ZooChat Big Year 2019

[TeaLovingDave]

Visiting your girlfriend's family when they live in the deepest parts of the Northumbrian countryside is a handy way to be able to start the wildlife year off quickly..... but first, the formalities:

The basic rules as always:

1. Make sure to number your lists.
2. Keep separate numbered lists for whichever animals you are listing (birds, mammals, herptiles, fish, invertebrates)
3. Species must be part of an established wild population or be a natural migrant/vagrant/straggler. Exotics don't count unless they are part of an established breeding population in the country.
4. Animals must be wild.
5. Subspecies do not count towards your total, only full species.
6. Have fun.

Link to previous years:

ZooChat Big Year - Index

 

[TeaLovingDave]

And now, thanks to a quick wander outside....

2019 Bird Total - 1 taxon

1) Tawny Owl (Strix aluco)

 

[animal_expert01]

Birds:
1. Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus)
2. Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)
3. Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis)
4. Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala)
5. Fork Tailed Swift (Apus pacificus)
6. Torresian Crow (Corvus orru)
7. Australian Ibis (Threskiornis moluccus)

 

[Jambo]

After a quick 2 minute walk outside I spotted 3 species of birds!

Birds:

1.Australian Magpie (cracticus tibicen)
2. Magpie lark (Grallina cyanoleuca)
3. Rainbow loorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus)

 

[OstrichMania]

Literally looked outside the window and saw:
Birds:
1. Common Magpie (Pica pica)
2. Common Raven (Corvus corax)

 

[Jambo]

Literally looked outside the window and saw:
Birds:
1. Common Magpie
2. Common Raven

I think you also need the scientific names for them. By ‘Common magpie’ do you mean Eurasian magpie?

 

[Jambo]

Birds:

4- Australian raven (Corvus coronoides)

 

[Jambo]

I thought Common Magpie and the Eurasian Magpie were the same species but just different names?

They are. My mistake

 

[OstrichMania]

 

[animal_expert01]

Birds:
1. Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus)
2. Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)
3. Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis)
4. Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala)
5. Fork Tailed Swift (Apus pacificus)
6. Torresian Crow (Corvus orru)
7. Australian Ibis (Threskiornis moluccus)

Birds:
8. Pale Headed Rosella (Platycercus adscitus)
9. Welcome Swallow (irundo neoxena)

 

[Hix]

45 minutes birding this morning in the small reserve down the street.

1. Black Swan
2. Australian Wood Duck
3. Hardhead
4. Grey Teal
5. Pacific Black Duck
6. Feral Pigeon
7. Spotted Pigeon
8. Indian Mynah
9. Crested Pigeon
10. Pacific Koel
11. Dusky Moorhen
12. Eurasian Coot
13. Pied Cormorant
14. Little Pied Cormorant
15. Little Black Cormorant
16. White-faced Heron
17. Galah
18. Long-billed Corella
19. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
20. Rainbow Lorikeet
21. Australian King Parrot
22. Red-rumped Parrot
23. Noisy Miner
24. Grey Butcherbird
25. Australian Magpie
26. Magpie Lark
27. Australian Raven
28. Welcome Swallow
29. Eurasian Blackbird



Hix

 

[Jambo]

Birds:

4- Australian raven (Corvus coronoides)

Birds:

5. Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)
6. Red tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii)
7. Welcome Swallow (Irundo neoxena)
8. Australian pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus)
9. Noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala)
10. Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis)
11. Crescent Honeyeater (Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus)
12.Chestnut crowned babblers (Pomatostomus ruficeps)

I’m hoping to visit a lake down the road tomorrow so hopefully I can get some wetland birds in.

 

[animal_expert01]

Where did the see the red tailed black Cockatoo?

 

[Chlidonias]

11. Sitellas (Neosittidae)

A family does not count as a species...

 

[Jambo]

Where did the see the red tailed black Cockatoo?

I saw quite a few of them flying over a park whilst coming home. It was a pretty cool sight. First time i’ve seen them.

 

[Jambo]

A family does not count as a species...

I’ll remove it from my list than.

 

[WhistlingKite24]

Red tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii)

The only Victorian subspecies of red-tailed black cockatoo is graptogne (South-eastern red-tailed black cockatoo), which is listed as endangered. The Australian government estimates a population of 1000 birds.
Department of the Environment and Energy
It occurs on the Victorian/South Australian border.

 

[Chlidonias]

If it was Melbourne, they'd be Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos.

 

[WhistlingKite24]

If it was Melbourne, they'd be Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos.

That’s what I was thinking.

 

[Chlidonias]

1) Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
2) House Sparrow Passer domesticus
3) European Blackbird Turdus merula
4) Feral Pigeon Columba livia
5) Southern Black-backed (Kelp) Gull Larus dominicanus
6) Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
7) Tui Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae
8) Pied Fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa
9) Kaka Nestor meridionalis
10) New Zealand Pigeon Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae
11) Pied Shag Phalacrocorax varius
12) New Zealand Scaup Aythya novaeseelandiae
13) Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
14) Little Pied Shag Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
15) Black Shag (Great Cormorant) Phalacrocorax carbo
16) Saddleback Philesturnus carunculatus
17) New Zealand Robin Petroica australis
18) Waxeye Zosterops lateralis
19) Californian Quail Callipepla californica
20) Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
21) Hedge Sparrow (Dunnock) Prunella modularis
22) Whitehead Mohoua albicilla
33) Stitchbird Notiomystis cincta
24) New Zealand Bellbird Anthornis melanura
25) Brown Teal Anas chlorotis
26) Red-billed Gull Larus novaehollandiae