ZooChat Big Year 2017
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I'm very surprised at the number of mammals I saw on this trip too! If you had asked me before hand to guess how many mammals I would see I would have said 10, maybe 15, but in fact I saw 27! I did miss Banded Leaf Monkey though, which I thought was almost a given at Kaeng Krachan.
My (wild) mammal life list including multiple subspecies of the same species is approximately 201 (approximate because I'm not exactly sure how the Variable Squirrel subspecies will work).
Excluding multiple subspecies of the same species it is 169, however many of those species where I have seen multiple (sub)species are sometimes split, most notably about 20 of those are split by Groves and Grubb so the number 169 does not include things that seem to be more widely split like giraffes.
Depending on taxonomy, the number will be between 169 to 201. What's your total?
The short answer is yes, but nothing has been posted yet. I've written Day 1, and today is Day 2, which I'll be writing up tonight. And for the next few days I won't have wireless access, so you won't be hearing from me until probably Thursday or Friday, at which point I expect my bird and mammal lists to have increased a bit.
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Reptiles:
7. Yellow-Faced Whip Snake (Demansia psammophis)
Mammals:
6. Common Bottlenose Dolohin (Tursiops truncatus)
Birds:
I can now add three amphibians from the trip now that they have been identified: (though I am numbering the list as herps in general)
23) Asian Grass Frog (Fejervarya limnocharis)
24) Four-lined Tree Frog (Polypedates leucomystax)
25) Black-spined Toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus)
And I have also already found a mistake in my list for this thread (which I was kind of expecting because I updated this thread during the trip before actually properly putting my sightings into my recording system)
See #343 and #365; I managed to accidentally count the same species twice in the same post. This of course means this list should be one lower and my current total for birds should be 365.
23) Asian Grass Frog (Fejervarya limnocharis)
24) Four-lined Tree Frog (Polypedates leucomystax)
25) Black-spined Toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus)
And I have also already found a mistake in my list for this thread (which I was kind of expecting because I updated this thread during the trip before actually properly putting my sightings into my recording system)
See #343 and #365; I managed to accidentally count the same species twice in the same post
. This of course means this list should be one lower and my current total for birds should be 365.
Birds:
16. Grey Jay
16. Grey Jay
The following are a list of species that have been observed in the United Kingdom and/or Norway
Mammals
1) Roe Deer
2) Grey squirrel
3) Red squirrel
4) Stoat
5) Pine marten
3) European hedgehog
4) Water vole
5) American mink
6) Bank vole
7) House mouse
8) European rabbit
9) Wood mouse
10) Norwegian moose (the ungulate, not the zoochatter
)
11) Humans
Birds
1) Common pheasant
2) Golden pheasant
3) Eurasian wigeon
4) Grey partridge
5) Greylag goose
6) Mandarin duck
7) Tufted duck
8) Canada goose
9) Common goldeneye
10) Mute swan
11) Whooper swan
12) Common shelduck
13) Common eider
14) Mallard
15) Great spotted woodpecker
16) Common moorhen
17) Black-tailed godwit
18) Green woodpecker
19) Eurasian oyster catcher
20) White tailed sea eagle
21) Common kestrel
22) Northern gannet
23) Great crested grebe
24) Northern fulmar
25) Common raven
26) Rook
27) Eurasian jackdaw
28) Eurasian jay
29) Eurasian magpie
30) European robin
31) Waxwing
32) Goldcrest
33) Eurasian blackbird
34) European blue tit
35) Wren
36) Great tit
37) Coal tit
38) Long tailed tit
39) Grey wagtail
40) House sparrow
41) Tree sparrow
42) Chaffinch
43) Black headed gull
44) Herring gull
45) Great black-backed gull
46) Willow tit
Mammals
1) Roe Deer
2) Grey squirrel
3) Red squirrel
4) Stoat
5) Pine marten
3) European hedgehog
4) Water vole
5) American mink
6) Bank vole
7) House mouse
8) European rabbit
9) Wood mouse
10) Norwegian moose (the ungulate, not the zoochatter
)11) Humans
Birds
1) Common pheasant
2) Golden pheasant
3) Eurasian wigeon
4) Grey partridge
5) Greylag goose
6) Mandarin duck
7) Tufted duck
8) Canada goose
9) Common goldeneye
10) Mute swan
11) Whooper swan
12) Common shelduck
13) Common eider
14) Mallard
15) Great spotted woodpecker
16) Common moorhen
17) Black-tailed godwit
18) Green woodpecker
19) Eurasian oyster catcher
20) White tailed sea eagle
21) Common kestrel
22) Northern gannet
23) Great crested grebe
24) Northern fulmar
25) Common raven
26) Rook
27) Eurasian jackdaw
28) Eurasian jay
29) Eurasian magpie
30) European robin
31) Waxwing
32) Goldcrest
33) Eurasian blackbird
34) European blue tit
35) Wren
36) Great tit
37) Coal tit
38) Long tailed tit
39) Grey wagtail
40) House sparrow
41) Tree sparrow
42) Chaffinch
43) Black headed gull
44) Herring gull
45) Great black-backed gull
46) Willow tit
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Birds
47) Woodpigeon
47) Woodpigeon
on my first visit to Kaeng Krachan I only saw the banded leaf monkeys at the eleventh hour, so to speak. On my recent visit I think I saw them every day that I was in the upper levels of the park.
My mammal list as of right now is 292 species.
Hevden
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A long overdue update after not really doing any birding for over two months and one that i previously missed.
130. Canada goose
131. Bittern
132. Barnacle goose
133. Red-crested pochard
134. Red kite
135. Sparrowhawk
136. Spotted redshank
137. Greenshank
138. Mediterranean gull
139. Yellow-legged gull
140. Caspian gull
141. Little gull
142. Sandwich tern
143. Green woodpecker
144. Woodlark
145. Sandmartin
146. Swallow
147. White wagtail
148. Nightingale
149. Wheatear
150. Blackcap
151. Dartford warbler
152. Sedge warbler
153. Cetti's warbler
154. Willow warbler
155. Bearded tit
156. Yellowhammer
157. Stone curlew
I haven't been able to get out to see any new birds lately so the sparrow is simply one I realized was missing from previous entries. The mammal is from a few nights ago, however.
Mammals
9) Woodland Vole Microtus pinetorum
Birds
59) Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
~Thylo
Mine currently stands at 232,with a range from 220-250 depending on what you split, my list contains split grant's gazelle, "kirk's" dikdik and giraffe as the evidence for that is quite strong, but not a lot of the other splits (like impala / black-faced impala). By the end of this year I will travel to a new continent (having only ever visited Africa & Europe), so my list should increase somewhat more, though the destination is not very species rich...
is it Antarctica?
Birds
48) King Eider
49) Greenfinch
50) Bullfinch
51) Stellers eider
52) Peregrine falcon
53) Fieldfare
54) Dunnock
55) Redstart
56) Long-tailed duck
57) Greater scaup
58) Common plover
59) Common gull
60) Dunlin
61) Velvet scoter
Mammals
12) Harbor seal
48) King Eider
49) Greenfinch
50) Bullfinch
51) Stellers eider
52) Peregrine falcon
53) Fieldfare
54) Dunnock
55) Redstart
56) Long-tailed duck
57) Greater scaup
58) Common plover
59) Common gull
60) Dunlin
61) Velvet scoter
Mammals
12) Harbor seal
3/4/2017
149. australasian gannet
5/4/17
150. australian ringneck
151. cockateil
152. pied cormorant
153. little raven
10/4/2017
154. peaceful dove
155. brown treecreeper
16/4/2017
156. black tailed native hen
157. brolga
158. great crested grebe
159. gull billed tern
160. nankeen night heron
161. tawny frogmouth
149. australasian gannet
5/4/17
150. australian ringneck
151. cockateil
152. pied cormorant
153. little raven
10/4/2017
154. peaceful dove
155. brown treecreeper
16/4/2017
156. black tailed native hen
157. brolga
158. great crested grebe
159. gull billed tern
160. nankeen night heron
161. tawny frogmouth
the latest few from Vietnam. At Phong Nha and Van Long I was concentrating on finding langurs so didn't really see many birds. At Cuc Phuong most of the birds I saw were repeats of earlier in the year.
BIRDS:
432) Narcissus flycatcher Ficedula narcissina
433) Grey-throated babbler Stachyris nigriceps
434) Crow-billed drongo Dicrurus annectans
435) Yellow-rumped flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia
436) Forest wagtail Dendronanthus indicus
437) Scarlet minivet Pericrocotus flammeus
438) Fork-tailed sunbird Aethopyga christinae
439) Orange-flanked bush-robin Tarsiger cyanurus
440) Black-browed fulvetta Alcippe grotei
441) Rufous-throated fulvetta Alcippe rufogularis
442) Silver pheasant Lophura nycthemera
443) Eye-browed wren-babbler Napothera elepidota
MAMMALS:
58) Hatinh langur Trachypithecus hatinhensis
59) Delacour's langur Trachypithecus delacouri
60) Small Asian mongoose Herpestes javanicus
61) Hairy-footed flying squirrel Belomys pearsonii
62) Inornate squirrel Callosciurus inornatus
63) Perny's long-nosed squirrel Dremomys pernyi
64) Gairdner's shrew-mouse Mus pahari
BIRDS:
432) Narcissus flycatcher Ficedula narcissina
433) Grey-throated babbler Stachyris nigriceps
434) Crow-billed drongo Dicrurus annectans
435) Yellow-rumped flycatcher Ficedula zanthopygia
436) Forest wagtail Dendronanthus indicus
437) Scarlet minivet Pericrocotus flammeus
438) Fork-tailed sunbird Aethopyga christinae
439) Orange-flanked bush-robin Tarsiger cyanurus
440) Black-browed fulvetta Alcippe grotei
441) Rufous-throated fulvetta Alcippe rufogularis
442) Silver pheasant Lophura nycthemera
443) Eye-browed wren-babbler Napothera elepidota
MAMMALS:
58) Hatinh langur Trachypithecus hatinhensis
59) Delacour's langur Trachypithecus delacouri
60) Small Asian mongoose Herpestes javanicus
61) Hairy-footed flying squirrel Belomys pearsonii
62) Inornate squirrel Callosciurus inornatus
63) Perny's long-nosed squirrel Dremomys pernyi
64) Gairdner's shrew-mouse Mus pahari
In the city centre...
Birds
62) Hooded crow
63) Lesser black-backed gull
64) Feral pigeon
Mammals
12) Brown Rat
Birds
62) Hooded crow
63) Lesser black-backed gull
64) Feral pigeon
Mammals
12) Brown Rat
When did you start recording the number of mammal species?
Forgot to mention animals in Italy + Switzerland during a skiing holiday:
Birds
65) Alpine chough
66) Alpine snowfinch
67) Alpine swift
68) Alpine accentor
Mammals
13) Alpine ibex
14) Alpine chamois
Birds
65) Alpine chough
66) Alpine snowfinch
67) Alpine swift
68) Alpine accentor
Mammals
13) Alpine ibex
14) Alpine chamois
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