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197. Yellow wattlebird*
198. Black headed honeyeater*
199. Green Rosella*
200. Flame Robin
201. Black Currawong*
202. Strong billed Honeyeater*
203. Dusky Robin*
204. Crescent Honeyeater
205. Brown Quail
206. Forty Spotted Pardalote*
207. Australian Shelduck*
208. Yellow Throated honeyeater*
209. Scrubtit*
210. Tasmanian Scrubwren*
211. Cape barren goose*
212. Hooded Plover*
213. White-fronted chat
 
lintworm said:
After a whole day of meetings in Addis Abeba I can only add one bird with certainty to my list, though it is an endemic of the region...

261. Brown-rumped seedeater
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262. Dusky turtle dove
263. Hammerkop
264. Black necked stilt
265. Helmeted guineafowl
266. African woolly-necked stork
267. Village indigobird
268. Pin-tailed whydah
269. Red cheeked cordonbleu
270. Red-billed quelea
271. Northern red bishop
272. Martial eagle
273. Tawny eagle
274. White-backed vulture
275. Hooded vulture
276. Swainsons sparrow
277. Northern carmine bee-eater
278. Nile valley sunbird
279. Somali ostrich
280. European hoopoe
281. Grey-headed kingfisher
282. Upchers warbler
283. Vitelline masked weaver
284. Abyssinian roller
285. Kori bustard
286. Cut-throated finch
287. Chestnut-backed sparrow warbler
288. Dark chanting goshawk
289. Lappet-faced vulture
290. Egyptian vulture
291. Yellow-breasted barbet
292. Red-billed firefinch
293. Grey hornbill
294. European roller
295. African orange-bellied parrot
296. African pygmy falcon
297. Von der Deckens hornbill
298. African silverbill
299. Least sparrowhawk
300. White crested helmetshrike
301. Common sandpiper

Mammals

29. Beisa oryx
30. Soemmerrings gazelle
31. Hamadryas baboon
32. Unstriped ground squirrel
33. African golden wolf jackal
34. Gerenuk
35. Grivet monkey
36. Abyssinian hare

Now one day back in Addis and heading back to the Awash basin and Aledeghi plains tomorrow
 
lintworm said:
262. Dusky turtle dove
263. Hammerkop
264. Black necked stilt
265. Helmeted guineafowl
266. African woolly-necked stork
267. Village indigobird
268. Pin-tailed whydah
269. Red cheeked cordonbleu
270. Red-billed quelea
271. Northern red bishop
272. Martial eagle
273. Tawny eagle
274. White-backed vulture
275. Hooded vulture
276. Swainsons sparrow
277. Northern carmine bee-eater
278. Nile valley sunbird
279. Somali ostrich
280. European hoopoe
281. Grey-headed kingfisher
282. Upchers warbler
283. Vitelline masked weaver
284. Abyssinian roller
285. Kori bustard
286. Cut-throated finch
287. Chestnut-backed sparrow warbler
288. Dark chanting goshawk
289. Lappet-faced vulture
290. Egyptian vulture
291. Yellow-breasted barbet
292. Red-billed firefinch
293. Grey hornbill
294. European roller
295. African orange-bellied parrot
296. African pygmy falcon
297. Von der Deckens hornbill
298. African silverbill
299. Least sparrowhawk
300. White crested helmetshrike
301. Common sandpiper

Mammals

29. Beisa oryx
30. Soemmerrings gazelle
31. Hamadryas baboon
32. Unstriped ground squirrel
33. African golden wolf jackal
34. Gerenuk
35. Grivet monkey
36. Abyssinian hare

Now one day back in Addis and heading back to the Awash basin and Aledeghi plains tomorrow
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Forgot 2 birds

302. Fan-tailed raven
303. African jacana
 
Picked up some new birds for the year list when driving back from Addis to Awash.

304. African spoonbill
305. Spur-winged goose
306. Pink-backed pelican
 
a possible grey headed lapwing at penrith regatta centre. A few twitchers are going there tomorrow. I'll keep an eye on the reports and if its still there I might go after it on monday.
 
Mammals:

37. Black backed jackal
38. Salts dikdik
39. Common genet
40. Common ichneumon

Bird update will follow. I also got very nice views of about 10 gerenuks by now :)
 
boof said:
a possible grey headed lapwing at penrith regatta centre. A few twitchers are going there tomorrow. I'll keep an eye on the reports and if its still there I might go after it on monday.
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did you get out there? That's an outstanding bird for Australia, and I see it was easily viewable Saturday, Sunday and today.
 
179. Grey-headed Lapwing

:p

Hix
 
214. grey headed lapwing*
215. yellow billed spoonbill
.
I headed up to the Penrith regatta centre this morning to have a look for the GHLW. I got great views of it through the fence. It seems to be associating with a few masked lapwings. They seem to be tolerating it's presence. According to some other birders its only the 5th recorded sighting of this species in Australia. What time were you there hix? Did you go inside the complex or did you look through the fence? It would be good to get the number of people that have twitched this bird.
 
lintworm said:
Mammals:

37. Black backed jackal
38. Salts dikdik
39. Common genet
40. Common ichneumon

Bird update will follow. I also got very nice views of about 10 gerenuks by now :)
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41. Northern lesser kudu
42. White-tailed mongoose


Birds:

307. Red-billed weaver
308. Black-billed barbet
309. Rueppels weaver
310. Red-winged lark
311. Rufous scrub robin
312. Yellow-necked spurfowl
313. Slender-tailed nightjar
314. Sand martin
315. Red-fronted warbler
316. Long-tailed wydah
317. White-bellied bustard
318. Izabelline wheatear
319. Senegal thick-knee
320. Grey-shouldered kite
321. Black-billed woodhoopoe
322. Peregrine falcon
323. African fish eagle
324. Four-banded sandgrouse


I saw 2 male northern lesser kudu yesterday and they seemed much larger to me than the southern lesser kudu in European zoos, the first one I did not see very good and the first second I mistook it for a greater kudu...
 
boof said:
214. grey headed lapwing*
215. yellow billed spoonbill
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I headed up to the Penrith regatta centre this morning to have a look for the GHLW. I got great views of it through the fence. It seems to be associating with a few masked lapwings. They seem to be tolerating it's presence. According to some other birders its only the 5th recorded sighting of this species in Australia. What time were you there hix? Did you go inside the complex or did you look through the fence? It would be good to get the number of people that have twitched this bird.
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I went inside, as the bird was well inside from the fence. Arrived about midday and stayed for half-an-hour. There were six other people there. After it wandered back up to wards the fence I left and stopped outside the fence but couldn't see it. The other birders, however, were all heading over to the lake, so I guess it decided it wanted a change of scenery.

:p

Hix
 
boof said:
214. grey headed lapwing*
215. yellow billed spoonbill
.
I headed up to the Penrith regatta centre this morning to have a look for the GHLW. I got great views of it through the fence. It seems to be associating with a few masked lapwings. They seem to be tolerating it's presence. According to some other birders its only the 5th recorded sighting of this species in Australia. What time were you there hix? Did you go inside the complex or did you look through the fence? It would be good to get the number of people that have twitched this bird.
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I read it is the fourth individual in Australia. The first was at Burren Junction, NSW, in 2006; the next two both in 2014 (at Amata, SA, in March and the other at Chiltern, Vic, in December); and then this current one.

I am almost tempted to go and see it myself! Fortunately I already saw the species last year in Thailand so my wallet remains unemptied for now.
 
You're right Chlindonias. The 4th GHL recorded in Oz. There's a concert planned at the site soon so with a bit of luck the bird might start travelling again and end up in NZ.
 
lintworm said:
41. Northern lesser kudu
42. White-tailed mongoose


Birds:

307. Red-billed weaver
308. Black-billed barbet
309. Rueppels weaver
310. Red-winged lark
311. Rufous scrub robin
312. Yellow-necked spurfowl
313. Slender-tailed nightjar
314. Sand martin
315. Red-fronted warbler
316. Long-tailed wydah
317. White-bellied bustard
318. Izabelline wheatear
319. Senegal thick-knee
320. Grey-shouldered kite
321. Black-billed woodhoopoe
322. Peregrine falcon
323. African fish eagle
324. Four-banded sandgrouse


I saw 2 male northern lesser kudu yesterday and they seemed much larger to me than the southern lesser kudu in European zoos, the first one I did not see very good and the first second I mistook it for a greater kudu...
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320. should be a black-shouldered kite, not grey-shouldered ;), I was mixing up Dutch and English names...

325. African comb duck
326. African scops owl
327. Black-crowned tschagra
328. African malachite kingfisher
 
In Germany for Zoohistorica over the weekend and picked up a new addition feeding over a Nuremberg pinniped pool:

184. Spotted Flycatcher - Muscicapa striata

:)
 
DesertRhino150 said:
Three days spent at Rutland allowed me to get three new species for my year list, as well as having a generally great time at the Rutland Birdfair.

145. Yellow-legged gull Larus michahellis
146. Osprey Pandion haliaetus
147. Eurasian tree sparrow Passer montanus
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Went to Abberton Reservoir today, where I managed to pick up another two new bird species for the year:

148. Great white egret Ardea alba
149. Spotted redshank Tringa erythropus

Also since last week I have been helping do a bat survey in the (rather spooky) grounds of an abandoned psychiatric hospital. This evening, I managed to see two new bats for my year list, both of which were lifers:

21. Brown long-eared bat Plecotus auritus
22. Serotine bat Eptesicus serotinus
 
lintworm said:
320. should be a black-shouldered kite, not grey-shouldered ;), I was mixing up Dutch and English names...

325. African comb duck
326. African scops owl
327. Black-crowned tschagra
328. African malachite kingfisher
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329. Squacco heron
330. Wattled starling


Mammals

tentative:
43. African wild cat

I probably saw an African wild cat close to the house I stay, but I am still looking for additional characters to distinguish for sure from a domestic cat. But morphologically and behaviourally it was really different from the domestic cats around, I have some bad quality pictures which I will upload soon...
 
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