ZooChat Big Year 2013

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I'll try and do the night tour the next time I'm up there then.

I guess the best place to see a wild Mulga Snake would be on the road, as long as you don't run it over!
 
Hix said:
The Black-footeds were at Simpson's Gap.
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I have seen them there too. I visited the Desert Park a couple of years after it first opened- I was impressed with what they had on show.

One bird I really wanted to see in the wild was Leadbeaters/Major Mitchell Cockatoo and I found a pair seemingly resident on one of tracks outside Alice- they were feeding on some melon-like things along the roadside, and I saw them on several different occassions.

Another species I wanted to see wild was Spinifex Pigeon, but I couldn't find any until we finally came across some hanging around a carpark (can't remember the location)- they seemed very tame and came running up when we offered food- they gobbled down bits of sausagemeat if I remember correctly.
 
Pertinax said:
I have seen them there too. I visited the Desert Park a couple of years after it first opened- I was impressed with what they had on show.

One bird I really wanted to see in the wild was Leadbeaters/Major Mitchell Cockatoo and I found a pair seemingly resident on one of tracks outside Alice- they were feeding on some melon-like things along the roadside, and I saw them on several different occassions.

Another species I wanted to see wild was Spinifex Pigeon, but I couldn't find any until we finally came across some hanging around a carpark (can't remember the location)- they seemed very tame and came running up when we offered food- they gobbled down bits of sausagemeat if I remember correctly.
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The fruits the Major Mitchells were eating would have been Paddy Melons, they are quite partial to them. I didn't see any this trip, but I'd hoped to as I haven't ticked them this year.

The Spinnies that I saw were in the Desert Park. They seem to have got used to people near the Amphitheatre - the staff suggested that location and I found them there under some bushes. Cute litte buggers.

I should get some photos up in the next day or two.

Zooboy28 said:
I guess the best place to see a wild Mulga Snake would be on the road, as long as you don't run it over!
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Ummmmm...........

:p

Hix
 
BALANG SHAN and WOLONG (Sichuan, China):

359) Koklass pheasant Pucrasia macrolopha
360) White-winged grosbeak Mycerobas carnipes
361) Himalayan buzzard Buteo burmanicus
362) Yellow-billed chough Pyrrhocorax graculus
363) Alpine accentor Prunella collaris
364) Plain mountain finch Leucosticte nemoricola
365) White eared pheasant Crossoptilon crossoptilon
366) Peregrine falcon Falco peregrinus
367) Chinese babax Babax lanceolatus
368) Golden pheasant Chrysolophus pictus
369) Barred laughing thrush Garrulax lunulatus
 
234 Le Conte's Sparrow - Ammodramus leconteii
235 Horned Grebe - Podiceps auritus
236 Olive-sided Flycatcher - Contopus cooperi
237 Vermilion Flycatcher - Pyrocephalus rubinus
 
Hix said:
For the NT it's around 50. Australia overall is only around 173.
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Do you know what your Australian mammal list is at? You must have seen some nice mammals in the wild there. My Australian mammal list is exactly 50 species.
 
MAMMALS:

41) Chinese mole-shrew Anourosorex squamipes
42) Yunnan snub-nosed monkey Rhinopithecus bieti
 
Chlidonias said:
Do you know what your Australian mammal list is at? You must have seen some nice mammals in the wild there. My Australian mammal list is exactly 50 species.
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Just to be clear, the 53 birds in the NT was just for the four days last weekend, and the 173 birds for Australia is for 2013.

I'll have to check my Australian mammals list when I get home but I don't think it's as many as 50.

:p

Hix
 
Total of 28. That doesn't include feral cats, goats, or brown/black rats and mice.

I need to do something about that total.

:p

Hix
 
Hix said:
Total of 28. That doesn't include feral cats, goats, or brown/black rats and mice.

I need to do something about that total.
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the Cairns Tablelands and Tasmania, that's where you need to go!
 
ThylacineAlive said:
7) Eastern Cottontail.

~Thylo:cool:
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Mammals
8) Little Brown Bat
9) Virginia Opossum*

*I underlined it because I can't recall whether this is a lifer or not. I don't think it is, though. Still a year-tick and an animal I've been wanting to see again (or possibly for the first time) for a long while now.

~Thylo:cool:
 
Ituri said:
Birds:
247 Red-headed Woodpecker
248 Red-bellied Woodpecker
249 Eastern Bluebird
250 Northern Cardinal
251 Indigo Bunting
252 Northern Bobwhite
253 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
254 Dickcissel
255 Eastern Meadowlark
256 Chimney Swift
257 Mississippi Kite
258 Common Grackle
259 Upland Sandpiper
260 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
261 Bell's Vireo
262 Great Crested Flycatcher
263 Carolina Wren
264 Baltimore Oriole

Mammals:
29 Woodchuck
30 Franklin's Ground Squirrel

Amphibians:
4 Cricket Frog
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Apparently I haven't updated this in some time.

265 Sanderling
266 Mute Swan
267 Lewis's Woodpecker
268 Mew Gull
269 Glaucous-winged Gull
270 Bushtit
271 Harlequin Duck
272 Surf Scoter
273 Red-breasted Merganser

I expect more next week when I'll be in southern Arizona.

Mammals
31 American Mink
32 Harbor Seal
 
206. Madagascar fody
207. Madagascar wagtail
208. African palm swift
209. Common Mynah

+2 bird species awaiting specific determination (heron + martin)

Apart from the palm swift they are lifers :p
 
Birds
362. Great Crested Grebe
363. White-browed Woodswallow

:p

Hix
 
210. Black heron (including nice hunting behaviour)
211. Mascarene martin
212. Madagascar kestrel
213. Madagascar kingfisher
214. Madagascar bulbul
215. Madagascar turtle dove
216. Cattle egret

apart from cattle egret all lifers

Reptiles + Amphibians:
Phelsuma lineata + a Hemidactylus
 
jbnbsn99 said:
234 Le Conte's Sparrow - Ammodramus leconteii
235 Horned Grebe - Podiceps auritus
236 Olive-sided Flycatcher - Contopus cooperi
237 Vermilion Flycatcher - Pyrocephalus rubinus
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I hate when this happens. The grebe and the OSFC have to be taken off my list. I sit at 235.
 
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