ZooChat Big Year 2017

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Great list!

Short-eared owl at #432 and #458 a mistake?

That is a mistake indeed... So the final total should be 501.

Mammals
92. South-American grey fox

Birds

The following are all from the Falkland Islands, where we cleaned up all breeding birds, except a few waterbirds (which we saw afterwards in Chile/Argentina) and some seabirds...

413. Southern caracara
414. Striated caracara
415. Blackish cinclodes (Tussacbird)
416. Rock cormorant
417. Imperial cormorant
418. Rufous-chested dotterel
419. Crested duck
420. Black-throated finch
421. Southern giant petrel
422. Kelp goose
423. Upland goose
424. Ruddy-headed goose
425. Silvery grebe
426. Dark-faced ground tyrant
427. Brown-hooded gull
428. Dolphin gull

429. Kelp gull (ssp. austrinus)
430. Variable hawk
431. Long-tailed meadowlark
432. Short eared owl
433. Blackish oystercatcher
434. Magellanic oystercatcher
435. Gentoo penguin
436. King penguin
437. Magellanic penguin
438. Macaroni penguin
439. Southern rockhopper penguin
440. Yellow-billed pintail
441. Correndera pipit
442. Two-banded plover
443. White-rumped sandpiper

444. Sooty shearwater
445. Snowy sheathbill
446. Black-chinned siskin
447. Brown skua ("Falkland skua")
448. Magellanic snipe
449. Falkland steamer duck
450. Silver teal
451. Speckled teal
452. South-American tern
453. Austral thrush
454. Turkey vulture
455. Chilean wigeon
456. Cobb's wren
457. Sedge wren

458. Short-eared owl (ssp. sanfordi)

Additionally the Falklands also had some new subspecies of species already seen this year (tuidara for Barn owl, cassini for Peregrine falcon, rubida for Sanderling and falklandicus for Black-crowned night heron).

The rarest bird species of the Falklands was a barn swallow (ssp. erythrogaster) though, which is a vagrant to the islands, whereas all other species are more regular species to these amazing islands.

then I spent almost 3 weeks in the extreme south of Chile (and a small detour into Argentina) with the following additional species in 2017:

459. Austral blackbird
460. Black-chested buzzard eagle
461. Cordilleran canastero
462. Chimango caracara
463. Dark-bellied cinclodes
464. Bar-winged cinclodes
465. Andean condor
466. Red-gartered coot
467. White-winged coot
468. Neotropic cormorant
469. Fire-eyed diucon
470. Tawny-throated dotterel
471. Eared dove
472. Spectacled duck
473. Torrent duck
474. Scale-throated earthcreeper
475. White-crested elaenia
476. Chilean flamingo
477. Chilean flicker
478. Great grebe
479. White-tufted grebe
480. Ochre-naped tyrant
481. Cinereous harrier
482. Black-faced ibis
483. American kestrel
484. Southern lapwing
485. Common miner
486. Austral negrito
487. Austral parakeet
488. Rufous-tailed plantcutter
489. Thorn-tailed rayadito
490. Darwin's rhea
491. Grey-hooded sierra finch
492. Chilean skua
493. Rufous-collared sparrow
494. Chilean swallow
495. Black-necked swan
496. Coscoroba swan
497. Tufted tit-tyrant
498. White-throated treerunner
499. Chocolate-vented tyrant
500. Magellanic woodpecker
501. Striped woodpecker
502. Southern house wren

I uploaded a few pictures to the Falkland Islands gallery, as there won't be a travel thread:

Falkland Islands - Wildlife | ZooChat
 
I guess everyone has had time to get their final totals in now, so here are the full results for 2017:


BIRDS:

Chlidonias – 633
lintworm – 501
LaughingDove – 489
Vision – 285
boof – 266
Ituri – 246
robmv – 239
Maguari – 216
TeaLovingDave – 207
Hevden – 202
Hix – 180
KevinVar – 172
DesertRhino150 – 165
Zoo Tycooner FR – 159
GerbenElzinga – 134
Macaw16 – 130
jbnbsn99 – 111
Fireplume – 108
animalszoos – 108
savethelephant – 100
Pleistohorse – 97
vogelcommando – 90
ThylacineAlive – 80
animal_expert01 – 64
zooboy28 – 48
BeardsleyZooFan – 40


MAMMALS:

lintworm – 92
Chlidonias – 86
LaughingDove – 53
Giant Panda – 49
TeaLovingDave – 37
Pleistohorse – 34
Maguari – 27
Vision – 27
DesertRhino150 – 25
savethelephant – 24
Zoo Tycooner FR – 19
animalszoos – 19
Ituri – 16
KevinVar – 15
Hix – 14
Macaw16 – 13
animal_expert01 – 12
Fireplume – 12
ThylacineAlive – 11
GerbenElzinga – 6
BeardsleyZooFan – 6
vogelcommando – 1


HERPTILES:

Ituri – 38 Herptiles total (27 Reptiles, 11 Amphibians)
LaughingDove – 35 Herptiles total (24 Reptiles, 11 Amphibians)
lintworm – 16 Herptiles total (13 Reptiles, 3 Amphibians)
Hix – 16 Herptiles total (16 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)
animal_expert01 – 16 Herptiles total (12 Reptiles, 4 Amphibians)
Maguari – 11 Herptiles total (4 Reptiles, 7 Amphibians)
TeaLovingDave – 10 Herptiles total (4 Reptiles, 6 Amphibians)
Vision – 8 Herptiles total (3 Reptiles, 5 Amphibians)
ThylacineAlive – 6 Herptiles total (2 Reptiles, 4 Amphibians)
Fireplume – 5 Herptiles total (3 Reptiles, 2 Amphibians)
DesertRhino150 – 5 Herptiles total (2 Reptiles, 3 Amphibians)
KevinVar – 5 Herptiles total (2 Reptiles, 3 Amphibians)
Macaw16 – 3 Herptiles total (1 Reptiles, 2 Amphibians)


FISH:

Hix – 332
animal_expert01 – 24
Maguari – 10
DesertRhino150 – 9
Vision – 2
Fireplume – 1


INVERTEBRATES:

Maguari – 120 assorted
Hix – 57 assorted (20 Crabs, 12 molluscs, 12 echinoderms, 6 insects, 4 shrimps, 3 other marine inverts)
lintworm – 55 assorted
DesertRhino150 – 53 assorted (24 lepidopterans, 17 odonatans, 10 hymenopterans, 2 orthopterans)
Vision – 23 assorted
animal_expert01 – 12 assorted
ThylacineAlive – 2 lepidopterans
Fireplume – 1 lepidopteran
 
And the full mammal list for the year is below. There are 326 species on the list (including various splits which may or may not be agreed upon, so take it as a general figure).

The previous years' totals are as follows:
2016: 380 species
2015: 252 species
2014: 332 species
2013: 219 species




Short-beaked Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus

Eastern Grey Kangaroo Macropus giganteus
Western Grey Kangaroo Macropus fuliginosus
Pretty-faced Wallaby Macropus parryi
Swamp Wallaby Wallabia bicolor
Red-legged Pademelon Thylogale stigmatica
Quokka Setonix brachyurus
Brush-tailed Bettong Bettongia penicillata
Koala Phascolarctos cinereus
Common Wombat Vombatus ursinus
Common Brushtail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula
Common Ringtail Possum Pseudocheirus peregrinus
Yellow-footed Antechinus Antechinus flavipes
Western Quoll Dasyurus geoffroii
Long-nosed Bandicoot Parameles nasuta
Virginia Opossum Didelphis virginiana

Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth Bradypus variegatus
Hoffman's Two-toed Sloth Choloepus hoffmanni
Nine-banded Armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus
Hairy Armadillo Chaetophractus sp.

Zanzibar Dwarf Galago Galagoides zanzibaricus
Bengal Slow Loris Nycticebus bengalensis
Central American Squirrel Monkey Saimiri oerstedii
White-throated Capuchin Monkey Cebus capucinus
Mantled Howler Monkey Alouatta palliata
Black-handed Spider Monkey Ateles geoffroyi
Yellow Baboon Papio cynocephalus
Olive Baboon Papio anubis
Hamadryas Baboon Papio hamadryas
Kipunji Rungwecebus kipunji
Sanje Mangabey Cercocebus sanjei
Sykes's Monkey Cercopithecus albogularis
Vervet Monkey Chlorocebus pygerythrus
Grivet Monkey Chlorocebus aethiops
Barbary Macaque Macaca sylvanus
Rhesus Macaque Macaca mulatta
Northern Pig-tailed Macaque Macaca leonina
Southern Pig-tailed Macaque Macaca nemestrina
Crab-eating Macaque Macaca fascicularis
Stump-tailed Macaque Macaca arctoides
Angolan Black-and-White Colobus Colobus angolensis
Udzungwa Red Colobus Procolobus gordonorum
Chamba Sacred Langur Semnopithecus ajax
Southern Plains Grey Langur Semnopithecus dussumieri
Dusky Langur Trachypithecus obscurus
Hatinh Langur Trachypithecus hatinhensis
Delacour's Langur Trachypithecus delacouri
Sunda Silvered Langur Trachypithecus cristatus
Indochinese Silvered Langur Trachypithecus germaini
Annamese Silvered Langur Trachypithecus margarita
Banded Leaf Monkey Presbytis femoralis
White-thighed Langur Presbytis siamensis
Hose's Grey Langur Presbytis hosei
Proboscis Monkey Nasalis larvatus
Red-shanked Douc Pygathrix naemeus
Black-shanked Douc Pygathrix nigripes
White-handed (Lar) Gibbon Hylobates lar
Pileated Gibbon Hylobates pileatus
North Bornean Gibbon Hylobates muelleri (funereus)
Southern Buff-cheeked Gibbon Nomascus gabriellae
Siamang Symphalangus syndactylus

Grey-headed Flying Fox Pteropus poliocephalus
Christmas Island (Black-eared) Flying Fox Pteropus melanotus
Lyle's Flying Fox Pteropus lylei
Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat Cynopterus sphinx
Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat Cynopterus brachyotis
Straw-colored Fruit Bat Eidolon helvum
Naked-rumped Tomb Bat Taphozous nudiventris
Common Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus
Nathusius' Pipistrelle Pipistrellus nathusii
Soprano Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pygmaeus
Serotine Eptesicus serotinus
Common Noctule Nyctalus noctula
Leisler's Bat Nyctalus leisleri
Natterer's Bat Myotis nattereri
Daubenton's Bat Myotis daubentonii
Little Brown Bat Myotis lucifugus
Brown Long-eared Bat Plecotus auritus
Lesser Free-tailed Bat Chaerephon pumilus
African Yellow-winged Bat Lavia frons
Heart-nosed Bat (African False Vampire Bat) Cardioderma cor

Sunda Colugo Galeopterus variegatus

Common Tree Shrew Tupaia glis
Northern Tree Shrew Tupaia belangeri
Northern Slender-tailed Tree Shrew Dendrogale murina

Common Shrew Sorex araneus
Eurasian Pigmy Shrew Sorex minutus
American Pigmy Shrew Sorex hoyi
Masked Shrew Sorex cinereus
Eurasian Water Shrew Neomys fodiens
Common Mole Talpa europaea
Western European Hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus
Northern White-breasted Hedgehog Erinaceus roumanicus

European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus
Eastern Cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus
Desert Cottontail Sylvilagus audubonii
Brown Hare Lepus europaeus
Mountain Hare Lepus timidus
Snowshoe Hare Lepus americanus
African Savannah Hare Lepus microtis
Black-naped Hare Lepus nigricollis
Woolly Hare Lepus oiostolus
Black-tailed Jackrabbit Lepus californicus
Large-eared Pika Ochotona macrotis

Eurasian Red Squirrel Sciurus vulgaris
Eastern Gray Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis
Western Grey Squirrel Sciurus griseus
Eastern Fox Squirrel Sciurus niger
Variegated Squirrel Sciurus variegatoides
American Red Squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
Poas Squirrel Syntheosciurus brochus
Arctic Ground Squirrel Spermophilus parryii
California Ground Squirrel Otospermophilus beecheyi
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel Callospermophilus lateralis
Uinta Ground Squirrel Urocitellus armatus
Black-tailed Prairie Dog Cynomys ludovicianus
Eastern Chipmunk Tamias striatus
Least Chipmunk Tamias minimus
Himalayan (Western) Striped Squirrel Tamiops macclellandi
Cambodian Striped Squirrel Tamiops rodolphii
Maritime Striped Squirrel Tamiops maritimus
Least Pygmy Squirrel Exilisciurus exilis
Five-striped Palm Squirrel Funambulus pennantii
Variable Squirrel Callosciurus finlaysoni
Prevost's Squirrel Callosciurus prevostii
Red-bellied (Pallas') Squirrel Callosciurus erythraeus
Grey-bellied Squirrel Callosciurus caniceps
Inornate Squirrel Callosciurus inornatus
Plantain Squirrel Callosciurus notatus
Slender Squirrel Sundasciurus tenuis
Berdmore's (Indochinese) Ground Squirrel Menetes berdmorei
Three-striped Ground Squirrel Lariscus insignis
Red-cheeked Ground Squirrel Dremomys rufigenis
Perny's Long-nosed Squirrel Dremomys pernyi
Zanj Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus undulatus
Ochre Bush Squirrel Paraxerus ochraceus
Barbary Ground Squirrel Atlantoxerus getulus
Unstriped Ground Squirrel Xerus rutilus
Striped Ground Squirrel Xerus erythropus
Groundhog Marmota monax
Black Giant Squirrel Ratufa bicolor
Cream-coloured Giant Squirrel Ratufa affinis
Spotted Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista elegans
Hairy-footed Flying Squirrel Belomys pearsonii

House Mouse Mus musculus / domesticus
Algerian Mouse Mus spretus
Gairdner's Shrew-mouse Mus pahari
Striped Field Mouse Apodemus agrarius
Wood Mouse Apodemus sylvaticus
Yellow-necked Mouse Apodemus flavicollis
Deer Mouse Peromyscus maniculatus
Barbary Striped Grass Mouse Lemniscomys barbarus
Cairo Spiny Mouse Acomys cahirinus
Guinea Multimammate Mouse Mastomys erythroleucus
Black Rat Rattus rattus
Asian House Rat Rattus tanezumi
Brown Rat Rattus norvegicus
African Grass Rat Arvicanthis niloticus
Neumanns Grass Rat Arvicanthis neumanni
Hispid Cotton Rat Sigmodon hispidus
Australian Water Rat Hydromys chrysogaster
Common Vole Microtus arvalis
Field Vole Microtus agrestis
Woodland Vole Microtus pinetorum
Tundra Vole Microtus oeconomus
Northern Red-backed Vole Myodes rutilus
Bank Vole Myodes glareolus
European Water Vole Arvicola amphibius (= A. terrestris)
Northern Collared Lemming Dicrostonyx groenlandicus
North American Brown Lemming Lemmus trimucronatus
Edible Dormouse Glis glis
Hazel (Common) Dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius
Asian Garden Dormouse Eliomys melanurus
Botta’s Pocket Gopher Thomomys bottae

Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus
Coypu Myocastor coypus
European Beaver Castor fiber
American Beaver Castor canadensis
North American Porcupine Erethizon dorsatum
Malayan Crested Porcupine Hystrix brachyura
Indian Crested Porcupine Hystrix indica
North African Crested Porcupine Hystrix cristata

African Bush Elephant Loxodonta africana
Asian Elephant Elephas maximus

Black-necked Rock Hyrax Procavia johnstonii
Abyssinian Rock Hyrax Procavia habessinica
Yellow-spotted Bush Hyrax Heterohyrax brucei
Southern Tree Hyrax Dendrohyrax arboreus

Checkered Sengi Rhynchocyon cirnei

Southern White Rhinoceros Ceratotherium simum

Indian Wild Ass (Khur) Equus hemionus khur
Grant's Zebra Equus quagga
Grevy's Zebra Equus grevyi

Malayan Tapir Tapirus indicus

Common Hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius

Masai Giraffe Giraffa (camelopardalis) tippelskirchi
Baringo Giraffe Giraffa (camelopardalis) rothschildi

Guanaco Lama guanicoe

Eland Taurotragus oryx
Beisa Oryx beisa
Topi Damaliscus lunatus (D. jimela)
Greater Kudu Tragelaphus strepsiceros
Lesser Kudu Tragelaphus imberbis
Bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus
*Menelik's Bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus meneliki
Defassa Waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus defassa
Lichtenstein's Hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus lichtensteinii
Bohor Reedbuck Redunca redunca
Southern Reedbuck Redunca arundinum
Nilgai Boselaphus tragocamelus
Blackbuck Antilope cervicapra
Impala Aepyceros melampus
Dorcas Gazelle Gazella dorcas
Grant's Gazelle Nanger granti
Soemmerring's Gazelle Nanger soemmerringii
Thomson's Gazelle Eudorcas thomsonii
Common Duiker Sylvicapra grimmia
Thomas's Dikdik Madoqua (kirkii) thomasi
Salt's Dikdik Madoqua saltiana
Gunther's Dikdik Madoqua guentheri

Pronghorn Antilocapra americana

European Red Deer Cervus elaphus
Sambar Cervus unicolor
Rusa Cervus (Rusa) timorensis
Sika Deer Cervus nippon
Chital (Spotted Deer) Axis axis
European Fallow Deer Dama dama
Caribou Rangifer tarandus
Eurasian Elk Alces alces
American Moose Alces alces (A. americanus)
White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus
Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus
Roe Deer Capreolus capreolus
Chinese Water Deer Hydropotes inermis
Common Muntjac Muntiacus muntjak
Fea's Muntjac Muntiacus feae
Reeves' Muntjac Muntiacus reevesi
Lesser Mouse Deer Tragulus kanchil

Alpine ibex Capra ibex
Spanish Ibex Capra pyrenaica
Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis
Dall Sheep Ovis dalli

Musk Ox Ovibos moschatus
Rocky Mountain Goat Oreamnos americanus
Bharal (Blue Sheep) Pseudois nayaur
Alpine chamois Rupricapra rupicapra
Cantabrian Chamois Rupicapra (pyrenaica) parva

Gaur Bos frontalis
African Buffalo Syncerus caffer

European Wild Pig Sus scrofa (scrofa)
***Central Asian Wild Pig Sus scrofa (davidi)
***Indian Wild Pig Sus scrofa (cristatus)
***Southeast Asian Wild Pig Sus scrofa (vittatus)
***Feral Pig Sus scrofa
Bornean Bearded Pig Sus barbatus
Common Warthog Phacochoerus africanus
Collared Peccary Pecari tajacu

West Indian Manatee Trichechus manatus

African Lion Panthera leo
Leopard Panthera pardus
Bobcat Lynx rufus
Jungle Cat Felis chaus
Leopard Cat Prionailurus bengalensis

Tibetan Wolf Canis lupus chanco
Coyote Canis latrans
African Golden Wolf Canis anthus
Golden Jackal Canis aureus
Black-backed Jackal Canis mesomelas
African Wild Dog Lycaon pictus
Red Fox Vulpes vulpes
Arctic Fox Vulpes lagopus
South American Grey Fox Lycalopex griseus
Andean Fox (Culpeo) Lycalopex culpaeus
Bat-eared Fox Otocyon megalotis

Brown Bear Ursus arctos
Polar Bear Ursus maritimus
American Black Bear Ursus americanus

Spotted Hyaena Crocuta crocuta

Least Weasel Mustela nivalis
Stoat Mustela erminea
European Polecat Mustela putorius
American Mink Neovison vison
Pine Marten Martes martes
Yellow-throated Marten Martes flavigula
European Otter Lutra lutra
North American River Otter Lontra canadensis
Sea Otter Enhydra lutris

European Badger Meles meles
Striped Skunk Mephitis mephitis
Humboldt's Hog-nosed Skunk Conepatus humboldtii

Asian Palm Civet Paradoxurus hermaphroditus
Small Indian Civet Viverricula indica
Large Indian Civet Viverra zibetha
Malay Civet Viverra tangalunga

Small Asian Mongoose Herpestes javanicus
Crab-eating Mongoose Herpestes urva
Indian Grey Mongoose Herpestes edwardsii
Egyptian Mongoose Herpestes ichneumon
Slender Mongoose Galerella sanguinea
Banded Mongoose Mungos mungo
White-tailed Mongoose Ichneumia albicauda
Common Dwarf Mongoose Helogale parvula

Common Raccoon Procyon lotor
Crab-eating Raccoon Procyon cancrivorus
White-nosed Coati Nasua narica

Common (Harbour) Seal Phoca vitulina
Spotted Seal Phoca largha
Ringed Seal Pusa hispida
Grey Seal Halichoerus grypus
Southern Elephant Seal Mirounga leonina
California Sealion Zalophus californianus
Patagonian Sealion Otaria flavescens
New Zealand Fur Seal Arctocephalus forsteri

Grey Whale Eschrichtius robustus
Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae

Beluga Delphinapterus leucas
Killer Whale (Orca) Orcinus orca
Common Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Indopacific Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops aduncus
Short-beaked Common Dolphin Delphinus delphis
Striped Dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba
Spinner Dolphin Stenella longirostris
Harbour Porpoise Phocoena phocoena
Indopacific Humpback Dolphin Sousa chinensis
Gangetic Dolphin Platanista gangetica
Irrawaddy Dolphin Orcaella brevirostris
 
I won’t be posting my whole list, as I didn’t really keep track the whole year, but I can contribute one mammal to the ZooChat totals for the year: southeastern shrew.
 
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