ZooChat Big Year 2018

INVERTEBRATES:
51) Comma, Polygonia c-album
52) Flower spider, Misumena vatia
53) Gatekeeper, Pyronia tithonus
54) Small tortoiseshell, Aglais urticae

Also got a few more fantastic views of little bittern!
 
Najade said:
Birds
288. Common Swift
289. Black-headed Gull
290. Mallard
291. Western Jackdaw
292. Common Moorhen
293. Canada Goose
294. Greylag Goose
295. Egyptian Goose
296. Mandarin Duck
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Birds

297. European Herring Gull
298. House Sparrow
299. Eurasian Collared Dove
 
Reptiles
5. Oriental garden lizard, Calotes versicolor
6. Nutaphand's red-eyed gecko, Gekko nutaphandi
7. Bronze Skink, Eutropis macularia
8. Blue crested lizard, Calotes mystaceus
9. Emma Gray's forest lizard, Calotes emma
10. Pegu forest gecko, Cyrtodactylus peguensis
11. Asian vine snake, Ahaetulla prasina
12. Boulenger's Pricklenape, Acanthosaura crucigera
13. Orange-tailed ground gecko, Dixonius hangseesom
14. Mocquard's house gecko, Hemidactylus craspedotus
15. Tiger bent-toed gecko, Cyrtodactylus tigroides
16. Clouded monitor, Varanus nebulosus
17. Flat-tailed house gecko, Hemidactylus platyurus
18. Keeled Rat Snake, Ptyas carinata
19. Rice paddy snake, Enhydris plumbea
20. Yellow-spotted keelback, Xenochrophis flavipunctatus
21. Spiny turtle, Heosemys spinosa
22. Asian water monitor, Varanus salvator
23. Spotted forest skink, Sphenomorphus maculatus
24. Brown whip snake, Dryophiops rubescens
25. Golden flying snake, Chrysopelea ornata
26. Barred Gliding lizard, Draco taeniopterus
27. Reticulated python, Python reticulated
28. Phetchaburi bent-toed gecko, Cyrtodactylus phetchaburiensis
29. Pope's pit viper, Trimeresurus popeiorum
30. Olive tree skink, Dasia olivacea
31. Southeast Asian dog-faced water snake, Cerberus schneiderii
32. Burmese python, Python bivittatus
33. Siamese leaf-toed gecko, Dixonius siamensis
34. Common butterfly lizard, Leiolepis belliana
35. Mangrove pit viper, Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus
36. Banded krait, Bungarus fasciatus
37. Red-tailed green ratsnake, Gonyosoma oxycephalum
38. Mangrove snake, Boiga dendrophila
39. Triangle keelback, Xenochrophis trianguligerus
40. Kuhl's flying gecko, Ptychozoon kuhli
41. Asian grass lizard, Takydromus sexlineatus
42. Malayan pit viper, Calloselasma rhodostoma
43. Oldham's leaf turtle, Cyclemys oldhamii
44. Malayan green vine snake, Ahaetulla mycterizans
45. Four-striped forest gecko, Cyrtodactylus quadrivirgatus
46. Masked water snake, Homalopsis buccata
47. Lekagul's bent-toed gecko, Cyrtodactylus lekaguli
48. Mangrove skink, Emoia atrocostata
49. Sunbeam snake, Xenopeltis unicolor

Amphibians
6. Asian grass frog, Fejervarya limnocharis
7. Common tree frog, Polypedates leucomystax
8. Asian common toad, Duttaphrynus melanostictus
9. Marbled pygmy frog, Microhyla pulchra
10. Blyth's river frog, Limnonectes blythii
11. Sapgreen stream frog, Hylarana nigrovittata
12. White-lipped frog, Hylarana labialis
13. Hose's frog, Odorrana hosii
14. Common green frog, Hylarana erythraea
15. Wallace's flying frog, Rhacophorus nigropalmatus
16. Asian giant toad, Phrynoidis asper

Mammal and bird lists to follow
 
LaughingDove said:
Full Kinabalu Park List


495) Bornean Treepie
496) Bornean Whistler
497) Black-capped White-eye
498) Grey-throated Babbler
499) Chestnut-crested Yuhina
500) Bornean Whistling-thrush
501)Sunda Laughingthrush
502) Bornean Flowerpecker
503) Sunda Bush-warbler
504) Eyebrowed Jungle Flycatcher
505) Bornean Green Magpie
506) Bornean Bald Laughingthrush
507) Temminck's Babbler
"Kinabalu" Mountain Leaf Warbler (endemic Kinabalu subspecies, possible future split and armchair tick)
508) Pygmy Blue Flycatcher
509) Whitehead's Broadbill
510) Ashy Drongo
511) Chestnut-hooded Laughingthrush
512) Sunda Cuckoo
513) Hair-crested Drongo
514) Black-and-crimson Oriole
515) Fruithunter
516) Sunda cuckooshrike
517) Bornean Stubtail
518) Indigo Flycatcher
519) Mountain Barbet
520) Montane Blackeye
521) Golden-naped Barbet
522) Snowy-browed Flycatcher
523) Little Pied Flycatcher
524) Olive-winged Woodpecker
525) Island Thrush (unusual at this altitude)
526) Dark Hawk-cuckoo
527) Mountain Wren-babbler
528) Whitehead's Trogon
529) Blyth's Shrike-babbler
530) Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
531) Crimson-headed Partridge
532) Whitehead’s Spiderhunter
533) Pale-faced Bulbul
534) Bornean Leafbird
535) Everett’s Thrush
536) Bornean (White-browed) Shortwing
537) Kinabalu Serpent-eagle

95) Bornean Black-banded Squirrel
96) Brooke's Squirrel
97) Whitehead's Pygmy Squirrel
98) Jentinck's Squirrel
99) Bornean Mountain Ground Squirrel
100) Smooth-tailed Treeshrew
101) Mountain Treeshrew
102) Red-bellied Sculptor Squirrel
103) Lesser Gymnure
104) Kinabalu Squirrel
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LaughingDove said:
Missed a mammal:

105) Bornean Montane Niviventer

And I have a feeling I missed a bird as well which I identified at the same time but I can't remember what so I'll have to check later.
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All New species from Crocker Range National Park:

Birds:
538) Bornean Ibon
Sociable Bulbul (not counted yet but probably a future split and armchair tick - split from Cinereous Bulbul which is itself a split from Ashy. More discussion in my thread.)
539) Bornean Barbet
540) Cinnamon-rumped Trogon
541) Ruddy Cuckoo-dove
542) Bornean Bulbul
543) Grey-headed Babbler
544) Eyebrowed Wren-babbler
545) Yellow-crowned Barbet
546) Lesser Cuckooshrike

Mammals:
106) Rajah Spiny Rat (Maxomys)
107) Long-footed Treeshrew (longipes)
108) Four-striped Ground-squirrel
109) Malay Weasel
110) Striped Treeshrew

So I've now surpassed the ZooChat Big Year mammal record? I'm not even half way through this trip :D
 
Let’s just agree to not count squirrels so it’ll be more of an even playing field...:p
 
DesertRhino150 said:
Added my first new bird for my year list in close to a month and have been steaming away at identifying the local invertebrates. I have to say that invertebrate number 47 is one of my favourite species from this year - I spent nearly twenty minutes just sitting and watching them:

102. Eurasian blackcap Sylvia atricapilla

44. Common backswimmer Notonecta glauca
45. Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae
46. Small skipper butterfly Thymelicus sylvestris
47. Semaphore fly Poecilobothrus nobilitatus
48. Ringlet butterfly Aphantopus hyperantus
49. Great diving beetle Dytiscus marginalis
50. Water hog louse Asellus aquaticus
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Obviously, I'm not seeing all the myriad animals that everyone else is currently seeing in Asia but at least with the overpowering heat and humidity and the extremely overgrown pathways here in Essex I can at times pretend I'm in the tropics.

Over the past few days, I've identified three new birds, three new fish and nine new invertebrates for my year list:

103. Eurasian hobby Falco subbuteo
104. Common kingfisher Alcedo atthis
105. Eurasian bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula

4. Common rudd Scardinius erythrophthalmus
5. European chub Squalius cephalus
6. Brown trout Salmo trutta *

51. Common red soldier beetle Rhagonycha fulva
52. Meadow grasshopper Chorthippus parallelus
53. Field grasshopper Chorthippus brunneus
54. Green dock beetle Gastrophysa viridula
55. Emperor dragonfly Anax imperator
56. Notch-horned cleg Haematopota pluvialis
57. Large white butterfly Pieris brassicae
58. Large red damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula
59. Lucerne bug Adelphocoris lineolatus

* I believe this species is the result of a reintroduction project by the local 'Museum of Power' from many years ago
 
1/7/2018
186. BOURKE'S PARROT*
187. chestnut-crowned babbler
188. crested bellbird
189. crimson chat
190. southern whiteface
2/7/2018
191. HALL'S BABBLER*
192. mulga parrot
193. REDTHROAT*
194. splendid fairy-wren
195. white-browed treecreeper
 
Najade said:
Let’s just agree to not count squirrels so it’ll be more of an even playing field...:p
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The ideal witty retort to this would be that we should just agree not to count marsupials. You're hardly doing badly at mammals this year!

Except I'll be in Australia by the end of this week...
 
Chlidonias said:
It's okay, he's been suspended from the thread for seeing too many animals.
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Because it's not like you've ever been on a long wildlife watching trip before at all...

I'm surprised that you've never surpassed 150 mammals in a year given how long some of your trips are. I would have thought that even you could see that many :P.
 
LaughingDove said:
What's your highest ever trip total?
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No idea. I have year totals, but not (usually) trip totals. I could work it out from my notebooks but it would be more trouble than I'm inclined to give myself. Because my trips tend to be across really different countries, say India and Borneo and Vietnam, there's not a huge amount of doubling up with mammals (unlike birds!) so I guess the mammal totals for the two years could be added together and a small percentage then removed. I'd imagine it would be somewhere around the 150 mark.
 
LaughingDove said:
All New species from Crocker Range National Park:

Birds:
538) Bornean Ibon
Sociable Bulbul (not counted yet but probably a future split and armchair tick - split from Cinereous Bulbul which is itself a split from Ashy. More discussion in my thread.)
539) Bornean Barbet
540) Cinnamon-rumped Trogon
541) Ruddy Cuckoo-dove
542) Bornean Bulbul
543) Grey-headed Babbler
544) Eyebrowed Wren-babbler
545) Yellow-crowned Barbet
546) Lesser Cuckooshrike

Mammals:
106) Rajah Spiny Rat (Maxomys)
107) Long-footed Treeshrew (longipes)
108) Four-striped Ground-squirrel
109) Malay Weasel
110) Striped Treeshrew

So I've now surpassed the ZooChat Big Year mammal record? I'm not even half way through this trip :D
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547) Philippine Megapode
548) Grey Imperial Pigeon
549) Blue-naped Parrot
550) Black-naped Tern
 
Birds
301. Red-wattled Lapwing
302. Laughing Dove
303. White-cheeked Bulbul
304. Red-vented Bulbul
 
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