ZooChat Big Year 2019

[Chlidonias]

There was a Northern Shoveller reported up the coast at the Otaki Sewage Ponds earlier in the week. I've seen them overseas but not in New Zealand, so today I went up to see if it was still there. It took me three hours to get there (bus then train then bus; and the last bus only runs every two hours so it is a bit inconvenient). Anyway, I found two sleepy shovellers which could have been the Northern when they were hunched up, but when they eventually poked their heads up in the air they weren't.

I saw a few birds for the year list, as well as a bunch of rabbits (this year I saw a Leopard Seal before I saw a rabbit...)


BIRDS:
59) White-faced Heron Ardea novaehollandiae
60) Australasian Shoveller Anas rhynchotis
61) New Zealand Dabchick Poliocephalus rufopectus
62) Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis melanops

MAMMALS:
5) European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus

 

[boof]

Alaska list.
(Listed in alphabetical order.)
1. Black-capped chickadee
2. Chestnut-backed chckadee
3. Sandhill crane
4. Northwestern crow
5. American dipper
6. Bald eagle
7. Golden eagle
8. Peregrine falcon. ( already on my Aussie list this year.)
9. Canada goose
10. Spruce grouse
11. Gyrfalcon
12. Northern Harrier
13. Darke eyed junco
14. American kestrel
15. Belted kingfisher
16. Ruby-crowned kinglet
17. Black-billed magpie
18. Rock pigeon ( already on my Aussie list this year.)
19. Willow ptarmigan
20. Comman raven
21. American robin
22. Golden-crowned sparrow
23. Savannah sparrow
24. White-crowned sparrow
25. European starling ( already on my Aussie list this year.)
26. Trumpeter swan
27. Blue- winged teal
28. Yellow warbler
29. Hairy woodpecker

 

[MRJ]

Across the road earlier today.

312. White-browed scrubwren Sericornis frontalis

 

[Hix]

Birds
172. White-naped Honeyeater

Birds
173. Australian Shoveller
174. Northern Shoveller
175. Whiskered Tern
176. Baillon's Crake
177. Latham's Snipe
178. Gang-gang Cockatoo

Mammals
11. Red Fox

The Latham's Snipe was a lifer, and brings my global total to 1000.



Hix

 

[Najade]

Reptiles
26. Clay-soil Ctenotus (Ctenotus helenae)

A couple hours at South Hedland Poo Ponds (and Finucane Island Mangroves for local subspecies of Dusky Gerygone and Mangrove Robin):

Mammals
52. Little Red Kaluta (Dasykaluta rosamondae)

Birds
52. White-backed Swallow (Cheramoeca leucosterna)

 

[Birdlover]

Working on getting caught up...
Inverts:
19. Asian Shore Crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus
20. Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus
21. Grapevine Epimenis Moth Psychomorpha epimenis
22. Spring Fishfly Chauliodes rastricornis
23. Red Milkweed Beetle Tetraopes tetrophthalmus

 

[birdsandbats]

Seen on a school field trip (to the zoo!) today:

Birds
177. Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi

Unexpected addition seen flying by in the day:

178. Eastern Whip-Poor-Will Antrostomus vociferus

 

[Vision]

BIRDS:
658) Eurasian rock pipit, Anthus petrosus

(Benelux: 207)

 

[Luca Bronzi]

Birds

White-eyed gull removed from the list.
I've seen some gulls in Egypt from far and now I'm not sure about the identification I gave them.
Unfortunately I think the checklist won't grow in the next months.

 

[Birdlover]

Birds:
160. Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
161. Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
162. Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
163. Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
164. Common Murre Uria aalge
165. Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
166. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
Mammals:
15. American Black Bear Ursus americanus
16. Moose Alces alces
Herps:
12. Mink Frog Lithobates septentrionalis
Fishes:
1. Common Carp Cyprinus carpio

 

[Birdlover]

Inverts:
24. Large Lace-border Scopula limboundata
25. Spotted Lady Beetle Coleomegilla maculata
26. Bald-faced Hornet Fly Spilomyia fusca
27. Green Comma Polygonia faunus
28. Red-shouldered Pine Borer Stictoleptura canadensis
29. Pale Green Assassin Bug Zelus luridus
30. A Velvet Ant Pseudomethoca simillima
31. Banded Hairstreak Satyrium calanus
32. Glossy Black Idia Idia lubricalis
33. Grapevine Beetle Pelidnota punctata
34. Pelecinid Wasp Pelecinus polyturator
35. Goldenrod Soldier Beetle Chauliognathus pensylvanicus
36. Twice-stabbed Stink Bug Cosmopepla lintneriana
37. Asiatic Garden Beetle Maladera castanea
38. Oriental Beetle Anomala orientalis

 

[boof]

25/10/2019
198. BLACK HONEYEATER*
It's always good getting a lifer when you aren't even looking for one. I dropped the kids off at school this morning and a male black honeyeater was busy feeding in the grevilleas near the school's front gate. Great start to the day.

 

[Vision]

A fun twitch together with @KevinVar got me a fantastic new vagrant bunting! The day got even better when a vagrant little bunting showed up only about 20 meters away, meaning we got views of both vagrant "ticking" buntings in a matter of minutes...

BIRDS:
659) Rustic bunting, Emberiza rustica

(Benelux: 208)

INVERTS:
97) Red-veined darter, Sympetrum fonscolombii

 

[Birdlover]

Another update, a missing mammal and all my odes.
Mammals:
17. Human Homo sapiens (should have been my first one)
Inverts:
39.Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia
40.Great Blue Skimmer Libellula vibrans
41. Ebony Jewelwing Calopteryx maculata
42. Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis
43. Eastern Forktail Ischnura verticalis
44. Fragile Forktail Ischnura posita
45. Painted Skimmer Libellula semifasciata
46. Spangled Skimmer Libellula cyanea
47. White Corporal Ladona exusta
48. Common Pondhawk Erythemis simpicicollis
49. Calico Pennant Celithemis elisa
50. Widow Skimmer Libellula luctuosa
51. Seaside Dragonlet Erythrodiplax berenice
52. Halloween Pennant Celithemis eponina
53. Eastern Amberwing Perithemis tenera
54. Violet Dancer Argia fumipennis
55. Twelve-spotted Skimmer Libellula pulchella
56. Slender Spreadwing Lestes rectangularis
57. Black Saddlebags tramea lacerata
58. Canada Darner Aeshna canadensis
59. Common Green Darner Anax junius

 

[ThylacineAlive]

Birds

Forgot a bird:

Birds
95) Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris

EDIT: Also he's a bird I thought I'd added a while ago:

96) Ring-Billed Gull Larus delawarensis

~Thylo

This one used to be easier:

97) Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus

~Thylo

 

[birdsandbats]

Birds


This one used to be easier:

97) Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus

~Thylo

I don't know about where you are, but here in northeast Wisconsin Bald Eagle is super easy.

 

[ThylacineAlive]

I don't know about where you are, but here in northeast Wisconsin Bald Eagle is super easy.

I used to be able to walk across the street and see them, where I live now is more developed and doesn't have good nearby eagle habitat.

~Thylo

 

[Luca Bronzi]

Another update, a missing mammal and all my odes.
Mammals:
17. Human Homo sapiens (should have been my first one)
Inverts:
39.Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia
40.Great Blue Skimmer Libellula vibrans
41. Ebony Jewelwing Calopteryx maculata
42. Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis
43. Eastern Forktail Ischnura verticalis
44. Fragile Forktail Ischnura posita
45. Painted Skimmer Libellula semifasciata
46. Spangled Skimmer Libellula cyanea
47. White Corporal Ladona exusta
48. Common Pondhawk Erythemis simpicicollis
49. Calico Pennant Celithemis elisa
50. Widow Skimmer Libellula luctuosa
51. Seaside Dragonlet Erythrodiplax berenice
52. Halloween Pennant Celithemis eponina
53. Eastern Amberwing Perithemis tenera
54. Violet Dancer Argia fumipennis
55. Twelve-spotted Skimmer Libellula pulchella
56. Slender Spreadwing Lestes rectangularis
57. Black Saddlebags tramea lacerata
58. Canada Darner Aeshna canadensis
59. Common Green Darner Anax junius

I think humans aren't countable.

 

[WhistlingKite24]

Birds
79. Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla

Had a great trip to Australia Zoo yesterday and came away with some lovely wild bird species.

The wetlands area and kangaroo walk-throughs were particularly abundant with birdlife. Almost every flowering tree or plant had honeyeaters of some sort (the scarlet honeyeaters were abundant). As a waxbill lover, I was particularly thrilled to see wild red-browed finches for the first time!

Birds
80. Lewin’s Honeyeater Meliphaga lewinii
81. White-cheeked Honeyeater Phylidonyris niger
82. Spectacled Monarch Symposiachrus trivirgatus
83. Peaceful Dove Geopelia placida
84. Grey Goshawk Accipiter novaehollandiae
85. Red-browed Finch Neochmia temporalis

 

[MRJ]

A stopover in Singapore, For such a small overbuilt island, Singapore continues to offer new species. All observed either at the Botanic Gardens or Pasir Ris Park.

Mammals

36. Common tree-shrew Tupaia glis
37. Smooth-coated otter Lutrogale perspicillata

Birds

314. Milky stork Mycteria cinerea
315. Little tern Sternula albifrons
316. Stork-billed kingfisher Pelargopsis capensis
317. Common flameback Dinopium javanense
318. Swinhoe's white-eye Zosterops simplex
319. Crimson sunbird Aethopyga siparaja
320. Brown-throated sunbird Anthreptes malacensis
321. Plain sunbird Anthreptes simplex
322. Pacific swallow Hirundo tahitica

Reptiles

15. Clouded monitor Varanus bengalensis