Zoochat Big Year 2022

Invertebrates
7 Buff-tailed Bumblebee Bombus terrestris

Birds
80 Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis
81 Song Thrush Turdus philomelos
82 Redwing Turdus iliacus
83 Linnet Linaria cannabina
and in the Linnet flock, at least one
84 Twite Linaria flavirostris
 
Birds:
32: Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus)
33: Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata)
34: Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus)
35: Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)
36: Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

Reptiles:
1: Brown Anole (Anolis sagrei)

Invertebrates:
2: Common Earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris)
3: Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)
4: Mexican Honey Wasp (Brachygastra mellifica)
 
WhistlingKite24 said:
An exciting way to start the year with a trip to Maiala which is part of D'Aguilar National Park. The antechinus was the clear highlight of my visit.

Mammals
01) Common Brushtail Possum, Trichosurus vulpecula
02) Black Flying Fox, Pteropus alecto
03) Subtropical Antechinus, Antechinus subtropicus
04) Red-legged Pademelon, Thylogale stigmatica
05) Red-necked Pademelon, Thylogale thetis

Birds
55) Eastern Koel, Eudynamys orientalis
56) Little Pied Cormorant, Microcarbo melanoleucos
57) Laughing Kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae
58) Torresian Kingfisher, Todiramphus sordidus
59) Striated Heron, Butorides striata
60) Mangrove Honeyeater, Lichenostomus fasciogularis
61) Noisy Friarbird, Philemon corniculatus
62) Australian Pelican, Pelecanus conspicillatus
63) Silver Gull, Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae
64) Brown Gergyone, Gerygone mouki
65) Eastern Spinebill, Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris
66) White-browed Scrubwren, Sericornis frontalis
67) Satin Bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus
68) Eastern Yellow Robin, Eopsaltria australis
69) Lewin’s Honeyeater, Meliphaga lewinii
70) Yellow-throated Scrubwren, Sericornis citreogularis
71) Black-faced Monarch, Monarcha melanopsis
72) Rufous Fantail, Rhipidura rufifrons
73) Pale-yellow Robin, Tregellasia capito
74) Green Catbird, Ailuroedus crassirostris
75) Wompoo Fruit-Dove, Ptilinopus magnificus
76) Russet-tailed Thrush, Zoothera heinei

Reptiles
01) Asian House Gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus

Invertebrates
5) Variable Ladybird, Coelophora inaequalis
6) Zebra Blue, Leptotes plinius
7) Celtis Leaf Beetle, Menippus cynicus
8) Common Crow, Euploea core
9) Wandering Percher, Diplacodes bipunctata
10) Scarlet Percher, Diplacodes haematodes
11) Common Eggfly, Hypolimnas bolina
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A much needed update with mainly the usual suspects. Highlight since my last post has been a butterfly – my first Yellow Admiral. Everything I had read about them described them as common but I’d yet to come across one. After a long week at work during my usual potter to the bus, I spotted a dull butterfly perched in lomandra bushes. It opened it wings and flashed its unmistakable markings. A really lovely little thing that brightened my day.

Mammals
6) Little Red Flying Fox, Pteropus scapulatus
7) Grey-headed Flying Fox, Pteropus poliocephalus

Birds
77) Peaceful Dove, Geopelia placida
78) Bar-shouldered Dove, Geopelia humeralis
79) Greater Crested Tern, Thalasseus bergii
80) Scaly-breasted Lorikeet, Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus
81) Pied Butcherbird, Cracticus nigrogularis
82) Galah, Eolophus roseicapilla
83) Australian Wood Duck, Chenonetta jubata
84) Golden-headed Cisticola, Cisticola exilis
85) Australasian Darter, Anhinga novaehollandiae
86) Brahminy Kite, Haliastur indus
87) Common Cicadabird, Edolisoma tenuirostre
88) Long-billed Corella, Cacatua tenuirostris

Herptiles
03) Bar-sided Skink, Concinnia tenuis
04) Garden Skink, Lampropholis delicata
05) Eastern Water Dragon, Intellagama lesueurii
06) Brisbane River Turtle, Emyduras macquarii signata
07) Eastern Water Skink, Eulamprus quoyii
08) Saw-shelled Turtle, Myuchelys latisternum

Invertebrates
12) European Honeybee, Apis mellifera
13) Blue-banded Bee, Amegilla cingulata
14) Orchard Swallowtail, Papilio aegeus
15) Green Jumping Spider, Mopsus mormon
16) 28-Spotted Potato Ladybird, Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata
17) Blue Triangle, Graphium sarpedon
18) Glasswing, Acraea andromacha
19) Common Brown Ringlet, Hypocysta metirius
20) Wandering Ringtail, Austrolestes leda
21) Tesselated Stick Insect, Anchiale austrotessulata
22) Nagia linteola
23) Asian Magpie Moth, Nyctemera baulus
24) Scarlet Three-spined Mangrove Crab, Neosarmatium trispinosum
25) Maroon Mangrove Crab Perisesarma messa
26) Compressed Fiddler Crab, Tubuca coarctata
27) Copper Jewel, Hypochrysops apelles
28) Lyell’s Swift, Pelopidas lyelli
29) Grey Wall Jumping Spider, Menemerus bivittatus
30) Yellow/Australian Admiral, Vanessa itea
31) Richmond Birdwing, Ornithoptera richmondia
 
BerdNerd said:
2/21/22

26. Common Grackle
27. Blue Jay
28. Northern Flicker
29. Northern Cardinal
30. Ring-Billed Gull
31. Lesser Scaup
32. Common Loon
33. Killdeer
34. House Sparrow
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2/27/22

I went birdwatching again this weekend, but because of the rain, not a whole lot of birds were around. However, I still managed to see a few species I have seen in previous years, but no new species this time unfortunately.

35. Pileated Woodpecker
36. Wild Turkey
37. Pied-Billed Grebe
 
My first trip for a while snagged me two new species, putting me ahead of my total in 2020.

Birds:
60. Common Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita)
61. Greylag Goose (Anser anser)
 
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Four days' worth of update from my Uni drama group reunion in North Wales. Many of the usual organised events were shelved until next year in light of Covid so it was a much more casual and flexible affair - which freed up a lot of day time for birding that would usually be line-bashing for our 48hr play project. As such, a bit more time at most of my regular sites and a good haul - chased a few twitchable rarities with limited success (a fail on weird scoters resulted in the diver sightings, however!) but the only real absence among the regulars was Harbour Porpoise. Bird of the trip was my third-ever Iceland Gull among the seals at Angel Bay on Little Orme - a twitch that did work..!

Birds:
111. Common Scoter - Melanitta nigra
112. Black Guillemot - Cepphus grylle
113. European Shag - Gulosus aristotelis
114. Eurasian Rock Pipit - Anthus petrosus
115. Red-breasted Merganser - Mergus serrator
116. Mistle Thrush - Turdus viscivorus
117. Common Eider - Somateria mollissima
118. Red-billed Chough - Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
119. Common Guillemot - Uria aalge
120. Razorbill - Alca torda
121. White-breasted Dipper - Cinclus cinclus
122. Northern Gannet - Morus bassanus
123. Common Greenshank - Tringa nebularia
124. Red Knot - Calidris canuta
125. Northern Fulmar - Fulmarus glacialis
126. Iceland Gull - Larus glaucoides
127. Red-throated Diver - Gavia stellata
128. Greater Scaup - Aythya marila

Mammals:
13. European Red Squirrel - Sciurus vulgaris
14. Grey Seal - Halichoerus grypus

:)
 
Tonight, I was able to identify my first invertebrate of the year:

Invertebrates:

1. Bent-Line Carpet Moth
 
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Birds:
37. American Kestrel (Falco sparevius)
38. Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus, formerly Caracara cheriway (this is now the Northern subspecies cheriway)
39. Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)

Do feral Domestic Cats or feral Muscovy Ducks count?
 
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Birdsage said:
Do feral Domestic Cats or feral Muscovy Ducks count?
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Great Argus said:
See the quoted part of the rules below.
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Indeed, so if they are wild breeding populations they can count for you. This would vary by country, e.g. feral muscovies are established as breeding birds in some countries while in others they exist only as dumped pets on urban ponds. I personally count feral cats and various other mammals which I know are feral, and I count feral pigeons, but I don't count (in my country) wild-living muscovies, chickens etc because either they aren't established or it is impossible to tell if any you see are just abandoned / free-ranging / etc.
 
In that case:
3 of the 4 neighborhood cats that I regularly see have no collars or IDs of any kind and that are not tied to any particular households, so to to my knowledge they are not captive animals. Therefore the sightings pass rule 4. The Domestic Cat is one of the most well-established introduced species in the world, so my sightings pass rule 3.
The domestic forms of the Muscovy Duck, however, are considered by the American Birding Association to be established in Florida but not Texas, so I can’t count those here. (There are countable WILD Muscovy Ducks in the Rio Grande area, but that’s the wrong location)

Mammals:
4. Domestic Cat (Felis catus, occasionally Felis silvestris catus)
 
Birds
32. Canada Goose Branta canadensis

33. Acorn Woodpecker Melanerpes formicivorus

34. Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis

35. Snowy Egret Egretta thula

36. Double-Crested Cormorant Nannopterum auritum

37. Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor (early migrants?)

38. White-Breased Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis

39. Ruby-Crowned Kinglet Corthylio calendula

40. European Starling Sturnus vulgaris

Invertebrates

13. Western Boxelder Bug Boisea rubrolineata

14. European Paper Wasp Polistes dominula

15. Californian Bumblebee Bombus californicus
 
Round-up for the first two months of the year:


BIRDS:

boof – 159
Maguari – 128
Hix – 124
Mr. Zootycoon – 123
Vision – 111
oflory – 104
MRJ – 102
Mehdi – 93
Kazaa67 – 90
WhistlingKite24 – 88
Tetzoo Quizzer – 84
birdsandbats – 83
Chlidonias – 67
Great Argus – 67
Ituri – 65
akasha – 62
TheChukaulorian – 61
OstrichMania – 61
animal_expert01 – 58
DesertRhino150 – 54
WalkingAgnatha – 50
amur leopard – 49
Prochilodus246 – 45
Dhole dude – 40
dinosauria – 40
Birdsage – 39
Coelacanth18 – 38
BerdNerd – 37
Macaw16 – 35
ChunkyMunky pengopus – 33
carl the birder – 27
HungarianBison – 25
red river hog – 23
Platypusboy – 21
Mayki – 20
Najade – 16
German Zoo World – 15
Animals R AMAZING! – 6


MAMMALS:

Giant Eland – 23
Maguari – 14
birdsandbats – 10
animal_expert01 – 8
oflory – 7
Mr. Zootycoon – 7
WhistlingKite24 – 7
akasha – 6
Great Argus – 6
red river hog – 5
DesertRhino150 – 5
Vision – 4
Animals R AMAZING! – 4
Tetzoo Quizzer – 4
MRJ – 4
Hix – 4
Platypusboy – 4
amur leopard – 4
Birdsage – 4
ChunkyMunky pengopus – 3
Najade – 3
Dhole dude – 3
dinosauria – 2
carl the birder – 2
Kazaa67 – 2
BerdNerd – 2
Ituri – 2
WalkingAgnatha – 2
Coelacanth18 – 2
Macaw16 – 2
HungarianBison – 2
Mehdi – 2
Prochilodus246 – 1
OstrichMania – 1
Mayki – 1
TheChukaulorian – 1
German Zoo World – 1


HERPTILES:

TheChukaulorian – 13 Herptiles total (11 Reptiles, 2 Amphibians)
animal_expert01 – 9 Herptiles total (7 Reptiles, 2 Amphibians)
WhistlingKite24 – 8 Herptiles total (8 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)
akasha – 4 Herptiles total (4 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)
Hix – 4 Herptiles total (4 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)
Great Argus – 4 Herptiles total (4 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)
Dhole dude – 3 Herptiles total (3 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)
WalkingAgnatha – 1 Herptile total (1 Reptile, 0 Amphibians)
Mr. Zootycoon – 1 Herptile total (0 Reptiles, 1 Amphibian)
Birdsage – 1 Herptile total (1 Reptile, 0 Amphibians)


FISH:

animal_expert01 – 8
Vision – 3
WalkingAgnatha – 3
birdsandbats – 1
MRJ – 1
TheChukaulorian – 1


INVERTEBRATES:

TheChukaulorian – 36
WhistlingKite24 – 31
WalkingAgnatha – 16
dinosauria – 15
MRJ – 9
Great Argus – 7
Tetzoo Quizzer – 7
Birdsage – 4
Mehdi – 3
ChunkyMunky pengopus – 3
Prochilodus246 – 2
red river hog – 2
dinosauria – 1
akasha – 1
DesertRhino150 – 1
German Zoo World – 1
Hix – 1
Dhole dude – 1
BerdNerd – 1
 
DesertRhino150 said:
I decided that today I would go for a much longer walk than normal and it certainly paid off, with several excellent and unexpected sightings. First were two Cetti's warblers, often very skulking birds you hear rather than see, both in the open on short riverbank vegetation.

At the end of the walk, where the freshwater river meets the highest tidal section, I spotted an extremely tame water rail - at times I was probably no more than two metres from it and when a dog walker went past the bird continued feeding with very little reaction.

And then, after arriving home, found a pair of bullfinches in the garden (around here, they are definitely not a regular garden species).

47. Common coot Fulica atra
48. Little egret Egretta garzetta
49. Cetti's warbler Cettia cetti
50. Common teal Anas crecca
51. Little grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis
52. Western water rail Rallus aquaticus
53. Goldcrest Regulus regulus
54. Eurasian bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula

Looking back through my 2021 list, by this time last year I was only on 39 birds - well on course to do a lot better than that this time around.
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Across the month of February I have seen another four bird species, as well as three new invertebrates:

55. Redwing Turdus iliacus
56. Coal tit Periparus ater
57. Rook Corvus frugilegus
58. Canada goose Branta canadensis

2. Rove beetle Paederus littoralis
3. Red admiral butterfly Vanessa atalanta
4. Buff-tailed bumblebee Bombus terrestris
 
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Dhole dude said:
Two of these species were seen within the last two weeks, while the other species were seen today at the J.N "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, Florida. Many of these are lifers for me, which is always exciting :). Pretty slow year so far, but again, I hope to start picking up more species as the year goes on.

Mammals
3. American Red Squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) (Seen in last two weeks)

Birds
9. Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus carolinus)
10. Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
11. Great Egret (Ardea alba)
12. American White Ibis (Eudocimus albus)
13. Yellow-Crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
14. Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)
15. Pied-Billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps)
16. Tri-Colored Heron (Egretta tricolor)
17. American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)
18. Double-Crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
19. Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
20. American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus)
21. Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
22. Reddish Egret (Egretta rufescens)
23. Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)
24. Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura),
25. Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
26. Green Heron (Butorides virescens)
27. Black-Crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
28. Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon)
29. Black-Bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
30. Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus)
31. Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla)
32. Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius)
33. Willet (Tringa semipalmata)
34. Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
35. Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
36. Sanderling (Calidris alba)
37. American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) (Seen in last two weeks)
38. Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
39. Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)
40. Red-Breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)

Reptiles
1. Brown Anole (Anolis sagrei)
2. Saltmarsh Snake (Nerodia clarkii)
3. American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)

Invertebrates
1. Mangrove Tree Crab (Aratus pisonii)

Mammals: 3
Birds: 40
Reptiles: 3
Invertebrates: 1
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Forgot to add some species seen in Florida last week.

Birds
41. Boat-Tailed Grackle (Quiscalus major)
42. Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus)
43. Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri)
44. Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis)
45. Ring-Billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)
46. Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla)
47. Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)
48. Mangrove Cuckoo (Coccyzus minor)
49. Wood Stork (Mycteria americana)
50. Ring-Necked Dove (Streptopelia capicola)

Reptiles
4. Brown Basilisk (Basiliscus vittatus)
5. Florida Redbelly Cooter (Pseudemys nelsoni)
6. Pond Slider (Trachemys scripta)
7. Florida Softshell Turtle (Apalone ferox)

Fish
1. Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
2. Florida Gar (Lepisosteus platyrhincus)
3. American Eel (Anguilla rostrata)

Mammals: 3
Birds: 50
Reptiles: 7
Fish: 3
Invertebrates: 1
 
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Mammals:
2. European hare, Lepus europaeus

Birds:
62. Plain-mantled tit-spinetail, Leptasthenura aegithaloides
63. White-browed ground-tyrant, Muscisaxicola albilora
64. Plumbeous sierra-finch, Geospizopsis unicolor

Reptiles:
12. Dusky tree iguana, Liolaemus fuscus

Amphibians:
3. Black spiny-chest frog, Alsodes nodosus

Invertebrates:
37. Spittle fly, Rachiptera limbata
38. Drain fly, Clogmia albipunctata
39. Jewel beetle, Ectinogonia speciosa
40. Black carpenter ant, Camponotus morosus
41. Andean cone ant, Dorymyrmex agallardoi
42. Cactus bee, Trichothurgus dubius
 
Since winter is almost coming to a close, the weather is drastically starting to warm up, so I saw the first reptile of the year today.

Reptiles:

1. Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis)



Total:
Mammals: 2
Birds: 37
Reptiles: 1
Invertebrates: 1
 
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