ZooChat Big Year 2016

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ThylacineAlive said:
No birds yet but one reptile. I'm starting the year off in Florida, though I doubt I'll get the chance to go out and do any proper bird watching as I'm only here for a few days.

Reptiles
1) Brown Anole Anolis sagrei

~Thylo:cool:
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Birds
1) House Sparrow Passer domesticus
2) Bluejay Cyanocitta cristata
3) Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
4) Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
5) American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
6) Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
7) Boat-Tailed Grackle Quiscalus major
8) Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura

Mammals
1) Eastern Grey Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis

~Thylo:cool:
 
Chlidonias said:
Christmas Island is renowned as being a vagrant hotpot, if you can get news of them and have the time to go chasing them.

Are you going to get to see the crab migration this year, or have the crazy ants decimated them? What's the current situation with that?

(A couple of links for others: https://www.wilderness.org.au/articles/yellow-crazy-ants-christmas-island
Scientists hope Malaysian micro-wasp will send Christmas Island's pest ants marching - ABC Rural (Australian Broadcasting Corporation))
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Yeah, the Cocos is better for that as there is pretty much only one bit of forest on the island (rest is either gardens or coconut palms) so it's fairly easy to spot the vagrants/visitors. CI is much bigger and could be housing lots of smaller species unsighted yet. There's supposed to be a flock of 40-50 Java Sparrows in the township, but I haven't seen any yet.

As for the crabs, the migration started a few weeks ago, but the rains were late and not as heavy as normal, so the migration hasn't been as populaced as in other years. It's eased up for now, but spawning is due to take place in a week so the females returning to the sea should start in the next few days, and then a month later we get 'the return', when the fry all come ashore and head inland.

I have photos, I'm just waiting for a 'Christmas Island' gallery to be created.

:p

Hix
 
new years day birding.
1/1/2016
1. aussie magpie
2. aussie white ibis
3. pacific black duck
4. magpie - lark
5.spotted dove
6. common myna
7. aussie raven
8. little corella
9. rock dove (feral pigeon)
10. willie wagtail
11. welcome swallow
12. common blackbird
13. galah
14. common starling
15. white faced heron
16. laughing kookaburra
17. black faced cuckoo shrike
18. rainbow lorikeet
19. crested pigeon
20. masked lapwing
21. little wattlebird
22. red wattlebird
23. great cormorant
24. eastern great egret
25. silver gull
26. red necked avocet
27. crested tern
28. australian pelican
29. black swan
30. bar-tailed godwit
31. red-necked stint
32. aussie pied oystercatcher
33. little tern
34. great knot
35. caspian tern
36. sharp-tailed sandpiper
37. black winged stilt
38. chestnut teal
39. little black cormorant
40. little pied cormorant
41. PARADISE SHELDUCK*
42. GREY PLOVER*
43. pacific golden plover
44. grey teal
45. RED KNOT*
46. red-capped plover
47. hooded plover
48. curlew snadpiper
49. ruddy turnstone
50. HUDSONIAN GODWIT*
51. black-tailed godwit
52. aussie wood duck
53. dusky moorhen
54. eurasian coot
55. white necked heron
56. straw-necked ibis
57. eastern yellow robin
58. purple swamphen
59. sacred kingfisher
60. crimson rosella
61. hardhead
62. australasian grebe
63. brown thornbill
64. superb fairy wren
65. hoary-headed grebe
66. great crested grebe
67. australasian pipit
68. satin bowerbird
69. dusky woodswallow
70. grey fantail
71. new holland honeyeater
72. rufous whistler
73. eastern spinebill
74. pied currawong
75. fairy martin
76. aussie shoveler
77. aussie reed warbler
78. black-fronted dotterel
79. blue-billed duck
80. dollarbird
81. eastern rosella
82. european goldfinch
83. freckled duck
84. grey butcherbird
85. house sparrow
86. latham's snipe
87. litle egret
88. musk duck
89. peregrine falcon
90. pied cormorant
91. pink-eared duck
92. red-browed finch
93. red-kneed dotterel
94. red-whiskered bulbul
95. royal spoonbill
96. swamp harrier
97. variegated fairy wren
98. yellow spoonbill
99. noisy miner
100. sulphur-crested cockatoo
101. aussie king parrot
102. brown gerygone
103. white-browed scrubwren
104. rufous fantail
105. fan-tailed cuckoo
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2/1/2016
106. yellow tailed black cockatoo
 
1 Common Raven - Corvus corax
2 Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis
3 Rock Pigeon - Columba livia
4 Black-billed Magpie - Pica hudsonia
5 American Coot - Fulica americana
6 House Finch - Haemorhous mexicanus
7 House Sparrow - Passer domesticus
8 Canada Goose - Branta canadensis
9 Ring-necked Pheasant - Phasianus colchicus
10 Sharp-tailed Grouse - Tympanuchus phasianellus
11 Northern Flicker - Colaptes auratus
12 Northern Shrike - Lanius excubitor
13 Horned Lark - Eremophila alpestris
14 Black-capped Chickadee - Poecile atricapillus
15 Juniper Titmouse - Baeolophus ridgwayi
16 Bewick's Wren - Thryomanes bewickii
17 European Starling - Sturnus vulgaris
18 Common Redpoll - Acanthis flammea
19 Trumpeter Swan - Cygnus buccinator
20 Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos
21 Common Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula
 
Couple of additions as I went about my business today:

29. European Goldfinch - Carduelis carduelis
30. Coal Tit - Parus ater
 
LaughingDove said:
I went on a trip out into the wilds of Surrey to start the year with:

1) Eurasian Jackdaw
2) Woodpigeon
3) Feral Pigeon
4) Black-headed Gull
5) Common Starling
6) House Sparrow
7) Great Tit
8) Blue Tit
9) Eurasian Robin
10) Rose-ringed Parakeet
11) European Blackbird
12) Winter Wren
13) Common Magpie
14) Carrion Crow
15) Common Coot
16) Common Moorhen
17) Eurasian Wigeon
18) Tufted Duck
19) Herring Gull
20) Common Teal
21) Great Cormorant
22) Mute Swan
23) Grey Heron
24) Common Pochard
25) Mallard
26) Gadwall (first wild photo)
27) Northern Shoveler (first wild photo)
28) Dunnock
29) Rook
30) Common Chaffinch

1) Grey Squirrel
2) Red Fox (seen from my bedroom window by the bins out in broad daylight!)
3) European Rabbit
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A few more additions from me:

31) Goldcrest
32) Canada Goose
33) Redwing

4) Brown Rat
 
Braved the weather for a couple of hours this afternoon:

65. Greylag Goose (Anser anser)
66. Pintail (Anas acuta)
67. Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)
68. Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
69. Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
70. Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
71. Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis)
72. Marsh Tit (Poecile palustris)
73. Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus)
74. Treecreeper (Certhia familiaris)
75. Redwing (Turdus iliacus)
76. Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus)
 
Wasn't able to travel anywhere today, but I still managed to add three birds and a mammal while at home:

Birds:
51. Lesser redpoll Acanthis cabaret
52. Common buzzard Buteo buteo
53. Fieldfare Turdus pilaris

Mammals:
2. Reeve's muntjac Muntiacus reevesi
 
1. Wren
2. Curlew
3. Redshank
4. Guillemot
5. Gannet
6. Dunlin
7. Oystercatcher
8. Cormorant
9. Common Gull
10. Ring billed Gull
11. Herring Gull
12.Black backed Gull
13. House Sparrow
14. Woodpigeon
 
61 Loggerhead Shrike - Lanius ludovicianus
62 Great-tailed Grackle - Quiscalus mexicanus
63 Northern Harrier - Circus cyaneus
64 Prairie Falcon - Falco mexicanus - one I didn't get last year!
65 Blue Jay - Cyanocitta cristata
66 Hermit Thrush - Catharus guttatus
67 Orange-crowned Warbler - Oreothlypis celata
68 Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum
69 Pied-billed Grebe - Podilymbus podiceps
70 American White Pelican - Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
71 Spotted Sandpiper - Actitis macularius
72 Franklin's Gull - Leucophaeus pipixcan
73 Forster's Tern - Sterna forsteri
74 Western Meadowlark - Sturnella neglecta
75 Brown Creeper - Certhia americana Lake
76 Bewick's Wren - Thryomanes bewickii
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Birds
1) House Sparrow Passer domesticus
2) Bluejay Cyanocitta cristata
3) Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
4) Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
5) American White Ibis Eudocimus albus
6) Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
7) Boat-Tailed Grackle Quiscalus major
8) Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura

Mammals
1) Eastern Grey Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis

~Thylo:cool:
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Birds
9) Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
10) Brown-Headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
11) Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
12) Great Egret Ardea alba
13) Wood Stork Mycteria americana
14) Osprey Pandion haliaetus

~Thylo:cool:
 
Late night bonus:

1. Red Fox - Vulpes vulpes
 
A very slow start this year:

1. Greylag goose
2. Common buzzard
3. Grey heron
4. Carrion crow
5. Mallard
6. Tufted duck
7. Eurasian sparrowhawk


The goal for this year would be 600 bird species and / or reaching 1000 lifers. For mammals getting close to 100 should be possible, as I will have time this year to visit national parks when in Africa, which I will be 6 months this year....
 
Most of today's are from the wetlands on the edge of Yorkshire Wildlife Park or from Doncaster Lakeside (I'd hoped to call at Potteric Carr but weather put paid to that!).

31. Common Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus
32. Great Cormorant - Phalacrocorax carbo
33. Tufted Duck - Aythya fuligula
34. Greylag Goose - Anser anser
35. Northern Lapwing - Vanellus vanellus
36. Common Snipe - Gallinago gallinago
37. Common Teal - Anas crecca
38. Little Grebe - Tachybaptus ruficollis
39. Great Crested Grebe - Podiceps cristatus
40. European Herring Gull - Larus argentatus
41. Common Pheasant - Phasianus colchicus

:)
 
DesertRhino150 said:
Wasn't able to travel anywhere today, but I still managed to add three birds and a mammal while at home:

Birds:
51. Lesser redpoll Acanthis cabaret
52. Common buzzard Buteo buteo
53. Fieldfare Turdus pilaris
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Poor weather meant I was not even able to leave the house today, but still managed to see a new bird for the year:

54. Eurasian jay Garrulus glandarius
 
Horrible weather here too, but a brief respite this afternoon gave me the chance for a walk and a few additions:

77. Pochard (Aythya ferina)
78. Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)
79. Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
80. Goldcrest (Regulus regulus)
81. Coal Tit (Periparus ater)
82. Nuthatch (Sitta europaea)
83. Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos)
 
77 Common Loon - Gavia immer Ray
78 Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis
79 Greater Roadrunner - Geococcyx californianus
80 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - Sphyrapicus varius
81 Red-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta canadensis
82 Pine Warbler - Setophaga pinus
83 Chipping Sparrow - Spizella passerina
84 Bonaparte's Gull - Chroicocephalus philadelphia
85 Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon

2. Eastern Fox Squirrel
 
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