ZooChat Big Year 2013

[Chlidonias]

All in Seoul, 5-6 August

123) Spot-billed duck Anas poecilorhyncha
124) Grey heron Ardea cinerea
125) Black-faced spoonbill Platalea minor
126) Black-tailed gull Larus crassirostris
127) Black-crowned night heron Nycticorax nycticorax
128) Common magpie Pica pica (Chinese magpie P.sericea if split)
129) Tree sparrow Passer montanus
130) Great tit Parus major (Eastern tit P. minor if split)
131) Brown-eared bulbul Microscelis amaurotis
132) Oriental turtle dove Streptopelia orientalis
133) Large-billed crow Corvus macrorhynchos

 

[nanoboy]

I can almost guarantee the Brush Turkey. You'll have to bring a big bag of luck to get the others.



Hix

To deviate slightly while still staying on the birding topic, I am after some advice from you or anyone else.

When it warms up a bit, and the days get longer, we plan to fly to NSW for a day of birding and fly back again in the evening.

Where would we get the most bang for our buck? So which city should we fly into? What's a good itinerary to maximise seeing birds that are difficult to find (or non-existent) in Victoria?

Note that we cannot stay the night and would happily fly back at another time for another single day of birding.

Thoughts?

 

[Hix]

Birds
140. Noisy Friarbird
141. White-naped Honeyeater

Mammals
15. Red Fox



Hix

 

[boof]

To deviate slightly while still staying on the birding topic, I am after some advice from you or anyone else.

When it warms up a bit, and the days get longer, we plan to fly to NSW for a day of birding and fly back again in the evening.

Where would we get the most bang for our buck? So which city should we fly into? What's a good itinerary to maximise seeing birds that are difficult to find (or non-existent) in Victoria?

Note that we cannot stay the night and would happily fly back at another time for another single day of birding.

Thoughts?

Good question. maybe the far north coast. I've never been up there but it probably would be OK for some of the migratory birds from further up north.

 

[boof]

bummer about the swifties hix.

 

[Hix]

Yeah, very frustrating. Those bloody Bell Miners have so many different vocalisations, and a couple sound parrot-like. Miners are everywhere, and any movement in the trees is one of them (or a grey fantail). I scanned all the trees in the area I was directed, and then some, and still couldn't see anything (except Bell Miners).

I might try again in a couple of weeks if I have the time and they're still there.



Hix

 

[boof]

234. Chestnut rumped heath-wren.

 

[lintworm]

Mammals

36. Coypu
37. Ermine

 

[ThylacineAlive]

-Cattle Egret

~Thylo

 

[nanoboy]

Good question. maybe the far north coast. I've never been up there but it probably would be OK for some of the migratory birds from further up north.

Royal Park outside Sudney worth a whole day visit?

 

[Hix]

Royal Park outside Sudney worth a whole day visit?

Royal National Park? Definitely, and even a whole day won't be enough! However, it depends on which species you are looking to add to your list. Most of the things you see there are common birds I see at many other places.

 

[nanoboy]

Royal National Park? Definitely, and even a whole day won't be enough! However, it depends on which species you are looking to add to your list. Most of the things you see there are common birds I see at many other places.

Just looking for a full day trip in NSW to see birds I will not see easily or at all in Victoria.

 

[Chlidonias]

Juwangsan National Park, South Korea:

BIRDS:
134) Daurian redstart Phoenicurus auroreus
135) Vinous-throated parrotbill Paradoxornis webbianus
136) White-backed woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos
137) Grey wagtail Motacilla cinerea
138) Common kingfisher Alcedo atthis
139) Pale thrush Turdus pallidus
140) Elegant bunting Emberiza elegans
141) Eurasian nuthatch Sitta europaea
142) Grey nightjar Caprimulgus jotaka
143) Brandt's jay Garrulus brandtii
144) Asian brown flycatcher Muscicapa dauurica
145) Coal tit Parus ater

MAMMALS:
7) Siberian chipmunk Tamias sibiricus

 

[Chlidonias]

Dongmak Lagoon and Songdo mudflats, Seoul, South Korea

146) Oriental greenfinch Carduelis sinica
147) Common greenshank Tringa nebularia
148) Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata
149) Eurasian pied oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus
150) Eurasian whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
151) Black-tailed godwit Limosa limosa
152) Common redshank Tringa totanus

 

[Chlidonias]

Vladivostok (Russia):

153) Fork-tailed swift Apus pacificus
154) Marsh tit Poecile [Parus] palustris
155) White wagtail Motacilla alba
156) Eastern crowned warbler Phylloscopus coronatus
157) Grey-streaked flycatcher Muscicapa griseisticta
158) Yellow-rumped flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia
159) Chestnut-flanked white-eye Zosterops erythropleura

 

[Chlidonias]

more Vladivostok:

160) Black-faced bunting Emberiza spodocephala
161) Carrion (Oriental) crow Corvus corone (C. orientalis if split)
162) Long-tailed rosefinch Uragus sibiricus
163) Barn swallow Hirundo rustica
164) Black-headed gull Larus ridibundus

 

[Chlidonias]

last birds from Vladivostok:

165) Brown shrike Lanius cristatus
166) Thick-billed warbler Acrocephalus aedon
167) Blue rock thrush Monticola solitarius
168) Common sandpiper Actitis hypoleucus
169) Pelagic cormorant Phalacrocorax pelagicus

 

[lintworm]

196. Common crane (saw 16% of Dutch population, 4 out of 25

 

[Chlidonias]

170) Amur falcon Falco amurensis from the Trans-Siberian train (not easy birding from a train!)

 

[lintworm]

Mammals:

38. Western European hedgehog