Did you move the eel? They are Endangered after all.
ZooChat Big Year 2021
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Sweet! Then M. schreibersii is a lifer too
I wanted to but it was some ways from the water line (also up on a rock so about 10-15ft above the water line) and I didn't want a mechanism to safely capture and then release the animal. I didn't want to risk grabbing at it in potentially injuring either myself or the eel, and I also didn't want to make it exert energy needlessly when it was already in a somewhat precarious situation. Best I could do was hope tonight high tide swept him back out to sea.
~Thylo
Have always meant to get into the Big Year fun! As per usual I'm only keeping track of mammals.
Unfortunately this number should stay pretty stagnant for a bit with no trips planned in the immediate future. I included the dates I saw each animal for the first time.
2021 Big Year:
Unfortunately this number should stay pretty stagnant for a bit with no trips planned in the immediate future. I included the dates I saw each animal for the first time.
2021 Big Year:
- Tantalus monkey 1.21
- Mantled Guereza
- Ethiopian Epauletted Bat 1.22
- Olive Baboon
- Uganda Kob
- Patas monkey
- Rothchild’s Giraffe
- African Bush Elephant
- Common Warthog
- Banded mongoose
- Bunyoro rabbit
- Cape Hare
- Waterbuck
- Oribi
- Jackson’s Hartebeest
- Cape buffalo
- Spotted hyena
- White-tailed mongoose
- Rusty-spotted genet
- Side-striped Jackal
- Yellow-winged bat
- Noack’s Dormouse 1.23
- Senegal Bushbaby
- Lion
- Hippo
- Striped ground squirrel
- Leopard
- Noack’s Roundleaf bat
- Mauritian tomb bat
- Kemp's Gerbil
- African Savannah Hare
- Sundevall's Roundleaf Bat 1.24
- Schmidt's Red-tailed guenon 1.25
- Stuhlmann's Blue monkey
- Debrazza’s monkey
- Johnston's Mangabey
- Semliki red colobus
- Red-legged sun squirrel
- Bohem’s bush squirrel
- Dent’s monkey
- Alexander’s dwarf squirrel
- Benito roundleaf bat
- Franquet's Epauletted Fruit Bat
- Lesser spectaculed galago
- Lord derby’s anomalure
- Hammer-headed bat
- Link rat 1.26
- Angolan Rousette
- Ugandan Mangabey
- Ashy red colobus
- L’host’s Monkey
- African palm civet
- Demidoff’s galago
- Chimpanzee 1.27
- Weyn’s duiker (thermal only)
- Spotted necked Otter
- Marsh mongoose
- Bushbuck 1.28
- Giant forest hog
- Egyptian rousette 1.29
- Angolan free-tailed bat
- Gray Climbing mouse
- Egyptian mongoose 1.30
- Topi
- Typical Striped Grass mouse
- Ruwenzori Sun squirrel
- Mountain Gorilla 1.31
- Northeast African Mole-rat
- African Civet
- Thomas’ bushbaby
- Silver Monkey
- Black-fronted duiker
- Ruwenzori Horseshoe bat
- Plains Zebra 2.3
- Impala
- Eland
- Vervet
- White-bearded wildebeest 2.4
- Thompson’s gazelle
- Coke’s Hartebeest
- White Rhino
- Kirk’s dik-dik
- African wildcat
- Serval
- Emin’s tateril
- Nairobi grass rat
- east african gerbil
- Bush hyrax 2.5
- Yellow baboon
- Black backed jackal
- Gerenuk
- Peter’s Gazelle
- Desert Warthog
- Fridge-eared oryx
- Wahlberg’s Epauletted fruit bat
- Little free-tailed bat
- Bat eared fox
- Dwarf mongoose 2.6
- Hirola!!!!
- Lesser kudu
- Unstriped Ground squirrel
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew
- Zanj sun squirrel
- Kenya Coast galago
- Greater galago
- Four-toed elephant shrew
- Suni
- Egyptian fruit bat 2.7
- Sykes Monkey
- Red bush squirrel
- Four-toed hedgehog
- Harvey’s red duiker 2.8
- Indian Ocean Humpback Dolphin
- Indian Ocean Bottle-nosed Dolphin
- heart-nosed bat
- African shealth-tailed bat
- least long-fingered bat
- striped leaf-nosed bat
- African trident bat
- Hildegarde's tomb bat
- Lander’s horseshoe bat
- slit-faced bat 2.9
- Tana River Red Colobus
- Tana River Mangaby
- Ruwenzori thicket rat 2.10
- Eastern Tree Hyrax
- Slender mongoose 2.11
- Ochre bush squirrel 2.12
- Southern Pouched rat 2.13
- Desert Cottontail 3.11
- Arizona cotton rat
- Rock squirrel
- Racoon
- Harris’ antelope ground squirrel
- Cooe’s white-tailed deer
- Ringtail!
- Western harvest mouse 3.12
- Arizona Gray Squirrel
- Black-tailed Jackrabbit
- Striped skunk
- Pocket mouse
- Kit fox
- Mule deer 3.13
- White-throated woodrat 3.14
- Cactus mouse
- Desert rat kangaroo
- Merriam’s rat kangaroo
- Round-tailed ground squirrel
- Eastern Gray squirrel 4.30
- Eastern chipmunk
- Masked shrew
- Woodland vole
- Sei Whale 5.1
- Northern Right Whale
- Gray Seal
- Humpback Whale
- Atlantic White-sided dolphin
- Harbor Porpoise
- Coyote 5.2
- Red tailed squirrel- 5.30
- Soft-furred Grass Mouse?
- Ecuadorian Mantled Howler
- Nine-banded armadillo
- Brown-headed spider monkey 5.31
- Andean white-eared opossum
- Olinguito
- Tube-lipped tailless bat
- Ecuadorian small-eared Shrew 6.1
- Central American Agouti
- Andean cottontail
- Stump-tailed porcupine
- Takazouski’s climbing mouse
- Montane Myotis 6.2
- Black Agouti
- Lemurine Night Monkey
- White-footed Climbing Rat?
- Venezuelan Red howler 6.4
- White-fronted Capuchin
- Ecuadorian squirrel monkey
- White-tailed titi
- Proboscis Bat
- Lowland paca (thermal only)
- Kinkajou
- Greater Spear-nosed bat
- Golden-mantled Tamarin 6.5
- Common woolly monkey
- White-bellied spider monkey
- Huffman’s two-toed sloth
- Giant Otter
- Tayra
- Seba's short-tailed bat
- Fringe-lipped bat
- Pallas's Long-tongued bat
- Lesser fishing bat
- Greater fishing bat
- Napo Saki 6.6
- Andean Fox 6.8
- Big-eared Opossum 6.10
- Silky short-tailed bat 6.11
- Maned Sloth
- Masked titi!!
- Buffy-headed marmoset 6.13
- Northern muriqui
- Paraguayan Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
- Black capuchin 6.14
- Brown Howler
- Atlantic Forest Arboreal Rice Rat
- Guyana Squirrel 6.15
- Gray brocket deer
- Little yellow-shouldered bat
- Maned wolf
- Gray slender opossum
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum
- Guyana dolphin 6.16
- Weid’s marmoset
- Little big-eared bat
- 6-banded armadillo
- Golden-headed Lion Tamarin 6.17
- Yellow-breasted capuchin
- Greater Sac-winged bat
- Bahia Porcupine
- Coastal black-handed titi 6.18
- Capybara 6.19
- Marsh Deer
- South American coati
- Azara’s Capuchin
- Red brocket
- Crab-eating fox
- Tapeti
- Humid Chaco Arboreal Rice Rat
- Azara’s agouti 6.20
- Big Bonneted bat
- White-lined broad-nosed bat
- Feral Water Buffalo
- Jaguar!
- Brazilian Cavy
- Ocelot
- Black and gold howler 6.21
- Neotropical river otter 6.22
- Giant Anteater 6.23
- Black-tailed marmoset
- Broad-eared Bat
- Black-faced lion tamarin!!! 6.27
- Lami tuco tuco!!!! 6.29
- Black-footed Pygmy Rice Rat?
What, no red fox or whitetail?
No red fox yet lol.
135. Coues' white tailed deer (spelled wrong above) I've also seen Andean White-tailed Deer and whatever subspecies lives in Rhode Island/Massachusetts.
Anything that needs a question mark doesn't count...
Eels can move quite easily overland if they need to.
A few more updates, this time from County Durham/Teesside.
Mammals
13. Harbour seal Phoca vitulina
Birds
100. Little grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
101. Great white egret Ardea alba
102. Dunlin Calidris alpina
103. Western yellow wagtail Motacilla flava
An additional bird I think I saw was a velvet scoter. A small flock of seemingly all black birds flew past low over the sea. They had the jizz of ducks in flight and through binoculars I could see white on the wings of one of the birds. This was in late July, so I'm not sure this was the right time of year for velvet scoters to be seen on the UK coast. Any suggestions?
Male Eider in eclipse?
I wish you put in scientific names that would have been really helpful for species like "lion" "hippo" "eland" or "leopard"
Also wished you marked which ones were lifers.
That's what I thought, but wasn't sure. Not sure why this eel would choose such a small and shallow body of water to stay in but either way I'm glad I saw it.
~Thylo
Have updated here.
I'm not gonna add scientific names, but I'll at least elaborate on the ones you mentioned.
And I agree wild lifers are now marked in bold, with an L next to the ones I'd never seen in captivity before.
Since I can't edit my last post I'll post a corrected one here:
2021 Big Year:
- Tantalus monkey 1.21
- Mantled Guereza
- Ethiopian Epauletted Bat 1.22 L
- Olive Baboon
- Uganda Kob
- Patas monkey
- Rothchild’s Giraffe
- African Bush Elephant
- Common Warthog
- Banded mongoose
- Bunyoro rabbit L
- Cape Hare
- Waterbuck
- Oribi
- Jackson’s Hartebeest
- Cape buffalo
- Spotted hyena
- White-tailed mongoose
- Rusty-spotted genet
- Side-striped Jackal L
- Yellow-winged bat L
- Noack’s Dormouse 1.23 L
- Senegal Bushbaby
- African Lion
- River Hippo
- Striped ground squirrel L
- African Leopard
- Noack’s Roundleaf bat L
- Mauritian tomb bat L
- Kemp's Gerbil L
- African Savannah Hare
- Sundevall's Roundleaf Bat 1.24
- Schmidt's Red-tailed guenon 1.25
- Stuhlmann's Blue monkey
- Debrazza’s monkey
- Johnston's Mangabey L
- Semliki red colobus L
- Red-legged sun squirrel
- Bohem’s bush squirrel L
- Dent’s monkey L
- Alexander’s dwarf squirrel L
- Benito roundleaf bat L
- Franquet's Epauletted Fruit Bat L
- Lesser Spectacled galago L
- Lord derby’s anomalure L
- Hammer-headed bat
- Link rat 1.26 L
- Angolan Rousette L
- Ugandan Mangabey L
- Ashy red colobus L
- L’host’s Monkey
- African palm civet
- Demidoff’s galago L
- Common Chimpanzee 1.27
- Weyn’s duiker (thermal only) L
- Spotted necked Otter
- Marsh mongoose
- Bushbuck 1.28
- Giant forest hog
- Egyptian fruit bat 1.29
- Angolan free-tailed bat L
- Gray Climbing mouse L
- Egyptian mongoose 1.30
- Topi
- Typical Striped Grass mouse
- Ruwenzori Sun squirrel L
- Mountain Gorilla 1.31
- Northeast African Mole-rat L
- African Civet
- Thomas’ bushbaby L
- Silver Monkey L
- Black-fronted duiker L
- Ruwenzori Horseshoe bat L
- Plains Zebra 2.3
- Common Impala
- Common Eland
- Vervet
- White-bearded wildebeest 2.4
- Thompson’s gazelle
- Coke’s Hartebeest
- White Rhino
- Hinde's dik-dik L
- African wildcat
- Serval
- Emin’s tateril L
- Nairobi grass rat L
- east african gerbil L
- Bush hyrax 2.5
- Yellow baboon
- Black backed jackal
- Gerenuk
- Peter’s Gazelle L
- Desert Warthog L
- Fringe-eared oryx
- Wahlberg’s Epauletted fruit bat L
- Little free-tailed bat L
- Bat eared fox
- Dwarf mongoose 2.6
- Hirola!!!! L
- Lesser kudu
- Unstriped Ground squirrel
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew L
- Zanj sun squirrel L
- Kenya Coast galago L
- Northern Greater galago
- Four-toed elephant shrew
- Coastal Suni
- Sykes Monkey 2.7
- Red bush squirrel
- Four-toed hedgehog
- Harvey’s red duiker 2.8 L
- Indian Ocean Humpback Dolphin L
- Indian Ocean Bottle-nosed Dolphin
- heart-nosed bat L
- African shealth-tailed bat L
- least long-fingered bat L
- striped leaf-nosed bat L
- African trident bat L
- Hildegarde's tomb bat L
- Lander’s horseshoe bat L
- Slit-faced bat sp. 2.9
- Tana River Red Colobus L
- Tana River Mangaby L
- Ruwenzori thicket rat 2.10 L
- Eastern Tree Hyrax L
- Mountain Suni
- Slender mongoose 2.11
- Ochre bush squirrel 2.12 L
- Southern Pouched rat 2.13 L
- Desert Cottontail 3.11
- Arizona cotton rat L
- Rock squirrel
- Racoon
- Harris’ antelope ground squirrel
- Coue’s white-tailed deer
- Ringtail!
- Western harvest mouse 3.12 L
- Arizona Gray Squirrel L
- Black-tailed Jackrabbit
- Striped skunk
- Pocket mouse sp.
- Kit fox
- Mule deer 3.13
- White-throated woodrat 3.14
- Cactus mouse
- Desert rat kangaroo
- Merriam’s rat kangaroo
- Round-tailed ground squirrel
- Eastern Gray squirrel 4.30
- Eastern chipmunk
- Masked shrew
- Woodland vole L
- Sei Whale 5.1 L
- Northern Right Whale L
- Gray Seal
- Humpback Whale
- Atlantic White-sided dolphin
- Harbor Porpoise
- Coyote 5.2
- Red tailed squirrel- 5.30
- Ecuadorian Mantled Howler
- Nine-banded armadillo
- Brown-headed spider monkey 5.31
- Andean white-eared opossum
- Olinguito
- Tube-lipped tailless bat
- Ecuadorian small-eared Shrew 6.1 L
- Central American Agouti
- Andean cottontail L
- Stump-tailed porcupine L
- Takazouski’s climbing mouse L
- Montane Myotis 6.2 L
- Black Agouti
- Lemurine Night Monkey L
- Venezuelan Red howler 6.4
- White-fronted Capuchin
- Rhipidomys Climbing Mouse sp. (likely Rhipidomys leucodactylus) L
- Ecuadorian squirrel monkey L
- White-tailed titi
- Proboscis Bat
- Lowland paca (thermal only)
- Kinkajou
- Greater Spear-nosed bat
- Golden-mantled Tamarin 6.5 L
- Common woolly monkey
- White-bellied spider monkey
- Huffman’s two-toed sloth
- Giant Otter
- Tayra
- Seba's short-tailed bat
- Fringe-lipped bat L
- Pallas's Long-tongued bat
- Lesser fishing bat L
- Greater fishing bat
- Napo Saki 6.6 L
- Andean Fox 6.8
- Big-eared Opossum 6.10
- Silky short-tailed bat 6.11 L
- Maned Sloth L
- Masked titi L
- Buffy-headed marmoset 6.13 L
- Northern muriqui L
- Paraguayan Hairy Dwarf Porcupine
- Black capuchin 6.14
- Brown Howler
- Atlantic Forest Arboreal Rice Rat L
- Guyana Squirrel 6.15 L
- Gray brocket deer
- Little yellow-shouldered bat L
- Maned wolf
- Gray slender opossum L
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum
- Guyana dolphin 6.16
- Weid’s marmoset
- Little big-eared bat
- 6-banded armadillo
- Golden-headed Lion Tamarin 6.17
- Yellow-breasted capuchin
- Greater Sac-winged bat
- Bahia Porcupine L
- Coastal black-handed titi 6.18 L
- Capybara 6.19
- Marsh Deer
- South American coati
- Azara’s Capuchin L
- Red brocket
- Crab-eating fox
- Tapeti L
- Humid Chaco Arboreal Rice Rat L
- Azara’s agouti 6.20
- Big Bonneted bat L
- White-lined broad-nosed bat L
- Feral Water Buffalo
- Jaguar!
- Brazilian Cavy
- Ocelot
- Black and gold howler 6.21
- Neotropical river otter 6.22
- Giant Anteater 6.23
- Black-tailed marmoset
- Broad-eared Bat L
- Black-faced lion tamarin!!! 6.27 L
- Lami tuco tuco!!!! 6.29 L
- Pygmy Rice Rat sp. (likely Oligoryzomys nigripes) L
As @Tetzoo Quizzer says, an eclipse Eider drake is likeliest - though it must be said I've previously seen definite Velvet Scoter just up the coast in Northumberland in early July!
Quite a few taxa needed for photographic guides in that lot!
Taxa I've seen after 03/01/2021
Mammals
1. Rattus norvegicus
2. Sciurus vulgaris
3. Erinaceus roumanicus
4. Dama dama
5. Capreolus capreolus
6. Lepus europaeus
Birds
3. Parus caeruleus
4. Turdus merula
5. Ardea cinerea
6. Turdus pilaris
7. Alcedo atthis
8. Phalacrocolax carbo
9. Ardea alba
10. Ciconia ciconia
11. Buteo buteo
12. Athene noctua
13. Hirundo rustica
14. Pica pica
15. Garrulus glandarius
16. Corvus corone
17. Corvus monedula
18. Phasianus colchius
19. Grus grus
20. Dendrocopus major
21. Picus viridis
22. Fulica atra
23. Gallinula chloropus
24. Streptopelia decaocto
25. Circus aeruginosus
26. Cygnus olor
27. Larus ridibundus
28. Nucifraga caryocatactes
29. Fringilla coelebs
30. Columba palumbus
31. Apus apus
Herptiles
1. Podarcis muralis
2. Natrix natrix
3. Natrix tessellata
4. Salamandra salamandra
5. Pelophylax ridibundus
Sorry for the taxonomically random list, I wrote the species as them came to my mind.
Mammals
1. Rattus norvegicus
2. Sciurus vulgaris
3. Erinaceus roumanicus
4. Dama dama
5. Capreolus capreolus
6. Lepus europaeus
Birds
3. Parus caeruleus
4. Turdus merula
5. Ardea cinerea
6. Turdus pilaris
7. Alcedo atthis
8. Phalacrocolax carbo
9. Ardea alba
10. Ciconia ciconia
11. Buteo buteo
12. Athene noctua
13. Hirundo rustica
14. Pica pica
15. Garrulus glandarius
16. Corvus corone
17. Corvus monedula
18. Phasianus colchius
19. Grus grus
20. Dendrocopus major
21. Picus viridis
22. Fulica atra
23. Gallinula chloropus
24. Streptopelia decaocto
25. Circus aeruginosus
26. Cygnus olor
27. Larus ridibundus
28. Nucifraga caryocatactes
29. Fringilla coelebs
30. Columba palumbus
31. Apus apus
Herptiles
1. Podarcis muralis
2. Natrix natrix
3. Natrix tessellata
4. Salamandra salamandra
5. Pelophylax ridibundus
Sorry for the taxonomically random list, I wrote the species as them came to my mind.
Day 3 (09.08.21) - Romania, Danube delta
Mammals
17. Wildcat (Felis silvestris)
18. Striped Field Mouse (Apodemus agrarius)
19. Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus)
Birds
23. Caspian Gull (Larus cachinnans)
24. Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix)
25. Pygmy Cormorant (Phalacrocorax pygmeus)
26. Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea)
27. Squacco Heron (Ardeola ralloides)
28. Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
29. Black Stork (Ciconia nigra)
30. Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus)
31. Little Bittern (Ixobrychus minutus)
32. European Roller (Coracias garrulus)
Reptiles
2. Grass Snake (Natrix natrix)
Amphibians
3. Marsh Frog (Pelophylax ridibundus)
Day 4 (10.08.21) - Romania, Danube delta
Mammals
20. Stone Marten (Martes foina)
21. Raccoon Dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)
Birds
33. Pallas’s Gull (Larus ichthyaetus)
34. White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus)
35. Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus)
36. Black Tern (Chlidonias niger)
37. Great Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus)
Reptiles
3. European Pond Terrapin (Emys orbicularis)
Indeed, and I got photos of almost all of them! Just a matter of finding the time to upload them. Currently putting finishing touches on my Kenya Trip Report, and recently started the Brazil report as well. After both of those are done, I hope to upload a bunch of these lifers! Added some fun captive ones in Brazil as well like: Greater Naked-tailed Armadillo, Maués Marmoset, Gold-and-white Marmoset, Martins's Tamarin, Black-handed Tamarin, Spix's Red-handed Howler, Golden-backed Uakari, Neblina Uakari, Chestnut-bellied Titi, Caqueta Titi, Hershkovitz's Titi, White-footed Saki, Pygmy Brocket, Small Red Brocket and Amazonian Brown Brocket.