ZooChat Big Year 2018

mammals
1 red fox
2 european bager
3 stoat
4 grey seal
5 marutanian tomb bat
6 common noctule( i have sen lots of micro bats but this one was around in the mindel of the day in november)
7 maritus flying fox
8 tailes tenerac (intruduse on mauritus)
9 asian house shrew( introduse on mauritus)
10. european red squrirrel
11 brown rat
12 mosse
13 roe dear
14 fallow deer
15 europerian hare
sory for all the wrong taxonomy order and probely speling

migth do birds but not shore i have time for that
 
Mammals
114. Red-necked Wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus)
115. Red Deer (Cervus elaphus)

Birds (non-passerines)
476. Sooty Owl
477. Wonga Pigeon

Reptiles
148. Major Skink (Bellatorias frerei)
 
Birds (non-passerines)
478. Shining Bronze-cuckoo

Birds (passerines)
479. Bell Miner
 
After a bit of thinking I've decided that I am going to count the Bufflehead that I saw in August. Most of the Dutch birding community counts it, quite a lot of people went to see it, and it was definitely behaving like a genuine, wild bird would...

BIRDS:
328) Bufflehead, Bucephala albeola

In other news, @KevinVar, a friend and I went to see a probable Eastern yellow wagtail today, but as it's not yet 100% certain which of the yellow wagtail taxa the bird belongs to, I won't be counting it yet. Afterwards we did have a go at some interesting geese nearby, though, which was definitely worth the effort!

xxx) Eastern yellow wagtail, Motacilla tschutschensis
329) Lesser white-fronted goose, Anser erythropus
 
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ThylacineAlive said:
One I forgot to add last night, which would actually make the robin #200.

Birds
200) Common Buzzard Buteo buteo

I believe this is the first time I've hit 200 birds in one year :)

~Thylo
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A few more from Europe:

Birds
201) Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica
202) Black Redstart Phoenicurus ochruros
203) Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
204) Red Kite Milvus milvus

Amphibians
4) Marsh Frog Pelophylax ridibundus

~Thylo
 
After the worst birding I've had since I came to Australia this is the combined list of two days in Lamington NP.

Birds (passerines)
482. Red-browed Treecreeper
483. Regent Bowerbird
484. Paradise Riflebird

Reptiles
149. Southern Leaf-tailed Gecko (Saltuarius swaini)
150. Murray's Skink (Karma murrayi)
151. Eastern Water Skink (Eulamprus quoyii)
152. Land Mullet (Bellatorias major)


At least I have all Aussie BoPs and Bowerbirds now.
 
Mammals
117. Eastern Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus megaphyllus)

Birds (non-passerines)
485. Chestnut Teal
486. Square-tailed Kite

Amphibians
36. Stuttering Frog (Mixophyes balbus)
 
Mammals
118. Rusa Deer (Rusa timorensis)

Birds (non-passerines)
487. Aleutian Tern
488. Double-banded Plover
489. Sanderling

Birds (passerines)
490. Rufous Scrub-bird
491. Superb Lyrebird

Reptiles
153. Southern Angle-headed Dragon (Lophosaurus spinipes)
154. Barking Gecko (Underwoodisaurus milii)

Amphibians
37. Freycinet's Frog (Litoria freycineti)
38. Lesueur's Frog (Litoria lesueurii)
39. Leaf Green Tree Frog (Litoria phyllochroa)
40. Giant Burrowing Frog (Heleioporus australiacus)
 
Had an odd little slightly extended weekend last week with a couple of outings that allowed me to make a few additions. All the brand new species for the list are from RSPB Minsmere (including an overdue lifer):

Birds:
216. Caspian Gull - Larus cachinnans
217. Dartford Warbler - Sylvia undata

Mammals:
29. Eurasian Otter - Lutra lutra

The UK-only bird count also pulled to within five of the global one (consequence of a very good year of UK birding plus basically no real overseas birding this year) to 212.

The first UK upgrade was for Black Redstart, seen earlier in the year in France, which I was able to find at Ness Point in Lowestoft (the most easterly point in the UK, fact fans!). The other upgrade was from Regent's Park as I walked to London Zoo - a UK sighting for Ring-necked Parakeet, already seen in Belgium.

The otter means that despite calendar issues keeping me from almost every bat group event this year, mammals now join birds in having 2018 as my most successful UK year on 28.
 
Maguari said:
The first UK upgrade was for Black Redstart, seen earlier in the year in France, which I was able to find at Ness Point in Lowestoft (the most easterly point in the UK, fact fans!)
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'Most easterly point' is the one most people don't know compared to most northerly, southerly, westerly etc. From memory its just a boring little green space and some rocks isn't it, with nothing to mark its location ?

I also saw Black Redstart in France this year, commoner there than in UK though I've seen them here too( there's one currently resident just a couple of miles away from me at present).
 
Pertinax said:
'Most easterly point' is the one most people don't know compared to most northerly, southerly, westerly etc. From memory its just a boring little green space and some rocks isn't it, with nothing to mark its location ?
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It's basically a small car park behind some warehouses and a wind turbine, with some rocks in front of the sea wall. In between there is a coastal path that has a big compass-type pavement design on the actual point. Nothing green! There were Turnstone and Purple Sandpiper on the rocks, and the redstarts were hanging around the base of turbine and flying up to the rooves of the industrial buildings. Not a place you'd be likely to go in the ordinary course of things!
 
Maguari said:
It's basically a small car park behind some warehouses and a wind turbine, with some rocks in front of the sea wall. In between there is a coastal path that has a big compass-type pavement design on the actual point. Nothing green! There were Turnstone and Purple Sandpiper on the rocks, and the redstarts were hanging around the base of turbine and flying up to the rooves of the industrial buildings. Not a place you'd be likely to go in the ordinary course of things!
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I remember the rocks in front of the seawall. The 'greenspace' I mentioned was a little park but that's way back from the 'most easterly' point no doubt...grotty place!
 
I've had quite a few nice birding sessions since my last update, but they did not yield any new birds for the year list. However, a search for mammals resulted in an unexpected lifer!

Mammals
24. Brown long-eared bat [Plecotus auritus]

Fish
5. European perch [Perca fluviatilis]

Invertebrates
195. Common earwig [Forficula auricularia]

Also very cool but uncountable was eye shine which could only have been from a badger based on the way it moved and behaved, but we only saw the eye shine and not the animal itself.
 
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Birds (passerines)
492. Eastern Bristlebird
493. Rose Robin
494. Pilotbird
495. Yellow Thornbill
496. White-browed Woodswallow
497. Common Starling

Amphibians
41. Common Eastern Froglet (Crinia signifera)
 
Mr. Zootycoon said:
Also very cool but uncountable was eye shine which could only have been from a badger based on the way it moved and behaved, but we only saw the eye shine and not the animal itself.
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I've had that - you know what it was, but it was only eye-shine so you can't count it. Frustrating.
 
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