ZooChat Big Year 2015
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98 Barrow's Goldeneye
Birds:
1. Common Raven
2. Black-billed Magpie
3. Rock Dove
4. Bohemian Waxwing
5. Black-capped Chickadee
6. Bald Eagle
Mammals:
1. Red-backed Vole
2. Red Fox
1. Common Raven
2. Black-billed Magpie
3. Rock Dove
4. Bohemian Waxwing
5. Black-capped Chickadee
6. Bald Eagle
Mammals:
1. Red-backed Vole
2. Red Fox
AverageWalrus
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Today brought 2 new birds
12) American Robin
13) Black Capped Chickadee
12) American Robin
13) Black Capped Chickadee
BIRDS
99 Mountain Chickadee
100 Clark's Nutcracker
101 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
102 Black Rosy-Finch
103 Hairy Woodpecker
104 Pileated Woodpecker
105 Steller's Jay
106 Bohemian Waxwing
107 Harris's Sparrow
108 American Tree Sparrow
MAMMALS
10 American Red Squirrel
mstickmanp
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cloudedleopard
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@mstickmanp- This is only WILD sightings, not sightings in zoos. Wait until there is a "Geese" challenge for the ZooChat Challenge for captive geese. If you did go to Florida, it is countable, according to jbnbsn99. There is Egyptian Geese at my home zoo and I do not put them on a wild sightings list.
Since it was Sunday and I had nothing better to do, I took a bus to a nature reserve all the way on the edge of Warsaw and managed to see a few year birds and my first lifers of the year:
40) Rough-legged Buzzard
41) Greenfinch
42) Nuthatch
43) Siskin
44) Waxwing
45) Grey Heron
46) Redpoll
47) Treecreeper
I still haven't seen a chaffinch this year!
Surprised it took so long but out of my window today was:
48) Chaffinch
jbnbsn99
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Do you even know what you're talking about?
cloudedleopard
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@jbnbsn99. Oh, yes I do. I meant, "mstickmanp was probably putting a captive sighting of an Egyptian goose and passing it off as a wild sighting." Sorry for the misunderstanding
jbnbsn99
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That's not what I mean at all. Being a friend of mstickmanp, and having birded with him before, I know he's not adding a captive bird to his list. I'm referring to the issue of countability among birds. A bird that has been released and is not part of an officially recognized, stable breeding population cannot officially count toward year lists. Egyptian Geese are widespread, but only officially countable in Florida.
cloudedleopard
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Mammals-
3. House mouse with tusks
AverageWalrus
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Today I got a sighting of a bird that must have crossed over from the year round range, because I live in an area where It's year round and Summer Ranges overlap
14) Turkey Vulture
Aswell as a..
15) Northern Mockingbird (I think it might be my first sighting! Well, at least the first time I got a good look at one)
14) Turkey Vulture
Aswell as a..
15) Northern Mockingbird (I think it might be my first sighting! Well, at least the first time I got a good look at one)
42) White-fronted tern Sterna striata
43) Variable oystercatcher Haematopus unicolor
44) Black-fronted tern Sterna albostriata
45) Spotted shag Stictocarbo punctatus
46) Common coot Fulica atra
47) Great crested grebe Podiceps cristatus
...and my first mammal for the year,
1) European hare Lepus europeaus
Photo of the grebes with their cute widdle babies: http://www.zoochat.com/680/southern-crested-grebes-podiceps-cristatus-australis-398709/
43) Variable oystercatcher Haematopus unicolor
44) Black-fronted tern Sterna albostriata
45) Spotted shag Stictocarbo punctatus
46) Common coot Fulica atra
47) Great crested grebe Podiceps cristatus
...and my first mammal for the year,
1) European hare Lepus europeaus
Photo of the grebes with their cute widdle babies: http://www.zoochat.com/680/southern-crested-grebes-podiceps-cristatus-australis-398709/
mstickmanp
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cloudedleopard- Egyptian Geese are all over the place in Southern California as WILD animals and are actively breeding, but it wasn't until this week that I was finally able to see one at a local park by my house.
As for counting it or not, I will for my Zoochat list. Mainly because Ebird doesn't make the distinction between countable or non-countable birds by ABA rules and can get quite confusing considering all the exotics in Southern California. I wouldn't be surprised if they become countable in SoCal in the years to come, along with other established exotics.
Also, I've only seen two mammals so far:
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel
2. Raccoon
As for counting it or not, I will for my Zoochat list. Mainly because Ebird doesn't make the distinction between countable or non-countable birds by ABA rules and can get quite confusing considering all the exotics in Southern California. I wouldn't be surprised if they become countable in SoCal in the years to come, along with other established exotics.
Also, I've only seen two mammals so far:
1. Eastern Fox Squirrel
2. Raccoon
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