - Corvus cornix

Mammals:
11. Reeves' Muntjac - Muntiacus reevesi
12. European Red Squirrel - Sciurus vulgaris

 

[boof]

15/3/2017
141. grey butcherbird

 

[Vision]

BIRDS:
84) Great crested grebe, Podiceps cristatus
85) Common chiffchaff, Phylloscopus collybita
86) Eurasian teal, Anas crecca

 

[Macaw16]

A bird that has been lingering in my garden for a few days...

84. Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus

One from today whilst travelling (16/3/2017):

85. Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis

 

[DesertRhino150]

A trip to a local wood and a walk from my home got me three new bird species today, plus my first fish of the year:

106. Lesser redpoll Acanthis cabaret
107. Red kite Milvus milvus (Nt)
108. Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita

1. European minnow Phoxinus phoxinus

Since my last update I have added three new birds, my first reptile, a second fish, my first three butterflies and another bumblebee, while either in my local area or at Heybridge Basin:

109. Mediterranean gull Ichthyaetus melanocephalus
110. Eurasian linnet Linaria cannabina
111. European yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella

1. Slow worm Anguis fragilis

2. European roach Rutilus rutilus

1. Comma butterfly Polygonia c-album
2. Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae
3. Red admiral butterfly Vanessa atalanta

3. Red-tailed bumblebee Bombus lapidarius

 

[lintworm]

New species for January 1st, all from Katavi national park, for stories see: Kipunji Quest, Lintworm goes to Tanzania

Birds
1. Red-cheeked cordonbleu
2. Hamerkop
3. Red-winged starling
4. Emerald-spotted wood dove
5. White-crested helmetshrike
6. Red-necked spur fowl
7. Malachite kingfisher
8. White-browed coucal
9. Spur-winged goose
10. Woodland kingfisher
11. Ring-necked dove
12. Helmeted guineafowl
13. Bare-faced go away bird
14. Ruaha red-billed hornbill
15. Fork-tailed drongo
16. Green woodhoopoe
17. Little bee-eater
18. Magpie shrike
19. Black coucal
20. Black-winged kite
21. White-headed vulture
22. Egyptian goose
23. Brown snake-eagle
24. Blacksmith lapwing
25. Yellow-billed oxpecker
26. Lilac-breasted roller
27. Eurasian hobby
28. Cattle egret
29. European bee-eater
30. Grey kestrel
31. Marsh sandpiper
32. White-backed vulture
33. Meyer's parrot
34. Hooded vulture
35. Southern ground hornbill
36. Pallid harrier
37. Hadada ibis
38. African wattled lapwing
39. Great egret
40. Saddle-billed stork
41. Black-headed heron
42. Western marsh harrier
43. African fish eagle
44. African palm swift
45. Variable sunbird
46. Miombo blue-eared starling
47. Northern white-crowned shrike
48. Wire-tailed swallow
49. Common bulbul
50. Striated heron
51. Black-crowned tchagra
52. Red-billed firefinch
53. African openbill
54. African jacana
55. African crake
56. Palm-nut vulture
57. Tawny-flanked prinia
58. Southern carmine bee-eater
59. White-faced whistling duck
60. Red-chested cuckoo
61. Jacobin cuckoo
62. Brown-hooded kingfisher
63. Village weaver
64. Bateleur
65. Swallow-tailed bee-eater
66. Grey-backed fiscal
67. Lappet-faced vulture
68. Collared palm thrush

Mammals
1. Common hippo
2. African bush elephant
3. Impala
4. African wild dog
5. Masai giraffe
6. Banded mongoose
7. African buffalo
8. Topi
9. Grant's zebra
10. Common warthog
11. Bohor reedbuck
12. Bushbuck
13. Defassa waterbuck
14. Vervet monkey
15. Spotted hyena
16. Yellow baboon
17. African yellow-winged bat
18. Common dwarf mongoose

Herptiles
1. Nile crocodile
2. Nile monitor

Katavi NP day 2

69. Spotted flycatcher
70. Black-backed puffback
71. African pied wagtail
72. Violet-backed starling
73. Spur-winged lapwing
74. Grey heron
75. Pin-tailed whydah
76. Black-winged stilt
77. Common sandpiper
78. Squacco heron
79. Long-toed lapwing
80. Great spotted cuckoo
81. Spotted thick-knee
82. Black-bellied bustard
83. Long-crested eagle
84. African grey hornbill
85. Coppery-tailed coucal
86. Ruff
87. Grey crowned crane
88. European white stork
89. Red-Billed oxpecker
90. Three-banded courser
91. Water thick-knee
92. Broad-billed roller
93. Speckled pigeon
94. Black-headed oriole

Mammals
19. Southern reedbuck
20. Eland
21. Egyptian mongoose

 

[Chlidonias]

update for Vietnam as of yesterday (from entering Vietnam up to leaving Cat Tien National Park).

BIRDS:
328) White-winged black tern Chlidonias leucopterus
329) Collared kingfisher Todiramphus chloris
330) Scaly-breasted munia Lonchura punctulata
331) Moustached parakeet Psittacula alexandri
332) Blue-eared barbet Megalaima australis
333) Large woodshrike Tephrodornis gularis
334) Asian brown flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica
335) Yellow-vented green pigeon Treron seimundi
336) Thick-billed flowerpecker Dicaeum agile
337) Red-rumped swallow Hirundo daurica
338) Bronzed drongo Dicrurus aeneus
339) Racket-tailed treepie Crypsirina temia
340) Pale-headed woodpecker Gecinclus grantia
341) Golden-crested mynah Ampeliceps coronatus
342) Brown-throated sunbird Anthreptes malacensis
343) Grey-faced tit-babbler Macronous kelleyi
344) Black-hooded oriole Oriolus xanthornus
345) Black and red broadbill Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchos
346) Scaly-breasted partridge Arborophila chloropus
347) Germain's peacock-pheasant Polyplectron germaini
348) Woolly-necked stork Ciconia episcopus
349) Red collared dove Streptopelia tranquebarica
350) Green imperial pigeon Ducula aenea
351) White-crested laughing thrush Garrulax leucolophos
352) Common flameback woodpecker Dinopium javanense
353) Two-barred warbler Phylloscopus plumbeitarsus
354) Crimson sunbird Aethopyga siparaja
355) Himalayan swiftlet Collocalia brevirostris
356) Silver-backed needletail Hirunapus cochinchinensis
357) Tickell's blue flycatcher Cyornis tickelliae
358) Rufescent prinia Prinia rufescens
359) Scaly-crowned babbler Malacopteron cinereum
360) Heart-spotted woodpecker Hemicircus canente
361) Rufous woodpecker Celeus brachyurus
362) Grey-capped pigmy woodpecker Dendrocopos canicapillus
363) Lesser coucal Centropus bengalensis
364) Ashy-headed green pigeon Treron phayrei


MAMMALS:
44) Northern tree shrew Tupaia belangeri
45) Indochinese silvered langur Trachypithecus germaini
46) Brown rat Rattus norvegicus
47) Spotted giant flying squirrel Petaurista elegans
48) Black-shanked douc Pygathrix nigripes
49) Annamese silvered langur Trachypithecus margarita
50) Cambodian striped squirrel Tamiops rodolphii
51) Northern slender-tailed tree shrew Dendrogale murina
52) Southern buff-cheeked gibbon Nomascus gabriellae
53) Crab-eating mongoose Herpestes urva
54) Yellow-throated marten Martes flavigula

 

[Maguari]

This post feels a bit inadequate after the two above but one new bird on the way to the IZES meeting today:

112. Red Kite - Milvus milvus

 

[Chlidonias]

I am stuck inside with heavy rain today, so even though it is the middle of the third month here is the first round-up of the Big Year 2017 (as of what is posted on the list). A lot of people it seems have not updated for a while, and a couple of people seem to have disappeared (?), but here's where things stand right now.



BIRDS:

Chlidonias – 364
boof – 141
robmv – 133
Ituri – 130
Hevden – 129
TeaLovingDave – 115
Maguari – 112
jbnbsn99 – 111
DesertRhino150 – 111
Zoo Tycooner FR – 98
lintworm – 94
Vision – 86
Macaw16 – 85
Hix – 83
LaughingDove – 82
savethelephant – 77
vogelcommando – 65
ThylacineAlive – 58
KevinVar – 58
zooboy28 – 48
animal_expert01 – 31
Pleistohorse – 9


MAMMALS:

Chlidonias – 54
lintworm – 21
savethelephant – 14
Maguari – 12
Zoo Tycooner FR – 11
DesertRhino150 – 10
Macaw16 – 10
LaughingDove – 8
ThylacineAlive – 8
Ituri – 7
Vision – 6
Pleistohorse – 5
animal_expert01 – 5
Hix – 4
KevinVar – 3
vogelcommando – 1


HERPTILES:

Ituri – 8 Herptiles total (8 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)
animal_expert01 – 7 Herptiles total (6 Reptiles, 1 Amphibians)
Hix – 3 Herptiles total (3 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)
lintworm – 2 Herptiles total (2 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)
DesertRhino150 – 1 Herptiles total (1 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)
LaughingDove – 1 Herptiles total (0 Reptiles, 1 Amphibians)
Vision – 1 Herptiles total (0 Reptiles, 1 Amphibians)
Macaw16 – 1 Herptiles total (0 Reptiles, 1 Amphibians)


FISH:

Hix – 235
DesertRhino150 – 2
animal_expert01 – 2


INVERTEBRATES:

Hix – 20 assorted
DesertRhino150 – 3 butterflies, 3 bees
Maguari – 3 assorted
animal_expert01 – 2 assorted

 

[LaughingDove]

Identified another:

82) Greater Scaup

Quite a successful birding trip today including the first lifers of the year (both of which are quite rare in my part of Poland).

83) Common Woodpigeon (one appeared in my garden this morning and now they're absolutely everywhere. They must have all decided to migrate to Poland at once).
84) Merlin
85) Eurasian Golden Plover
86) Western Marsh Harrier
87) Whooper Swan
88) Horned Lark
89) Stock Dove

Also heard only Common Bittern, but unfortunately I was unable to locate the bird in a huge area of reed beds.

 

[Maguari]

A rather more spring-y set of additions today - mostly from the Idle Valley on the Notts/S. Yorks border. A bumper day of amphibians, with several dozen toads over two ponds, and two other ponds with multiple frogs and newts.

Birds:
113. Sand Martin - Riparia riparia
114. Little Ringed Plover - Charadrius dubius
115. Marsh Tit - Poecile palustris

Amphibians:
1. Common Toad - Bufo bufo
2. Common Frog - Rana temporaria
3. Smooth Newt - Lissotriton vulgaris

Invertebrates:
4. European Honey Bee - Apis mellifera
5. White-tailed Bumblebee - Bombus lucorum

 

[boof]

17/3/2017
142. striated heron
143. magpie goose

 

[Giant Panda]

MAMMALS:

Chlidonias – 54
lintworm – 21
savethelephant – 14
Maguari – 12
Zoo Tycooner FR – 11
DesertRhino150 – 10
Macaw16 – 10
LaughingDove – 8
ThylacineAlive – 8
Ituri – 7
Vision – 6
Pleistohorse – 5
animal_expert01 – 5
Hix – 4
KevinVar – 3
vogelcommando – 1

Provided late entries are permitted, this compelled me to join the race.

Mammals*:

1. European badger (Meles meles)
2. Eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)**
3. Reeves’s muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi)**
4. Red fox (Vulpes vulpes)
5. Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)
6. European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)**
7. Black rat (Rattus rattus)**
8. Common treeshrew (Tupaia glis)
9. White-thighed langur (Presbytis siamensis)
10. Crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis)
11. Grey-bellied squirrel (Callosciurus caniceps)
12. Southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina)
13. Wild boar (Sus scrofa)
14. Western striped squirrel (Tamiops mcclellandii)
15. Siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus)
16. Plantain squirrel (Callosciurus notatus)
17. Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis)
18. Malay Civet (Viverra tangalunga)
19. Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus)
20. Gaur (Bos frontalis)
21. Sambar (Cervus unicolor)
22. White-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar)
23. Three-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus insignis)
24. Dusky langur (Trachypithecus obscurus)
25. Lesser dog-faced fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis)
26. Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)
27. Quokka (Setonix brachyurus)
28. New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri)
29. Western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus)
30. Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
31. Brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata)
32. Common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
33. Yellow-footed antechinus (Antechinus flavipes)
34. Western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii)
35. Grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus)
36. Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)**
37. Water rat (Hydromys chrysogaster)
38. Long-nosed bandicoot (Parameles nasuta)
39. Common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus)
40. House mouse (Mus musculus)**
41. Javan rusa (Rusa timorensis)**
42. Pallas’ squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus)**
43. Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis)

*I heinously ignore everything else.

**Introduced populations.

 

[Chlidonias]

Provided late entries are permitted, this compelled me to join the race.

Mammals*:

1. European badger (Meles meles)
2. Eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)**
3. Reeves’s muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi)**
4. Red fox (Vulpes vulpes)
5. Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)
6. European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)**
7. Black rat (Rattus rattus)**
8. Common treeshrew (Tupaia glis)
9. White-thighed langur (Presbytis siamensis)
10. Crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis)
11. Grey-bellied squirrel (Callosciurus caniceps)
12. Southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina)
13. Wild boar (Sus scrofa)
14. Western striped squirrel (Tamiops mcclellandii)
15. Siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus)
16. Plantain squirrel (Callosciurus notatus)
17. Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis)
18. Malay Civet (Viverra tangalunga)
19. Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus)
20. Gaur (Bos frontalis)
21. Sambar (Cervus unicolor)
22. White-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar)
23. Three-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus insignis)
24. Dusky langur (Trachypithecus obscurus)
25. Lesser dog-faced fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis)
26. Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)
27. Quokka (Setonix brachyurus)
28. New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri)
29. Western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus)
30. Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
31. Brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata)
32. Common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
33. Yellow-footed antechinus (Antechinus flavipes)
34. Western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii)
35. Grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus)
36. Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)**
37. Water rat (Hydromys chrysogaster)
38. Long-nosed bandicoot (Parameles nasuta)
39. Common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus)
40. House mouse (Mus musculus)**
41. Javan rusa (Rusa timorensis)**
42. Pallas’ squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus)**
43. Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis)

*I heinously ignore everything else.

**Introduced populations.

so, Bukit Fraser, Taman Negara, Perth...and Hong Kong?

 

[Ituri]

REPTILES:
8 Green Sea Turtle - Chelonia mydas

MAMMALS:
6 Feral Pig - Sus scrofa
7 West Indian Manatee - Trichechus manatus

BIRDS:
128 Eastern Screech-Owl - Megascops asio
129 King Rail - Rallus elegans
130 Tufted Titmouse - Baeolophus bicolor

MAMMALS:
8 White-tailed Deer - Odocoileus virginianus

BIRDS:
130 Brown Thrasher - Toxostoma rufum
131 Blue-headed Vireo - Vireo solitarius
132 Orange-crowned Warbler - Oreothlypis celata
133 Northern Parula - Setophaga americana
134 Painted Bunting - Passerina ciris
135 Dunlin - Calidris alpina
136 Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla
137 Long-billed Dowitcher - Limnodromus scolopaceus
138 Western Kingbird - Tyrannus verticalis
139 Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum
140 Brown-headed Cowbird - Molothrus ater
141 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - Stelgidopteryx serripennis
142 Solitary Sandpiper - Tringa solitaria
143 American Goldfinch - Spinus tristis
144 Swallow-tailed Kite - Elanoides forficatus
145 Prairie Warbler - Setophaga discolor
146 White-winged Dove - Zenaida asiatica
147 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Archilochus colubris
148 Buff-bellied Hummingbird - Amazilia yucatanensis
149 Black-throated Blue Warbler - Setophaga caerulescens
150 Short-tailed Hawk - Buteo brachyurus
151 Seaside Sparrow - Ammodramus maritimus *Cape Sable subspecies
152 White-crowned Pigeon - Patagioenas leucocephala
153 Black-necked Stilt - Himantopus mexicanus
154 Mangrove Cuckoo - Coccyzus minor
155 Ovenbird - Seiurus aurocapilla
156 American Redstart - Setophaga ruticilla
157 Common Myna - Acridotheres tristis
158 Monk Parakeet - Myiopsitta monachus
159 Brown-headed Nuthatch - Sitta pusilla
160 Eastern Bluebird - Sialia sialis
161 Wood Duck - Aix sponsa

NOTE: The numbering appears off, this is because I had to delete Short-billed Dowitcher as doubt was raised regarding my sighting.

REPTILES:
9 Banded Water Snake - Nerodia fasciata
10 American Crocodile - Crocodylus acutus

 

[LaughingDove]

so, Bukit Fraser, Taman Negara, Perth...and Hong Kong?

And presumably Eastern Australia as well for the bandicoot and flying fox.

 

[Chlidonias]

And presumably Eastern Australia as well for the bandicoot and flying fox.

yep, I figured Melbourne because of the water rat.

 

[Giant Panda]

And presumably Eastern Australia as well for the bandicoot and flying fox.

yep, I figured Melbourne because of the water rat.

Correct on both counts, except Melbourne wasn't the only eastern city I visited. You also missed a whole country

A final addition from Hong Kong:

Mammals:
1. European badger (Meles meles)
2. Eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)**
3. Reeves’s muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi)**
4. Red fox (Vulpes vulpes)
5. Roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)
6. European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)**
7. Black rat (Rattus rattus)**
8. Common treeshrew (Tupaia glis)
9. White-thighed langur (Presbytis siamensis)
10. Crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis)
11. Grey-bellied squirrel (Callosciurus caniceps)
12. Southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina)
13. Wild boar (Sus scrofa)
14. Western striped squirrel (Tamiops mcclellandii)
15. Siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus)
16. Plantain squirrel (Callosciurus notatus)
17. Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis)
18. Malay Civet (Viverra tangalunga)
19. Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus)
20. Gaur (Bos frontalis)
21. Sambar (Cervus unicolor)
22. White-handed gibbon (Hylobates lar)
23. Three-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus insignis)
24. Dusky langur (Trachypithecus obscurus)
25. Lesser dog-faced fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis)
26. Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)
27. Quokka (Setonix brachyurus)
28. New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri)
29. Western grey kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus)
30. Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
31. Brush-tailed bettong (Bettongia penicillata)
32. Common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
33. Yellow-footed antechinus (Antechinus flavipes)
34. Western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii)
35. Grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus)
36. Brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)**
37. Water rat (Hydromys chrysogaster)
38. Long-nosed bandicoot (Parameles nasuta)
39. Common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus)
40. House mouse (Mus musculus)**
41. Javan rusa (Rusa timorensis)**
42. Pallas’ squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus)**
43. Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis)
44. Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)**

**Introduced populations.

 

[Chlidonias]

Correct on both counts, except Melbourne wasn't the only eastern city I visited. You also missed a whole country

I'll guess that might be Singapore then, for the short-nosed fruit bat at #25?

On the subject of bats, did you go to the Batu Caves in KL?

Hey, you should do a travel thread!