ZooChat Big Year 2014

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I've added just few more in the last couple of days.

337 Brown-crested Flycatcher - Myiarchus tyrannulus
338 Western Gull - Larus occidentalis
339 Allen's Hummingbird - Selasphorus sasin
340 Willow Flycatcher - Empidonax traillii
341 Pacific-slope Flycatcher - Empidonax difficilis
342 Hooded Oriole - Icterus cucullatus
343 Bushtit - Psaltriparus minimus
344 Wrentit - Chamaea fasciata
345 California Thrasher - Toxostoma redivivum
346 Sooty Shearwater - Puffinus griseus
347 Brandt's Cormorant - Phalacrocorax penicillatus
348 Elegant Tern - Thalasseus elegans
349 Pelagic Cormorant - Phalacrocorax pelagicus
 
Mammals.

24. California Ground Squirrel
25. Short-Beaked Common Dolphin
26. California Sea Lion
27. Harbor Seal
 
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Pleasant evening walk up to the nearby Linacre Reservoirs tonight - a very nice walk in itself, but also a site that gives you a very good chance of:

259. Mandarin Duck - Aix galericulata


:)
 
Christchurch Botanic Gardens (NZ):

541) Paradise duck Tadorna variegata
542) NZ scaup Aythya novaeseelandiae
543) Song thrush Turdus philomelos
544) Common chaffinch Fringilla coelebs
545) Common greenfinch Carduelis chloris
546) Hedge sparrow (Dunnock) Prunella modularis
547) NZ fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa
548) Southern black-backed gull Larus dominicanus
549) NZ pigeon Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae

West Coast (NZ):

550) Spotted shag Stictocarbo punctatus
551) White-fronted tern Sterna striata
552) Weka Gallirallus australis


So I have got to 550 but I am now back in New Zealand so if I can get to 600 is uncertain. It is only 48 birds away but many of the birds I would normally add to a NZ year list I have already seen in Australia over the last month. It depends on whether I can travel anywhere within NZ during the year.
 
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Chlidonias said:
Christchurch Botanic Gardens (NZ):

541) Paradise duck Tadorna variegata
542) NZ scaup Aythya novaeseelandiae
543) Song thrush Turdus philomelos
544) Common chaffinch Fringilla coelebs
545) Common greenfinch Carduelis chloris
546) Hedge sparrow (Dunnock) Prunella modularis
547) NZ fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa
548) Southern black-backed gull Larus dominicanus
549) NZ pigeon Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae

West Coast (NZ):

549) Spotted shag Stictocarbo punctatus
550) White-fronted tern Sterna striata
551) Weka Gallirallus australis


So I have got to 550 but I am now back in New Zealand so if I can get to 600 is uncertain. It is only 49 birds away but many of the birds I would normally add to a NZ year list I have already seen in Australia over the last month. It depends on whether I can travel anywhere within NZ during the year.
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Pssst... you have two 549s! ;)
 
Chlidonias said:
Christchurch Botanic Gardens (NZ):

541) Paradise duck Tadorna variegata
542) NZ scaup Aythya novaeseelandiae
543) Song thrush Turdus philomelos
544) Common chaffinch Fringilla coelebs
545) Common greenfinch Carduelis chloris
546) Hedge sparrow (Dunnock) Prunella modularis
547) NZ fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa
548) Southern black-backed gull Larus dominicanus
549) NZ pigeon Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae

West Coast (NZ):

550) Spotted shag Stictocarbo punctatus
551) White-fronted tern Sterna striata
552) Weka Gallirallus australis


So I have got to 550 but I am now back in New Zealand so if I can get to 600 is uncertain. It is only 49 birds away but many of the birds I would normally add to a NZ year list I have already seen in Australia over the last month. It depends on whether I can travel anywhere within NZ during the year.
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Might be pushing it a little - unless you can see most of the terrestrial species (there's still quite a few you can add there) and go out on a pelagic birding trip?
 
zooboy28 said:
Might be pushing it a little - unless you can see most of the terrestrial species (there's still quite a few you can add there) and go out on a pelagic birding trip?
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normally in a year I would get between 70 and 90 birds in NZ. This year over 20 of those I already saw in Australia and another 11 I have seen since getting back to NZ. So that leaves roughly 40 to 60. Possible but definitely pushing it to reach 600. I anticipate coming up just short by the end of the year, probably by ten or so species.

I would need to get 7 more mammals too to beat my highest mammal year (which was 76 species), and I somehow don't think that's going to happen.....
 
Chlidonias said:
I would need to get 7 more mammals too to beat my highest mammal year (which was 76 species), and I somehow don't think that's going to happen.....
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Whalewatching. Lots of whalewatching.
 
How about a few more. All lifers.

350 California Towhee - Melozone crissalis
351 Nuttall's Woodpecker - Picoides nuttallii
352 Cassin's Kingbird - Tyrannus vociferans
353 Tricolored Blackbird - Agelaius tricolor

The Tricolored Blackbird is my 400th lifer.
 
Mammal

29. Coyote

Seems I had a duplicate number somewhere in my mammal list. 29 is correct.
 
Found another mammal missing from my year list.

31. Nutria

Ugh. Numbering is still off...

31 is official.
 
Got 6 more today in the San Bernardino Mountains, all lifers.

354 Band-tailed Pigeon - Patagioenas fasciata
355 Black Swift - Cypseloides niger
356 Calliope Hummingbird - Selasphorus calliope
357 Townsend's Solitaire - Myadestes townsendi
358 Western Tanager - Piranga ludoviciana
359 Purple Finch - Haemorhous purpureus
 
After meaning to get involved for some time, finally had my first event with the local bat group tonight. We were meant to be counting a roost of Daubenton's Bats as they emerged, but although the bats were there they weren't emerging from where they normally do, so that didn't work! Nevertheless, a very worthwhile mammal night; as well as the Daubenton's I finally managed to get a species-identifed pipistrelle, and my first identifiable Apodemus of the year (we only have one species in Derbyshire, which helps!).

26. Long-tailed Wood Mouse - Apodemus sylvaticus
27. Common Pipistrelle - Pipistrellus pipistrellus
28. Daubenton's Bat - Myotis daubentonii
 
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mstickmanp said:
First of all, I'm removing one from my list, the Red-breasted Sapsucker. I had a quick view of the bird as it flew away and now I'm starting to doubt what I actually saw. So I'm down to 211.

Today I decided to go look for an Eastern Kingbird that was found yesterday about 40 miles from my house. This is another unusual bird for Southern California so I had to go look for it and I succeeded!

212. Eastern Kingbird
213. Blue Grosbeak
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After five days of birding and visiting zoos around Southern California with jbnbsn99 I was able to add 24 life birds to my list.

214. Abert's Towhee
215. Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
216. Gull-billed Tern
217. Yellow-footed Gull
218. Neotropic Cormorant
219. Inca Dove
220. Black Skimmer
221. Burrowing Owl
222. Heermann's Gull
223. Canyon Wren
224. Wood Duck
225. American Bittern
226. Least Tern
227. Brandt's Cormorant
228. Sooty Shearwater
229. Pelagic Cormorant
230. Greater Roadrunner
231. Tricolored Blackbirds
232. Calliope Hummingbird
233. Black Swift
234. Townsend's Solitaire
235. White-headed Woodpecker
236. Western Screech-owl
237. Common Ground-dove
 
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BeardsleyZooFan said:
A trip to Eisenhower Park in Milford gave me the following...

BIRDS:
43. Tree Swallow
44. Wood Duck
45. Red-Winged Blackbird
46. Warbling Vireo
47. Great Blue Heron
48. Black-Crowned Night Heron
49. Cedar Waxwing
50. Chimney Swift
51. Barn Swallow
52. Eastern Kingbird
53. Orchard Oriole
54. Red-Bellied Woodpecker
55. Hairy Woodpecker

MAMMALS:
5. Muskrat

AMPHIBIANS:
1. American Toad
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BIRDS:
56. Scarlet Tanager
 
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