ZooChat Big Year 2016

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jbnbsn99 said:
303 Yellow-billed Loon - Gavia adamsii Life Bird #500
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it's great getting to a good round number on your life list like 500. Then it seems to take forever to get to the next one. Then you go to Panama.
 
lintworm said:
Only 5 days left in Kenya and then on to Ethiopia (Afar again). With Lake Nakuru I visited my first Kenyan national park yesterday, so quite some mammal additions from 1 day, though unfortunately no cats...

265. Jameson’s firefinch
266. African darter
267. Black-shouldered kite
268. Slender-tailed nightjar
269. African woolly-necked stork
270. African silverbill
271. Lesser striped swallow
272. White-breasted cormorant
273. Broad-tailed paradise whydah
274. Long-tailed cormorant
275. Pink-backed pelican
276. Mocking cliff chat
277. Red-billed teal
278. Cape teal
279. Yellow-billed duck
280. Black-chested snake eagle
281. Martial eagle
282. Black-bellied bustard
283. Black-winged stilt
284. Crowned lapwing
285. Grey-headed gull
286. African skimmer
287. African cuckoo
288. Striped kingfisher
289. Broad-billed roller
290. Rufous-naped lark
291. Pied wheatear
292. Speke’s weaver

Mammals

25. Heart-faced bat
26. Common hippo
27. Naivasha dikdik
28. Rotschildt giraffe
29. Defassa waterbuck
30. African buffalo
31. Grant’s gazelle
32. Spotted hyena
33. Black-backed jackal
34. Southern white rhino
35. Eastern black rhino
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Last additions from Kenya, I have just arrived in Ethiopia, which will be my home for the next 3 weeks.

293. Yellow bishop
294. Green-winged pytillia
295. Crowned hornbill
296. Red-winged starling

Mammals

36. White-bearded wildebeest
37. Masai giraffe
 
LaughingDove said:
Yep, Common Frog on the 13th of March.
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thanks. In a couple of days it will be the new month and I'll post the update for listings. At the moment you are in second place for both birds and mammals, although I suspect that may change very soon*, and sixth for herptiles.



*currently Maguari is just in the lead for birds but I think the year will be fought between LaughingDove with Australia and jbnbsn99 with Costa Rica.
 
Chlidonias said:
*currently Maguari is just in the lead for birds but I think the year will be fought between LaughingDove with Australia and jbnbsn99 with Costa Rica.
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You're correct that I'm unlikely to stay in that position - but I should point out that the real leader here if I'm ahead on what's listed here is actually robmv, who has segregated lists so hasn't included his Botswana birds in the total and is 30 birds or so ahead of me on British species. ;)
 
Chlidonias said:
thanks. In a couple of days it will be the new month and I'll post the update for listings. At the moment you are in second place for both birds and mammals, although I suspect that may change very soon*, and sixth for herptiles.



*currently Maguari is just in the lead for birds but I think the year will be fought between LaughingDove with Australia and jbnbsn99 with Costa Rica.
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I think lintworm is very much in the running for this year if he keeps up his rate of bird additions in Ethiopia (which I don't doubt he will).
I may get a small number of birds this week around Warsaw but the real boost will come from Australia in just over a week (http://www.zoochat.com/24/trip-australia-june-july-2016-a-449389/ for those who haven't seen it I'll be posting lots of wildlife stuff there) and I'm still aiming for over 500 species this year.
 
Hix said:
Inverts
36. Arabian Cowrie
37. Parhippolyte Cleaner Shrimp

:p

Hix
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38. Phyllidiella nudibranch (probably P. lizae)

:p

Hix
 
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LaughingDove said:
I had my first chance to go out birding this summer today so I got quite a few nice additions from a nature reserve on the Vistula just outside Warsaw

299) Garden Warbler
300) Common Tern
301) Little Tern
302) Little Ringed-plover
303) Sand Martin
304) Greater Whitethroat
305) Mistle Thrush
306) Barred Warbler (second ever sighting)
307) Common Cuckoo
308) Marsh Warbler
309) Pied Flycatcher
310) Black-necked Grebe
And probably the highlight of the day, several gorgeous:
311) Red-backed Shrikes (first in Europe)

Also saw at least two more warbler species that I couldn't identify

Also two herps:
5) Moor Frog
and an absolutely huge 6) Grass Snake
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This afternoon and early evening I went to an area of reed beds, forests and lakes near to the Warsaw airport with the main aim of seeing one of the 3-4 pairs of Penduline Tits that breeds there:

312) Sedge Warbler
313) European Reed Warbler
314) Eurasian Penduline Tit
315) Thrush Nightingale
316) Great Reed Warbler
317) Garganey

Also worth mentioning sightings of a Western Marsh Harrier and multiple Reed Buntings, both of which were second sightings for the year.

Three species that I hoped to see here but didn't spot were Black Woodpecker, Little Bittern and Otters which are supposed to be present in some numbers. Hopefully next time.
 
LaughingDove said:
I think lintworm is very much in the running for this year if he keeps up his rate of bird additions in Ethiopia (which I don't doubt he will).
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oh yes, sorry lintworm. It depends on how far ahead jbnbsn99 can get in Costa Rica and LaughingDove in Australia as to whether lintworm can comfortably pass them while in Africa.

There are too many people birding internationally! :p
 
Chlidonias said:
oh yes, sorry lintworm. It depends on how far ahead jbnbsn99 can get in Costa Rica and LaughingDove in Australia as to whether lintworm can comfortably pass them while in Africa.

There are too many people birding internationally! :p
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Fun note: all but one of my birds are from within Texas, so I've traveled the least of the top participants this year.
 
Macaw16 said:
An evening stroll throguh some fields not too far from my house got another bird for the year (26/5/2016):

78. Grey Partridge Perdix perdix
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Hopefully the first of a few additions from my current trip...

The first is from Speke Hall and the other two from Speke and Garston Coastal Reserve (29/5/2016):

79. Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
80. European Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus
81. Common Whitethroat Sylvia communis
 
Fireplume said:
Mammals (15 Species)

1. California Ground Squirrel Otospermophilus beecheyi
2. Western Grey Squirrel Sciurus griseus
3. Black-tailed Jackrabbit Lepus californicus
4. Long-tailed Weasel Mustela frenata
5. Southern Sea Otter Enhydra lutris nereis
6. California Sea Lion Zalophus californianus
7. (East) Pacific Harbour Seal Phoca vitulina richardsi
8. Long-beaked Common Dolphin Delphinus capensis
9. Risso’s Dolphin Grampus griseus
10. Gray Whale Eschrichtius robustus
11. Columbian Blacktail Deer Odocoileus hemionus columbianus
12. House Mouse Mus musculus
13. California Valley Coyote Canis latrans ochropus
14. Desert Cottontail Sylvilagus audubonii
15. Pronghorn Antilocapra americana
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16. Fox Squirrel Sciurus niger

Forgot this fellow I saw in Fresno :)
 
Just one addition this weekend, but a personal favourite:

207. Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur)

(346 worldwide)
 
jbnbsn99 said:
We want to hear the world total too.
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The difference between my worldwide list and my UK list is basically what Maguari has posted for Botswana. One or two differences:

I didn't see the two firefinch species - I saw a single firefinch, but not well to enough identify it to a species.

Also, I saw two species that Maguari missed:
  • Cardinal Woodpecker Dendropicos fuscescens
  • White-browed Robin Chat Cossypha heuglini
 
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