ZooChat Big Year 2019

Najade said:
6 nights at Bachsten Creek Bush Camp (one of the best if not the best thing I’ve done in Aus):
Mammals
33. Monjon (Petrogale burbidgei)
34. Northern Quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus)
35. Golden-backed Tree-rat (Mesembriomys macrurus)
36. Kimberley Rock-rat (Zyzomys woodwardi)
37. Rock Ringtail Possum (Petropseudes dahli)
38. Scaly-tailed Possum (Wyulda squamicaudata)
39. Dingo (Canis dingo)
40. Northern Cave Bat (Vespadelus caurinus)
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Sounds fantastic!! How many of these were you able to get photographs of? Will we be seeing them anytime soon ;)?
 
Najade said:
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Now how is that for timely service! Ask and ye shall receive!

Awesome photos as always!! At least 6 new species for the galleries/zoochat photographic guides! And seemingly the final rock wallaby for you!? I noticed in 2018 you saw Cape York Rock Wallaby, but any photos?

Did you see many of these multiple nights? I just looked up Bachsten Creek Bush Camp on a map and it's quite far from anything- how did you travel there?
 
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Giant Eland said:
Now how is that for timely service! Ask and ye shall receive!
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Might have a couple more later.

Awesome photos as always!! At least 6 new species for the galleries/zoochat photographic guides! And seemingly the final rock wallaby for you!?
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Yeah, I've seen them all now (though this group in particular seems to be prone to being split so you never know^^).
Still missing Nabarlek and Yellow-footed in the wild. Though the first is impossible atm so not much of a chance to complete the set. Would like to see it again at TWP now that I have more to compare it to.

I'd also still like to see the Kimberley Black-footeds but couldn't look for them because of my car troubles this time. To be fair I haven't been able to find out if the area is even accessible so it might not have happened anyways.

I noticed in 2018 you saw Cape York Rock Wallaby, but any photos?
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Nah, couldn't get any pics. Just saw one and it was too skittish.
The victoriae Short-eared's didn't let me get too close either. (There was one I might have had a chance with but it got scared off by a dingo.)

Did you see many of these multiple nights?
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I saw the Ringtails on two nights (they were the hardest to get), Scaly-tail and Rock-rat on three and the rest basically every night. No one knew why there were no Bandicoots showing.
Most of the birds I only saw once. It took me three days to find one single Kimberley Honeyeater and four days for the Partridge Pigeons which were everywhere that day and then I never saw them again.
I just looked up Bachsten Creek Bush Camp on a map and it's quite far from anything- how did you travel there?
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I had to buy a 4x4.
 
Day1: I went from Port Hedland to Broome (600km)
Day 2: from there via Derby to Windjana Gorge (360km)
Day 3: on to Mt Elizabeth Station (270km) about halfway down the Gibb River Road
Day 4: up the Munja Track to Bachsten (145km)

Up to Windjana it was mostly bitumen. The Gibb was a long and annoying dirt road though the western half was the better one (but even then the corrugations were pretty bad in certain stretches). The Munja was just a bush track with jump ups (one of them on fire), river crossings etc and those 145km took me all day on the way up and 6,5h on the way down.

Overall I travelled somewhere between 5000-6000km in the three weeks I was gone for this trip.
 
So,during these days I haven't been online on zoochat,but I've seen a lot of interesting birds.
This is my complete checklist:

1. House sparrow (Passer domesticus)
2. Eurasian jackdaw (Corvus monedula)
3. Italian sparrow (Passer italiae)
4. Common blackbird (Turdus merula)
5. Yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis)
6. Common starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
7. Alpine chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus)
8. Hooded crow (Corvus cornix)
9. Common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
10. Blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
11. Wood pigeon (Columba palumbus)
12. Collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
13. Grey heron (Ardea cinerea)
14. Coot (Fulica atra)
15. Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
16. Common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
17. Graylag goose (Anser anser)
18. Tufted duck (Aythya fuligula)
19. Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
20. Herring gull (Larus argentatus)
21. Great tit (Parus major)
22. Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
23. Robin (Erithacus rubecula)
24. Common swallow (Hirundo rustica)
25. Common swift (Apus apus)
26. Pallid swift (Apus pallidus)
27. Common flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)
28. Common magpie (Pica pica)
29. Common buzzard (Buteo buteo)
30. Laughing dove (Spilopelia senegalensis)
31. White-eyed gull (Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus)
32. Hooded wheatear (Oenanthe monaca)
33. Pale crag martin (Ptyonoprogne obsoleta)
34. Common hoopoe (Upupa epops)
35. Western reef egret (Egretta gularis)
36. Mangrove heron (Butorides striata)
37. Pallid harrier (Circus macrourus)
38. Black kite (Milvus migrans)
39. White stork (Ciconia ciconia)
40. House martin (Delichon urbicum)
41. Crag martin (Ptyonoprogne rupensis)
42. Common egret (Egretta garzetta)
43. Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
44. Serin (Serinus serinus)
45. Little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
46. Rock dove (Columba livia)
47. Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
48. Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
49. Mediterranean gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus)

There are other species,so I'm going to finish the checklist later.
 
Managed a couple of hours at Old Moor yesterday before the rain came to plug some sandpiper gaps, with my first UK Wood and Green Sandpipers of the year and one overall year addition:

Birds:
237. Common Sandpiper - Actitis hypoleuca

(UK: 185)

:)
 
Dannelboyz said:
BIRDS
245 - Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis flabelliformis)
246 - Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)
--- Eastern Whipbird (Psophodes olivaceus) [heard]
247 - Pilotbird (Pycnoptilus floccosus)
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Finally got around to seeing the bandies at Cranbourne today, plus some overdue additions from earlier in the year!

I should note that my invertebrate count was a bit messed up (I had skipped a couple numbers somewhere... so I've adjusted it.)

MAMMALS
24 - Southern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus)

AMPHIBIANS
-- Peron's Tree Frog (Litoria peronii) [heard]

INVERTEBRATES
43 - Greenhouse Millipede (Oxidus gracilis)*
44 - Grey Worm (Aporrectodea calignosa)*
 
-Bird List

52. Carrion crow (Corvus corone)

-Mammal List

1. European roe deer (Caproelus caproelus)

2. Indopacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)

3. Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus)

4. Red fox (Vulpes zerda)

Fish/Reptile/Amphibian Lists coming soon!
 
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-Fish List

1. Abudefduf vaigiensis
2. Acanthurus gahhm
3. Acanthurus sohal
4. Amphiprion bicinctatus
5. Apogon imperbis
6. Arotrhon diadematus
7. Atrosalarias fuscus
8. Chaetodon austriacus
9. Chaetodon fasciatus
10. Chaetodon paucifasciatus
11. Chaetodon semilarvatus
12. Chaetodon trifasciatus
13. Cheilinis lunulatus
14. Chlororus sordidus
15. Chromis chromis
16. Chromis dimidiata
17. Coris aygula
18. Chromis chromis
19. Chromis dimidiata
20. Damigella sulfurea
21. Gomphosus varius
22. Oblada melanura
23. Salpa salpa
24. Sargocentron spiniferum
25. Taeniura lymma
26. Zebrasoma desjardinii
27. Labroides dimidiatus
28. Rhinecanthus assasi
29. Pygoplites diacanthus
30. Serranus scriba
31. Scorpaena scrofa
32. Caesio lunaris
33. Scarus ferrugineus
34. Scarus frenatus
35. Heniochus intermedius
36. Naso elegans/lituratus
37. Pterois volitans
38. Paropeneus forsskali
39. Thalassoma pavo
40. Thalassoma rueppelli
41. Coris julis

And other specie that I'm going to add later.


-Reptile List

1. Podarcis siculus
2. Podarcis muralis
3. Lacerta bilineata
4. Hemidactylus turcicus
5. Tarentola mauritanica

-Amphibian List

1. Rana dalmatina
2. Bufo viridis
 
-Fish List

42. Thayerina boyeri
43. Tylosurus choram
44. Epinephelus marginatus
45. Mugil cephalus


N.20 is Pomacentrus sulfureus,the yellow damsel.
 
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