ZooChat Big Year 2013

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Hix said:
Birds
334. Glossy Ibis
335. Red-kneed Dotterel
336. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
337. Ruff
338. Double-barred Finch
339. Nutmeg Mannikin
340. Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
341. Yellow-billed Spoonbill

:p

Hix
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Where you been Hix? Pit town? 5 I need this year 2 would be lifers.
 
Yeah, Pitt Town Lagoon.

:p

Hix
 
Hix said:
Birds
334. Glossy Ibis
335. Red-kneed Dotterel
336. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
337. Ruff
338. Double-barred Finch
339. Nutmeg Mannikin
340. Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
341. Yellow-billed Spoonbill

:p

Hix
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Bolded birds are lifers?
 
Now is a good time, it's very dry and there hasn't been much rain to speak of.

:p

Hix
 
additional few from Ruoergai:

BIRDS

348) Red-throated thrush Turdus ruficollis


MAMMALS:

36) Mountain weasel Mustela altaica
37) Gansu pika Ochotona cansus
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Birds
40) Greater Black-Backed Gull

Invertebrates
1) Monarch Butterfly
2) Portly Spider Crab
3) Eastern Oyster
4) Atlantic Oyster Drill (Urosalpinx cinerea)
5) Common Atlantic Slippersnail (Crepidula fornicata)
6) Atlantic Mud Crab (Panopeus herbstii)
7) Long-Wristed Hermit Crab
8) Dog Whelk

~Thylo:cool:
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Birds
41) Red-Breasted Merganser

Reptiles
3) European Wall Lizard

~Thylo:cool:
 
I just booked a trip to south Arizona in late November with ituri. Expect some big numbers from the two of us :)
 
South Arizona is a huge birding hotspot in the US (lots of Mexican/Neotropical species). November is a time when I had off from work.
 
nanoboy said:
138. Hoary-headed Grebe
139. Great Crested Grebe
140. Red-necked Stint
141. Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
142. Whiskered Tern
143. White-browed Woodswallow
144. Skylark
145. Richard's Pipit

All seen during gale-force winds at the Western Treatment Plant over the weekend. The site list was only about 55 species though, since a lot of the usuals weren't around (like black shouldered kite, whistling kite, all the ducks bar shelducks). However, it was a tern-fiesta, with terns in their thousands. Others reported seeing 7 different species of terns, but I could only recognise 2.
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Ok, so my wife spent a couple hours this morning cross referencing the lists we save on our Morecombe birding app, with my Google Drive spreadsheet, with our bird book. Turns out I didn't count some really common birds like 'crested pigeon', 'little raven', and 'white-winged chough'. I also added 'caspian tern' to my list, since we saw a few over the weekend at Point Addis. Here's my updated list:

1 Australasian Darter
2 Australasian Gannet
3 Australasian Grebe
4 Australasian Pipit
5 Australasian Shoveler
6 Australian King-Parrot
7 Australian Magpie
8 Australian Pelican
9 Australian Pied Oystercatcher
10 Australian Raven
11 Australian Shelduck
12 Australian White Ibis
13 Australian Wood Duck
14 Bell Miner
15 Black Falcon
16 Black Kite
17 Black Swan
18 Black-faced Cormorant
19 Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
20 Black-fronted Dotterel
21 Black-shouldered Kite
22 Black-winged Stilt
23 Blue-billed Duck
24 Brolga
25 Brown Falcon
26 Brown Thornbill
27 Brown-headed Honeyeater
28 Buff-banded Rail
29 Cape Barren Goose
30 Caspian Tern
31 Cattle Egret
32 Chestnut Teal
33 Common Blackbird
34 Common Bronzewing
35 Common Myna
36 Common Sandpiper
37 Common Starling
38 Crested Pigeon
39 Crested Shrike-tit
40 Crested Tern
41 Crimson Rosella
42 Dusky Moorhen
43 Dusky Woodswallow
44 Eastern Great Egret
45 Eastern Rosella
46 Eastern Spinebill
47 Eastern Yellow Robin
48 Emu
49 Eurasian Coot
50 Eurasian Skylark
51 Eurasian Tree Sparrow
52 European Goldfinch
53 Fan-tailed Cuckoo
54 Flame Robin
55 Freckled Duck
56 Galah
57 Gang-gang Cockatoo
58 Golden Whistler
59 Golden-headed Cisticola
60 Great Cormorant
61 Great Crested Grebe
62 Grey Butcherbird
63 Grey Currawong
64 Grey Fantail
65 Grey Shrike-thrush
66 Grey Teal
67 Hardhead
68 Hoary-headed Grebe
69 House Sparrow
70 Intermediate Egret
71 Kelp Gull
72 Latham's Snipe
73 Laughing Kookaburra
74 Little Black Cormorant
75 Little Corella
76 Little Eagle
77 Little Grassbird
78 Little Pied Cormorant
79 Little Raven
80 Little Wattlebird
81 Long-billed Corella
82 Magpie Goose
83 Magpie-lark
84 Masked Lapwing
85 Musk Duck
86 Musk Lorikeet
87 Nankeen Kestrel
88 New Holland Honeyeater
89 Noisy Miner
90 Northern Mallard
91 Northern Shoveler
92 Pacific Black Duck
93 Pacific Gull
94 Painted Button-quail
95 Peregrine Falcon
96 Pied Cormorant
97 Pied Currawong
98 Pink Robin
99 Pink-eared Duck
100 Purple Swamphen
101 Rainbow Lorikeet
102 Red Wattlebird
103 Red-browed Finch
104 Red-capped Robin
105 Red-kneed Dotterel
106 Red-necked Avocet
107 Red-necked Stint
108 Red-rumped Parrot
109 Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon)
110 Royal Spoonbill
111 Rufous Whistler
112 Scarlet Robin
113 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper
114 Silver Gull
115 Silvereye
116 Singing Honeyeater
117 Song Thrush
118 Sooty Oystercatcher
119 Spotted Dove
120 Spotted Harrier
121 Spotted Pardalote
122 Straw-necked Ibis
123 Striated Pardalote
124 Striated Thornbill
125 Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
126 Superb Fairy-wren
127 Swamp Harrier
128 Tawny Frogmouth
129 Tree Martin
130 Varied Sittella
131 Wedge-tailed Eagle
132 Welcome Swallow
133 Whiskered Tern
134 Whistling Kite
135 White-browed Scrubwren
136 White-browed Woodswallow
137 White-eared Honeyeater
138 White-faced Heron
139 White-fronted Chat
140 White-fronted Tern
141 White-naped Honeyeater
142 White-necked Heron
143 White-plumed Honeyeater
144 White-throated Treecreeper
145 White-winged Chough
146 Willie Wagtail
147 Yellow Thornbill
148 Yellow-billed Spoonbill
149 Yellow-faced Honeyeater
150 Yellow-rumped Thornbill
151 Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo
152 Zebra Finch
 
202. European golden plover

I will be able to add some more shorebirds next week and then I will only add really nice species :)
 
153 Powerful Owl

Mom and a rather large chick near the Yarra in Ivanhoe, not 12km from Melbourne's CBD. Spotted during the day in dense foliage.
 
nanoboy said:
153 Powerful Owl

Mom and a rather large chick near the Yarra in Ivanhoe, not 12km from Melbourne's CBD. Spotted during the day in dense foliage.
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154 Eastern Whipbird (finally!!)
155 Superb Lyrebird

Both seen in the Sherbrooke Forest in the Dandenongs.
 
nanoboy said:
154 Eastern Whipbird (finally!!)
155 Superb Lyrebird

Both seen in the Sherbrooke Forest in the Dandenongs.
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I love Mountain Ash! Any guesstimates for how tall this tree is, assuming that I am 2m tall, and taking parallax and perspective into account? I guess about 50m. (Taken with an iPhone in panorama mode.) I am holding a male lyrebird's feather that I found on the floor, by the way.
 

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Labahe Nature Reserve, Sichuan, China:

BIRDS:

349) Himalayan tawny owl Strix aluca nivicola*
350) Grey-hooded parrotbill Paradoxornis zappeyi
351) Chestnut thrush Turdus rubrocanus
352) Darjeeling woodpecker Dendrocopos darjellensis
353) Black-faced laughing thrush Garrulax affinis
354) Brown parrotbill Paradoxornis unicolor
355) Three-toed parrotbill Paradoxornis paradoxus
356) Black-browed tit Aegithalos bonvaloti
357) Three-banded rosefinch Carpodacus trifasciatus
358) White-throated dipper Cinclus cinclus

*I haven't decided if I should split the owl or not. Tawny owl Srix aluca and Himalayan owl Strix nivicola would both be lifers so that's not a consideration (;)), I'm just not sure what the justification is for splitting the latter from the former.



MAMMALS:

38) Sambar Cervus unicolor
39) Red panda Ailurus fulgens
40) Leopard cat Prionailurus bengalensis
 
ThylacineAlive is doing nicely.

Nanoboy makes me jealous with the powerful owl! And good to see he got the lyrebird and whipbird too.
 
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