ZooChat Big Year 2013
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Birds:
86. Great crested grebe
87. Common kingfisher
Mammals:
18. West European hedgehog
Reptiles:
3. Grass snake
Amphibians:
1. European common frog
2. Smooth newt
86. Great crested grebe
87. Common kingfisher
Mammals:
18. West European hedgehog
Reptiles:
3. Grass snake
Amphibians:
1. European common frog
2. Smooth newt
zooboy28
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Birds:
78 Little Black Cormorant Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
79 Blue-billed Duck Oxyura australis
80 Black-tailed Native Hen Gallinula ventralis
81 Pink Robin Petroica rodinogaster
82 Scarlet Robin Petroica multicolor
83 King Parrot Alisterus scapularis
Mammals:
1 New Zealand Fur Seal Arctocephalus forsteri
2 European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus
3 Brush-tailed Possum Trichosurus vulpecula
4 European Hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus
5 Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus
6 Black Rat Rattus rattus
7 Swamp Wallaby Wallabia bicolor
8 Australian Water Rat Hydromys chrysogaster
9 Eastern Grey Kangaroo Macropus gigas
10 Koala Phascolarctus cinereus
11 Red Fox Vulpes vulpes
the Australian birds are now generally split as Petroica boodang. The Pacific robin (of the Pacific islands, such as Fiji, Samoa, etc) is then Petroica multicolor.
jbnbsn99
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You win for best mammal of the year.
nanoboy
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nanoboy
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224 birds were all spotted in Australia?
pink robin location is in his Australia trip thread. The hedgehog was in NZ (he just listed all his mammals in one go).Where did you see the pink robin and the hedgehog??Was the pink robin a male?
all in his back yardnanoboy said:
zooboy28
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Where did you see the pink robin and the hedgehog??
Yeah, as Chlidonias said, hedgehog in NZ, as were the species listed before that. Hedgehogs all over the place in NZ.
Pink Robin was a male. There were some LBJs nearby too, but I'm not sure if they were females or another species, they kind of looked like white-browed scrub-wrens. They were moving around too much to get good photos of.
zooboy28
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wait with that price untill I see an Indri
I imagine an Indri would trump most other mammals.
Having said that, I hope to trump echidna myself soon.
indri is just a poor man's monkey. The only thing that trumps echidna is platypus.I imagine an Indri would trump most other mammals.
Having said that, I hope to trump echidna myself soon.
zooboy28
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Yup
(although obviously, long-beaked would trump short-beaked too, but that's not going to happen in the wild anytime soon)
where are you going for platypus?
zooboy28
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I'm going to assist someone studying them with some (hopefully hands-on) field work, and I don't know exactly when, or where (upland stream near Melbourne somewhere, presumably to the west).
awesome. I was going to suggest the Dandenongs, so that might be where you'll be.
zooboy28
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Yes, I suspect it will be out that way. Its not a definite yet (and even if we do go sightings aren't guaranteed) but I'm pretty optimistic about it!
Another student is studying sea birds (terns, boobies and tropic-birds!) on Ashmore Reef, and I would love to provide field assistance for that too, but I think thats a bit of a long shot. And I think someone else is working on lizards on Lord Howe, but that's an even longer shot.
nanoboy
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Dandenongs is to the east though. There have been a few recent sightings in the Werribee River out west and there are some ongoing studies there.
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