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Mammal update

29 - Arizona Fox Squirrel
30 - Cliff Chipmunk
31 - White-Toothed Woodrat
 
Been to a nearby nature reserve recently and had the absolute pleasure of seeing a bittern flying parallel to the raised hide. IMO another great sight often overlooked are swallows, especially when they fly so close to the ground. I had the great pleasure of seeing a display today.
 
Ituri said:
Mammals:
23 Idaho Ground Squirrel - Urocitellus brunneus (southern subspecies endemicus)

Birds:
233 Least Flycatcher - Empidonax minimus
234 American Bittern - Botaurus lentiginosus
235 Common Nighthawk - Chordeiles minor
236 Swainson's Thrush - Catharus ustulatus
237 Flammulated Owl - Psiloscops flammeolus

Amphibians:
3 Boreal Toad
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238 Grasshopper Sparrow
239 Red-eyed Vireo
240 Bobolink
241 Lewis's Woodpecker
242 Veery
 
Pleistohorse said:
Mammals:

20. Black-tailed Jackrabbit
21. Mule Deer
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22. Striped Skunk
23. Northern Raccoon
24. Mexican Ground Squirrel
25. White-tailed Deer
26. Axis Deer
27. Blackbuck
28. Aoudad

*Fallow Deer (behind high fence - will not count)
* Scimitar-horned Oryx (behind high fence - not generally consider a free range exotic)
* European Mouflon (behind high fence - will not count)

Also observed North American Porcupine and Coyote...but have already observed each in Alaska this year.
 
Some additions to the mammal list. On Wednesday, I helped do a count of a breeding bat colony, with over 500 individuals all of the same species:

16. Soprano pipistrelle Pipistrellus pygmaeus

And this evening, I went on another survey with the local bat group to an area of ancient woodland, where one guaranteed new species was added:

17. Common pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus

We did also see and detect another bat species - it is still being identified but if it is what we think it is, then it will be a lifer species.
 
Mammal update

32. White-Throated Woodrat
33. Yellow-Nosed Cotton Rat
34. Harris Antelope Squirrel
35. California Ground Squirrel
36. California Sea Lion
37. Harbor Seal
 
boof said:
chlidonias have you twitched the pee wee yet?
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the one on the West Coast of NZ? That was actually in 2008, it has only just been accepted as a record (it wasn't chased up for submission until this year).
 
Day 12(ish)

https://bretsbirdingblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/day-12ish/

382 Whiskered Screech-Owl - Megascops trichopsis
383 Spotted Owl - Strix occidentalis
384 Arizona Woodpecker - Picoides arizonae
385 Western Wood-Pewee - Contopus sordidulus
386 Cordilleran Flycatcher - Empidonax occidentalis
387 Grace's Warbler - Setophaga graciae
388 Bushtit - Psaltriparus minimus
389 Elegant Trogon - Trogon elegans
390 Tufted Flycatcher - Mitrephanes phaeocercus
391 Dusky-capped Flycatcher - Myiarchus tuberculifer
392 Red-faced Warbler - Cardellina rubrifrons
393 Painted Redstart - Myioborus pictus
394 Flame-colored Tanager - Piranga bidentata
395 Gambel's Quail - Callipepla gambelii
396 Thick-billed Kingbird - Tyrannus crassirostris
397 Northern Goshawk - Accipiter gentilis
 
Chlidonias said:
the one on the West Coast of NZ? That was actually in 2008, it has only just been accepted as a record (it wasn't chased up for submission until this year).
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oops. maybe I should have read the article.
 
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