ZooChat Big Year 2020

Some additions from Slimbridge today - puts me over 100 in January for the third year running. Also saw my second Cattle Egret of the year, a species I didn't see in the UK until the last week of November last year.

Birds:
94. Bewick's Swan - Cygnus columbianus
95. European Oystercatcher - Haematopus ostralegus
96. Common Snipe - Gallinago gallinago
97. Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus
98. Common Crane - Grus grus
99. Greater White-fronted Goose - Anser albifrons
100. Green-winged Teal - Anas carolinensis
101. Pink-footed Goose - Anser brachyrhynchus
102. Fieldfare - Turdus pilaris

Mammals:
5. Brown Rat - Rattus norvegicus

:)
 
Thanks! Well,I have some birds unidentified but these are the ones I got:
Birds:
1. Red crowned woodpecker-melanerpes rubricapillus
2.Ruddy ground dove-columbina talpacoti
3.Great-tailed Grackle-quiscalus mexicanus
4.Smooth billed ani- crotophaga ani
5.Great egret-ardea Alba
6.Black vulture-coragyps atratus
7.Crested caracara-caracara cheriway
8.house sparrow-passer domesticus
9. Blue gray tanager-thraupis episcopus
10. Collared aracari-pteroglossus torquatus.
Herptiles:
1. Giant toad-rhinella horriblis.
 
Jungle Man said:
Thanks! Well,I have some birds unidentified but these are the ones I got:
Birds:
1. Red crowned woodpecker-melanerpes rubricapillus
2.Ruddy ground dove-columbina talpacoti
3.Great-tailed Grackle-quiscalus mexicanus
4.Smooth billed ani- crotophaga ani
5.Great egret-ardea Alba
6.Black vulture-coragyps atratus
7.Crested caracara-caracara cheriway
8.house sparrow-passer domesticus
9. Blue gray tanager-thraupis episcopus
10. Collared aracari-pteroglossus torquatus.
Herptiles:
1. Giant toad-rhinella horriblis.
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These birds were seen around my house,the town where I live and in a little trip.
 
Hix said:
Birds
45. Grey Teal
46. Royal Spoonbill
47. Channel-billed Cuckoo
48. Crimson Rosella
49. White-browed Scrub Wren
50. Grey Fantail
51. Red-whiskered Bulbul
52. Silvereye

Mammals
3. Eastern Grey Kangaroo

:p

Hix
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Birds
53. Yellow-faced Honeyeater
54. Brown Thornbill
55. Rufous Whistler
56. Pied Currawong
57. Eastern Yellow Robin
58. White-throated Treecreeper
59. Scarlet Robin

Mammals
4. Red-necked Wallaby

Reptiles
2. Eastern Blue-tongue Lizard

:p

Hix
 
Yoshistar888 said:
Update on the shelduck situation

Birdline Victoria Recent Sightings

Report that it’s a South African Shelduck with confirmation by a credible source
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Don't agree with this identification. There are numerous ornithologists who have looked at this bird and some suspect it's a mutant or a hybrid, although it's still disputed at this stage. The main feature that is totally wrong for South African Shelduck is the darkness and the density/type of vermiculation on the flanks and back (which you can even see, though not clearly, in the attached image). I would argue that given the low probability of a SA Shelduck making it to Australia with the Indian Ocean to cross and with none in captivity, you have to be suspicious and skeptical especially when the bird has some notable plumage features that aren't quite right. I'm yet to see a full report where someone experienced with South African Shelduck has made a thorough assessment of the identification, as opposed to an overnight reply.

@MRJ I'm not sure if you were interested in any of my sightings, but the Wood Sandpipers were at a wetland in Clyde, south-eastern Melbourne: -38.121624, 145.342965
 
Wetlands near Hampton Park, from the car earlier today.

49. Little pied cormorant Microcarbo melanoleucos
50. Straw-necked ibis Threskiornis spinicollis
 
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drill said:
13. Black vulture
14. Great blue heron
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Jennette's Pier
15. Boat-tailed grackle
16. Red-breasted merganser
17. Lesser black-backed gull
Saw a bird. Can't identify it. White- winged scoter likely.
18. Double-crested cormorant.
 
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Crowthorne said:
Birds
29. Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus
30. Dunnock, Prunella modularis

Mammals
4. Rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus
5. Chinese Water Deer, Hydropotes inermis
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Birds
31. Collared Dove, Streptopelia decaocto
 
Some in my house days ago and identifications from the waterfall:
Birds:
12.Clay Colored Thrush-Turdus Grayi
13.Rock Pigeon-Columba Livia
14.White Tipped Dove- Leptotila Verreauxi
15.Yellow Headed Caracara-Milvago Chimachima.
 
At Moonlit yesterday afternoon

51. Laughing kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae

At a small wetland in Clyde North that @Dannelboyz tipped me off about earlier in this thread. We had gone out to trial some new gear.

52. Little black cormorant Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
53. Wood sandpiper Tringa glareola
54. Australian reed warbler Acrocephalus australis

Afterwards a short stopover at Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne on the way home in the hope of seeing some southern brown bandicoots, no such luck.

55. New Holland honeyeater Phylidonyris novaehollandiae
56. Spotted pardalote Pardalotus punctatus
57. Eastern yellow robin Eopsaltria australis
 
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