ZooChat Big Year 2013

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266 Snow Goose - Chen caerulescens
267 Ross's Goose - Chen rossii
268 Cackling Goose - Branta hutchinsii
 
Mammal List

1. Virginia Opossum
2. Cotton Hispid Rat
3. Harris Antelope Ground Squirrel
4. Mexican Ground Squirrel
5. Rock Squirrel
6. Eastern Fox Squirrel
7. Arizona Gray Squirrel
8. Black-Tailed Prairie Dog
9. Eastern Cottontail
10. Desert Cottontail
11. Black-Tailed Jackrabbit
12. Nutria
13. Eastern Striped Skunk
14. Common Raccoon
15. Bobcat
16. Coyote
17. Gray Fox
18. Atlantic Bottle-Nosed Dolphin
19. White-Tailed Deer (Texan and Coues subspecies)
20. Feral Hog
 
Birds
366. Streaky Seedeater
367. Northern Brown-throated Weaver
368. Hartlaub's Marsh Widowbird
369. African Marsh Harrier
370. Red-faced Cisticola
371. Singing Cisticola

:p

Hix
 
Ituri said:
Apparently I haven't updated this in some time.

265 Sanderling
266 Mute Swan
267 Lewis's Woodpecker
268 Mew Gull
269 Glaucous-winged Gull
270 Bushtit
271 Harlequin Duck
272 Surf Scoter
273 Red-breasted Merganser

I expect more next week when I'll be in southern Arizona.

Mammals
31 American Mink
32 Harbor Seal
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274 Juniper Titmouse
275 Mountain Plover
276 Crested Caracara
277 Vermilion Flycatcher
278 Greater Roadrunner
279 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
280 Gray Flycatcher
281 Black-throated Gray Warbler
282 Painted Redstart
283 Acorn Woodpecker
284 Mexican Jay
285 Bridled Titmouse
286 Yellow-eyed Junco
287 Costa's Hummingbird
288 Black Scoter
289 White-winged Dove
290 Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
291 Phainopepla
292 Bronzed Cowbird
293 Black-and-white Warbler
294 Lincoln's Sparrow
295 Nanday Parakeet***
296 Gilded Flicker
297 Bendire's Thrasher
298 Black-throated Sparrow
299 Black Vulture

*** wild introduced population not yet countable by ABA rules

Mammals:
33 Desert Bighorn Sheep
34 Coue's White-tailed Deer
35 Arizona Gray Squirrel
 
I'm going out on a pelagic birdwatching trip on the 14th. I'm hoping to get a few new birds to get me to 250 for the year. I'll be happy with that. just 9 short of last year.
 
boof said:
I'm going out on a pelagic birdwatching trip on the 14th. I'm hoping to get a few new birds to get me to 250 for the year. I'll be happy with that. just 9 short of last year.
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Where is the boat leaving from?
 
nanoboy said:
Where is the boat leaving from?
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Wollongong. I'm hoping to spot some jaegers and shearwaters. I should see plenty of short tailed and wedge tailed shearwaters. I've got my fingers crossed for something unusual. I nice petrel or two would be good.
 
boof said:
Wollongong. I'm hoping to spot some jaegers and shearwaters. I should see plenty of short tailed and wedge tailed shearwaters. I've got my fingers crossed for something unusual. I nice petrel or two would be good.
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That sounds very cool. Good luck. Is it a regular charter or something?
 
nanoboy said:
That sounds very cool. Good luck. Is it a regular charter or something?
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SOSSA (southern ocean seabird study association) have pelagic trips every month out of Wollongong harbour. Google SOSSA. a great bunch of blokes. very enjoyable day.
 
Fanjing Shan (Guizhou, China):

BIRDS:

371) Temminck's tragopan Tragopan temminckii
372) Brown-breasted bulbul Pycnonotus xanthorrhous
373) Mountain bulbul Hypsipetes mcclellandii
374) Slaty-backed forktail Enicurus schistaceus
375) Chinese bamboo partridge Bambusicola thoracica
376) Black-headed sibia Heterophasia melanoleuca
377) Spot-breasted scimitar-babbler Pomatorhinus erythrocnemis
378) Elliot's pheasant Syrmaticus elliotii


MAMMALS:

43) Maritime striped squirrel Tamiops maritimus
 
I really hope a similar thread is started for next year. Reading everyone's lists has really got me into birding!
 
boof said:
SOSSA (southern ocean seabird study association) have pelagic trips every month out of Wollongong harbour. Google SOSSA. a great bunch of blokes. very enjoyable day.
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This looks like a top trip. I hope to do either this or the Port Fairy pelagic one day.
 
mstickmanp said:
I really hope a similar thread is started for next year. Reading everyone's lists has really got me into birding!
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I too became more interested in birding because of this thread.

I find the stories behind the sightings to be more interesting than a matter-of-fact list. It would be great if posters could add some more flavour and pics/links to bring the lists alive.
 
The story behind the sightings will follow in my Madagascar thread, for now a short update of my list

Mammals
44. Indri
45. Diademed sifaka
46. White fronted brown lemur
47. Grey bamboo lemur
48. Black & white ruffed lemur
49. Black rat
50. Norwegian rat
51. Larger hedgehog tenrec

and last but not least
52. Brown tailed vontsira

Birds
222. Souimanga sunbird
223. Blue coua
224. crested coua
225. Madagascar green pigeon
226. Forest fody
227. Broad billed roller
228. Madagascar cuckooshrike
229. Nelicouri weaver
230. Yellow billed kite
231. Madagascar coucal
232. Madagascar drongo
233. Madagascar paradise flycatcher
234. Madagascar magpie robin


Herpetofauna
29. Ptychadena mascariensis
30. Uroplatus lineatus
31. Brookesia superciliaris
32. Calumma nasutum
33. Zonosaurus brygooi
34. Hemidactylus mercatorius
35. Paroedura masobe
36. Paroedura gracilis
37. Phelsuma lineata
38. Madagascarophis colubrinus
39. Leioheterodon madagascariensis
40. Microphystodon
41. Pletodontohyla brevipes
42. Dromicodryas bernieri (?)
43. Phelsuma madagascariensis madagascariensis
44. Boophis madagascariensis
45. Zonosaurus madagascariensis
46. Uroplatus fimbriatus
47. Phelsuma occelata
48. Ebelavia inunguis
49. Geckolepsis typica

Apart from norwegian rat all lifers (off course :p)
 
And a few hours later, already another update, not only the internet connection is good, birding at the research center is too:

235. Madagascar buzzard
236. Madagascar harrier hawk
237. Madagascar buttonquail

the buttonquail being just at the lawn, 2 meters away, although still very shy...
 
And after passing the number of 50 for mammals, I am now on 50 for the herpetofauna thanks to:

50. Bibilava lateralis

not including a mantella, compsophis & lygodactylus of which I do not know the species...
 
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