ZooChat Big Year 2019

Chlidonias said:
This one has been split as Malaysian Montane (or Upland) Squirrel Sundasciurus tahan. It is actually more closely related to the montane squirrels of Borneo than to the lowland Slender Squirrel.
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So a new species for me! Thanks!
43. Malaysian montane squirrel Sundasciurus tahan
 
Najade said:
Back to back whale watching cruise with Naturaliste charters out of Dunsborough and another failed attempt for Chuditch at Dryandra

Mammals
60. (Pygmy) Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda)
61. Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis)
62. (Dwarf) Minke Whale (Balaenoptera (acutorostrata) undescribed)
64. Tammar Wallaby (Macropus eugenii)

Birds
63. Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus)
64. Hutton’s Shearwater (Puffinus huttoni)
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Spent a lot of time dipping on Grey Honeyeater the last two days. But got to visit the Alice Springs Poo Ponds for a different lifer today (bit of a hassle to get in but oh well).

Birds
65. Orange Chat (Epthianura aurifrons)

Deep philosophical question of the day:
Are Poo Ponds to a birder what waterfalls and such are to a normal tourist?
 
MRJ said:
I arrived on the Thursday evening and was at Pasir Ris Friday. I arrived at Butik Fraser mid-afternoon on the 3rd. Ships passing in the night... Have a great trip, I am back in Australia now.
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That was close indeed! For Bukit Fraser I got there late afternoon, had the whole of the next day there, and left at 11am on the 3rd!
 
Vision said:
And little did I know that the very next day there'd be a rarity of an even higher magnitude... While we were already birding at the coast looking for vagrants to discover we suddenly got notified of a nearby red-eyed vireo! This is only the second Belgian record, and only the 12th record of any American passerine in the country... The bird was fairly difficult to connect with but eventually gave great views, towards the end of the day it was also briefly foraging together with a yellow-browed warbler (a rare Asian migrant) in the same tree!

665) Red-eyed vireo, Vireo olivaceus

In the morning we also went back to the Pallas' grasshopper warbler (which was now in a much more traditional location - a large patch of beachgrass), meaning we got two of the rarest passerines ever recorded in Belgium in one day!
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But if you thought the weekend couldn't get better you're wrong! Another red-breasted flycatcher was found at the coast today, which I ended up seeing eventually, and while checking bushes in the area we also found two yellow-browed warblers and a short-eared owl, and had a few flyover crossbills! Great birding at the coast this weekend....

BIRDS:
666) Red crossbill, Loxia curvirostra
667) Short-eared owl, Asio flammeus

The originally seemingly unreachable mark of 700 birds seems to become more and more possible... But I won't speak too soon! This autumn has definitely already been absolutely fantastic and there's still a lot of time for more good things to get found! I'll definitely be going to the coast often in the upcoming weeks.
 
Najade said:
Spent a lot of time dipping on Grey Honeyeater the last two days. But got to visit the Alice Springs Poo Ponds for a different lifer today (bit of a hassle to get in but oh well).

Birds
65. Orange Chat (Epthianura aurifrons)

Deep philosophical question of the day:
Are Poo Ponds to a birder what waterfalls and such are to a normal tourist?
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Alice Springs Desert Park

Birds
66. Grey Honeyeater (Conopophila whitei)

Had some help but still a bit of a tough one.
 
Can one of the mods please change my Tammar Wallaby to number 63 please. Seems like I momentarily lost the ability to count there.
 
boof said:
You're getting some great birds. Orange chats are the type of bird that you need to see in the flesh ( or in the feather ) to truly appreciate them. Stunning bird.
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Yeah, they are quite good looking Honeyeaters.
Let’s see if I can get the Gibber Chat. Then I will have seen them all within the year.
 
Najade said:
Alice Springs Desert Park

Birds
66. Grey Honeyeater (Conopophila whitei)

Had some help but still a bit of a tough one.
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Redbank Gorge, Simpson’s Gap and the roads in between

Reptiles
30. Mulga Snake (Pseudechis australis)
31. Sharp-snouted Delma (Delma nasuta)
32. Burton’s Legless Lizard (Lialis burtonis)
33. Variable Fat-tailed Gecko (Diplodactylus conspicillatus)
34. Curl Snake (Suta suta)
35. Inland Velvet Gecko (Oedura cincta)
36. Bynoe’s Gecko (Heteronotia binoei)
37. Moritz’s Dtella (Gehyra moritzi)
38. Helmeted Gecko (Diplodactylus galeatus)
39. Prong-snouted Blindsnake (Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus)
40. Centralian Carpet Python (Morelia bredli)
41. Variegated Dtella (Gehyra variegata)

Amphibians
09. Centralian Green Tree Frog (Litoria gilleni)
10. Centralian Burrowing Frog (Platyplectrum spenceri)
 
The craziness at the Belgian coast didn't end this weekend! Yesterday an Isabelline shrike was found (in an area I checked thoroughly the day before... sigh :p ), which was only the 7th for Belgium. According to some sources, first calendar year animals of Isabelline and Red-tailed shrikes are inconsistently separable because of how variable both species are, but according to other sources this animal was a textbook example of what an Isabelline should look like, and members of a few European rarity committees have commented that this bird looks very good for that species. I'm going to count it for now, but if the Belgian rarity committee decides to accept it just on a species complex level before the end of the year I'll remove it from the list.

Either way, it was a very, very good-looking bird and I'm really happy I saw it! Today I saw and heard a flock of Lapland buntings very well which was a highlight.

BIRDS:
668) Isabelline shrike, Lanius isabellinus
669) Lapland longspur, Calcarius lapponicus

Tomorrow will probably be the first time in 5 days that I didn't go to the coast for birding. With Pallas' grasshopper warbler, Red-eyed vireo, Red-breasted flycatcher, Isabelline shrike and general quality birds like Yellow-browed warblers, Short-eared owl and Eurasian wryneck, the past 5 days have definitely been some of my best consecutive birding days in the country ever! What a week.
 
mammals
15 siberian chipmunk Eutamias sibiricus
16 long taild ground squrrtel Urocitellus undulatus
17 brants vole Lasiopodomys brandtii
18 gobi altai mountain vole Alticola barakshin
19 siberian marmot Marmota sibirica
20 siberian jerboa Allactaga sibirica
21 northen pika Ochotona hyperborea
22 pallas pika Ochotona pallasi
23 tolai hare Lepus tolai
24 przewalskis horse Equus ferus przewalskii
25 Altie wapite (Cervus canadensis
26 siberian roe dear Capreolus pygargus
27 agali shep Ovis ammon
28 black tailed gazelle Gazella subgutturosa
29 stoat Mustela erminea
30 siberian least weasel Mustela nivalis pygmea
31 corsac fox Vulpes corsac
32 mongolian gerbil Meriones unguiculatus
33 saiga saiga tatarica mongolica!!
34 snow leopard Panthera uncia !!!!!
 
carl the birder said:
mammals
15 siberian chipmunk Eutamias sibiricus
16 long taild ground squrrtel Urocitellus undulatus
17 brants vole Lasiopodomys brandtii
18 gobi altai mountain vole Alticola barakshin
19 siberian marmot Marmota sibirica
20 siberian jerboa Allactaga sibirica
21 northen pika Ochotona hyperborea
22 pallas pika Ochotona pallasi
23 tolai hare Lepus tolai
24 przewalskis horse Equus ferus przewalskii
25 Altie wapite (Cervus canadensis
26 siberian roe dear Capreolus pygargus
27 agali shep Ovis ammon
28 black tailed gazelle Gazella subgutturosa
29 stoat Mustela erminea
30 siberian least weasel Mustela nivalis pygmea
31 corsac fox Vulpes corsac
32 mongolian gerbil Meriones unguiculatus
33 saiga saiga tatarica mongolica!!
34 snow leopard Panthera uncia !!!!!
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Any photos?
 
Najade said:
Redbank Gorge, Simpson’s Gap and the roads in between

Reptiles
30. Mulga Snake (Pseudechis australis)
31. Sharp-snouted Delma (Delma nasuta)
32. Burton’s Legless Lizard (Lialis burtonis)
33. Variable Fat-tailed Gecko (Diplodactylus conspicillatus)
34. Curl Snake (Suta suta)
35. Inland Velvet Gecko (Oedura cincta)
36. Bynoe’s Gecko (Heteronotia binoei)
37. Moritz’s Dtella (Gehyra moritzi)
38. Helmeted Gecko (Diplodactylus galeatus)
39. Prong-snouted Blindsnake (Ramphotyphlops bituberculatus)
40. Centralian Carpet Python (Morelia bredli)
41. Variegated Dtella (Gehyra variegata)

Amphibians
09. Centralian Green Tree Frog (Litoria gilleni)
10. Centralian Burrowing Frog (Platyplectrum spenceri)
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Road-cruising around Alice, Ormiston Gorge

Mammals
64. Black-footed Rock-wallaby (Petrogale lateralis)

Reptiles
42. Central Netted Dragon (Ctenophorus nuchalis)
43. Central Military Dragon (Ctenophorus isolepis)
44. Centralian Knob-tailed Gecko (Nephrurus amyae)
45. Unbanded Shovel-nosed Snake (Brachyurophis incinctus)
46. Desert Death Adder (Acanthophis pyrrhus)
 
birdsandbats said:
Any photos?
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yes i got of have phots of most of them exsept for the snow leopard argari and the jerboa. the snow leopard was to far awey to get a god photo and i dident want to lose it in the scope

alos it was in the jargalnt moutain are of mongola as well as tereil national park and husati. phots will come probebly this wekend
i alos have a big birdlist coming
and i forgot one mammal
35 siberian ibex Capra sibirica
 
85. Common Wood-Nymph Cercyonis pegala
86. Winter Firefly Ellychnia corrusca
87. Pavlovski's Monopis Monopis pavlovski
88. Fork-tailed Bush Katydid Scudderia furcata
89. Bicolored Sallow Moth Sunira bicolorago
90. Painted Lady Vanessa virginiensis
91. Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos
92. Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
93. Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus
94. Viceroy Limenitis archippus
95. Zabulon Skipper Poanes zabulon
96. Red-spotted Admiral Limenitis arthemis (White Admiral)
97. Early Brown Spinner Leptophelbia cupida
98. Tricolored Bumble Bee Bombus ternarius
99. Common Eastern Bumble Bee Bombus impatiens (seen a thousand times before but never identified it to species)
 
The coast keeps giving! No good self-found birds today (very high numbers of goldcrests were nice, with many groups throughout the day, occasionally with firecrests and even a yellow-browed warbler), but a good bird that was found yesterday thankfully stuck around and gave better views than expected of that species! I've missed a few of these last year, so it's good to be able to add this to the list now!

BIRDS:
670) Barred warbler, Sylvia nisoria

The insanity of last weekend seems to be drawing to a close, however. Let's hope the birds pick up the pace again!
 
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