ZooChat Big Year 2013

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Updated 2013 list

1 Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
2 Greater White-fronted Goose
3 Canada Goose
4 Wood Duck
5 Gadwall
6 American Wigeon
7 Mallard
8 Blue-winged Teal
9 Northern Shoveler
10 Northern Pintail
11 Green-winged Teal
12 Canvasback
13 Redhead
14 Ring-necked Duck
15 Greater Scaup
16 Lesser Scaup
17 Bufflehead
18 Hooded Merganser
19 Ruddy Duck
20 Red-throated Loon
21 Pied-billed Grebe
22 Eared Grebe
23 Neotropic Cormorant
24 Double-crested Cormorant
25 American White Pelican
26 Great Blue Heron
27 Great Egret
28 Black-crowned Night-Heron
29 Black Vulture
30 Turkey Vulture
31 Osprey
32 Northern Harrier
33 Sharp-shinned Hawk
34 Cooper's Hawk
35 Red-shouldered Hawk
36 Red-tailed Hawk
37 American Coot
38 Killdeer
39 Spotted Sandpiper
40 Greater Yellowlegs
41 Lesser Yellowlegs
42 Least Sandpiper
43 Pectoral Sandpiper
44 Long-billed Dowitcher
45 Wilson's Snipe
46 Bonaparte's Gull
47 Little Gull
48 Franklin's Gull
49 Ring-billed Gull
50 Forster's Tern
51 Rock Pigeon
52 Eurasian Collared-Dove
53 White-winged Dove
54 Mourning Dove
55 Great Horned Owl
56 Barred Owl
57 Belted Kingfisher
58 Red-headed Woodpecker
59 Red-bellied Woodpecker
60 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
61 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
62 Downy Woodpecker
63 Northern Flicker
64 American Kestrel
65 Monk Parakeet
66 Eastern Phoebe
67 Blue Jay
68 American Crow
69 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
70 Purple Martin
71 Barn Swallow
72 Cliff Swallow
73 Carolina Chickadee
74 Tufted Titmouse
75 Red-breasted Nuthatch
76 Brown Creeper
77 House Wren
78 Marsh Wren
79 Bewick's Wren
80 Carolina Wren
81 Golden-crowned Kinglet
82 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
83 Eastern Bluebird
84 Hermit Thrush
85 American Robin
86 Northern Mockingbird
87 Brown Thrasher
88 European Starling
89 American Pipit
90 Cedar Waxwing
91 Yellow-rumped Warbler
92 Spotted Towhee
93 Eastern Towhee
94 Field Sparrow
95 Savannah Sparrow
96 Fox Sparrow
97 Song Sparrow
98 Lincoln's Sparrow
99 Swamp Sparrow
100 White-throated Sparrow
101 Harris's Sparrow
102 White-crowned Sparrow
103 Dark-eyed Junco
104 Northern Cardinal
105 Red-winged Blackbird
106 Eastern Meadowlark
107 Western Meadowlark
108 Rusty Blackbird
109 Great-tailed Grackle
110 Brown-headed Cowbird
111 House Finch
112 Pine Siskin
113 American Goldfinch
114 House Sparrow
 
I see many people are counting exotic species like rock pigeon/chinese water deer/monk parakeet etc. But in non of the official listings these ones will count for your list. So why is everybody using them?

It's not that people who do it are wrong, but why? isn't it much nicer to only count real wild birds/animals... And not also the ones that we brought with us...
 
I think if the animal observed is a member of a free ranging, naturally reproducing population it counts.
 
lintworm said:
I see many people are counting exotic species like rock pigeon/chinese water deer/monk parakeet etc. But in non of the official listings these ones will count for your list. So why is everybody using them?

It's not that people who do it are wrong, but why? isn't it much nicer to only count real wild birds/animals... And not also the ones that we brought with us...
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According to the ABA, rock pigeon and monk parakeet are officially countable as well-established exotics.
 
Interesting, in the Netherlands rock pigeon and rosy ringed parakeet are non-countable, according to Dutch Birding, as are other exotics like egyptian goose. However here greater canadian goose is countable, because it cannot be excluded that there are real wild birds between all the 1000s of escapes....
 
lintworm said:
Interesting, in the Netherlands rock pigeon and rosy ringed parakeet are non-countable, according to Dutch Birding, as are other exotics like egyptian goose. However here greater canadian goose is countable, because it cannot be excluded that there are real wild birds between all the 1000s of escapes....
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Interesting. Egyptian Geese, while present (especially in central Texas) are not countable here. Each region has its own rules.

An interesting not on countability, the California Condor, even if seen in the wild, is not currently countable.
 
lintworm said:
Interesting, in the Netherlands rock pigeon and rosy ringed parakeet are non-countable, according to Dutch Birding, as are other exotics like egyptian goose. However here greater canadian goose is countable, because it cannot be excluded that there are real wild birds between all the 1000s of escapes....
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Dutch Birding is an individual body, not representative of official listing anywhere else in the world or even of other checklists in Europe. (Also I'd point out that only in the most recent update of the list were the naturalised foreign species removed, before that they were all included). Most regional checklists include every species with an established breeding population, whether it is native or introduced.
 
132. Pileated Woodpecker
133. Pacific Wren
134. California Gull
135. Ferruginous Hawk
136. Spotted Towhee
137. Snow Goose
138. Sandhill Crane
139. Western Scrub-jay
140. Western Gull
141. Trumpeter Swan
142. Barn Owl

Mammals:
1. Desert Cottontail
2. Mule Deer (ssp. eremicus)
2. Mule Deer (ssp. hemionus)
3. Rock Squirrel
4. Harris's Antelope Squirrel
5. Eastern Fox Squirrel
6. White-tailed Deer
7. Coyote
8. Pine Squirrel
9. House Mouse
10. Eastern Gray Squirrel
11. California Ground Squirrel
12. Pronghorn
 
85. Black tailed godwit
86. European stonechat
87. Eurasian skylark
88. Northern shoveler
89. Lesses white fronted goose
90. Canada goose
91. Cackling goose
92. Rock pigeon
93. Rosy ringed parakeet
94. Egyptian goose
95. Bar-headed goose
96. Larger black backed gull
97. Mandarin duck
98. Common pheasant
 
lintworm said:
85. Black tailed godwit
86. European stonechat
87. Eurasian skylark
88. Northern shoveler
89. Lesses white fronted goose
90. Canada goose
91. Cackling goose
92. Rock pigeon
93. Rosy ringed parakeet
94. Egyptian goose
95. Bar-headed goose
96. Larger black backed gull
97. Mandarin duck
98. Common pheasant
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hmm, I see eight introduced species on your list :D

Decided to join the dark side? :D
 
nanoboy said:
48. Royal Spoonbill
49. Yellow-billed Spoonbill
50. Latham's Snipe
51. Black-winged Stilt
52. Eastern Yellow Robin
53. Crested Shrike-tit
54. Grey Fantail
55. Grey Currawong
56. Silvereye
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57. Masked lapwing
58. Black footed dotterel
59. Red kneed dotterel
 
nanoboy said:
57. Masked lapwing
58. Black footed dotterel
59. Red kneed dotterel
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do you mean black-fronted dotterel? (I know its probably your phone again). If black-fronted dotterel, they are fabulous little birds! One of my favourites.
 
@Chlidonias, at the dark side there are much more opportunities :p

It makes no sense playing the same game with different rules, so I will count those non-native ones as well ;)
 
12) Hoary Redpoll.

Some of you Slackers need to pick up the pace! Spring is falling on Alaska like an Avalanche! ;-)
 
13) American Robin
14) Common Crow
15) Mourning Dove
16) Turkey Vulture

Nashville on business this week!

17) Northern Mockingbird.
18) Canada Goose

Plus a chickadee, wren, sparrow, and gull waiting further I.D.
 
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