ZooChat Big Year 2016

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ThylacineAlive said:
Birds
9) Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
10) Brown-Headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
11) Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
12) Great Egret Ardea alba
13) Wood Stork Mycteria americana
14) Osprey Pandion haliaetus

~Thylo:cool:
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Birds
15) Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata (Domestic form)

~Thylo:cool:
 
BIRDS

1 Common Raven - Corvus corax
2 Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis
3 Rock Pigeon - Columba livia
4 Black-billed Magpie - Pica hudsonia
5 American Coot - Fulica americana
6 House Finch - Haemorhous mexicanus
7 House Sparrow - Passer domesticus
8 Canada Goose - Branta canadensis
9 Ring-necked Pheasant - Phasianus colchicus
10 Sharp-tailed Grouse - Tympanuchus phasianellus
11 Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus
12 Northern Shrike - Lanius excubitor
13 Horned Lark - Eremophila alpestris
14 Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapillus
15 Juniper Titmouse - Baeolophus ridgwayi
16 Bewick's Wren - Thryomanes bewickii
17 European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris
18 Common Redpoll - Acanthis flammea
19 Trumpeter Swan - Cygnus buccinator
20 Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos
21 Common Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula
22 Mountain Chickadee - Poecile gambeli
23 Red-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta canadensis
24 American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos
25 Rough-legged Hawk - Buteo lagopus
26 Long-eared Owl - Asio otus
27 Dark-eyed Junco - Junco hyemalis
28 Common Loon - Gavia immer
29 Golden-crowned Kinglet - Regulus satrapa
30 Red Crossbill - Loxia curvirostra
31 American Kestrel - Falco sparverius
32 Hairy Woodpecker - Picoides villosus
33 Townsend's Solitaire - Myadestes townsendi
34 American Goldfinch - Spinus tristis
35 Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia
36 Mute Swan - Cygnus olor
37 Wood Duck - Aix sponsa
38 American Wigeon - Anas americana
39 Ring-necked Duck - Aythya collaris
40 Bufflehead - Bucephala albeola
41 Hooded Merganser - Lophodytes cucullatus
42 Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias
43 Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura

MAMMALS:
1 Mountain Cottontail - Sylivlagus nuttalli
2 Eastern Fox Squirrel - Sciurus niger
3 Common Muskrat - Ondatra zibethicus
 
Hix said:
You've got more in one day than what I expect to get for the year (unless I visit the mainland).

Birds
1. Christmas Island Frigatebird
2. Great Frigatebird
3. Nankeen Kestrel
4. White-tailed Tropicbird
5. Brown Booby
6. Red-footed Booby
7. Christmas Island Imperial Pigeon
8. Emerald Dove
9. Island Thrush
10. Christmas Island White-eye
11. Tree Sparrow
12. Common Noddy

Mammal
1. Christmas Island Fruit Bat
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Birds
13. Glossy Swiftlet

Mammals
2. Spinner Dolphin

:p

Hix
 
LaughingDove said:
A few more additions from me:

31) Goldcrest
32) Canada Goose
33) Redwing

4) Brown Rat
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I'm back in Poland now so when it had warmed up to -11 degrees C by the afternoon, I headed out to my local park to have a look.

34) Hooded Crow
35) Nuthatch
36) Coal Tit
37) Eurasian Jay
38) Mandarin Duck
39) Middle-spotted Woodpecker (surprising to see middle before greater this year!)
- Also a probable hybrid between Herring and Caspian Gull

5) Eurasian Red Squirrel
Sadly I didn't manage to see Roe Deer or Striped Field Mouse - both of which are species that I usually spot.
 
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Fish
1. Pricklefaced Hardyhead
2. Crocodile Longtom
3. White-tailed Squirrelfish
4. Sabre Squirrelfish
5. Bigscale Soldierfish
6. Trumpetfish
7 Peacock Hind
8. Flagtail Hind
9. Thinspine Grouper
10. Goldback Basslet
11. Smalltooth Jobfish
12. Red Bass
13. Black-and-White Snapper
14 Blue Fusilier
15. Bigeye Emperor
16. Yellowfin Goatfish
17. Manybar Goatfish
18. Indian Doublebar Goatfish
19. Copper Sweeper
20. Topsail Drummer
21. Threadfin Butterflyfish
22. Triangular Butterflyfish
23. Citron Butterflyfish
24. Spotted Butterlfyfish
25. Lined Butterflyfish
26. Raccoon Butterflyfish
27. Meyer's Butterflyfish
28. Ornate Butterflyfish
29. Ovalspot Butterflyfish
30. Chevron Butterflyfish
31. Melon Butterflyfish
32. Teardrop Butterflyfish
33. Longnose Butterflyfish (Forcepsfish)
34. Pennant Bannerfish
35. Lemonpeel Angelfish
36. Regal Angelfish
37. Whitespotted Hawkfish
38. Arceye Hawkfish
39. Freckled Hawkfish
40. Halfspotted Hawkfish
41. Banded Sergeant
42. Blackspot Sergeant
43. Indo-Pacific Sergeant
44. Clarke's Anemonefish
45. Pink Anemonefish
46. Scaly Puller
47. White-tail Puller
48. Yellowtail Puller
49. Doublebar Puller
50. Swallowtail Puller
51. Threespot Dascyllus
52. Dick's Damsel
53. Johnston Damsel
54. Brighteye Damsel
55. Jewel Damsel
56. Neon Damsel
57. Island Gregory
58. Bluespotted Wrasse
59. Coral Pigfish
60. Tripetail Wrasse
61. Yellowtail Coris
62. Birdnose Wrasse
63. Checkerboard Wrasse
64. Banded Thicklips
65. Bicolor Cleaner Wrasse
66. Bluestripe Cleaner Wrasse
67. Breastspot Cleaner Wrasse
68. Chiseltooth Wrasse
69. Redshouldered Wrasse
70. Blueheaded Wrasse
71. Sixbar Wrasse
72. Sunset Wrasse
73. Redribbon Wrasse
74. Ladder Wrasse
75. Bullethead Parrotfish
76. Whitespot Parrotfish
77. Sixband Parrotfish
78. Swarthy Parrotfish
79. Ember Parrotfish
80. Yellowhead Parrotfish
81. Arrow Dartfish
82. Round Batfish
83. Moorish Idol
84. Eyespot Surgeonfish
85. Whitespotted Surgeonfish
86. Powderblue Surgeonfish
87. Lined Surgeonfish
88. Spottedface Surgeonfish
89. Goldrim Surgeonfish
90. Orangeblotch Surgeonfish
91. Convict Surgeonfish
92. Striped Bristletooth
93. Goldspot Bristletooth
94. Shorthorn Unicornfish
95. Orangespine Unicornfish
96. Bluespine Unicornfish
97. Palette Tang
98. Brushtail Tang
99. Sailfin Tang
100. Orangestriped Triggerfish
101. Titan Triggerfish
102. Black Triggerfish
103. Wedgetail Triggerfish
104. Scythe Triggerfish
105. Eyestrip Triggerfish
106. Scribbled Filefish
107. Broom Filefish
108. Barred Filefish
109. Blackspotted Puffer

:p

Hix
 
TeaLovingDave said:
1) Tawny Owl (Strix aluco)
2) Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
3) Eurasian Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
4) Coal Tit (Periparus ater)
5) Dunnock (Prunella modularis)
6) Great Tit (Parus major)
7) European Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
8) European Robin (Erithacus rubecula)
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A few disparate odds and sods picked up in Northumberland and Newcastle.

Current Bird Total: 27 Taxa

9) Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)
10) European Blackbird (Turdus merula)
11) European Nuthatch (Sitta europaea)
12) European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
13) House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
14) Common Gull (Larus canus)
15) Coot (Fulica atra)
16) Feral Pigeon (Columba livia)
17) Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
18) Jackdaw (Corvus monedula)
19) Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
20) Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
21) Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
22) Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
23) Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
24) Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis)
25) Greylag Goose (Anser anser)
26) Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)
27) Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
 
A couple of birds seen out and about:

28. Rook Corvus frugilegus (3.1.2015)
29. Mute Swan Cygnus olor (5.1.2015)

I expected to see some other species of mammal/ bird by now, but I don't think local flooding has helped (for example I think I would have at least 10 more birds...).
 
Another fourteen birds added to the list on a walk around Heybridge Basin this morning:

55. Common pochard Aythya ferina (Vu)
56. Canada goose Branta canadensis
57. Greylag goose Anser anser
58. Eurasian oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus (Nt)
59. Common goldeneye Bucephala clangula
60. Reed bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
61. Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata (Nt)
62. Meadow pipit Anthus pratensis (Nt)
63. European stonechat Saxicola rubicola
64. Pied avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
65. Common snipe Gallinago gallinago
66. Ruddy turnstone Arenaria interpres
67. Bearded reedling Panurus biarmicus
68. Common kestrel Falco tinnunculus

That makes 68 birds and 2 mammals thus far this year, with one Vulnerable species from the IUCN and seven Near Threatened (the above species with redwing, Northern lapwing, black-tailed godwit and European rabbit added).
 
LaughingDove said:
I'm back in Poland now so when it had warmed up to -11 degrees C by the afternoon, I headed out to my local park to have a look.

34) Hooded Crow
35) Nuthatch
36) Coal Tit
37) Eurasian Jay
38) Mandarin Duck
39) Middle-spotted Woodpecker (surprising to see middle before greater this year!)
- Also a probable hybrid between Herring and Caspian Gull

5) Eurasian Red Squirrel
Sadly I didn't manage to see Roe Deer or Striped Field Mouse - both of which are species that I usually spot.
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A few more additions from the grounds of Warsaw Zoo as well as the nearby park and river:

40) Goosander
41) Tree Sparrow
42) Greater Spotted Woodpecker
43) Caspian Gull
44) Greenfinch
45) Fieldfare
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Birds
16) American Coot Fulica americana
17) Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
18) Anhinga Anhinga anhinga
19) Rock Pigeon Columba livia
20) Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea

~Thylo:cool:
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Birds
21) American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
22) Loggerhead Shrike Lanius ludovicianus
23) Ring-Billed Gull Larus delawarensis
24) Mute Swan Cygnus olor
25) Red-Tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis

I am now back in cold Connecticut.

~Thylo:cool:
 
Two new additions, both seen from a taxi :p:

30. European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
31. Feral Pigeon Columba (livia) domestica
 
Hix said:
Birds
13. Glossy Swiftlet

Mammals
2. Spinner Dolphin

:p

Hix
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Birds
14. Great Egret
15. Common Sandpiper


Invertebrates
5. Common Grapsus Crab

:p

Hix
 
Two more additions seen from a taxi :p:

2. European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus
3. European Roe Deer Capreolus capreolus
 
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