ZooChat Big Year 2019

Just because it could be a while before the next proper update:

Birds:
82. Redwing - Turdus iliacus

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Ituri said:
Mammals:
2 Eastern Gray Squirrel - Sciurus carolinensis

Birds:
53 Field Sparrow - Spizella pusilla
54 Spotted Towhee - Pipilo maculatus
55 Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum
56 Lapland Longspur - Calcarius lapponicus
57 Northern Harrier - Circus hudsonius
58 Red-bellied Woodpecker - Melanerpes carolinus
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Birds:
59 Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura
60 Tufted Titmouse - Baeolophus bicolor
61 White-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta carolinensis
62 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Regulus calendula
 
LaughingDove said:
28) Goosander
29) Great Cormorant
30) Dunnock
31) Common Blackbird

3) House Mouse
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32) Red Kite
33) European Starling
34) Common Pheasant
35) Common Kestrel
36) Carrion Crow
37) Common Woodpigeon
38) Canada Goose
39) Common Buzzard

4) Eastern Grey Squirrel
5) European Rabbit
 
Dannelboyz said:
MAMMALS
8 - Southern Bobuck (Trichosurus cunninghami)

This species was seen last night but only confirmed today, so it should be before Common Brushtail Possum on my list, red fox is my most recent mammal at 16th

BIRDS
106 - Australasian Darter (Anhinga novaehollandiae)
107 - Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)
108 - Australasian Grebe (Tachybaptus novaehollandiae)
109 - Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax)
110 - Brown Goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus)

INVERTEBRATES
16 - Australian Emerald (Hemicordulia australiae)
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BIRDS
111 - Nankeen Kestrel (Falco cenchroides)
112 - White-naped Honeyeater (Melithreptus lunatus)
113 - Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus)
114 - Nankeen Night Heron (Nycticorax caledonicus)

REPTILES
2 - Southern Water Skink (Eulamprus tympanum)
3 - Eastern Long-necked Turtle (Chelodina longicollis)

FISH
2 - Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)*

INVERTEBRATES
17 - Blue Ant (Diamma bicolor)
18 - Common Paper Wasp (Polistes humilis)
 
DesertRhino150 said:
Because I didn't go out anywhere today, I only managed one new bird that visited the garden. Earlier this evening, I went out with my flashlight to the bottom of the garden to see my second mammal and in doing so also found my first invertebrate of the year:

31. Long-tailed tit Aegithalos caudatus

2. European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus (Near Threatened)

1. Brown centipede Lithobius forficatus
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Earlier this week some local walks allowed me to add seven new birds to my list:
32. Eurasian treecreeper Certhia familiaris
33. Great crested grebe Podiceps cristatus
34. Tufted duck Aythya fuligula
35. European goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
36. Great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo
37. Common goosander Mergus merganser
38. Eurasian coot Fulica atra

And today I went on a long trip to both Heybridge Basin and Abberton Reservoir, which added twenty-three new birds and has allowed me to almost complete the list of local wildfowl that can be reliably seen at this time of year:
39. Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata (Near Threatened)
40. Common teal Anas crecca
41. Eurasian wigeon Mareca penelope
42. Lesser black-backed gull Larus fuscus
43. Eurasian oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus (Near Threatened)
44. Grey heron Ardea cinerea
45. Northern pintail Anas acuta
46. Common redshank Tringa totanus
47. Black-tailed godwit Limosa limosa (Near Threatened)
48. Common shelduck Tadorna tadorna
49. European golden plover Pluvialis apricaria
50. Dark-bellied brent goose Branta bernicla
51. Common goldeneye Bucephala clangula
52. Pied avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
53. Dunlin Calidris alpina
54. Mute swan Cygnus olor
55. Common pochard Aythya farina (Vulnerable)
56. Northern shoveler Spatula clypeata
57. Gadwall Mareca strepera
58. Long-tailed duck Clangula hyemalis (Vulnerable)
59. Bewick's swan Cygnus columbianus
60. Great white egret Ardea alba
61. Smew Mergellus albellus
 
lintworm said:
Spent an hour in a small nature reserve nearby where there were surprisingly many overwintering Goosanders, but not the Goldeneyes I hoped to see...

47. Northern shoveler (Spatula clypetea)
48. Gadwall (Mareca strepera)
49. Eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope)
50. Smew (Mergellus albellus)
51. Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
52. Northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
53. Common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
54. Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
55. Redwing (Turdus iliacus)
56. European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)

Mammals

3. European hare (Lepus vulgaris)
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57. Spotted nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes)

Mammals

4. House mouse (Mus musculus)

The Spotted nutcracker is still in town, though it moved around New Years Eve, possibly because it was upset with all the fireworks....
 
BIRDS:
68) European greenfinch, Chloris chloris
69) Peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus
70) Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus
71) Eurasian siskin, Spinus spinus
72) Grey wagtail, Motacilla cinerea
73) Eurasian oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus

INVERTS:
1) European garden spider, Araneus diadematus
 
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Here is my latest update. Can't wait for spring and warmer weather so I can find more creatures. While I know mine won't be the biggest list, I am hoping for at least 400-500 species. This thread is inspiring me to do what I often do anyway, that is to put a name to everything but this time in a more exact and quantified way.

1/12/19
Birds:
53. Common Merganser Mergus merganser
54. Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus
55. Sanderling Calidris alba
56. Dunlin Calidris alpina
57. White-winged Scoter Melanitta fusca
58. Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
59. Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
60. Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
61. Black Scoter Melanitta americana
62. White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
63. American Coot Fulica americana
64. Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata
65. Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater

Mammals:
3. White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus
 
animal_expert01 said:
Birds:
43. Straw Necked Ibis (Threskiornis spinicollis)
44. Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
45. Willie Wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys)
46. Spotted Turtle Dove (Spilopelia chinensis)
47. White Breasted Woodswallow (Artamus leucorynchus)
48. Lewin’s Honeyeater (Meliphaga lewinii)
49. Noisy Friarbird (Philemon corniculatus)
50. Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus)
51. Rainbow Bee Eater (Merops ornatus)
52. White Cheeked Honey Eater (Phylidonyris niger)
53. Black Faced Cuckoo Shrike (Coracina novaehollandiae)
54. Little Wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera)
55. Bar Shouldered Dove (Geopelia humeralis)
56. Dollar Bird (Eurystomus orientalis)

Reptiles:
6. Dtella Gecko (Gehyra dubia)
7. Common Graden Skink (Lampropholis guichenoti)
8. Frill Necked Lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii)
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Birds:
57. Variegated Fairy Wren (Malurus lamberti)
58. Spectacled Monarch (Symposiachrus trivirgatus)
59. Rufous Shrike Thrush (Colluricincla megarhyncha)
60. Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius)
61. Eastern Yellow Robin (Eopsaltria australis)
62. White Faced Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae)
63. Rufous Fantail (Rhipidura rufifrons)
64. Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
65. Common Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
66. Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides)
67. Pheasant Coucal (Centropus phasianinus)
68. Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus)

Reptiles:
9. Lace Monitor (Varanus varius)
10. Major Skink (Bellatorias frerei)

With that I have beaten my 2017 bird total. Meaning I have seen more bird species this year in a single month than I saw in the entirety of 2017. I have also had very good lucking with finding reptiles that aren’t commonly seen in my area.
 
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G'day everyone. Good luck to all with their lists this year. Get out there and get plenty of "lifers".
1/1/2019
1. common myna. ( yuck. bird one is a feral. not what I wanted to start with.)
2. australian magpie
3. australian raven
4. dollarbird
5. eastern koel
6. galah
7. rainbow lorikeet
8. red wattlebird
9. satin bowerbird
10. spotted dove
11. sulphur crested cockatoo
12. welcome swallow
13. yellow tailed black cockatoo
14. brown gerygone
15. lewin's honeyeater
16. rufous fantail
17. silver gull
18. white browed scrubwren
19. australasian pipit
20. southern emu wren
21. laughing kookaburra
2/1/2019
22. channel billed cuckoo
23. great cormorant
24. magpie lark
25. masked lapwing
26. superb fairy wren
27. willie wagtail
28. australian pelican
29. common starling
30. kelp gull
31. littel pied cormorant
32. sooty oystercatcher
33. australian king parrot
34. australian log runner
35. black faced monarch
36. brown cuckoo dove
37. crested pigeon
38. crimson rosella
39. eastern spinebill
40. eastern whipbird
41. eastern yellow robin
42. golden whistler
43. large billed scrubwren
44. little wattlebird
45. pied currawong
46. red browed finch
47. topknot pigeon
48. variegated fairy wren
49. white throated treecreeper
50. yellow faced honeyeater
3/1/2019
51. red whiskered bulbul
52. gang gang cockatoo
53. black shouldered kite
54. australian wood duck
55. black faced cuckoo shrike
56. noisy friarbird
57. pied cormorant
58. straw necked ibis
59. white faced heron
60. blue faced honeyeater
61. house sparrow
62. little corella
63. white plumed honeyeater
64. eastern great egret
65. peaceful dove
66. emu
67. australian ringneck
68. red rumped parrot
69. red winged parrot
70. yellow rumped thornbill
4/1/2019
71. black kite
72. common blackbird
73. little crow
74. yellow throated miner
5/1/2019
75. australasian darter
76. hardhead
77. pacific black duck
78. rainbow bee-eater
79. sacred kingfisher
80. white breasted woodswallow
6/1/2019
81. apostlebird
82. australian white ibis
83. brown treecreeper
84. major mitchell's cockatoo
85. nankeen kestrel
86. pied butcherbird
87. wedge tailed eagle
88. white winged chough
89. australasian shoveler
90. australian redd warbler
91. australian spotted crake
92. black fronted dotterel
93. black winged stilt
94. cockatiel
95. crimson chat
96. dusky moorhen
97. eastern rosella
98. fairy martin
99. fork tailed swift
100.freckled duck
101. glossy ibis
102. grey teal
103. hoary headed grebe
104. little friarbird
105. mistletoe bird
106. pink eared duck
107. purple swamphen
108. red kneed dotterel
109. rock dove. (feral pigeon)
110. spiny cheeked honeyeater
111. spotted bowerbird
112. weebill
113. western gerygone
114. whistling kite
115. white bellied sea eagle
116. white necked heron
117. white winged fairy wren
118. yellow billed spoonbill
119. zebra finch
120. white browed woodswallow
7/1/2019
121. grey crowned babbler
9/1/2019
122. grey shrike thrush
11/1/2019
123. blue bonnet
12/1/2019
124. bar shouldered dove
125. common bronzewing
126. grey butcherbird
 
KevinVar said:
Couple of casual additions over the last few days.
BIRDS
68. Eurasian Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
69. Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
70. Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)
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Some local birding allowed me to complete the full set of native grebes and a quick trip to the Brouwersdam provided some more nice birds and my first mammal of the year.

BIRDS
71. Rook (Corvus frugilegus)
72. Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos)
73. Feral Pigeon (Columba livia domestica)
74. Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena)
75. Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
76. Short-toed Treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla)
77. Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
78. Black-legged Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
79. Common Scoter (Melanitta nigra)
80. Sanderling (Calidris alba)
81. Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima)
82. Common Eider (Somateria mollissima)

MAMMALS
1. Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus)
 
Dannelboyz said:
BIRDS
111 - Nankeen Kestrel (Falco cenchroides)
112 - White-naped Honeyeater (Melithreptus lunatus)
113 - Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus)
114 - Nankeen Night Heron (Nycticorax caledonicus)

REPTILES
2 - Southern Water Skink (Eulamprus tympanum)
3 - Eastern Long-necked Turtle (Chelodina longicollis)

FISH
2 - Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)*

INVERTEBRATES
17 - Blue Ant (Diamma bicolor)
18 - Common Paper Wasp (Polistes humilis)
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BIRDS
115 - Striated Thornbill (Acanthiza lineata)
116 - White-necked Heron (Ardea pacifica)
117 - Intermediate Egret (Ardea intermedia)
118 - Bell Miner (Manorina melanophrys)

INVERTEBRATES
19 - Yellow-striped Hunter (Austrogomphus guerini)
 
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Pleistohorse said:
2019~

Birds:
1. Common Raven-Corvus Corax Principalis.

Mammals:
2. Red Fox-Vulpes Vulpes Alascensis

My next spotting should be of an Arctic Fox...
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1-13-19, 0800, -20 below, ground fog, blowing snow, sun not scheduled to rise for another 13 days or so...Arctic Fox, white on white, in my headlights. Looked at me, then trotted off the road and out onto the tundra.

Mammals:
1. Red Fox-Vulpes Vulpes Alascensis
2. Arctic Fox-Vulpes Lagopus Lagopus
 
A small trip to my local patch suddenly became very exciting when I spotted a huge raptor just above the trees. It turned out to be a white-tailed eagle. Whilst on the increase in the Netherlands and not that uncommon in many areas, in my region they are still very rare.

Birds
101. Black swan, Cygnus atratus
102. European green woodpecker, Picus viridis
103. European goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis
104. European crested tit, Lophophanes cristatus
105. Black woodpecker, Dryocopus martius
106. White-tailed eagle, Haliaeetus albicilla
 
animal_expert01 said:
Birds:
57. Variegated Fairy Wren (Malurus lamberti)
58. Spectacled Monarch (Symposiachrus trivirgatus)
59. Rufous Shrike Thrush (Colluricincla megarhyncha)
60. Pied Cormorant (Phalacrocorax varius)
61. Eastern Yellow Robin (Eopsaltria australis)
62. White Faced Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae)
63. Rufous Fantail (Rhipidura rufifrons)
64. Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
65. Common Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
66. Tawny Frogmouth (Podargus strigoides)
67. Pheasant Coucal (Centropus phasianinus)
68. Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus)

Reptiles:
9. Lace Monitor (Varanus varius)
10. Major Skink (Bellatorias frerei)

With that I have beaten my 2017 bird total. Meaning I have seen more bird species this year in a single month than I saw in the entirety of 2017. I have also had very good lucking with finding reptiles that aren’t commonly seen in my area.
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Birds:
69. Owl Finch (Taeniopygia bichenovii)
70. Red Browed Finch (Neochmia temporalis)
71. Channel-Billed Cuckoo (Scythrops novaehollandiae)
 
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