ZooChat Big Year 2017
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I've already surpassed last years total, and it isn't even half way through the year.
All from a walk in the North York Moors (30/4/2017):
102. Common Crossbill Loxia curvirostra
103. Northern Wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe
104. Mistle Thrush Turdus viscivorus
105. Red Grouse Lagopus lagopus
106. Meadow Pipit Anthus pratensis
Summer is here (as LD said...):
107. Common Swift Apus apus
30. Dark-eyed Junco
My additions following our ''Big Day'' GerbenElzinga and a friend of ours did last weekend. Not as many as Gerben as we went out in my local area but still some nice additions to my list. Managed to see my first amphibians of the year and also the obligatory ''summer is here''.
BIRDS
108. Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
109. Common Swift (Apus apus)
110. Woodlark (Lullula arborea)
111. Garganey (Anas querquedula)
112. Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)
113. Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
114. Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
115. Common Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)
116. Eurasian Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola)
HERPTILES
1. Common Frog (Rana temporaria)
2. Common Toad (Bufo bufo)
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Since my last update, I have added two new birds, two mammals, three amphibians, a butterfly, a bumblebee and a damselfly to my list, the latter being a lifer:
137. Lesser whitethroat Sylvia curruca
138. Common swift Apus apus
16. European fallow deer Dama dama
17. Soprano pipistrelle bat Pipistrellus pygmaeus
1. Smooth newt Lissotriton vulgaris
2. Great crested newt Triturus cristatus
3. European common frog Rana temporaria
11. Common blue butterfly Polyommatus icarus
10. White-tailed bumblebee Bombus lucorum
2. Small red damselfly Ceriagrion tenellum
137. Lesser whitethroat Sylvia curruca
138. Common swift Apus apus
16. European fallow deer Dama dama
17. Soprano pipistrelle bat Pipistrellus pygmaeus
1. Smooth newt Lissotriton vulgaris
2. Great crested newt Triturus cristatus
3. European common frog Rana temporaria
11. Common blue butterfly Polyommatus icarus
10. White-tailed bumblebee Bombus lucorum
2. Small red damselfly Ceriagrion tenellum
FishFish
248. Throat-spot Blenny
249. Christmas Goby (Eviota natalis - endemic to Christmas Island)
Reptiles
9. Asian House Gecko
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250. Sixspot Glidergoby
251. Silky Shark
252. Giant Trevally
253. Ribbon Eel
254. Smallscale Scorpionfish
255. Fairy Basslet
256. Piano Fangblenny
257. Yellowfin Surgeonfish
258. Spotted Soapfish
259. Broadstripe Cardinalfish
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probably my last birds for Vietnam, from a week or so ago in Sapa:
465) Fork-tailed swift Apus pacificus
466) Black-faced warbler Abroscopus schisticeps
467) Golden parrotbill Paradoxornis verreauxi
468) Rufous-winged fulvetta Alcippe castaneceps
469) Sapphire flycatcher Ficedula sapphira
470) Plumbeous water redstart Rhyacornis fuliginosus
471) White-collared yuhina Yuhina diademata
472) Yellow-browed tit Sylviparus modestus
473) Ashy-throated warbler Phylloscopus maculipennis
474) Manipur (Streak-throated) fulvetta Fulvetta manipurensis
475) Rusty-capped fulvetta Schoeniparus dubius
And one additional mammal from today at the Hanoi Zoo:
65) Asian house rat Rattus tanezumi
465) Fork-tailed swift Apus pacificus
466) Black-faced warbler Abroscopus schisticeps
467) Golden parrotbill Paradoxornis verreauxi
468) Rufous-winged fulvetta Alcippe castaneceps
469) Sapphire flycatcher Ficedula sapphira
470) Plumbeous water redstart Rhyacornis fuliginosus
471) White-collared yuhina Yuhina diademata
472) Yellow-browed tit Sylviparus modestus
473) Ashy-throated warbler Phylloscopus maculipennis
474) Manipur (Streak-throated) fulvetta Fulvetta manipurensis
475) Rusty-capped fulvetta Schoeniparus dubius
And one additional mammal from today at the Hanoi Zoo:
65) Asian house rat Rattus tanezumi
A few from Skipwith Common (13/5/2017):
108. Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus
109. Red-legged Partridge Alectoris rufa
110. Woodlark Lullula arborea
111. Eurasian Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
Bits and pieces from a local birding patch that I visit semi-regularly. It's nice that the grebes have finally returned for the summer.
429) Blackcap
430) Great Crested Grebe
431) River Warbler
432) Little Ringed Plover
31) European Fire-bellied Toad
Just one addition from the local spots this weekend.
117. Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)
Also thanks to Chlidonias for bringing up rats in his travel thread, I have realised that a rat I saw in Thailand was not a Brown Rat as I thought and already saw in Poland, but instead was a Black Rat. The error comes from my mammal field guide calling it a House Rat and the fact that it was not black .
38) Black Rat
There's probably a lesson in this that I should pay more attention to scientific names, particularly in groups where the common name is more variable like herps, rodents, inverts, etc.
.38) Black Rat
There's probably a lesson in this that I should pay more attention to scientific names, particularly in groups where the common name is more variable like herps, rodents, inverts, etc.
Birds:
32. Plumed-Whistiling Duck (Dendrocygna eytoni)
33. Bush Stone-Curlew (Burhinus grallarius)
Fish:
3. Crested Morwong (Cheliodactylus vestitus)
4. Copper-Band Butterfly Fish (Chelmon rostratus)
Reptiles:
7. Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta) I helped release 58 of them into the South Eastern Australian Current!
Fish:
5. Trumpet Fish (Aulostomus chinensis)
I also this skink ages ago. Anybody know what it is?
Skink ID | ZooChat
Update from Kitulo National Park and from being on the road.
95. Pied crow
96. Diederik cuckoo
97. Yellow bishop
98. Montane marsh widowbird
99. African stonechat
100. European quail
101. Denham's bustard
102. Augur buzzard
103. Yellow-browed seedeater
104. Malachite sunbird
105. White-necked raven
106. Wing-snapping cisticola
107. Cape canary
108. White-rumped swift
109. Rufous-naped lark
110. Banded martin
111. Bronzy sunbird
112. Variable sunbird
113. Livingstone's turaco
114. Red-winged francolin
115. Starred robin
116. Yellow-bellied waxbill
117. Bar-throated apalis
118. Baglafecht's weaver
119. House sparrow
Mammals
22. African lion
23. Lichtensteins hartebeest
24. Kipunji
25. Common duiker
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