ZooChat Big Year 2013

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Chlidonias said:
there are some at the Irkutsk Aquarium on the other side of the lake (where I'm not going), at Leipzig Zoo (where I'm not going), and I *think* in an Aquarium in Japan where I *may* be going.

But seeing them in the wild is what I was interested in; seeing them in a zoo is not the same thing at all.
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Well I hope you go.

I know it's not the same, but it's better than nothing, and especially better than a dead specimen!

I would have loved to see Maleos in the wild, but I can't so seeing them at Bronx is the next best thing. I would have loved to see Sumatran Rhinos in the wild, but I can't so seeing them at Cincinnati is the next best thing. I would have loved to see a Bay Duiker in the wild, but I can't so seeing them at Lowry Park is the next best thing. And so on and so forth.

~Thylo:cool:
 
Birds
143. Helmeted Guineafowl
144. Egyptian Goose *
145. Openbill Stork *
146. Marabou
147. African Sacred Ibis *
148. Hadada Ibis *
149. Black-headed Heron *
150. Hammerkop
151. Pinkbacked Pelican *
152. Longtailed Cormorant *
153. African Harrier Hawk *
154. Palm-nut Vulture *
155. Black Kite
156. Yellowbilled Kite *
157. African Fish Eagle *
158. Spurwinged Lapwing *
159. African Jacana *
160. Red-eyed Dove *
161. Tambourine Dove *
162. Ross' Turaco *
163. Eastern Plaintain Eater *
164. Barn Owl
165. Speckled Mousebird *
166. Broadbilled Roller *
167. Woodland Kingfisher *
168. Pied Kingfisher *
169. White-throated Bee-eater *
170. Black-and-White Casqued Hornbill *
171. Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird *
172. Double-toothed Barbet *
173. Black-headed Gonolek *
174. Lesser Grey Shrike *
175. Pied Crow *
176. Common Bulbul *
177. Yellow White-eye *
178. Splendid Starling *
180. White-browed Robin Chat *
181. Red-chested Sunbird *
182. Red-billed Firefinch *
183. Bronze Mannakin *

Mammals
16. Vervet Monkey
17. Guereza Colobus *
18. Red-tailed Monkey *
19. Striped Ground Squirrel *
20. Redlegged Sun Squirrel (tentative identification) *

Reptiles
9. Tropical House Gecko *
10. Nile Monitor

:p

Hix
 
nanoboy said:
That looks to be in the middle of nowhere, according to the map. What on earth were you doing there?
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Thats what I say about going to cities.

Looking at wildlife, bushwalking cooking meals in the camp oven in the fire and killing foxes, cats, goats and pigs.

I have some photos in the galery
 
Monty said:
Thats what I say about going to cities.

Looking at wildlife, bushwalking cooking meals in the camp oven in the fire and killing foxes, cats, goats and pigs.

I have some photos in the galery
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Oh cool! Yeah I saw your pics, good stuff!

I am a city slicker. :D
 
Ituri said:
225 Bobolink
226 Short-eared Owl
227 Peregrine Falcon
228 Ash-throated Flycatcher
229 Long-billed Curlew
230 Franklin's Gull
231 Clark's Grebe
232 Dusky Grouse
233 Williamson's Sapsucker
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Somehow my count got off, so I'm going to repost my entire list for birds.
1 Canada Goose
2 Mallard
3 Cinnamon Teal
4 Northern Shoveler
5 Northern Pintail
6 Green-winged Teal
7 Ring-necked Duck
8 Lesser Scaup
9 Hooded Merganser
10 Pied-billed Grebe
11 Neotropic Cormorant
12 American White Pelican
13 Great Blue Heron
14 Great Egret
15 Snowy Egret
16 Green Heron
17 Black-crowned Night-Heron
18 Osprey
19 Harris's Hawk
20 Common Gallinule
21 American Coot
22 Killdeer
23 Black-necked Stilt
24 American Avocet
25 Greater Yellowlegs
26 Least Sandpiper
27 Long-billed Dowitcher
28 Wilson's Snipe
29 Mourning Dove
30 Inca Dove
31 Anna's Hummingbird
32 Belted Kingfisher
33 Gila Woodpecker
34 Rosy-faced Lovebird
35 Black Phoebe
36 Say's Phoebe
37 Verdin
38 Marsh Wren
39 Northern Mockingbird
40 Curve-billed Thrasher
41 European Starling
42 Orange-crowned Warbler
43 Common Yellowthroat
44 Yellow-rumped Warbler
45 Abert's Towhee
46 Song Sparrow
47 White-crowned Sparrow
48 Red-winged Blackbird
49 Great-tailed Grackle
50 House Finch
51 House Sparrow
52 Rock Pigeon
53 Gadwall
54 Sharp-shinned Hawk
55 Loggerhead Shrike
56 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
57 Northern Parula
58 American Wigeon
59 Ruddy Duck
60 Gambel's Quail
61 Eared Grebe
62 Western Grebe
63 Brown Pelican
64 Cactus Wren
65 Cedar Waxwing
66 Red-tailed Hawk
67 Common Raven
68 Common Merganser
69 Sora
70 Hermit Thrush
71 Rufous-backed Robin
72 Black-billed Magpie
73 Northern Flicker
74 American Robin
75 American Kestrel
76 Dark-eyed Junco
77 American Crow
78 Eurasian Collared-Dove
79 Bohemian Waxwing
80 Brown Creeper
81 California Quail
82 Cooper's Hawk
83 Lesser Goldfinch
84 Northern Shrike
85 Rough-legged Hawk
86 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
87 Ring-necked Pheasant
88 Black-capped Chickadee
89 Pine Grosbeak
90 Pine Siskin
91 Mountain Chickadee
92 Red-breasted Nuthatch
93 Northern Saw-whet Owl
94 Blue Jay
95 Red Crossbill
96 Horned Lark
97 Bald Eagle
98 Hairy Woodpecker
99 Steller's Jay
100 Chestnut-backed Chickadee
101 Evening Grosbeak
102 Wild Turkey
103 Downy Woodpecker
104 White-breasted Nuthatch
105 Pygmy Nuthatch
106 American Goldfinch
107 Wood Duck
108 Eurasian Wigeon
109 Bufflehead
110 Double-crested Cormorant
111 Ring-billed Gull
112 Common Loon
113 Northern Harrier
114 Herring Gull
115 Great Horned Owl
116 Rock Wren
117 Golden-crowned Kinglet
118 Savannah Sparrow
119 Common Goldeneye
120 Horned Grebe
121 Varied Thrush
122 Merlin
123 Bewick's Wren
124 Barred Owl
125 Cackling Goose
126 White-throated Sparrow
127 Western Meadowlark
128 Common Redpoll
129 Redhead
130 Barrow's Goldeneye
131 Harris's Sparrow
132 Pileated Woodpecker
133 Pacific Wren
134 California Gull
135 Ferruginous Hawk
136 Spotted Towhee
137 Snow Goose
138 Sandhill Crane
139 Western Scrub-Jay
140 Western Gull
141 Trumpeter Swan
142 Barn Owl
143 Prairie Falcon
144 Greater White-fronted Goose
145 Ross's Goose
146 Tundra Swan
147 Canvasback
148 Gray Partridge
149 Western Bluebird
150 Townsend's Solitaire
151 American Dipper
152 Violet-green Swallow
153 Tree Swallow
154 Caspian Tern
155 Iceland Gull
156 Brewer's Blackbird
157 White-throated Swift
158 Canyon Wren
159 Golden Eagle
160 Swainson's Hawk
161 Baird's Sandpiper
162 American Pipit
163 Yellow-headed Blackbird
164 Turkey Vulture
165 Calliope Hummingbird
166 Blue-winged Teal
167 Lesser Yellowlegs
168 House Wren
169 Mountain Bluebird
170 Dusky Flycatcher
171 Nashville Warbler
172 Townsend's Warbler
173 Rufous Hummingbird
174 Semipalmated Plover
175 Chipping Sparrow
176 Barn Swallow
177 Cassin's Finch
178 White-faced Ibis
179 Western Kingbird
180 Vaux's Swift
181 Yellow Warbler
182 Spotted Sandpiper
183 Wilson's Phalarope
184 Ruffed Grouse
185 Hammond's Flycatcher
186 Willet
187 Dunlin
188 Forster's Tern
189 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
190 Brown-headed Cowbird
191 Yellow-breasted Chat
192 Wilson's Warbler
193 Red-necked Grebe
194 Western Wood-Pewee
195 Bank Swallow
196 Lark Sparrow
197 Black-headed Grosbeak
198 Lazuli Bunting
199 Bullock's Oriole
200 Western Sandpiper
201 White-winged Scoter
202 Pectoral Sandpiper
203 Cliff Swallow
204 Western Screech-Owl
205 Eastern Phoebe
206 MacGillivray's Warbler
207 Western Tanager
208 Black-chinned Hummingbird
209 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
210 Common Nighthawk
211 Burrowing Owl
212 Eastern Kingbird
213 Brewer's Sparrow
214 Grasshopper Sparrow
215 Warbling Vireo
216 Gray Catbird
217 Willow Flycatcher
218 Cordilleran Flycatcher
219 Cassin's Vireo
220 Veery
221 Swainson's Thrush
222 Northern Waterthrush
223 Olive-sided Flycatcher
224 American Redstart
225 Bobolink
226 Short-eared Owl
227 Peregrine Falcon
228 Ash-throated Flycatcher
229 Long-billed Curlew
230 Bonaparte's Gull
231 Franklin's Gull
232 Clark's Grebe
233 Dusky Grouse
234 Williamson's Sapsucker
235 Clark's Nutcracker
236 Virginia Rail
237 Red-eyed Vireo
238 Common Poorwill
239 Red-naped Sapsucker
240 Semipalmated Sandpiper
241 Black Tern
242 Common Tern
243 Solitary Sandpiper
244 Whimbrel
245 Marbled Godwit
246 Red-necked Phalarope
 
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And for the sake of completeness, here is the mammal year list in its entirety:
1 Rock Squirrel
2 Mule Deer
3 Desert Cottontail
4 Eastern Fox Squirrel
5 Red Squirrel
6 Coyote
7 White-tailed Deer
8 Mountain Cottontail
9 House Mouse
10 California Ground Squirrel
11 Pronghorn
12 Common Muskrat
13 Piute Ground Squirrel
14 Southern Idaho Ground Squirrel
15 Eastern Gray Squirrel
16 Columbia Ground Squirrel
17 Yellow-bellied Marmot
18 Red Fox
19 Northern Raccoon
20 Black-tailed Jackrabbit
21 Yellow Pine Chipmunk
22 American Bison
23 Northern Idaho Ground Squirrel
24 Wapiti
25 Snowshoe Hare
26 Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel
27 Uinta Ground Squirrel
28 Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep

Reptiles:
1 Northwest Terrestrial Garter Snake
2 Great Basin Gopher Snake
3 Western Fence Lizard
4 Western Painted Turtle
5 Red-eared Slider

Amphibians:
1 Columbian Spotted Frog
2 Sierran Tree Frog
3 American Bullfrog
 
Hustai National Park, Mongolia.

BIRDS:
193) Golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos
194) Common kestrel Falco tinnunculus
195) Demoiselle crane Grus virgo
196) Cinereous (Eurasian back) vulture Aegypius monachus
197) Daurian partridge Perdix dauurica
198) Black grouse Lyrurus tetrix
199) Lesser spotted woodpecker Dryobates minor
200) Red-billed chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
201) Red-throated flycatcher Ficedula parva

MAMMALS:
10) Long-tailed ground squirrel Spermophilus undulatus
11) Przewalski's horse Equus ferus przewalskii
12) Siberian marmot Marmota sibirica
13) Red fox Vulpes vulpes
14) Mongolian red deer (Maral) Cervus canadensis sibiricus
15) Tolai hare Lepus tolai
16) Mongolian five-toed jerboa Allactaga sibirica
 
lintworm said:
197. Common snipe
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198. Water rail (Rallus aquaticus)
199. Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)
200. Eurasian wryneck (Jynx torquilla)
201. Red footed falcon (Falco vespertinus)


Both wryneck and falcon, I found 2 km from my house. The rarities are not that far away :)
 
nanoboy said:
118. Australian Shelduck [Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, west of Melbourne]
119. White-necked Heron [Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, west of Melbourne]
120. Little Eagle [Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, west of Melbourne]
121. Black Falcon [Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, west of Melbourne]
122. Brolga [Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, west of Melbourne]
123. Yellow-rumped Thornbill [Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, west of Melbourne]
124. Brown-headed Honeyeater [Woodlands Historic Reserve, next to Melbourne Airport]
125. White-fronted Chat [Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, west of Melbourne]
126. European Goldfinch [Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, west of Melbourne]
127. Tree Martin [Woodlands Historic Reserve, next to Melbourne Airport]
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128. Australasian Gannet
129. Black-faced Cormorant
130. Pacific Gull
131. Kelp Gull
132. Fan-tailed Cuckoo
133. Spotted Pardalote

All birds spotted on Phillip Island. We also did the cruise to Seal Rock, so that helped.
 
Mammals:
21. Bushbuck
22. White Rhino (C.s.simum)
23. Oribi
24. Common Duiker
25. Olive Baboon
26. Patas Monkey
27. Kob (Ugandan)
28. Warthog
29. Waterbuck
30. Bush Elephant
31. Hartebeest (A.b.lelwel)
32. Rothschild's Giraffe ***
33. Cape Buffalo
34. Hippo
35. Spotted Hyena
36. Lion
37. Chimpanzee
38. Grey-cheeked Mangabey
39. Demidoff's Bushbaby
40. Red Colobus (P.o.tephrosceles)
41. L'Hoests Monkey
42. Leopard
43. Topi
44. Mountain Gorilla

Bold indicates a Lifer.

*** I've seen giraffes in the wild before, but not Rothschilds. Counting it as a Lifer on the assumption it is a full species.

:p

Hix
 
Ikh Nart Nature Reserve:


BIRDS:
202) Horned lark Eremophila alpestris
203) Rock sparrow Petronia petronia
204) Upland buzzard Buteo hemilasius
205) Olive-backed pipit Anthus hodgsoni
206) Saker Falco cherrug
207) Little owl Athene noctua
208) Northern lapwing Vanellus vanellus
209) Common snipe Gallinago gallinago
210) Little ringed plover Charadrius dubius
211) Curlew sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
212) Wood sandpiper Tringa glareola
213) Little bunting Emberiza pusilla
214) Siberian rubythroat Luscinia calliope
215) Pallas' sandgrouse Syrrhaptes paradoxus
216) Eye-browed thrush Turdus obscurus
217) Desert wheatear Oenanthe deserti
218) Pallas' leaf-warbler Phylloscopus proregulus

MAMMALS:
17) Argali Ovis ammon
18) Pallas' pika Ochotona pallasii
19) Siberian ibex Capra sibirica
20) Mongolian three-toed jerboa Dipus sagitta
 
What are you folks' thoughts on using bird calls to try to attract birds?

I have an app with the calls of all Australian birds, and I played a few calls in the zoo recently as a test. The birds immediately came to the fence, and I am thinking that this could work in the wild if I get a Bluetooth wireless speaker. What's the ethics around using playback?
 
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