ZooChat Big Year 2017

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animalszoos said:
When did you start recording the number of mammal species?
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I actually made a list about three years ago, and that's when I started to become really serious about birding and wildlife watching (and the majority of species on the list have been seen at some point in the last three years), but I had been more casually looking for wildlife before then and the list includes sightings back to about 2006 maybe at the earliest.
 
Macaw16 said:
The first shot by me at Flamborough Head on 12/4/2017, and the second I shot by in a car on 14/4/2017:

92. Eurasian Hobby Falco subbuteo
93. Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
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From Fairburn Ings on 17/4/2017:

94. Gadwall Anas strepera
95. Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
96. Sand Martin Riparia riparia
97. Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla
98. Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
 
Catching up after a productive Easter weekend ...

148. Red-throated Diver (Gavia stellata)
149. Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)
150. Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
151. Gannet (Morus bassanus)
152. Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus)
153. Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
154. Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea)
155. Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca)
156. Tree Pipit (Anthus trivialis)
157. Sand Martin (Riparia riparia)
 
Macaw16 said:
From Fairburn Ings on 17/4/2017:

94. Gadwall Anas strepera
95. Great Crested Grebe Podiceps cristatus
96. Sand Martin Riparia riparia
97. Blackcap Sylvia atricapilla
98. Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
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From the River Ouse yesterday (19/4/2017):

99. Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata
 
In Brunei's capital Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB):

91. Pink-necked Green Pigeon
92. Ashy Tailorbird


In Brunei Bay:
93. White-breasted Sea-Eagle

Reptiles:
6. Saltwater Crocodile


At Ulu Ulu Temburong National Park:

94. Pacific Swallow
95. Greybellied Bulbul
96. Whiterumped Shama
97. Yellowrumped Flowerpecker
98. Dusky Munia
99. Rhinoceros Hornbill
100. Indian Cuckoo
101. Banded Broadbill
102. Black-and-Yellow Broadbill
103. Chestnutwinged Babbler
104. Lesser Green Leafbird
105. Greater Green Leafbird
106. Redthroated Sunbird
107. Crimson Sunbird
108. Purple Heron
109. Whiskered Treeswift
110. Black Hornbill
111. Scarletrumped Trogon
112. Helmeted Hornbill
113. Wreathed Hornbill
114. Green Iora
115. Little Spider-hunter
116. Little Egret


Mammals:
6. Shortfaced Fruit Bat
7. Pygmy Squirrell
8. Crabeating (Longtailed) Macaque
9. Hose's Grey Langur
10. Nth Bornean Gibbon (H. funereus)

Back in BSB:
117. Asian Glossy Starling

:p

Hix
 
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Hix said:
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.

:p

Hix
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Alas, a minor calamity has befallen me and so expect anything in thread form, or even photos, to appear anytime soon.

I will still post species lists when I can, although the post above took close to an hour to do.

:(

Hix
 
oh no. I hope it is a healable calamity and not a debilitating one!

I am jealous of helmeted hornbill if it makes you feel better. I still haven't managedt to see one.

I am also jealous of Hose's langur, but that is cancelled out by your apparent following of the splitting of Bornean gibbon!
 
Chlidonias said:
oh no. I hope it is a healable calamity and not a debilitating one!

I am jealous of helmeted hornbill if it makes you feel better. I still haven't managedt to see one.

I am also jealous of Hose's langur, but that is cancelled out by your apparent following of the splitting of Bornean gibbon!
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The calamity is not actually a physical one, but a technical one. However, I have workarounds in place.
As for the gibbon - when I saw them I said "Mueller's Gibbon ... Cool!" And the two guides with me (one with PhD) both said "North Bornean Gibbon".

And @LaughingDove - thanks!

Today on Kuala Belait Rd (now named Jalan Mumong):

Birds
118. Chestnut Munia
119. Barn Swallow
120. Yellow-vented Bulbul
121. Slender-billed Crow


Mammals
11. Silvered Langur
12. Bornean Bearded Pig

Reptiles
7. Asian Water Monitor

:p

Hix
 
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Hix said:
The calamity is not actually a physical one, but a technical one. However, I have workarounds in place.
As for the gibbon - when I saw them I said "Mueller's Gibbon ... Cool!" And the two guides with me (one with PhD) both said "North Bornean Gibbon".
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oh well that's good news then! The way you wrote it made it sound (to me) like either you'd had a stroke or had broken all your fingers!
 
In Kuala Belait, Seria and Panaga:

122. Eastern Yellow Wagtail
123. Collared Kingfisher
124. Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker
125. Cattle Egret
126. Intermediate Egret
127. Blue-throated Bee-eater
128. Common Sandpiper

:p

Hix
 
Set off early today for Cotswold Wildlife Park, where I arrived not long after opening and had a great few hours - and along the way added a new year bird:

131. Barn Swallow - Hirundo rustica

All the CWP residents were very showy and helpful, with the result that by 1.30 I was actually quite happy that I'd seen everything as well as I was going to, which coupled with the still-building crowds led me to hop back in the car and drive the hour or so west to Slimbridge for the rest of the afternoon. This, it turns out, was a good idea:

132. Black-winged Stilt - Himantopus himantopus
133. Eurasian Spoonbill - Platalea leucorodia
134. Common Sandpiper - Actitis hypoleucos

The stilts (three of them) were a UK lifer, though I've seen them overseas a few times, most recently in Botswana.

:)
 
Hix said:
In Kuala Belait, Seria and Panaga:

122. Eastern Yellow Wagtail
123. Collared Kingfisher
124. Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker
125. Cattle Egret
126. Intermediate Egret
127. Blue-throated Bee-eater
128. Common Sandpiper
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129. Oriental Pied Hornbill
130. Blue-eared Barbet
131. Olive-backed Sunbird
132. Black-shouldered Kite

:p

Hix
 
@Hix - I must say I am very impressed with your list of wildlife in Brunei! Although I have seen all of the species you mentioned, I struggled to see many more mammals than you did and I have lived there for 6 years. Did you not see any rufous-backed kingfishers, cream-vented bulbuls, plovers or any other squirrel species?
When was the KB Rd renamed?
Will you be posting details of your trip, I'd like to see how Brunei has changed (especially Panaga since I lived in that area)?
Have you visited Bukit Teraja yet? It has many birds, but they are not always easy to spot since the forest is very dense, however the edge of the forest and some forest clearings allow you to see a wide variety of bird species in the different rainforest layers. You may also see martens, tree shrews, squirrels and porcupines and maybe lorises, civets and deer (there are probably many more species to see as well but these make up the majority of what I saw there).
 
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I have to fix a couple of things with my Thai list, but I'll wait until I've fully gone through everything for my own records before I make the necessary corrections, however here are a couple of things from a morning visit to a nearby nature reserve:

366) Common Tern
367) Common Stonechat (splitting Stejneger's Stonechat from #329)

35) European Beaver - the signs of beavers in this nature reserve are really obvious, especially the cut trees, but until today I had never managed to actually see a beaver.
 
KevinVar said:
BIRDS
59. Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)
60. Eurasian Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
61. Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)
62. Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
63. Eurasian Nuthatch (Sitta europaea)
64. Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
65. Stock Dove (Columba oenas)
66. European Stonechat (Saxicola rubicola)
67. White Wagtail (Motacilla alba)
68. Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis)
69. Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus)
70. Common Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus)
71. Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
72. Eurasian Teal (Anas crecca)
73. Long-tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus)
74. Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)
75. Western Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
76. Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
77. Common Gull (Larus canus)
78. Pied Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
79. Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius)
80. Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis)
81. Black Swan (Cygnus atratus)
82. Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)
83. Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica)
84. Common Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita)

MAMMALS
4. European Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)
5. European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
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Some more additions over the last few weeks, including a very unexpected lifer from last weekend.

BIRDS
85. Common Linnet (Linaria cannabina)
86. Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
87. Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)
88. Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)
89. Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus)
90. Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis)
91. Common Eider (Somateria mollissima)
92. Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)
93. European Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis)
94. Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
95. Common Pochard (Aythya ferina)
96. Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
97. Eurasian Hoopoe (Upupa epops)
98. Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)
99. Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
100. House Martin (Delichon urbicum)
101. Sand Martin (Riparia riparia)

MAMMALS
6. Harbour Seal (Phoca vitulina)
 
A few more from an afternoon at Blacktoft Sands - one bird winter straggler and three more-summery ones, plus a butterfly:

Birds:
135. Pink-footed Goose - Anser brachyrhynchos
136. Sedge Warbler - Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
137. Garganey - Anas querquedula
138. Blackcap - Sylvia atricapilla

Invertebrates:
20. Small White - Pieris rapae

:)
 
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