ZooChat Big Year 2018

KevinVar said:
82. European Stonechat (Saxicola rubicola)
83. Woodlark (Lullula arborea)
84. Parrot Crossbill (Loxia pytyopsittacus)
85. Red Kite (Milvus milvus)
86. Red Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra)
87. Crested Tit (Lophophanes cristatus)
88. Goldcrest (Regulus regulus)
89. Mistle Thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
90. Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus)
91. Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides)
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Finally back on the island for some long-awaited local birding.

BIRDS
92. Redwing (Turdus iliacus)
93. Rose-ringed Parakeet (Psittacula krameri)
94. Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
95. Common Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita)
96. Bearded Reedling (Panurus biarmicus)
97. Black-necked Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis)
98. Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
99. Cetti's Warbler (Cettia cetti)
100. Western Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)

MAMMALS
5. European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

INVERTS
4. Dotted Border (Agriopis marginaria)
 
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A few from today:

BIRDS:
166) Long-eared owl, Asio otus

INVERTEBRATES:
1) Common brimstone, Gonepteryx rhamni
2) Early bumblebee, Bombus pratorum
 
Macaw16 said:
Another thrush from the weekend (3/3/2018):

49. Redwing Turdus iliacus
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A few more from the past couple of weeks:

50. Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
51. Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
52. Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis
53. Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus

Amphibians:
1. Common Frog Rana temporaria
 
Zoo Tycooner FR said:
While trying to take pictures of birds with my new camera, I saw this rare species!

41 - Common nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos

Third time I see this species in my whole life.
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Birding in Issen as usual but this time I tried to reach remote areas and it seems like it paid off: a lifer!

42 - Common linnet, Linaria cannabina
43 - European greenfinch, Carduelis chloris
 
Completely forgot my first mammal as well! :eek:

MAMMALS:
1 - Barbary ground squirrel, Atlantoxerus getulus
 
lintworm said:
45. Alpine chamois

:p

And here come the birds from Tanzania:


63. Common ostrich
64. Cattle egret
65. Black-headed heron
66. Hamerkop
67. European white stork
68. Abdim's stork
69. African openbill stork
70. Marabou stork
71. Hadada ibis
72. Glossy ibis
73. African spoonbill
74. Egyptian goose
75. Knob-billed duck
76. White-faced whistling duck
77. Red-billed teal
78. Yellow-billed kite
79. Black-shouldered kite
80. Secretary bird
81. Hooded vulture
82. African white-backed vulture
83. Ruppell's griffon vulture
84. Lappet-faced vulture
85. Montagu's harrier
86. Eastern chanting goshawk
87. Dark chanting goshawk
88. Augur buzzard
89. Mountain buzzard
90. Tawny eagle
91. Bateleur
92. African crowned eagle
93. Common kestrel
94. Lesser kestrel
95. Greater kestrel
96. Lanner falcon
97. Helmeted guineafowl
98. Coqui francolin
99. Grey-breasted spurfowl
100. Black crake
101. Common moorhen
102. Grey-crowned crane
103. Kori bustard
104. Black-bellied bustard
105. Black-winged stilt
106. Two-banded courser
107. Collared pratincole
108. Blacksmith lapwing
109. Spur-winged lapwing
110. Crowned lapwing
111. Ruff
112. Little stint
113. Wood sandpiper
114. Common sandpiper
115. African grey-headed gull
116. African green pigeon
117. Speckled pigeon
118. Emerald-spotted wood dove
119. RIng-necked dove
120. Red-eyed dove
121. African mourning dove
122. Laughing dove
123. Dusky turtle dove
124. Fischer's lovebird
125. White-bellied go-away-bird
126. Schalow's turaco
127. Greater spotted cuckoo
128. White-browed coucal
129. Spotted eagle owl
130. Little swift
131. African palm swift
132. Speckled mousebird
133. Grey-headed kingfisher
134. Brown-hooded kingfisher
135. Woodland kingfisher
136. Little bee-eater
137. Cinnamon-chested bee-eater
138. White-throated bee-eater
139. European roller
140. Lilac-breasted roller
141. African grey hornbill
142. Crowned hornbill
143. Trumpeter hornbill
144. White-eared barbet
145. Brown-breasted barbet
146. Usambiro barbet
147. Rufous-naped lark
148. Fischer's sparrow-lark
149. Sand martin
150. Red-rumped swallow
151. Barn swallow
152. Lesser striped swallow
153. Wire-tailed swallow
154. Black saw-wing
155. African pied wagtail
156. Rosy-breasted longclaw
157. Grassland pipit
158. Common bulbul
159. White-browed robin-chat
160. Little rock thrush
161. Northern anteater chat
162. Whinchat
163. Capped wheatear
164. Schalow's wheatear
165. Northern wheatear
166. Blackcap
167. Zitting cisticola
168. Tawny-flanked prinia
169. Grey-backed cameroptera
170. Bar-throated apalis
171. Southern black flycatcher
172. Spotted flycatcher
173. African dusky flycatcher
174. African paradise flycatcher
175. Golden-winged sunbird
176. Amethyst sunbird
177. Variable sunbird
178. Collared sunbird
179. Common fiscal
180. Grey-backed fiscal
181. Magpie shrike
182. Tropical boubou
183. Black-backed puffback
184. Black-crowned chagra
185. Northern white-crowned shrike
186. Fork-tailed drongo
187. Pied crow
188. Cape rook
189. Red-billed oxpecker
190. Red-winged starling
191. Waller's starling
192. Greater blue-eared starling
193. Ruppell's long-tailed starling
194. Violet-backed starling
195. Superb starling
196. Hildebrandt's starling
197. Wattled starling
198. Speckle-fronted weaver
199. Swahili sparrow
200. Grey-headed sparrow
201. White-browed sparrow-weaver
202. Rufous-tailed weaver
203. White-headed buffalo weaver
204. Red-billed buffalo weaver
205. Black-headed weaver
206. Spectacled weaver
207. Red-headed weaver
208. Baglafecht's weaver
209. Red-billed quelea
210. Yellow bishop
211. Jackson's widowbird
212. White-winged widowbird
213. Southern red bishop
214. Red-cheeked cordonbleu
215. Red-billed firefinch
216. Bronze mannikin
217. Pin-tailed whydah
218. Yellow-fronted canary
219. Streaky seedeater

There are still loads of common East African birds missing, some which I will see in September....
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Time for an update again, as I haven't listed any European birds yet....

220. Little grebe
221. Great crested grebe
222. Great cormorant
223. Grey heron
224. European spoonbill
225. Mute swan
226. Greater white-fronted goose
227. Greylag goose
228. Barnacle goose
229. Canada goose
230. Cackling goose
231. Common shelduck
232. Mallard
233. Gadwall
234. Northern pintail
235. Northern shoveler
236. Eurasian wigeon
237. Green-winged teal
238. Common pochard
239. Crested pochard
240. Goosander
241. Common buzzard
242. European sparrowhawk
243. Red kite
244. Black kite
245. Common pheasant
246. European coot
247. European oystercatcher
248. Pied avocet
249. European golden plover
250. Northern lapwing
251. Dunlin
252. Green sandpiper
253. Common redshank
254. Black-tailed godwit
255. Curlew
256. Ruff
257. Black-headed gull
258. Common gull
259. Herring gull
260. Yellow-legged gull
261. Great black-backed gull
262. Wood pigeon
263. Stock dove
264. Eurasian collared dove
265. Green woodpecker
266. Greater spotted woodpecker
267. Fieldlark
268. Meadow pipit
269. European pied wagtail
270. Grey wagtail
271. European wren
272. European dipper
273. Dunnock
274. European robin
275. Song thrush
276. Fieldfare
277. Mistle thrush
278. European blackbird
279. Goldcrest
280. Coal tit
281. European blue tit
282. Great tit
283. European crested tit
284. Willow tit
285. European long-tailed tit
286. Eurasian nuthatch
287. European treecreepter
288. Eurasian magpie
289. Eurasian jay
290. Jackdaw
291. Rook
292. Black crow
293. Common raven
294. European starling
295. European chaffinch
296. European goldfinch
297. European greenfinch

Mammals

46. Red fox
47. European roe deer
48. Musk rat
49. House mouse
50. European red squirrel

Herps:
1. Common frog
2. Common wall lizard

Invertebrates
1. Small tortoiseshell
2. Common brimstone

Hopefully I will add a new mammal to my lifelist in Europe next week. That hasn't happened in allmost 3 years. I just have to hope that they have woken up again, but as the Souslik in Bern were already awake, their distant cousins in Vienna should behave the same hopefully.
 
Went chasing another North American vagrant today, and found my first garganeys of the year as well!

BIRDS:
167) Green-winged teal, Anas carolinensis
168) Garganey, Spatula querquedula
 
lintworm said:
Time for an update again, as I haven't listed any European birds yet....

220. Little grebe
221. Great crested grebe
222. Great cormorant
223. Grey heron
224. European spoonbill
225. Mute swan
226. Greater white-fronted goose
227. Greylag goose
228. Barnacle goose
229. Canada goose
230. Cackling goose
231. Common shelduck
232. Mallard
233. Gadwall
234. Northern pintail
235. Northern shoveler
236. Eurasian wigeon
237. Green-winged teal
238. Common pochard
239. Crested pochard
240. Goosander
241. Common buzzard
242. European sparrowhawk
243. Red kite
244. Black kite
245. Common pheasant
246. European coot
247. European oystercatcher
248. Pied avocet
249. European golden plover
250. Northern lapwing
251. Dunlin
252. Green sandpiper
253. Common redshank
254. Black-tailed godwit
255. Curlew
256. Ruff
257. Black-headed gull
258. Common gull
259. Herring gull
260. Yellow-legged gull
261. Great black-backed gull
262. Wood pigeon
263. Stock dove
264. Eurasian collared dove
265. Green woodpecker
266. Greater spotted woodpecker
267. Fieldlark
268. Meadow pipit
269. European pied wagtail
270. Grey wagtail
271. European wren
272. European dipper
273. Dunnock
274. European robin
275. Song thrush
276. Fieldfare
277. Mistle thrush
278. European blackbird
279. Goldcrest
280. Coal tit
281. European blue tit
282. Great tit
283. European crested tit
284. Willow tit
285. European long-tailed tit
286. Eurasian nuthatch
287. European treecreepter
288. Eurasian magpie
289. Eurasian jay
290. Jackdaw
291. Rook
292. Black crow
293. Common raven
294. European starling
295. European chaffinch
296. European goldfinch
297. European greenfinch

Mammals

46. Red fox
47. European roe deer
48. Musk rat
49. House mouse
50. European red squirrel

Herps:
1. Common frog
2. Common wall lizard

Invertebrates
1. Small tortoiseshell
2. Common brimstone

Hopefully I will add a new mammal to my lifelist in Europe next week. That hasn't happened in allmost 3 years. I just have to hope that they have woken up again, but as the Souslik in Bern were already awake, their distant cousins in Vienna should behave the same hopefully.
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Spring is on it's way, some species are arriving when others are (almost) leaving, characterized by two species I saw next to each other in my street this morning.

298. Brambling
299. Black redstart
 
A few assorted additions and new lists from wildlifing over the weekend - including among other things a bat box check, a very strange (escaped so un-numbered!) visitor at Attenborough NR, and finally that bright blue flash at Avenue Washlands. Also a UK Black-necked Grebe at Staunton Harold Reservoir advances the UK-only bird list to 141. Only the reptile list remains at zero.

Birds:
141. Marsh Tit - Poecile palustris
n/a. Bufflehead - Bucephala albeola
142. Egyptian Goose - Alopochen aegypticus
143. Common Kingfisher - Alcedo atthis

Mammals:
15. Soprano Pipistrelle - Pipistrellus pygmaeus

Amphibians:
1. Common Frog - Rana temporaria
2. Great Crested Newt - Triturus cristatus

Fishes:
1. Brown Trout - Salmo trutta

Invertebrates:
2. Common Shiny Woodlouse - Oniscus asellus
3. Red-tailed Bumblebee - Bombus lapidarius
4. Small Tortoiseshell - Aglais urticae

:)
 
LaughingDove said:
A couple of nice birds of prey from today:

92) Common Kestrel
93) Peregrine Falcon
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I don't normally do twitching at all, in fact I've never really done any twitching really, but the ideal opportunity presented itself today on a day that I had planned for birding anyway, so I decided to try and twitch a Great Northern Diver near a small town about an hour and a half's drive away. There are normally a few recorded annually in Poland and this was the first record of this species for this year.

94) Great Northern Diver - it turned out to be a rather easy twitch and I got a walk away view of the bird within as little as 10 metres away.
95) Common Woodpigeon
96) Song Thrush
97) Eurasian Bullfinch
 
Hix said:
Fish
278. Spotfin Lionfish
279. Honeycomb Grouper
280. Samoan Cardinalfish
281. Stars-&-Stripes Puffer

Inverts
22. Marbled Shrimp
23. Marmorated Sea Cucumber
24. Christmas Island Paper Wasp
25. Eggfly Butterfly
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Fish
282. Crimson Soldierfish
283. Bigeye Soldierfish
284. Fiveline Cardinalfish
285. Sixband Rockcod
286. Wolf Cardinalfish
287. Lunar Fusilier
288. Pennant Bannerfish
289. Yellow-tail Sergeant

Inverts
26. Flat Rock Crab

:p

Hix
 
Ituri said:
BIRDS:
78 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Regulus calendula
79 Wild Turkey - Meleagris gallopavo
80 Great Horned Owl - Bubo virginianus
81 Short-eared Owl - Asio flammeus
82 Eastern Meadowlark - Sturnella magna
83 Red-winged Blackbird - Agelaius phoeniceus
84 Killdeer - Charadrius vociferus
85 Blue-winged Teal - Spatula discors
86 Northern Shrike - Lanius borealis
87 Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla
88 Greater Yellowlegs - Tringa melanoleuca
89 American Pipit - Anthus rubescens
90 Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes
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Got a couple more local birds:

91 Common Grackle - Quiscalus quiscula
92 Brown-headed Cowbird - Molothrus ater

And then I took a road trip back to my old stomping grounds in the northwest.

93 Rough-legged Hawk - Buteo lagopus
94 Common Raven - Corvus corax
95 Black-billed Magpie - Pica hudsonia
96 California Gull - Larus californicus
97 Osprey - Pandion haliaetus
98 Western Meadowlark - Sturnella neglecta
99 Tundra Swan - Cygnus columbianus
100 Western Bluebird - Sialia mexicana
101 Mountain Bluebird - Sialia currucoides
102 Barrow's Goldeneye - Bucephala islandica
103 Northern Goshawk - Accipiter gentilis
104 White-crowned Sparrow - Zonotrichia leucophrys
105 Northern Saw-whet Owl - Aegolius acadicus
106 Canyon Wren - Catherpes mexicanus
107 Merlin - Falco columbarius
108 Virginia Rail - Rallus limicola
109 Yellow-headed Blackbird - Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus
110 California Quail - Callipepla californica
111 Ring-necked Pheasant - Phasianus colchicus
112 Brewer's Blackbird - Euphagus cyanocephalus
113 Rock Wren - Salpinctes obsoletus
114 Savannah Sparrow - Passerculus sandwichensis
115 Red-breasted Nuthatch - Sitta canadensis
116 Ferruginous Hawk - Buteo regalis
117 Golden Eagle - Aquila chrysaetos

Also picked up a few mammals along the way:
6 Pronghorn - Antilocapra americana
7 Mountain Cottontail - Sylvilagus nuttallii
8 Piute Ground Squirrel - Urocitellus mollis
9 White-tailed Prairie Dog - Cynomys leucrurus
 
ThylacineAlive said:
133) Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula*

*The ducks I saw are Mexican Ducks, diazi. I had never heard of these before today when I was going through my 'to be identified' pics and came upon a photo of a pair of very dark ducks which I assumed where American Black Ducks until I realized Arizona is far outside of that species' range. Apparently Mexican Ducks are a taxa which have most often been lumped as a population of Mallard but appear to be more closely related to American Black Duck. HBW lists them as a subspecies of Mottled Duck but there seems to be growing support for them to be split into their own species. Since I don't think I'm allowed to count them as a separate species just yet I'll simply include them as Mottled so I still get a tick and still get a lifer :p (and because I generally follow HBW's rulings anyway). Animals pictured below:

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~Thylo
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Sorry, but I'm not sure you can count them. As far as I know, almost all Mexican Ducks in the US are hybridized with Mallards.
 
birdsandbats said:
Sorry, but I'm not sure you can count them. As far as I know, almost all Mexican Ducks in the US are hybridized with Mallards.
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I know some of them are, but considering I was more or less on the border I think I'm save. One of the two birds I photographed seems to have some Mallard ancestry according to those I spoke to about the subject on the bird FB group I'm apart of, but everyone seems pretty confident that the second animal I photographed and much of the population at the park I saw them at will be pure.

~Thylo
 
Macaw16 said:
A few more from the past couple of weeks:

50. Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
51. Grey Heron Ardea cinerea
52. Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis
53. Common Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus

Amphibians:
1. Common Frog Rana temporaria
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A pleasant day at Washington WWT (28/3/2018) got me a few, the last one is from central Newcastle.

54. Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
55. Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus
56. Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta
57. Common Redshank Tringa totanus
58. Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita
59. Gadwall Anas strepera
60. Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major
61. Willow Tit Poecile montanus
62. Eurasian Jay Garrulus glandarius
63. Eurasian Nuthatch Sitta europaea
64. Brambling Fringilla montifringilla
65. Black-legged Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla
 
Ituri said:
Also picked up a few mammals along the way:
6 Pronghorn - Antilocapra americana
7 Mountain Cottontail - Sylvilagus nuttallii
8 Piute Ground Squirrel - Urocitellus mollis
9 White-tailed Prairie Dog - Cynomys leucrurus
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I had you on four mammals. Did I miss number five?
 
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