ZooChat Big Year 2015

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Chlidonias said:
some additions to my year list. Etc etc.

BIRDS:

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229) Little blue penguin Eudyptula minor
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while writing up my trip thread I discovered I had left a Vietnamese bird off the list, so:

230) Puff-throated Bulbul Alophoixus pallidus

(If it had been in the right place it would have been number 175)
 
lintworm said:
329. Squacco heron
330. Wattled starling


Mammals

tentative:
43. African wild cat

I probably saw an African wild cat close to the house I stay, but I am still looking for additional characters to distinguish for sure from a domestic cat. But morphologically and behaviourally it was really different from the domestic cats around, I have some bad quality pictures which I will upload soon...
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I spent the new year weekend in Awash NP, as my colleagues were visiting family for the celebrations (happy 2008 by the way ;).

Birds:

331. Crested francolin
332. White-browed scrub robin
333. Common fiscal
334. Crimson-rumped waxbill
335. Abyssinian ground hornbill
336. Black-throated barbet
337. Intermediate egret
338. Glosssy ibis
339. Village weaver
340. African grey flycatcher
341. Mountain wagtail
342. Bruces green pigeon
343. Yellow billed hornbill
344. Mocking cliff chat
345. Straw-tailed wydah
346. Ethiopian boubou
347. Wattled ibis
348. Northern crombec
349. Brown Chatterer


Mammals

44. Abyssinian rock hyrax
45. Slender mongoose
46. Spotted hyena

Tracks only of lion and defassa waterbuck...

I was surprised to see the wattled ibis in Awash, as it is a highland species which normally does not occure below 1500 meter, but it was present in company of a hadada ibis at 900 meters along Awash river.
 
lintworm said:
I spent the new year weekend in Awash NP, as my colleagues were visiting family for the celebrations (happy 2008 by the way ;).

Birds:

331. Crested francolin
332. White-browed scrub robin
333. Common fiscal
334. Crimson-rumped waxbill
335. Abyssinian ground hornbill
336. Black-throated barbet
337. Intermediate egret
338. Glosssy ibis
339. Village weaver
340. African grey flycatcher
341. Mountain wagtail
342. Bruces green pigeon
343. Yellow billed hornbill
344. Mocking cliff chat
345. Straw-tailed wydah
346. Ethiopian boubou
347. Wattled ibis
348. Northern crombec
349. Brown Chatterer


Mammals

44. Abyssinian rock hyrax
45. Slender mongoose
46. Spotted hyena

Tracks only of lion and defassa waterbuck...

I was surprised to see the wattled ibis in Awash, as it is a highland species which normally does not occure below 1500 meter, but it was present in company of a hadada ibis at 900 meters along Awash river.
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I take the vitelline masked weaver of the list, but I have a few additions:

but a few updates:

349. Emereald spotted wood-dove
350. Bearded woodpecker
351. Eastern grey woodpecker
352. Purple heron
353. Hemprichs hornbill
 
lintworm said:
I take the vitelline masked weaver of the list, but I have a few additions:

but a few updates:

349. Emereald spotted wood-dove
350. Bearded woodpecker
351. Eastern grey woodpecker
352. Purple heron
353. Hemprichs hornbill
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Palearctic migrants are arriving now, wheatears, orioles, swallows and rollers were already common, now the shrikes are arriving:

354. Woodchat shrike
355. Southern grey shrike
356. Little weaver

Mammals

47. Rusty spotted genet (Genetta maculata)
 
lintworm said:
Palearctic migrants are arriving now, wheatears, orioles, swallows and rollers were already common, now the shrikes are arriving:

354. Woodchat shrike
355. Southern grey shrike
356. Little weaver

Mammals

47. Rusty spotted genet (Genetta maculata)
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I take the African wild cat from the list, I have seen the individual again now and it may just be an odd-looking domestic cat.

Some bird updates
357. Abyssinian scimitarbill
358. Chestnut-bellied sandgrouse
359. Black-headed lapwing
360. Grashopper buzzard
361. Saddle-billed stork

I am particularly pleased with the scimitarbill, as it is my first species of scimitarbill ever and they are very cool birds!
 
Without major travel, there's not a whole lot left I can see. A rare bird did just show up today in Texas, but it's 11 hours away from where I am now.
 
Chlidonias said:
sounds like jbnbsn99 needs to get his birding skates on or he will lose his lead! :p
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The good / bad news is that I will be back in Europe in just over 2 weeks time, the bad / good news is that in 4 weeks I will be in Kenya again and will also visit to other African countries...

One update from today

362. Wahlbergs eagle
 
lintworm said:
The good / bad news is that I will be back in Europe in just over 2 weeks time, the bad / good news is that in 4 weeks I will be in Kenya again and will also visit to other African countries...

One update from today

362. Wahlbergs eagle
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Back from Addis now after successfully extending my visa...

363. White-collared pigeon
364. Greater flamingo
 
Time for a long-overdue update:

206. Melodious Warbler (Hippolais polyglotta) - LIFER
207. Red-footed Falcon (Falco vespertinus) - LIFER
208. Ring-necked Parakeet (Psittacula krameri)
209. Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus) - LIFER
210. Sabine's Gull (Xema sabini) - LIFER
211. Little Stint (Calidris minuta)
212. Little Owl (Athene noctua)
213. Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus) - LIFER
214. Sooty Shearwater (Puffinus griseus)
 
A few additions from East Yorkshire, including the same skua as robmv! (Didn't get on the Sooty Shearwater in time, but at least I got a good view last year!)

185. Sanderling - Calidris alba
186. Peregrine Falcon - Falco peregrinus
187. Purple Sandpiper - Calidris maritima
188. Arctic Skua - Stercorarius parasiticus
189. Mediterranean Gull - Ichthyaetus melanocephalus
190. Sandwich Tern - Thalasseus sandvicensis
191. Hen Harrier - Circus cyaneus


(took a long time for me to find a solid Med Gull..!)
 
DesertRhino150 said:
Went to Abberton Reservoir today, where I managed to pick up another two new bird species for the year:

148. Great white egret Ardea alba
149. Spotted redshank Tringa erythropus

Also since last week I have been helping do a bat survey in the (rather spooky) grounds of an abandoned psychiatric hospital. This evening, I managed to see two new bats for my year list, both of which were lifers:

21. Brown long-eared bat Plecotus auritus
22. Serotine bat Eptesicus serotinus
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A visit to Abberton Reservoir yesterday allowed me to pick up another lifer bird:

150. Black-necked grebe Podiceps nigricollis
 
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