ZooChat Big Year 2014

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Hevden said:
A couple from Frampton Marsh on saturday.

228. Little Owl
229. Spoonbill

And three from Burton Mere on sunday

230. Cattle Egret
231. Whinchat
232. Red-necked Phalarope
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After a morning walking aimlessly and unfruitfully around spurn point all morning an amazing bird was found a third for Britain and my fifth life tick this year. Another fortunate coincidence was a trapped red-breasted flycatcher being released as we arrived at 7 amm

233. Red-breasted flycatcher
234. Masked shrike
235. Redstart
236. Great grey shrike

Can't wait to try to find something of my own tomorrow
 
Complete list of mammals so far this year

Saudi Arabia
1) dromedary camel (although technically feral these were basically wild)
2) Euphrates jerboa (not completely confident with identification but definately some sort of jerboa or jird seen at dawn)
3) egyptian free tailed bat
4) hamadrayas baboon
5) blanford's fox

South western Australia
6) echidna
7) feral rabbit
8) western grey kangaroo
9) feral red fox
10) bottlenosed dolphins
11) australian sea lion

UK
12) common dolphin
13) harbour porpoise
14) feral goats

Poland
15) striped grass mouse
16) eurasian red squirrel
17) grey squirrel (feral UK)
 
LaughingDove said:
Complete list of mammals so far this year

South western Australia
10) bottlenosed dolphins
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the ones in south-west Australia are IndoPacific Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops aduncus), so if you see any off Europe they are a different species (Tursiops truncatus).
 
BeardsleyZooFan said:
AMPHIBIANS:
3. Green Frog

REPTILES:
8. Painted Turtle
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From 2 weeks ago from the Coastal Center at Milford Point:

BIRDS:
59. Snowy Egret
60. Yellow-Crowned Night Heron
61. Mute Swan
62. Purple Martin
63. Double-Crested Cormorant
64. White-Winged Scoter
65. American Oystercatcher
66. Laughing Gull
 
Reptiles/Amphibians

Saudi Arabia
1) arabian cobra
2) wadi racer
3) puff adder
4) house gecko (probably has a better name but I am not sure exactly what species it is)

UAE
5) green sea turtle

South Western Australia
6) shingleback lizard

(As you can see, not much of a herper)
 
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Hevden said:
After a morning walking aimlessly and unfruitfully around spurn point all morning an amazing bird was found a third for Britain and my fifth life tick this year. Another fortunate coincidence was a trapped red-breasted flycatcher being released as we arrived at 7 amm

233. Red-breasted flycatcher
234. Masked shrike
235. Redstart
236. Great grey shrike

Can't wait to try to find something of my own tomorrow
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Didn't manage to find anything but did get another couple of birds including another life tick which was "gently" coaxed out of very thick vegetation.

237. Jack snipe
238. Olive-backed pipit
 
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Sunny Slimbridge today:

285. Common Crane - Grus grus
286. Spotted Redshank - Tringa erythropus
287. Northern Pintail - Anas acuta
 
Just returned from 2 weeks in Iceland, apart from 2 disappointing whaling trips it was a really nice holiday, though the most impressive things we saw were not living things but many geological (volcanic) features.

Birds:
239. Eider
240. Northern fulmar
241. Northern gannet
242. Eurasian siskin
243. Wild swan
244. Redwing
245. Common shag
246. Harlequin duck
247. Common scooter
248. Greater black-backed gull
249. Great northern loon
250. Merlin
251. Gerfalcon
252. Greater scaup
253. Puffin
254. Common redpoll
255. Black guillemot
256. Northern wheatear
257. Golden plover
258. Greater skua


Mammals

53. Humpback whale
54. Common seal

Cool nature features
1. Northern light (Aurora borealis)
 
nanoboy said:
130 Gang Gang Cockatoo

131 Noisy Friarbird
A lone individual was reported on Friday in a tiny park in Viewbank (a densely populated Melbourne suburb) far to the west of its normal range. We found the bird within two minutes of arrival on Saturday morning because of its distinctive call. It was a special tick for a rather scary, prehistoric-looking bird.
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I have a few more to add, all ticked at the Western Treatment Plant a few weeks ago:

132 Common Greenfinch
133 Australasian Pipit
134 Crested Shrike-tit
135 Yellow-rumped Thornbill
136 Striated Fieldwren
137 Fan-tailed Cuckoo
138 Little Tern
139 Red-capped Plover
140 Sooty Oystercatcher
141 Australian Spotted Crake
142 Swamp Harrier
143 Marsh Sandpiper
144 Curlew Sandpiper
145 Intermediate Egret

7 lifers in a day isn't a bad haul for me. :)
 
Birds
279 Baglafecht Weaver
280 Augur Buzzard
281 Olive Thrush
282 White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
283 Streaky Seedeater
284 White-necked Raven
285 Abyssininan Crimsonwing
286 Redfaced Crimsonwing
287 Tropical Boubou
288 Dusky Turtledove
289 Alpine Chat

Mammals
22. Blue Monkey
23. Four-striped Mouse
24. Tree Hyrax

Reptiles
13. Kilimanjaro Two-horned Chameleon
14. Variable Mabuya

:p

Hix
 
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Tried to make my first Mammal-list for 2014 - may be that I forgot one or more :
1 Mexican bat-species ( maybe more then 1 species ? )
2 Yucatan coati
3 Central American achouti
4 Yucatan spider monkey
5 Possum-species
6 Middle-american rat species
7 Roe deer
8 European Shrew-species
9 Harbour porpoise
10 European Bat-species ( Maybe more then one species ? )
11 Brown rat
12 House mouse
13 Wood mouse
14 European mouse species ( surtainly NOT House or Wood )
 
Mammals-
White-tailed deer
Eastern chipmunk
Red squirrel
Gray squirrel
California sea lion
Blue whale
Birds-
Cactus wren
Brown pelican
House finch
Baltimore oriole
Common grackle
Rose-breasted grosbeak
Northern cardinal
Dark-eyed junco
White-throated sparrow
Robin
Eastern towhee
Pileated woodpecker
Red- and white- breasted nuthatch
Tufted titmouse
Black-capped chickadee
Redbellied woodpecker
Least flycatcher
Snowy owl
Ring-billed gull
Herring gull
Killdeer
Snowy egret
Green heron
Great blue heron
Canvasback
Canada goose
Wood duck
Mallard
Reptiles/Amphibians-
Garter snake
Water snake
Softshell turtle
Painted turtle
Lizards (in OC, California!)
Green frog
Bull frog
Spring peeper
Gray tree frog
American toad
Redback salamander
2-lined salamander
Northern and mountain dusky salamander
Red-spotted newt (including newt efts)
 
Busy weekend in Yorkshire - as well as Yorkshire Wildlife Park and (whisper it) Sewerby Hall - Blacktoft, Bridlington, Bempton, Flamborough and a pelagic excursion (officially a 'skua and shearwater' cruise, though the former evaded us!) - more Spotted Redshanks, seals, porpoises, razorbills, puffins and guillemots, Little Gulls, a 'blue' Fulmar, stonechats, lots of gannets and some bouncy Roe Deer - and a few new additions:

Blacktoft Sands:

288. Wood Sandpiper - Tringa glareola

RSPB Cruise:

289. Common Scoter - Melanitta nigra
290. Sooty Shearwater - Puffinus griseus
291. Manx Shearwater - Puffinus puffinus

Bridlington Harbour:

292. Purple Sandpiper - Calidris maritima

Bempton:

293. Red-backed Shrike - Lanius collurio



Now to try to ignore the inevitable post to come from robmv, who has also seen all of the above and has, along with our other companions, another day of Yorkshire birding to go, while I'm back to work tomorrow... ;)
 
nanoboy said:
I have a few more to add, all ticked at the Western Treatment Plant a few weeks ago:

132 Common Greenfinch
133 Australasian Pipit
134 Crested Shrike-tit
135 Yellow-rumped Thornbill
136 Striated Fieldwren
137 Fan-tailed Cuckoo
138 Little Tern
139 Red-capped Plover
140 Sooty Oystercatcher
141 Australian Spotted Crake
142 Swamp Harrier
143 Marsh Sandpiper
144 Curlew Sandpiper
145 Intermediate Egret

7 lifers in a day isn't a bad haul for me. :)
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146 Olive-backed Oriole

I got a tip-off from a birder that this bird was seen in the Gresswell forest Reserve (Macleod, Victoria). Naturally, I couldn't find it, but the birder was kind enough to meet me, and like an oriole-whisperer, he found it by listening for the call (which, given its mimicry of lorikeets, I couldn't identify). We had prolonged views at eye-level for a good 5 minutes.
 
Birds
290 Ringed Plover
291 Spotted Morning-Thrush
292 Pied Wagtail
293 Black-winged Stilt
294 Grey-headed Gull
295 Whiskered Tern
296 Grey-backed Fiscal
297 Superb Starling
298 Watter Dikkop
299 African Mourning Dove
300 Blue-capped Cordon-blue
301 African Paradise Flycatcher
302 Grey-breasted Spurfowl
303 Sulfurbreasted Bush-shrike
304 Red-chested Sunbird
305 Northern Brown-throated Weaver
306 Marsh Sandpiper


Mammals
25 Sidestriped Jackal
26 Slender Mongoose
27 Dwarf Mongoose
28 Bushbuck


Reptiles
15 Striped Skink
16 Nile Crocodile

:p

Hix
 
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