ZooChat Big Year 2016

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157 Cattle Egret - Bubulcus ibis
158 Monk Parakeet - Myiopsitta monachus
159 Inca Dove - Columbina inca
160 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - Archilochus colubris
161 Hudsonian Godwit - Limosa haemastica
162 Swainson's Hawk - Buteo swainsoni
163 Red-cockaded Woodpecker - Picoides borealis
164 Brown-headed Nuthatch - Sitta pusilla
 
Hix said:
Birds
22. Abbott's Booby

Fish
233. Ringed Slender Wrasse


Invertebrates
25. Yellow Locust
26. Climena Crow (Euploea climine macleari) - (butterfly)

:p

Hix
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A quick trip to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands brought in a few new species and four lifers.

Birds
23. Nankeen Nightheron
24. White Tern
25. Pacific Black Duck
26. Ruddy Turnstone
27. Green Junglefowl

Fish
234. Flowery Flounder
235. Palenose Parrotfish
236. Blacktip Reef Shark
237. Needlefish
238. Twolined Monocle Bream
239. Saddled Butterflyfish
240. Doublesaddle Butterflyfish
241. Humbug
242. Threespot Wrasse
243. Lagoon Triggerfish

Inverts
27. Purple Land Crab (Cardisoma carnifex)
28. Red-eyed Rock Crab (Eriphia sebana)

:p

Hix
 
lintworm said:
Spring has started and the first swifts have arrived in Switzerland

85. Alpine swift

Butterflies
3. Holly blue
4. Red admiral
5. European peacock
6. Green-veined white

Next week the big year can really start ;)
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A furry addition, that I saw last week:

8. Western European hedgehog
 
Bonus bird from a stop off on the way home from Twycross today:

153. Great Grey Shrike - Lanius excubitor

:)
 
Today's birding:

165 Mottled Duck - Anas fulvigula
166 Neotropic Cormorant - Phalacrocorax brasilianus
167 Little Blue Heron - Egretta caerulea
168 Tricolored Heron - Egretta tricolor
169 Reddish Egret - Egretta rufescens
170 Black-crowned Night-Heron - Nycticorax nycticorax
171 White Ibis - Eudocimus albus
172 Roseate Spoonbill - Platalea ajaja
173 White-tailed Kite - Elanus leucurus
174 Semipalmated Plover - Charadrius semipalmatus
175 Piping Plover - Charadrius melodus
176 Willet - Tringa semipalmata
177 Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes
178 Ruddy Turnstone - Arenaria interpres
179 Red Knot - Calidris canutus
180 Sanderling - Calidris alba
181 Dunlin - Calidris alpina
182 Baird's Sandpiper - Calidris bairdii
183 Pectoral Sandpiper - Calidris melanotos
184 Western Sandpiper - Calidris mauri
185 Laughing Gull - Leucophaeus atricilla
186 Least Tern - Sternula antillarum
187 Common Tern - Sterna hirundo
188 Sandwich Tern - Thalasseus sandvicensis
189 Sedge Wren - Cistothorus platensis
190 Boat-tailed Grackle - Quiscalus major
191 Clapper Rail - Rallus crepitans
192 Black-necked Stilt - Himantopus mexicanus
193 Whimbrel - Numenius phaeopus
194 Short-billed Dowitcher - Limnodromus griseus
195 American Avocet - Recurvirostra americana
196 Black Tern - Chlidonias niger
197 Black Skimmer - Rynchops niger
198 Eastern Kingbird - Tyrannus tyrannus
199 Tree Swallow - Tachycineta bicolor
200 Fulvous Whistling-Duck - Dendrocygna bicolor
201 American Bittern - Botaurus lentiginosus
202 Green Heron - Butorides virescens
203 Glossy Ibis - Plegadis falcinellus
204 White-faced Ibis - Plegadis chihi
205 Purple Gallinule - Porphyrio martinicus
206 Common Gallinule - Gallinula galeata
207 Cave Swallow - Petrochelidon fulva
208 Marsh Wren - Cistothorus palustris
209 Seaside Sparrow - Ammodramus maritimus
210 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - Coccyzus americanus
211 Eastern Wood-Pewee - Contopus virens
212 Yellow-throated Vireo - Vireo flavifrons
213 Red-eyed Vireo - Vireo olivaceus
214 Swainson's Thrush - Catharus ustulatus
215 Wood Thrush - Hylocichla mustelina
216 Gray Catbird - Dumetella carolinensis
217 Ovenbird - Seiurus aurocapilla
218 Worm-eating Warbler - Helmitheros vermivorum
219 Louisiana Waterthrush - Parkesia motacilla
220 Blue-winged Warbler - Vermivora cyanoptera
221 Black-and-white Warbler - Mniotilta varia
222 Prothonotary Warbler - Protonotaria citrea
223 Swainson's Warbler - Limnothlypis swainsonii
224 Tennessee Warbler - Oreothlypis peregrina
225 Kentucky Warbler - Geothlypis formosa
226 Common Yellowthroat - Geothlypis trichas
227 Hooded Warbler - Setophaga citrina
228 Cerulean Warbler - Setophaga cerulea
229 Northern Parula - Setophaga americana
230 Yellow-breasted Chat - Icteria virens
231 Eastern Towhee - Pipilo erythrophthalmus
232 Summer Tanager - Piranga rubra
233 Scarlet Tanager - Piranga olivacea
234 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - Pheucticus ludovicianus
235 Blue Grosbeak - Passerina caerulea
236 Indigo Bunting - Passerina cyanea
237 Orchard Oriole - Icterus spurius
 
Not much dedicated birding time over the last few days, but still managed to pick up a few nice species with some stop-offs while travelling to and from other things:

152. Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)
153. Black-necked Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis)
154. Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius)
155. Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor)
156. Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
 
Hix said:
Birds
23. Nankeen Nightheron
24. White Tern
25. Pacific Black Duck
26. Ruddy Turnstone
27. Green Junglefowl
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28. Barn Swallow

:p

Hix
 
lintworm said:
A furry addition, that I saw last week:

8. Western European hedgehog
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First 2 days in Kenya, I almost did not leave the compound, but still got a few nice species:

86. Speckled pigeon
87. Pied crow
88. Common bulbul
89. Baglafecht’s weaver
90. Bronze sunbird
91. Striated mousebird
92. Tawny-flanked prinia
93. Amethyst sunbird
94. Yellow-billed kite
95. White-browed sparrow weaver
96. Hartlaub’s turaco
97. Rock martin
98. African pied wagtail
99. Grey/ green-backed camaroptera
100. Yellow-breasted apalis
101. Black-backed puffback
102. African sacred ibis
103. Hadada ibis
104. Black-headed heron
105. Cape robin chat
106. Streaky seed-eater
107. Cinnamon-chested bee-eater
108. Collared sunbird
109. Eastern double-collared sunbird
110. Rufous sparrow
111. Red-eyed dove
112. Black sawwing
113. White-bellied tit
114. Augur buzzard
115. Woodland sparrowhawk
116. Bronze mannakin
117. Cinnamon bracken-warbler
118. African citril
119. Red-backed shrike
120. Red-rumped swallow
121. Little swift
122. Chin-spotted batis
123. Montane white-eye
124. Rattling cisticola
124. Steppe buzzard (subspecies nr.2 of common buzzard)

Mammals

9. Southern tree hyrax
10. White-throated guenon

I am especially happy with the tree hyrax which has his roost in one of the trees here, so I saw him every round and 3 turaco sightings is always good ;). Tomorrow of to Baringo.
 
DesertRhino150 said:
A local walk today got me two new bird species for the year list:

104. Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla
105. Cetti's warbler Cettia cetti
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Had a very good morning trip to Abberton Reservoir today, where I managed to find six new birds and one new mammal for the year list:

106. Little owl Athene noctua
107. Common tern Sterna hirundo
108. Little ringed plover Charadrius dubius
109. Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos
110. Corn bunting Emberiza calandra
111. Yellow wagtail Motacilla flava

9. Common shrew Sorex araneus

Back at home this afternoon, a walk along the river allowed me to start my reptile and fish lists and add a new species to my bumblebee list:

1. Grass snake Natrix natrix

1. Eurasian minnow Phoxinus phoxinus

5. Common carder bee Bombus pascuorum

And a few days back, a trip to Heybridge Basin allowed me to add two new butterfly species to my list:

3. Small tortoiseshell Aglais urticae
4. Peacock Aglais io
 
Today was travelling day and with 4,5 hours in the car and 1,5 hour in the garden here in Baringo I could add quite some species:

125. Cattle egret
126. Yellow- billed stork
127. African woolly-necked stork
128. Marabou
129. Great white pelican
130. Grey crowned crane
131. White-bellied go-away-bird
132. Laughing dove
133. Ring-necked dove
134. Emerald-spotted wood dove
135. White-billed buffalo weaver
136. White-headed buffalo weaver
137. Red-headed weaver
138. Mottled swift
139. Lesser flamingo
140. Long-crested eagle
141. Fischer’s lovebird
142. African hoopoe
143. Red-billed hornbill
144. Grey woodpecker
145. African stonechat
146. Northern anteater chat
147. Common fiscal
148. Long-tailed fiscal
149. Fork-tailed drongo
150. Cape rook
151. Greater blue-eared starling
152. Ruppel’s long-tailed starling
153. Superb starling
154. Wattled starling
155. Cardinal woodpecker
156. D’arnaud’s barbet
157. Red- and yellow barbet
158. Spotted palm thrush
159. Red-faced crombec
160. Red-billed woodhoopoe
161. Willow warbler
162. Jackson’s hornbill
163. Blue-naped mousebird
164. Woodland kingfisher
165. Lilac-breasted roller
166. Northern white-crowned shrike
167. Parrot-billed sparrow
168. Shikra
169. Bearded woodpecker
170. Black-headed oriole
171. Rufous chatterer
172. Lesser honeyguide

Mammals

11. Grant’s zebra
12. Common eland
13. Olive baboon
14. Thomson’s gazelle
15. Common warthog
16. Impala
17. Unstriped ground-squirrel

Herps

6. Kenyan rock agama
7. Blue-headed tree agama
 
Quick addition to the invertebrate list before I forget:

13. Common Green Shieldbug - Palomena prasina
 
A quick trip to my mates property in the central west of New South Wales.
10/4/2016
180. apostlebird
181. brown falcon
182. cockatiel
183. emu
184. pied butcherbird
185. red winged parrot
186. hooded robin
187. jacky winter
188. restless flycatcher
189. white-browed woodswallow
12/4/16
190. australian ringneck
191. black-faced woodswallow
192. blue bonnet
193. brolga
194. double-barred finch
195. red-capped robin
196. singing honeyeater
197. spiny-cheeked honeyeater
198. spotted bowerbird
199. tree martin
200. white bellied cuckoo-shrike
201. white winged fairy wren
202. yellow rumped thornbill
203. yellow throated miner
204. zebra finch
13/4/16
205. black flacon
206. red tailed black cockatoo
 
KevinVar said:
63. Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
64. Ruddy Shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea)
65. Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)
66. Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata)
67. Common Pochard (Aythya ferina)

Herptiles:
01. Common Toad (Bufo Bufo)
02. Common Frog (Rana temporaria)
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68. Common Redshank (Tringa totanus)
69. Western Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)

03. Smooth Newt (Lissotriton vulgaris)
 
lintworm said:
Nopes it is Cercopithecus (mitis) albogularis, for which Sykes's monkey is maybe a clearer common name ;)
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thanks. I googled white-throated guenon and just got C. erythrogaster which was confusing because that one isn't found where you are! But googling C. albogularis shows that common name too.
 
Chlidonias said:
thanks. I googled white-throated guenon and just got C. erythrogaster which was confusing because that one isn't found where you are! But googling C. albogularis shows that common name too.
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No problem, albogularis even means white throat and the common name in Dutch and German is witkeelmeerkat/weisskehlmeerkatze, which basically means white-throated guenon, it is just that English always know better :p
 
Two more additions to the bird list from an afternoon stroll at Thrybergh Country Park:

154. Blackcap - Sylvia atricapilla
155. Common Sandpiper - Actitis hypoleucos

:)
 
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