ZooChat Big Year 2014

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Ooooh, comparative statistics!

This time last year I was on 76, so I'm more than double that now. My total last year was 204 (for Australia), so I'm more than ¾ of the way there. Actually, my total for NSW was 185, so I'm even closer to that (83%)!

:p

Hix
 
you have really caught the bug. have you got a bird that you really want this year? I'm gunna have a big go for the hooded parrot next week. It's high on my list.
 
This exact day last year, I got 62 birds and 8 mammals. This year, I'm on 57 birds and 4 mammals. However, I expect to do a bit more birding later in the year than I was able to last year.
 
DesertRhino150 said:
This exact day last year, I got 62 birds and 8 mammals. This year, I'm on 57 birds and 4 mammals. However, I expect to do a bit more birding later in the year than I was able to last year.
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... and, on the exact same day and the exact same place as I saw it last year, my fifth mammal.

5. Northern water vole

:D
 
Birds:
49. Blue vanga
50. White headed vanga
51. Red-fronted coua
52. Common newtonia
53. Scaly ground roller

Herpetofauna:
29. Phelsuma madagascariensis (day gecko)
30. Phelsuma guttata (day gecko)
31. Rhombophryne coudreaui (nice frog)
32. Brookesia minima (very small chameleon)

No new mammal species since the broad striped vontsira a few weeks ago, but I saw probably a new mouse lemur species, but some expert will have to take a look on the photos....
 
Ituri said:
Okay, so I haven't done any major birding trips but I have picked up a few year birds here and there.

93 Ring-necked Pheasant
94 Western Meadowlark
95 Sandhill Crane
96 Say's Phoebe
97 Lesser Goldfinch

also, that darn Mute Swan keeps making my count go off, so for now I'm counting it, even though they've yet to be officially put on the Idaho state checklist.
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Only new bird to add is this

98 Killdeer

But I realize I haven't updated anything but birds in quite some time. So here is some non-avian housekeeping.

Mammals
3 Mule Deer
4 Pronghorn
5 White-tailed Antelope Squirrel

Reptiles
1 Red-eared Slider
2 Western Painted Turtle
 
Went to the local Botanic Gardens this afternoon - there are three common species which I haven't recorded yet this year, and I knew I could find them here. I was not disappointed - in fact, quite by chance, I found a fourth species too!

Birds
155. European Blackbird
156. Yellow Thornbill
157. Spotted Dove
158. Red-whiskered Bulbul

:p

Hix
 
Beginning of March is the birding doldrums here in North Texas. The spring migrants aren't here yet, and the winter birds are moving out. That said, I did pick up one year bird yesterday - a sign that migration is on its way.

132 Franklin's Gull - Leucophaeus pipixcan

I leave in 3 days for a birding trip to Idaho and Utah. Hoping for loads of life birds up there.
 
mstickmanp said:
Went birding today to a park with a very large lake and got 13 new lifers.

116. Greater Scaup
117. Bufflehead
118. Common Merganser
119. Horned Grebe
120. Western Grebe
121. Clark's Grebe
122. Black-crowned Night-heron
123. Turkey Vulture
124. Osprey
125. Spotted Sandpiper
126. Cactus Wren
127. California Gnatcatcher
128. Dark-eyed Junco
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Got a chance to go birding before work today but only got one new bird.

129. Northern Rough-winged Swallow

I also got two more mammals the other day.

3. Coyote
4. Western Gray Squirrel
 
Birds
159. Fantailed Cuckoo

:p

Hix
 
Hevden said:
I managed another six today although it's getting more difficult to get new birds now, and white winged gulls are doing an exceptional job of evading me. Luckily the migrants should start moving sometime next month.

120. Sanderling
121. Purple sandpiper
122. Knot
123. Brent goose
124. Little grebe
125. Fieldfare
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I managed to get a few good birds this weekend including a potential future life tick

126. Glaucous gull
127. Long-tailed duck
128. Red-legged partridge
129. Glossy ibis
130. Little bunting
131. Grey partridge
132. Lesser whitethroat (possibly siberian, potentially a future split)
133. Dipper
 
A minimal addition thanks to a trip to the Northumberland coastline yesterday.....

Current Bird Total - 92

92) Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)
 
mstickmanp said:
Got a chance to go birding before work today but only got one new bird.

129. Northern Rough-winged Swallow

I also got two more mammals the other day.

3. Coyote
4. Western Gray Squirrel
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130. Redhead
131. Cooper's Hawk
132. Western Sandpiper
133. Violet-green Swallow
 
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