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Are you sure about your reticulated giraffes in Nairobi NP, I believe that reticulated does not occur in that area (to wet and to far south-west, the border between Masai and reticulated giraffes is the Garissa river in E Kenya) and I have always only seen masai giraffe around Nairobi...
 
lintworm said:
Are you sure about your reticulated giraffes in Nairobi NP, I believe that reticulated does not occur in that area (to wet and to far south-west, the border between Masai and reticulated giraffes is the Garissa river in E Kenya) and I have always only seen masai giraffe around Nairobi...
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I was told reticulated by my safari guide (and I was surprised so I did double check with him) but comparing my pictures of them to illustrations of the different subspecies, they were indeed Maasai and my guide was not correct. I will edit the original post.

Also a couple more birds (one missed off, one newly IDed)

240) Rufous Sparrow
241) Yellow-rumped Seedeater
 
Macaw16 said:
At last! Two birds (I'm not including the Gull in this intro of sorts) I should have seen earlier in the year! Neither were glamorous sightings, only from a car/ at a motorway service station :p. All from 7/2/2016.

41. Common Buzzard Buteo buteo
42. Pied Wagtail Motacilla alba
43. Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus
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I headed across to RSPB Blacktoft Sands, and got my first lifer for the year; but still no Grey Heron.

44. Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
45. Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata
46. Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
47. Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
48. Little Egret Egretta garzetta
49. Little Grebe Podiceps ruficollis
50. Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
51. Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna
52. Gadwall Anas strepera
53. Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
54. Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope
55. Common Pochard Aythya ferina
56. Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus
57. Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
 
robmv said:
Back from Scotland with a very good haul of new species. The obvious omission is Capercaillie which have been very thin on the ground this year (our guide had only had two sightings). Expect a very similar list from Maguari in the near future!
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And so it arrives!

Finally back home (I had an extra few days away due to attending a Uni reunion in Bangor, which allowed a decent burst of Welsh birding as well) - updated list as follows, with many gaps in my British birding record filled in!

Scottish additions (various locations from Lossiemouth in the north to Caerlaverock in the south):

92. Stock Dove - Columba oenas
93. Lesser Redpoll - Acanthis flammea
94. Glaucous Gull - Larus hyperboreus
95. Iceland Gull - Larus glaucoides
96. Pink-footed Goose - Anser brachyrhynchos
97. Peregrine Falcon - Falco peregrinus
98. Red Knot - Calidris canuta
99. Common Gull - Larus canus
100. Hooded Crow - Corvus cornix
101. Ruddy Turnstone - Arenaria interpres
102. Long-tailed Duck - Clangula hyemalis
103. Red-throated Diver - Gavia stellata
104. Red-breasted Merganser - Mergus serrator
105. Common Eider - Somateria mollissima
106. Black-throated Diver - Gavia arctica
107. Grey Partridge - Perdix perdix
108. European Shag - Phalacrocorax aristotelis
109. Eurasian Rock Pipit - Anthus petrosus
110. Purple Sandpiper - Calidris maritima
111. Common Guillemot - Uria aalge
112. Razorbill - Alca torda
113. Common Scoter - Melanitta nigra
114. Whooper Swan - Cygnus cygnus
115. Bar-tailed Godwit - Limosa lapponica
116. Black Grouse - Lyrurus tetrix
117. Common Crossbill - Loxia curvirostra
118. Brambling - Fringilla monifringilla
119. European Crested Tit - Lophophanes cristatus
120. White-tailed Eagle - Haliaeetus albicilla
121. Eurasian Treecreeper - Certhia familiaris
122. Red-legged Partridge - Alectoris rufa
123. Golden Eagle - Aquila chrysaetos
124. White-breasted Dipper - Cinclus cinclus
125. Northern Goshawk - Accipiter gentilis
126. Snow Bunting - Plectrophenax nivalis
127. Rock Ptarmigan - Lagopus muta
128. Mandarin Duck - Aix galericulata
129. Ring-necked Duck - Aythya collaris
130. Song Thrush - Turdus philomelos - finally!! :D
131. Green-winged Teal - Anas carolinensis
132. Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus
133. Merlin - Falco columbarius

9. Grey Seal - Halichoerus grypus
10. European Roe Deer - Capreolus capreolus
11. European Red Squirrel - Sciurus vulgaris
12. Red Deer - Cervus elaphus


Welsh additions (North Wales coast from South Stack to Pensarn):

134. Common Ringed Plover - Charadrius hiaticula
135. Northern Fulmar - Fulmarus glacialis
136. Red-billed Chough - Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
137. Black Guillemot - Cepphus grylle
138. Common Greenshank - Tringa nebularia
139. Slavonian Grebe - Podiceps auritus

13. Stoat - Mustela erminea


I've decided to try to list identifiable fish and inverts this year as well, just for fun, so also need to add the following, which was dropped by a bird on Holyhead harbour, and, finding it still alive (albeit missing a leg!), was gently returned to the sea by myself!

1. Great Spider Crab - Hyas araneus

:)
 
142 White-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta carolinensis
143 Northern Bobwhite - Colinus virginianus
 
ThylacineAlive said:
26) Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
27) Canada Goose Branta canadensis

~Thylo:cool:
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Birds
28) Dark-Eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
29) American Robin Turdus migratorius
30) Red-Bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
31) Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus

Mammals
2) White-Tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus
3) Eastern Chipmunk Tamias striatus

~Thylo:cool:
 
BIRDS:
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
22 Mountain Chickadee - Poecile gambeli
23 Red-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta canadensis
24 American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos
25 Rough-legged Hawk - Buteo lagopus
26 Long-eared Owl - Asio otus
27 Dark-eyed Junco - Junco hyemalis
28 Common Loon - Gavia immer
29 Golden-crowned Kinglet - Regulus satrapa
30 Red Crossbill - Loxia curvirostra
31 American Kestrel - Falco sparverius
32 Hairy Woodpecker - Picoides villosus
33 Townsend's Solitaire - Myadestes townsendi
34 American Goldfinch - Spinus tristis
35 Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia
36 Mute Swan - Cygnus olor
37 Wood Duck - Aix sponsa
38 American Wigeon - Anas americana
39 Ring-necked Duck - Aythya collaris
40 Bufflehead - Bucephala albeola
41 Hooded Merganser - Lophodytes cucullatus
42 Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias
43 Mourning Dove - Zenaida macroura
44 Red-breasted Sapsucker - Sphyrapicus ruber
45 Brown Creeper - Certhia americana
46 Gadwall - Anas strepera
47 Northern Shoveler - Anas clypeata
48 Redhead - Aythya americana
49 American Robin - Turdus migratorius
50 Merlin - Falco columbarius
51 Eurasian Collared-Dove - Streptopelia decaocto
52 White-crowned Sparrow - Zonotrichia leucophrys
53 Red-winged Blackbird - Agelaius phoeniceus
54 Northern Harrier - Circus cyaneus
55 Brewer's Blackbird - Euphagus cyanocephalus
56 Ring-billed Gull - Larus delawarensis
57 American Pipit - Anthus rubescens
58 Western Meadowlark - Sturnella neglecta
59 Lesser Scaup - Aythya affinis
60 Common Merganser - Mergus merganser
61 Pied-billed Grebe - Podilymbus podiceps
62 Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritus
63 American White Pelican - Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
64 Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus
65 Belted Kingfisher - Megaceryle alcyon
66 White-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta carolinensis
67 Golden Eagle - Aquila chrysaetos
68 Downy Woodpecker - Picoides pubescens
69 Rock Wren - Salpinctes obsoletus
70 Canyon Wren - Catherpes mexicanus
71 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Regulus calendula
72 Swamp Sparrow - Melospiza georgiana
73 Spotted Towhee - Pipilo maculatus
74 Prairie Falcon - Falco mexicanus
75 Ferruginous Hawk - Buteo regalis
76 Yellow-rumped Warbler - Setophaga coronata
77 Pine Siskin - Spinus pinus
78 Lesser Goldfinch - Spinus psaltria
79 Ross's Goose - Chen rossii
80 Cackling Goose - Branta hutchinsii
81 Sharp-shinned Hawk - Accipiter striatus
82 California Quail - Callipepla californica
83 Bohemian Waxwing - Bombycilla garrulus
84 Cedar Waxwing - Bombycilla cedrorum
85 Wilson's Snipe - Gallinago delicata
86 Hermit Thrush - Catharus guttatus
87 Purple Finch - Haemorhous purpureus
88 Western Screech-Owl - Megascops kennicottii
89 Great Horned Owl - Bubo virginianus
90 Northern Saw-whet Owl - Aegolius acadicus
91 Red-breasted Merganser - Mergus serrator
92 Pine Grosbeak - Pinicola enucleator
93 Northern Goshawk - Accipiter gentilis
94 Evening Grosbeak - Coccothraustes vespertinus
95 Barrow's Goldeneye - Bucephala islandica
96 Great Egret - Ardea alba
97 Green-winged Teal - Anas crecca
98 Virginia Rail - Rallus limicola
99 Harris's Sparrow - Zonotrichia querula
100 Cooper's Hawk - Accipiter cooperii
101 Steller's Jay - Cyanocitta stelleri
102 Dunlin - Calidris alpina
103 Snow Goose - Chen caerulescens
104 White-throated Sparrow - Zonotrichia albicollis
105 American Tree Sparrow - Spizelloides arborea
106 Ruffed Grouse - Bonasa umbellus
107 Gray Partridge - Perdix perdix
108 Snow Bunting - Plectrophenax nivalis
109 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch - Leucosticte tephrocotis
110 Black Rosy-Finch - Leucosticte atrata
111 Wild Turkey - Meleagris gallopavo
112 Northern Pygmy-Owl - Glaucidium gnoma
113 American Dipper - Cinclus mexicanus
114 Greater White-fronted Goose - Anser albifrons
115 Northern Pintail - Anas acuta
116 California Gull - Larus californicus
117 Great-tailed Grackle - Quiscalus mexicanus
118 Chukar - Alectoris chukar
119 Tundra Swan - Cygnus columbianus

MAMMALS: (No Change)
1 Mountain Cottontail - Sylvilagus nuttallii
2 Eastern Fox Squirrel - Sciurus niger
3 Common Muskrat - Ondatra zibethicus
4 House Mouse - Mus musculus
5 Yellow-bellied Marmot - Marmota flaviventris
6 Piute Ground Squirrel - Spermophilus mollis
7 Coyote - Canis latrans
8 Moose - Alces americanus
9 White-tailed Deer - Odocoileus virginianus
10 North American Porcupine - Erethizon dorsatum
 
True. The only true coyote I've seen was in Yellowtone when it was very close to night and waaaay in the distance I saw 4 wolves chasing a speck which my guide said was a coyote:p I did once get fairly close to a coywolf at midnight (In a car, that is.)
 
LaughingDove said:
A couple of things that I have managed to ID:

36) Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bat
38) Ochre Bush Squirrel (just judging by the distribution on these, and I *think* they're the only tree squirrels in Nairobi. I have uploaded some pictures if anyone wants to confirm)
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so, are you on 38 mammals, or 37?
 
Chlidonias said:
well it's only February. Some people may have not added sightings yet.

From last year the missing participants are mstickmanp, zooboy28, nanoboy, Hevden, vogelcommando, BeardsleyZooFan, adrian1963, Average Walrus, and Javan Rhino.

At least the first four of those will surely join in this year.
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I will join in just need to see something first. Had a busy start to the year with the birth of my son but my first birding trip should be this weekend, I've got alot of catching up to do although I'm not expecting anything like the last couple of years. Finally reaching 400 will do me although how the British list is looking at taxonomic changes I might do it more than once or maybe even get to 400 then back to the 390's until next year!
 
KevinVar said:
BIRDS
1. Short-toed Treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla)
2. Great Tit (Parus major)
3. Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula)
4. European Robin (Erithacus rubecula)
5. Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
6. European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
7. House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
8. Common Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus)
9. Feral Pigeon (Columba livia)
10. Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
11. Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
12. White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
13. Great White Egret (Ardea alba)
14. Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
15. Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus)
16. Canadian Goose (Branta canadensis)
17. Greylag Goose (Anser anser)
18. Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
19. Gadwall (Anas strepera)
20. Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula)
21. Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
22. Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra)
23. Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
24. Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
25. Eurasian Magpie (Pica pica)
26. Carrion Crow (Corvus corone)
27. Eurasian Jackdaw (Corvus monedula)
28. Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
29. European Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
30. Eurasian Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
31. Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
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32. Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis)
33. Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus)
34. Eurasian Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
35. Eurasian Siskin (Spinus spinus)
36. Common Gull (Larus canus)
37. Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Birds
28) Dark-Eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
29) American Robin Turdus migratorius
30) Red-Bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
31) Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus

Mammals
2) White-Tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus
3) Eastern Chipmunk Tamias striatus

~Thylo:cool:
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Mammals
4) Virginia Opossum Didelphis virginiana

~Thylo:cool:
 
lintworm said:
38. Black-headed gull
39. Great crested grebe
40. Jackdaw
41. European kestrel
42. Little grebe
43. Eurasian collared dove
44. European white stork
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45. Crested tit
46. Long-tailed tit
47. Coal tit
48. Fieldfare
49. Mistle trush
50. Egyptian goose
51. Treecreeper
52. Common pheasant

Mammals

2. Alpine chamois
 
Macaw16 said:
I headed across to RSPB Blacktoft Sands, and got my first lifer for the year; but still no Grey Heron.

44. Eurasian Teal Anas crecca
45. Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata
46. Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
47. Western Marsh Harrier Circus aeruginosus
48. Little Egret Egretta garzetta
49. Little Grebe Podiceps ruficollis
50. Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
51. Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna
52. Gadwall Anas strepera
53. Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
54. Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope
55. Common Pochard Aythya ferina
56. Hen Harrier Circus cyaneus
57. Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
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A walk around the bird garden at Lotherton Hall (actually an excellent place for spotting wild passerines) gave me a bird which is common in some parts, but not mine:

58. Eurasian Siskin Spinus spinus
 
Hix said:
Invertebrates
11. Yellow Nipper Crab
12. Ghost Crab
13. Horned Ghost Crab
14. Shingle Urchin
15. Black Sea Urchin
16. Christmas Island Paper Wasp
17. Pink-and-Black Sea Cucumber
18. Tawny Hermit Crab
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Invertebrates
19. Rock-boring Urchin
20. Flat Rock Crab (Percnon planissimum)

:p

Hix
 
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