Animal Bucket List

[Chlidonias]

The trip was about nine years ago though, I don't remember everything and it is possible that at the time a pod of spinners could have moved in.

Perhaps. I just like to let people have any information they may be lacking.

For myself, I would consider it unusual for a pod of mostly-tropical pelagic dolphins to move into Sydney harbour, and for that to be a more likely scenario than having seen the pod of bottlenose dolphins which are known to be regularly seen there.

I won't ask whereabouts in Australia your uncle lives though

 

[Najade]

Reptiles:
-Leatherback
-Earless Monitor
-Marine Iguana
-Flying Dragon
-Flying Geckos
-Horned Lizard
-Thorny Devil
-American Legless Lizards
-Dibamidae
-Amphisbaenia
-Typhlopidae
-Mauritius Snakes
-Mudsnakes
-Shield-tailed Snakes
-Flying Tree Snakes
-Pipe Snakes
-Sea Snakes
-Sea Kraits

 

[Najade]

Birds:
-Sage Grouse
-Crested Argus
-Oilbird
-Potoos
-Nighthawks
-Nightjars (eared and typical)
-Owlet-Nightjars
-Tree Swifts
-Mesites
-Limpkin
-Finfoots
-Sarothruridae
-Takahe
-Loons
-Tropic Birds
-Darters
-Frigate Birds
-Eurasian Bittern
-Hoatzin
-California Condor
-Circaetinae
-Philippine Eagle
-Harrier Hawk
-Resplendent Quetzal
-Hoopoe
-Ground Roller
-Todies
-Jacamars
-Bucconidae
-Honeyguides
-Eurasian Wryneck
-Campephilus
-Black-Legged Seriema
-Kakapo
-Skua
-Pratincoles
-Crab-Plover
-Painted Snipes
-Plains-Wanderer
-Seedsnipes
-Ibisbill
-Sheathbills
-Magellanic Plover
-Albatrosses
-Storm Petrels (northern and southern)
-Procellariidae
-Diving Petrels
-White-Throated Dipper
-Birds of Paradise
-Hawaiian Honeycreepers

 

[Najade]

Mammals (excl.: Pinnipeds, Cetaceans, Marsupials, Rodents):
-Long-Beaked Echidna
-Golden Moles
-Oryzorictinae
-Web-Footed Tenrec
-Geogalinae
-Otter Shrews
-Giant Sengis
-Dugong
-Amazonian Manatee
-Giant Armadillo
-Fairy Armadillos
-Three-Toed Sloth
-Silky Anteater
-Colugos
-Sportive Lemurs
-Indri
-Sifakas
-Potto
-Tarsiers
-Bearded Sakis
-Uakaris
-Proboscis Monkey
-Pikas
-Solenodons
-Eurasian Water Shrew
-Star-Nosed Mole
-Desmans
-Shrew Moles
-Gymnures
-African Palm Civet
-Asiatic Linsangs
-Otter Civet
-Water Mongoose
-Andean Mountain Cat
-Falanouc
-Fanaloka
-Olingos
-Sea Otter
-Grisons
-Ferret Badgers
-Hog Badgers
-Stink Badgers
(-Musk Deer)
-Pronghorn
-Giant Forest Hog
-Marsh Deer
-Saola
-Saiga
-Procapra
-Chiru
-Wild Bactrian Camel
-Javan Rhino
-Sumatran Rhino

 

[Giant Eland]

Mammals (excl.: Pinnipeds, Cetaceans, Marsupials, Rodents):
-Long-Beaked Echidna
-Golden Moles
-Oryzorictinae
-Web-Footed Tenrec
-Geogalinae
-Otter Shrews
-Giant Sengis
-Dugong
-Amazonian Manatee
-Giant Armadillo
-Fairy Armadillos
-Three-Toed Sloth
-Silky Anteater
-Colugos
-Sportive Lemurs
-Indri
-Sifakas
-Potto
-Tarsiers
-Bearded Sakis
-Uakaris
-Proboscis Monkey
-Pikas
-Solenodons
-Eurasian Water Shrew
-Star-Nosed Mole
-Desmans
-Shrew Moles
-Gymnures
-African Palm Civet
-Asiatic Linsangs
-Otter Civet
-Water Mongoose
-Andean Mountain Cat
-Falanouc
-Fanaloka
-Olingos
-Sea Otter
-Grisons
-Ferret Badgers
-Hog Badgers
-Stink Badgers
(-Musk Deer)
-Pronghorn
-Giant Forest Hog
-Marsh Deer
-Saola
-Saiga
-Procapra
-Chiru
-Wild Bactrian Camel
-Javan Rhino
-Sumatran Rhino

A pretty tough list to crack for the most part! I've managed 32/53 (which I bolded). Have you added any of these in the past couple years? Lord knows you've added plenty of marsupials and bats!

 

[Najade]

Oh my. That’s a bit of an old one^^
I’ve seen Long-beaked Echidna, Dugong, Colugo, Tarsier, Proboscis Monkey and Hog Badger. All except the Colugos in captivity. But that was back when I was still living in NZ (or shortly after in the Echidnas case) so like two years ago.

Can’t really get any of the others here in Australia and I haven’t left the country in a while.
Right now I’m trying to plan that Kimberley trip that I couldn’t make happen last year :fingers crossed for Scaly-tailed Possum, Monjon and a couple other things:

 

[Giant Eland]

Oh my. That’s a bit of an old one^^
I’ve seen Long-beaked Echidna, Dugong, Colugo, Tarsier, Proboscis Monkey and Hog Badger. All except the Colugos in captivity. But that was back when I was still living in NZ (or shortly after in the Echidnas case) so like two years ago.

Can’t really get any of the others here in Australia and I haven’t left the country in a while.
Right now I’m trying to plan that Kimberley trip that I couldn’t make happen last year :fingers crossed for Scaly-tailed Possum, Monjon and a couple other things:

Awesome news! Those are some pretty great additions!!

Fingers definitely crossed for you on a potential Kimberley trip!

Ever looked into visiting Papua New Guinea?

 

[Najade]

Awesome news! Those are some pretty great additions!!

Just a quick run to Singapore and Sydney

Fingers definitely crossed for you on a potential Kimberley trip!

Organising this trip is such a headache I’m already close to just calling it a day again. But we’ll see...

Ever looked into visiting Papua New Guinea?

Yes, but to do it in a somewhat comprehensive way is out of my budget atm.

Do you have any trips coming up?

 

[Giant Eland]

Just a quick run to Singapore and Sydney

Ah of course! Did you ever post your colugo photos?

Organising this trip is such a headache I’m already close to just calling it a day again. But we’ll see...

Well hopefully it works out for you!

Yes, but to do it in a somewhat comprehensive way is out of my budget atm.

Even a trip only to Port Moresby Wildlife Park would be totally worth it for me! Not too many places left for me with 5 captive mammal lifers!

Do you have any trips coming up?

Hmm probably nothing international for a bit. I've been pretty lucky to take 2 sizable trips already this year, which I still haven't posted many pictures from:

1. Dominican Republic, Florida, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Mexico
2. Utah, Arizona, New Mexico

following the 2 I took last year:

1. Russia, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, China
2. England, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, UAE, Czech Republic, Austria, Belgium, Spain

I've tentatively been planning on a road trip in September to Maine & Nova Scotia in hopes of adding some Cetacean lifers via whale watching.

January of next year I plan on going to a friend's wedding in Hawaii, so I'll probably stop in Northern California, and we'll see if I'm able to add any other stops

 

[Najade]

Ah of course! Did you ever post your colugo photos?

Yep. Here and here.

Even a trip only to Port Moresby Wildlife Park would be totally worth it for me! Not too many places left for me with 5 captive mammal lifers!

Which ones would that be?

I've tentatively been planning on a road trip in September to Maine & Nova Scotia in hopes of adding some Cetacean lifers via whale watching.

January of next year I plan on going to a friend's wedding in Hawaii, so I'll probably stop in Northern California, and we'll see if I'm able to add any other stops

Sounds like fun. Whales are always nice to see.

 

[Giant Eland]

@Chlidonias had posted his most recently available Port Moresby Wildlife Park collection list. I've bolded the mammals which would be lifers for me- all very exciting species!!

Just for interest's sake, this was their stock about a year ago (I haven't got a more current one):


MAMMALS:
Long-beaked Echidna Zaglossus bartoni

Spotted Cuscus Spilocuscus maculatus
Long-fingered Triok Dactylopsila palpator

Doria's Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus dorianus
Goodfellow's Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus goodfellowi
Matschie's Tree Kangaroo Dendrolagus matschiei
Grey Dorcopsis Dorcopsis luctuosa
Macleay's Dorcopsis Dorcopsis macleayi
Agile Wallaby Macropus agilis


BIRDS:
Dwarf Cassowary Casuarius bennetti
Northern Cassowary Casuarius unappendiculatus
Southern Cassowary Casuarius casuarius

White-bellied Sea Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster
Whistling Kite Haliastur sphenurus

Blue-eyed Cockatoo Cacatua ophthalmica
Pesquet's Parrot Psittrichas fulgidus
Eclectus Eclectus roratus
Red-cheeked Parrot Geoffroyus geoffroyi
Papuan King Parrot Alisterus chloropterus chloropterus
Purple-bellied Lory Lorius hypoinochrous devitattus
Black-capped Lory Lorius lory
Dusky Lory Pseudeos fuscata
Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus haematodus
Goldie's Lorikeet Psitteuteles goldiei
Papuan Lorikeet Charmosyna papou stellae
Red-flanked Lorikeet Charmosyna placentis
Fairy Lorikeet Charmosyna pulchella

Scheepmaker's Crowned Pigeon Goura scheepmakeri
Victoria Crowned Pigeon Goura victoria
Orange-bellied Fruit Dove Ptilinopus iozonus
Wompoo Fruit Dove Ptilinopus magnificus
Pink-spotted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus perlatus
White-bibbed Fruit Dove Ptilinopus rivoli bellus
Superb Fruit Dove Ptilinopus superbus

Barn Owl Tyto alba (Tyto javanica)
Papuan Hawk-Owl Uroglaux dimorpha

Blyth's Hornbill Aceros plicatus

Yellow-faced Mynah Mino dumontii

Green Catbird Ailuroedus crassirostris

Crinkle-collared Manucode Manucodia chalybata
Trumpet Manucode Manucodia keraudrenii
Lesser Bird of Paradise Paradisaea minor
Stephanie's Astrapia Astrapia stehaniae
Magnificent Bird of Paradise Cicinnurus magnificus
Lawes' Six-wired Parotia Parotia lawesii
Magnificent Riflebird Ptiloris magnificus


REPTILES:
Green Tree Monitor Varanus prasinus
Crocodile Monitor Varanus salvadorii
D'Albertis' Python Leiopython dalbertisii
Papuan Python Apodora papuana
Green Tree Python Morelia viridis

 

[Giant Eland]

Mammals (excl.: Pinnipeds, Cetaceans, Marsupials, Rodents):
-Long-Beaked Echidna
-Golden Moles
-Oryzorictinae
-Web-Footed Tenrec
-Geogalinae
-Otter Shrews
-Giant Sengis
-Dugong
-Amazonian Manatee
-Giant Armadillo
-Fairy Armadillos
-Three-Toed Sloth
-Silky Anteater
-Colugos
-Sportive Lemurs
-Indri
-Sifakas
-Potto
-Tarsiers
-Bearded Sakis
-Uakaris
-Proboscis Monkey
-Pikas
-Solenodons
-Eurasian Water Shrew
-Star-Nosed Mole
-Desmans
-Shrew Moles
-Gymnures
-African Palm Civet
-Asiatic Linsangs
-Otter Civet
-Water Mongoose
-Andean Mountain Cat
-Falanouc
-Fanaloka
-Olingos
-Sea Otter
-Grisons
-Ferret Badgers
-Hog Badgers
-Stink Badgers
(-Musk Deer)
-Pronghorn
-Giant Forest Hog
-Marsh Deer
-Saola
-Saiga
-Procapra
-Chiru
-Wild Bactrian Camel
-Javan Rhino
-Sumatran Rhino

A pretty tough list to crack for the most part! I've managed 32/53 (which I bolded). Have you added any of these in the past couple years? Lord knows you've added plenty of marsupials and bats!

Added 3 more from this list- Gymnures, Otter Civet, and Giant Forest Hog (last one wild in 3 countries!) bringing my total to 35/53 . Plus a very grueling but unsuccessful 10 day attempt at Javan Rhino

 

[JVM]

- Bengal Slow Loris
- Slender Loris
- Mouse Lemur
- Night Monkey
- Tarsier
- Patas Monkey
- Gelada
- Hamadryas Baboon
- Drill
- Sulawesi Crested Macaque
- Sooty Mangabey
- Venezuelan Red Howler Monkey
- Proboscis Monkey
- Red-Shanced Douc Langur
- Spectacled Langur (recently missed twice!)
- Lar Gibbon
- Pronghorn
- Arctic Fox
- Black Footed Ferret
- Spot-Necked Otter
- Giant River Otter
- Bush Dog
- Dhole
- Aardwolf
- Striped Hyena
- Ratel
- Asiatic Lion
- Sumatran Tiger
- Malayan Tiger
- Sri Lanka Leopard
- Ocelot
- Tasmanian Devil
- Common Wombat
- Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby
- Quoll
- Bilby
- Platypus
- Masai Giraffe
- White Rhinoceros
- Sumatran Rhinoceros (not likely)
- Sable Antelope
- Common Eland
- Blackbuck
- European Wisent
- Nubian Ibex
- Dromedary Camel
- Hawaiian Monk Seal
- Pacific Walrus
- West Indian Manatee
- Orca
- Hawksbill Sea Turtle
- Loggerhead Sea Turtle
- Tuatara
- Cuban Crocodile
- Nile Crocodile
- Saltwater Crocodile
- Japanese Giant Salamander
- Scarlet Macaw
- Hycanith Macaw
- White-Throated Toucan
- Harpy Eagle
- California Condor
- Brown Pelican
- Great Blue Heron
- Shoebill
- Kiwi
- Emperor Penguin
- Tuna
- Great Barracuda
- Sand Tiger Shark
- Tiger Shark
- Hammerhead Shark
- Whale Shark

I'm pretty sure I am missing multiple less common species, and I excluded multiple non-captive animals. Some of the animals listed here are not super difficult to see but have simply eluded me. Kiwi were held in Chicago while I was a child but never visited the building, for example. I think a major chunk of this list will be gone (or re-filled!) by this time next year.

 

[elefante]

- Bengal Slow Loris
- Slender Loris
- Mouse Lemur
- Night Monkey
- Tarsier
- Patas Monkey
- Gelada
- Hamadryas Baboon
- Drill
- Sulawesi Crested Macaque
- Sooty Mangabey
- Venezuelan Red Howler Monkey
- Proboscis Monkey
- Red-Shanced Douc Langur
- Spectacled Langur (recently missed twice!)
- Lar Gibbon
- Pronghorn
- Arctic Fox
- Black Footed Ferret
- Spot-Necked Otter
- Giant River Otter
- Bush Dog
- Dhole
- Aardwolf
- Striped Hyena
- Ratel
- Asiatic Lion
- Sumatran Tiger
- Malayan Tiger
- Sri Lanka Leopard
- Ocelot
- Tasmanian Devil
- Common Wombat
- Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby
- Quoll
- Bilby
- Platypus
- Masai Giraffe
- White Rhinoceros
- Sumatran Rhinoceros (not likely)
- Sable Antelope
- Common Eland
- Blackbuck
- European Wisent
- Nubian Ibex
- Dromedary Camel
- Hawaiian Monk Seal
- Pacific Walrus
- West Indian Manatee
- Orca
- Hawksbill Sea Turtle
- Loggerhead Sea Turtle
- Tuatara
- Cuban Crocodile
- Nile Crocodile
- Saltwater Crocodile
- Japanese Giant Salamander
- Scarlet Macaw
- Hycanith Macaw
- White-Throated Toucan
- Harpy Eagle
- California Condor
- Brown Pelican
- Great Blue Heron
- Shoebill
- Kiwi
- Emperor Penguin
- Tuna
- Great Barracuda
- Sand Tiger Shark
- Tiger Shark
- Hammerhead Shark
- Whale Shark

I'm pretty sure I am missing multiple less common species, and I excluded multiple non-captive animals. Some of the animals listed here are not super difficult to see but have simply eluded me. Kiwi were held in Chicago while I was a child but never visited the building, for example. I think a major chunk of this list will be gone (or re-filled!) by this time next year.

I've seen quite a few on this list, including kiwis in Chicago.

 

[elefante]

Giant panda
Gemsbok
Sumatran tiger
Peary caribou
Dhole

I checked off the top two last summer! I'm thinking Peary caribou are unlikely.

 

[birdsandbats]

- Bengal Slow Loris
- Slender Loris
- Mouse Lemur
- Night Monkey
- Tarsier
- Patas Monkey
- Gelada
- Hamadryas Baboon
- Drill
- Sulawesi Crested Macaque
- Sooty Mangabey
- Venezuelan Red Howler Monkey
- Proboscis Monkey
- Red-Shanced Douc Langur
- Spectacled Langur (recently missed twice!)
- Lar Gibbon
- Pronghorn
- Arctic Fox
- Black Footed Ferret
- Spot-Necked Otter
- Giant River Otter
- Bush Dog
- Dhole
- Aardwolf
- Striped Hyena
- Ratel
- Asiatic Lion
- Sumatran Tiger
- Malayan Tiger
- Sri Lanka Leopard
- Ocelot
- Tasmanian Devil
- Common Wombat
- Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby
- Quoll
- Bilby
- Platypus
- Masai Giraffe
- White Rhinoceros
- Sumatran Rhinoceros (not likely)
- Sable Antelope
- Common Eland
- Blackbuck
- European Wisent
- Nubian Ibex
- Dromedary Camel
- Hawaiian Monk Seal
- Pacific Walrus
- West Indian Manatee
- Orca
- Hawksbill Sea Turtle
- Loggerhead Sea Turtle
- Tuatara
- Cuban Crocodile
- Nile Crocodile
- Saltwater Crocodile
- Japanese Giant Salamander
- Scarlet Macaw
- Hycanith Macaw
- White-Throated Toucan
- Harpy Eagle
- California Condor
- Brown Pelican
- Great Blue Heron
- Shoebill
- Kiwi
- Emperor Penguin
- Tuna
- Great Barracuda
- Sand Tiger Shark
- Tiger Shark
- Hammerhead Shark
- Whale Shark

I'm pretty sure I am missing multiple less common species, and I excluded multiple non-captive animals. Some of the animals listed here are not super difficult to see but have simply eluded me. Kiwi were held in Chicago while I was a child but never visited the building, for example. I think a major chunk of this list will be gone (or re-filled!) by this time next year.

You haven't seen Great Blue Heron in the wild? It isn't difficult at all. Try checking the Nature Boardwalk just south of the Lincoln Park Zoo.

 

[elefante]

You haven't seen Great Blue Heron in the wild? It isn't difficult at all. Try checking the Nature Boardwalk just south of the Lincoln Park Zoo.

Those are common all over the US. Are they in captivity?

 

[Aardwolf]

Those are common all over the US. Are they in captivity?

You see them occasionally, non releasable birds in native collections. They can be aggressive towards other birds, keepers, and especially each other, so mixing can be a challenge. They’re also very easily stressed, so not the easiest birds for rehabbers to stabilize enough to get to a zoo

 

[JVM]

You haven't seen Great Blue Heron in the wild? It isn't difficult at all. Try checking the Nature Boardwalk just south of the Lincoln Park Zoo.

That's a smart idea. I haven't done the boardwalk since early spring - tend to favor it most when I make it downtown early and know I have lots of time.

 

[15399]

Probably top of the list for me would be seeing a tarsier. Unfortunately I'd likely need to go to Asia to ever achieve this one. More practical species I'd really like to see include any duiker species (I've yet to see any), musk ox, Speke's and Soemmerring's gazelles, white-bellied tree pangolin, Sulawesi crested macaque, bonobo, Javan gibbon, and drill. I would've had a lot of birds on the list, however this year I've been to multiple of the big bird zoos and so got a lot of lifers in that category, and also got a substantial number of reptile lifers as well. For amphibians, I missed the Japanese giant salamander at Detroit and so that's a species I'd love to see at some point. If I ever get across the ocean, I would like to see some of the species kept in European zoos but not US zoos, such as silvery marmosets, white-fronted lemurs, crowned sifaka, talapoins, barbary macaques, pig-tailed macaques, king colobus, and chamois.