ZooChat Big Year 2020

[Chlidonias]

Too many lists, I've been doubling up and the two species below is that both were seen in January near here. So this brings me back to 258. Surprised it passed the eagle eyes of @Chlidonias, though.

I only update the totals in blocks (not with every post) and the last update I'd made was about a month ago. Even so I wouldn't have noticed this error because I only tally numbers for birds not the actual species, so I wouldn't have known you'd already counted those ones. However, I have now made an update for the thread and I see that you have Sambar at number 24, then you mentioned Leopard but seemingly didn't count it on the list, and then had number 24 again for Flame-striped Squirrel. I'm not sure what your mammal total is now - I have 26 but it might be 27 or 28? - so if you could check that.

 

[Chlidonias]

And some other inconsistencies:

@Hix listed number 8 for mammals twice, so I have put him at 9 instead.

@Junklekitteb listed number 5 for mammals twice, so I have put that up to 6.

@animal_expert01 listed number 4 for mammals twice, so I upped that by one and he is now on 7 instead of 6.

However, the bird lists for @animal_expert01 are seriously messed up and I have no idea what number you are on. You skipped number 88 (going from 87 to 89 in the same post), then later went from 91 to 83, then later from 86 to 85. You'll need to redo your list for a total.

The lists of @drill are also messed up. I think he counted a dog at some point (?) so I have him on 2 instead of 3; and he also counted some chickens which similarly don't count, but then also just started numbering every bird as 1. So I have no idea what his numbers are.

 

[boof]

13/3/2020
107. Red-tailed black cockatoo

 

[Junklekitteb]

@Junklekitteb listed number 5 for mammals twice, so I have put that up to 6.

I decided to discount No. 2 which was feral dogs as most dogs still rely on humans for food and some are quite tame so I guessed they don't count, so I am at 5.

 

[Dannelboyz]

A decent few days in Mallacoota... great to see so much bird life despite the fires!

BIRDS
180 - White-headed Pigeon (Columba leucomela)
181 - Sooty Oystercatcher (Haematopus fuliginosus)
182 - Eastern Whipbird (Psophodes olivaceus)
183 - Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis)
184 - White-bellied Sea Eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster)
185 - Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
186 - Brown Gerygone (Gerygone mouki)
187 - Scarlet Honeyeater (Myzomela sanguinolenta)
188 - Peaceful Dove (Geopelia placida)
189 - Crested Shrike-tit (Falcunculus frontatus)
190 - Tawny-crowned Honeyeater (Gliciphila melanops)
191 - White-eared Honeyeater (Nesoptilotis leucotis)
192 - Rose Robin (Petroica rosea)
193 - Hooded Plover (Thinornis cucullatus)
194 - Australasian Figbird (Sphecotheres vieilloti)
195 - Eastern Reef Egret (Egretta sacra)
196 - Azure Kingfisher (Ceyx azureus)
197 - Sooty Owl (Tyto tenebricosa)
198 - Shining Bronze-Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus)
199 - Dusky Woodswallow (Artamus cyanopterus)

MAMMALS
18 - Red-necked Wallaby (Notamacropus rufogriseus)
19 - Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)
20 - Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
21 - Yellow-bellied Glider (Petaurus australis)

REPTILES
9 - Lace Monitor (Varanus varius)
10 - Yellow-bellied Water Skink (Eulamprus heatwolei)
11 - Red-bellied Black Snake

AMPHIBIANS
1 - Green and Golden Bell Frog (Litoria aurea)

A couple species from the Yarra Ranges...

BIRDS
200 - Pink Robin (Petroica rodinogaster)

AMPHIBIANS
2 - Victorian Smooth Froglet (Geocrinia victoriana)

 

[Hix]

Birds

111. Caspian Tern

Boigu Island
112. Eurasian Tree Sparrow
113. Singing Starling
114. Metallic Starling
115. Golden-headed Cisticola
116. Torresian Crow
117. Shining Flycatcher
118. Varied Triller
119. Tawny-breasted Honeyeater
120. Varied Honeyeater
121. White-bellied sea-Eagle
122. Whistling Kite
123. Striated Heron
124. Pied Heron
125. Lesser Frigatebird
126. Little tern
127. Marsh Sandpiper
128. Pacific Golden Plover
129. Uniform Swiftlet
130. Little Bronze Cuckoo
131. Collared Imperial Pigeon
132. Broad-billed Flycatcher
133. Great Egret
134. Common Sandpiper
135. House Swift
136. Pacific Swift
137. Black Butcherbird
138. Red-headed Honeyeater
139. Rufous-banded Honeyeater
140. Dollarbird
141. Sharptailed Sandpiper
142. Lesser Sand Plover
143. Common Greenshank

Saibai Island
144. White-belied Cuckoo-shrike
145. Coconut Lorikeet
146. Brown Goshawk
147. Brolga
148. Red-capped Flowerpecker
149. Peregrine Falcon
150. Lesser Crested Tern
151. Orangefooted Scrubfowl
152. Wandering Whistleduck
153. Long-tailed Honey Buzzard
154. Gurney's Eagle

Campbell Island
155. Black Noddy
156. Roseate tern
157. Pale White-eye
158. Great Frigatebird
159. Common Tern
160. Black-naped Tern
161. Great Knot
162. Greater Sand Plover
163. Grey Plover
164. Beach Stone Curlew


Reptiles
6. Mangrove Monitor

Mammals
8. Big-eared Fruit Bat

Fish
1. Blue spotted Ribbon Ray
2. Black-blotched Porcupinefish



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Ugar Island

Birds
165. Spectacled Monarch
166. Mangrove Golden Whistler
167. Torresian Kingfisher
168. Nankeen Night Heron
169. White-winged Black Tern
170. Terek Sandpiper

Fish
3. Leopard/Zebra Shark



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[Vision]

BIRDS:
145) Red-crested pochard, Netta rufina
146) Common firecrest, Regulus ignicapilla

(Benelux: 142)

HERPS:
1) Common toad, Bufo bufo

INVERTS:
1) Angle shades, Phlogophora meticulosa

 

[birdsandbats]

Birds
68. Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura

Birds
69. Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
70. Snow Goose Anser caerulescens
71. Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus
72. Northern Pintail Anas acuta
73. Northern Shoveler Spatula clypeata
74. Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
75. Gadwall Mareca strepera
76. Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
77. Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
78. American Coot Fulica americana
79. Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus

 

[birdsandbats]

Mammals
7. Eastern Chipmunk Tamias striatus

Mammals
8. Common Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus

 

[Mehdi]

A pretty uneventful session at Oued Souss gave me a very nice lifer!

14/03/2020 (Oued Souss, Morocco)
BIRDS:
98 - Eurasian siskin, Spinus spinus

HERPS:
5 - Acanthodactylus margaritae

(Accidentally counted n°2 twice hence why I am at 5 herps right now when I was at 3 at my last post)

A rather unfructuous try at Tamri still gave me a few new species for the year (and some very good views of Sedge warbler!):

15/03/2020 (Estuaire de l'Oued Tamri, Morocco)
BIRDS:
99 - Red-knobbed coot, Fulica cristata
100 - Eurasian marsh-harrier, Circus aeruginosus
101 - Curlew sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea

(Taghazout, Morocco)
INVERTEBRATES:
3 - Red admiral, Vanessa atalanta

 

[oflory]

Birds

77. Red kite
78. Collared dove
79. Black-necked grebe
80. Common goldeneye
81. Scaup
82. Long-tailed duck

And from Walthamstow on Sunday

Birds
83. Black redstart

 

[lintworm]

7. European Red Squirrel

And spring has started, Chiffchaffs have started calling and I finally saw the first butterfly of the year:

1. Common Brimstone

I should have been on the plane now, but spent it gardening in the sun, and I am glad I am not in the US.

Went birding closeby for an hour to a newly developed nature area where multiple wader species have gathered, some to breed, others on their way north.

89. Dunlin
90. Ruff
91. Eurasian Tree Sparrow
92. Common Reed Bunting
93. Northern Pintail
94. Common Chiffchaff

 

[Pertinax]

Went birding closeby for an hour to a newly developed nature area where multiple wader species have gathered, some to breed, others on their way north.

89. Dunlin
90. Ruff
91. Eurasian Tree Sparrow
92. Common Reed Bunting
93. Northern Pintail
94. Common Chiffchaff

I was driving several hours today, I counted 16 (male) Brimstones along the way.

 

[Maguari]

Keep meaning to post these and not getting around to it..!

Had to take some leave last week as my year's allowance runs to the end of March, so I took the opportunity for some birding days. The first day was spent at Rutland Water and Attenborough NR, the second at St Aidan's Nature Park and Old Moor, the third in north Norfolk (mainly Titchwell) and the fourth at Woodwalton Fen (and Hamerton Zoo Park!). Made some nice additions - the buzzard is particularly fun as I only saw my first one ever just before Christmas. Dipped on Shore Lark yet again...

Lots of small, introduced deer this week - a total of four muntjac and three water deer over the last two of the days.

Birds:
128. Smew - Mergellus albellus
129. Red-necked Grebe - Podiceps grisegna
130. Common Linnet - Linaria cannabina
131. Rough-legged Buzzard - Buteo lagopus
132. Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola
133. Bar-tailed Godwit - Limosa lapponica
134. Sanderling - Calidris alba
135. Western Marsh Harrier - Circus aeruginosus
136. Great Bittern - Botaurus stellaris

Mammals:
11. Reeves' Muntjac - Muntiacus reevesi
12. Chinese Water Deer - Hydropotes inermis

Amphibians:
1. Common Toad - Bufo bufo

 

[MRJ]

I only update the totals in blocks (not with every post) and the last update I'd made was about a month ago. Even so I wouldn't have noticed this error because I only tally numbers for birds not the actual species, so I wouldn't have known you'd already counted those ones. However, I have now made an update for the thread and I see that you have Sambar at number 24, then you mentioned Leopard but seemingly didn't count it on the list, and then had number 24 again for Flame-striped Squirrel. I'm not sure what your mammal total is now - I have 26 but it might be 27 or 28? - so if you could check that.

It is just you have such an encyclopedic knowledge of east Asian fauna... Re the mammals I decided leopard was a bit of a stretch. It seems most likely but I can't be sure. So I am at 27 and to fix it here:

Bass Coast yesterday

Mammals

28. Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus

Birds

265. Australasian gannet Morus serrator
266. Red-necked stint Calidris ruficollis
267. Pacific gull Larus pacificus
268. Pied oystercatcher Haematopus longirostris
269. Double-banded plover Charadrius bicinctus
270. Red-capped plover Charadrius ruficapillus
271. Hooded plover Thinornis cucullatus
272. Black-faced comorant

A couple of extras from Sri Lanka:

Reptiles

16. Whistling lizard Calotes liolepis

Invertebrates

16. Lesser banded hornet Vespa affinis

Also noted locally:

17. White migrant Catopsilia pyranthe

 

[animal_expert01]

And some other inconsistencies:

@Hix listed number 8 for mammals twice, so I have put him at 9 instead.

@Junklekitteb listed number 5 for mammals twice, so I have put that up to 6.

@animal_expert01 listed number 4 for mammals twice, so I upped that by one and he is now on 7 instead of 6.

However, the bird lists for @animal_expert01 are seriously messed up and I have no idea what number you are on. You skipped number 88 (going from 87 to 89 in the same post), then later went from 91 to 83, then later from 86 to 85. You'll need to redo your list for a total.

The lists of @drill are also messed up. I think he counted a dog at some point (?) so I have him on 2 instead of 3; and he also counted some chickens which similarly don't count, but then also just started numbering every bird as 1. So I have no idea what his numbers are.

The only mistake I can see is listing 85 and 86 twice meaning I am actually on 102.

 

[MRJ]

Also seen on the Bass Coast:

273. Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia

 

[Chlidonias]

However, the bird lists for @animal_expert01 are seriously messed up and I have no idea what number you are on. You skipped number 88 (going from 87 to 89 in the same post), then later went from 91 to 83, then later from 86 to 85. You'll need to redo your list for a total.

The only mistake I can see is listing 85 and 86 twice meaning I am actually on 102.

This is how your numbers go: 85, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 83, 84, 85, 86, 85, 86, 87 and then etc up to 100.

85. Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
86. Grey Butcherbird (Cracticus torquatus)

87. Great Egret (Ardea alba)
89. Restless Flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta)

90. Crested Myna (Acridotheres cristatellus)
91. Pacific Swallow (Hirundo tahitica)

83. Large Billed Crow (Corvus macrorhynchos)

84. Zebra Dove (Geopelia striata)
85. Red Whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus)
86. Yellow Vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus goiavier)

85. Black Naped Oriole (Oriolus chinensis)
86. Common Hoopoe (Upupa epops)
87. Asian Koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus)
88. Orange Breasted Green Pigeon (Treron bicinctus)
89. Ashy Drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus)
90. Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus)
91. Greater Racket Tailed Drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus)

92. Chinese Pond Heron (Ardeola bacchus)
93. Pacific Reef Egret (Egretta sacra)
94. Pied Hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris)
95. Greater Coucal (Centropus sinensis)
96. Asian Glossy Starling (Aplonis panayensis)

97. Indian Roller (Coracias benghalensis)
98. Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis)
99. Asian Openbill (Anastomus oscitans)
100. House Crow (Corvus splendens)

 

[animal_expert01]

This is how your numbers go: 85, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 83, 84, 85, 86, 85, 86, 87 and then etc up to 100.

Sorry I completely missed that! I’m actually on 110.

 

[Hix]

Ugar Island

Birds
165. Spectacled Monarch
166. Mangrove Golden Whistler
167. Torresian Kingfisher
168. Nankeen Night Heron
169. White-winged Black Tern
170. Terek Sandpiper

Fish
3. Leopard/Zebra Shark



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Birds
Campbell Island
171. Gull-billed Tern

Horn Island
172. Rainbow Bee-eater
173. Helmeted Friarbird

Kuranda
174. Southern Cassowary
175. Pale-yellow Robin



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