ZooChat Big Year 2014

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mstickmanp said:
Also had a slow day at my first real birding day of the year. I went to the North Etiwanda Preserve by my house, which has been very alive with birds in past years, but today was very quiet.

9. Bewick's Wren
10. California Towhee
11. Song Sparrow
12. White-crowned Sparrow
13. California Gull

I saw the gull on my way to the preserve.
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Today I went to the Los Angeles Zoo to volunteer so I wasn't really birding, but I did however get some new species for the year.

14. Mallard
15. Black Phoebe
16. Mourning Dove
 
This year I will be going to florida so I will hopefully get more birds so I mightas well try. so far I have:

1)American Robin
2)American Crow

And not a locally recognised species, but extremely common were a pair of snowbirds(Grandparentis domesticus) seen at a family gathering. :p
 
During the last 2 days I haven´t been able to go around birding but sometimes I go jogging around a forest. Today I had the chance to see an Apical flycatcher finally after looking for him after about 2 years, but as it is always, I didn´t have my camera with me.

The manakin was seen together with many more performing a Lek in the forest I jog in... they´re always there.

78. Chesnut frinted Macaw
79. Bat falcon
80. Oriole Blackbird
81. Scrub tanager
82. Golden collared Manakin
83. Apical flycatcher Endemic to Colombia:)
84. Blue crowned motmot
 
A visit to Gosforth Park Nature Reserve, which I have access to as a member of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, bagged me quite a large number of yearticks - of the following sightings, all but the final four listed birds were seen there. The remaining birds were seen when walking on the Pennine Way on Sunday evening.

One thing to note is that the Lesser Black-backed Gulls I saw were wintering individuals of the Scandanavian subspecies; as such I expect I will record the British subspecies at some point to come.

Current Bird Total: 53

27) Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
28) Greylag Goose (Anser anser anser)
29) Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)
30) Eurasian Wigeon (Anas penelope)
31) Common Teal (Anas crecca crecca)
32) Common Pochard (Aythya farina)
33) Goosander (Mergus merganser merganser)
34) Dabchick (Tachybaptus ruficollis ruficollis)
35) Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo carbo)
36) Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea cinera)
37) Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus chloropus)
38) Common Coot (Fulica atra atra)
39) Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
40) European Herring Gull (Larus argentatus argentatus)
41) Common Gull (Larus canus canus)
42) Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus intermedius)
43) Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)
44) Pied Wagtail (Motacilla alba yarrellii )
45) Eurasian Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes indigenus)
46) Goldcrest (Regulus regulus regulus)
47) Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus rosaceus)
48) Eurasian Treecreeper (Certhia familiaris britannica)
49) Rook (Corvus frugilegus frugilegus)
50) House Sparrow (Passer domesticus domesticus)
51) Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus montanus)
52) Tawny Owl (Strix aluco sylvatica)
53) Eurasian Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix britannicus)

Current Mammal Total: 5

3) European Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus)
4) European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
5) Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus)
 
Mammals
1. Indri
2. White fronted Brown lemur
3. Black rat

Birds
1. Common myna
2. House sparrow
3. Feral pigeon
4. Madagascar kestrel
5. Caspian tern
6. African palm swift
7. Madagascar red fody
8. Madagascar green sunbird
9. Madagascar bulbul
10. Madagascar coucal
11. Madagascar crested ibis
12. Madagascar turtle dove
13. Chaberts vanga
14. Souimanga sunbird
15. Blue coua
16. Lesser vasa parrot
17. Madagascar scops owl
18. Madagascar magpie Robin
19. Broad biller roller
20. Mystery bird :P


Reptiles & amphibians
1. Hemidactylus mercatorius
2. Phelsuma lineata
3. Uroplatus lineatus
4. Ebenavia inunguis (toilet gecko :p)
5. Sanzinia madagascariensis (toilet boa :p)
6. Zonosaurus brygooi
7. Zonosaurus madagascariensis

A fairly easy start, I will fairly soon reveal the name of the mystery bird, of which I have now the opinion of 3 experts and they all think it is a new species for Madagascar :)
 
DesertRhino150 said:
Had an interesting morning birding along the completely submerged fields that now virtually surround our area, with other species including a giant (100+ strong) flock of common teal sheltering in a flooded willow stand.

41. Mistle thrush
42. Skylark
43. Ring-necked pheasant
44. Long-tailed tit
45. Common buzzard
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Haven't been able to birdwatch anywhere near as much as I would have liked, as I have had exams over the last week. However, in the travelling to and from uni, and a walk back to the flooded fields I picked up the following:

Birds:
46. Common kestrel
47. European jackdaw
48. Egyptian goose
49. Goldcrest

Mammals:
2. Brown hare
 
1. american crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
2. american robin (Turdus migratorius)
3. brown creeper (Certhia americana)
4. black capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
 
After a week of illness moving its way through my family, I was finally able to get out and do some birding. The Varied Thrush that have been seen in a local park had eluded me thrice. I was becoming obsessed in finding it. After talking to another birder I discovered that there are actually two of them in this location. He offered to help me find them and find them we did! I also tried and succeeded in seeing a Western Scrub-jay that had been hanging around town. Though this species is found in other parts of the state, one being in this area was unusual. What was even more unusual is that it appears to belong to the Pacific coastal subspecies rather than the expected Rocky Mountain variety.

54 Western Scrub-jay
55 Varied Thrush
56 Spotted Towhee


3 Mule Deer (Rocky Mountain subspecies)
 
arcticwolf said:
Yesterday I started the long drive from Florida back to Canada. From the car I was able to see more birds.

5. Rock pigeon
6. European starling
7. Muscovy duck
8. Great egret
9. American crow
10. American black vulture
11. Wild turkey
12. Bald eagle
13. Canada goose
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Can you give details on the Muscovy? It isn't normally a countable bird.
 
Ituri said:
After a week of illness moving its way through my family, I was finally able to get out and do some birding. The Varied Thrush that have been seen in a local park had eluded me thrice. I was becoming obsessed in finding it. After talking to another birder I discovered that there are actually two of them in this location. He offered to help me find them and find them we did! I also tried and succeeded in seeing a Western Scrub-jay that had been hanging around town. Though this species is found in other parts of the state, one being in this area was unusual. What was even more unusual is that it appears to belong to the Pacific coastal subspecies rather than the expected Rocky Mountain variety.

54 Western Scrub-jay
55 Varied Thrush
56 Spotted Towhee


3 Mule Deer (Rocky Mountain subspecies)
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What town and state are you in? Your location only says USA.
 
I just spent a few days down the south coast of nsw at Sussex Inlet. While I was down there I visited Murray's beach in Jervis Bay and I also stopped off at Lake Wollumboola near Culburra.
60. Black swan
61. New Holland Honeyeater
62. Eastern Great Egret
63. White-bellied Sea-eagle
64. Spotted pardalote
65. Red Wattlebird
66. Silvereye
67. Yellow-faced Honeyeater
68. Whistling Kite
69. Australian Pied Oystercatcher
70. Black-winged Stilt
71. Red capped Plover
72. Bar-tailed Godwit
73. Eastern Curlew
74. Sanderling*
75. Red-necked Stint
76. Little Tern
77. Caspian Tern
78. Crested Tern
 
Birds
41. Australian Raven
42. Grey Teal
43. White Ibis
44. Little Wattlebird
45. Willie Wagtail

:p

Hix
 
Floodwaters were going down in the fields around our house yesterday when I took a walk down there. Today, went to Abbott's Hall Farm reserve for a brief walk and managed to see these species today and yesterday:

Birds:
50. Green woodpecker
51. Red-legged partridge
52. Eurasian curlew
53. Western marsh harrier

Mammals:
3. Eastern grey squirrel
 
dean said:
I don't think i will last so long on this thread, as I get busy I tend to forget to record things. These are the ones I have seensince Wednesday. Without binoculars hasten to add.

Mammals
1 European brown hare
2 European rabbit
3 Grey squirrel
4 stoat
5 Muntjac deer

Birds
1 Wood pigeon
2 Collard dove
3 French/red legged partridge
4 Ring neck/Eurasian pheasant
5 Buzzard
6 Sparrow hawk,
7 Robin
8 Greater spotted woodpecker
9 Green woodpecker
10 mistle thrush
11 song thrush
12 blackbird
13 blue tit
14 great tit
15 wren
16 chaffinch
17 House sparrow
18Tree sparrow
19goldfinch
20 green finch
21 Great crested grebe
22 mallard
23 black headed gull
24 coot
25 Moor hen
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6 Brown rat

26 Dunnock
27 starling
28 long tail tit.
29 Herring Gull
30 Crow
31 Jackdow
32 Rook
 
arcticwolf said:
After 3 days of driving I finally arrived home. I was only able to spot one more species before getting back.

14. Red tailed hawk
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Due to the cold weather I haven't been able to go outside very much. I have only been able to see one new bird in the past week.

15. Dark eyed junco
 
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