ZooChat Big Year 2019

birdsandbats said:
NOTE: One earlier species is removed due to suspected misidentification.

Birds
164. Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla
165. Baird's Sandpiper Calidris bairdii
166. Semipalmated Sandpiper Calidris pusilla
167. Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
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Birds
168. Semipalmated Plover Charadrius semipalmatus

I also saw a wild mink very up close, and the oddest roadkill I have ever seen - an American Golden-Plover.
 
Fish List

56. Lithognathus mormyrus
57. Parablennius zvonimiri


Invertebrate List

1. Musca domestica
2. Drosophila melanogaster
3. Formica rufa
4. Lasius niger
5. Apis mellifera
6. Bombus terrestris
7. Bombus hortorum
8. Vespa crabro
9. Thomisus onustus
10. Vanessa cardui
11. Arbacia lixula
12. Echinaster sepositus
13. Diadema setosus
14. Millepora dichotoma
15. Tridacna maxima
16. Octopus vulgaris
17. Pholcus phalangioides
18. Vanessa atalanta
19. Ichliceps podalirius
20. Colias crocea
21. Pieris rapae
22. Paracentrotus lividus
23. Clogmia albipunctata
24. Paleomon elegans
25. Pachygrapsus marmoratus
26. Holoturia tubulosa
27. Hermodice carunculata
28. Patella vulgata
29. Anemonia sulcata
30. Actinia equina

I'm going to add more species in the future.
For now there isn't any chronological order.
 
Invertebrate List

31. Xylocopa violacea
32. Aurelia aurita
33. Pelagia noctiluca
34. Vanessa atalanta
35. Cornu aspersum
36. Rhizostoma pulmo
37. Cicada orni
38. Polistes dominula
39. Macroglossum stellatarum
40. Lucanus tetraodon
 
Invertebrate List

N.19 is Iphiclides podalirius

41. Armadillidium vulgare
42. Fannia canicularis
43. Pimelia bipunctata
44. Evarcha falcata
 
Hadn't been planning a trip out today, and had to go slightly beyond my normal acceptable travel time for a single bird, but this was a special one - beautiful and showy bird and a whole new order for my British list, from a morning mission to West Yorkshire:

Birds:
238. Little Bustard - Tetrax tetrax

(UK: 186)

:)
 
Well, I know it's late but I still want to partecipate!:

Birds

1. Italian sparrow (Passer italiae)
2. Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
3. Hooded crow (Corvus cornix)
4. Common blackbird (Turdus merula)
5. Alpine chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus)
6. Common woodpigeon (Columbus palumbus)
7. House sparrow (Passer domesticus)
8. Herring gull (Larus argentatus)
9. Greylag goose (Anser anser)
10. Mute swan (Cygnus olor)
11. Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus)
12. Common magpie (Pica pica)
13. Canada goose (Branta canadensis)
14. Grey heron (Ardea cinerea)
15. Common moorhen (Gallinula chloropolus)
16. Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
17. Common starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
18. Tufted duck (Aythya fuligula)
19. Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
20. Common robin (Erithacus rubecula)
21. Yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis)
22. Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops)


I'm going to add more species (and the other lists) soon!
 
Birds

Due to possible misidentification, the little grebe is cancelled from the list, which now counts 54 species.

Fishes

58. Serranus cabrilla
59. Xyrichtys novacula
60. Balistes capriscus
61. Belone belone
62. Atherina hepsetus

Invertebrates

45. Pyrrhocoris apterus

Snorkeling in Mediterranean sea can be very interesting!

 
lintworm said:
I haven't really done any birding, but I'll have to update my list as next week I will be in Africa for work again...

315. Black kite
316. European honey buzzard
317. Eurasian hobby
318. Common linnet
319. Grey wagtail
320. Yellow wagtail
321. Pied avocet
322. Eurasian golden plover

Mammals

35. Lesser white-toothed shrew
36. Serotine
37. Common pipistrelle
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Due to some problems my time in Ethiopia was limited to only four days and I had to leave for Kenya earlier than expected, so I managed less birds than would normally be expected, even while none of them were seen during specific birding sessions:

322. Long-tailed cormorant
323. Hamerkop
324. Yellow-billed stork
325. Marabou
326. Abidm’s stork
327. Sacred ibis
328. Hadada ibis
329. Wattled ibis
330. Spur-winged goose
331. Fulvous whistling dick
332. Red-billed teal
333. Hooded vulture
334. White-backed vulture
335. Dark chanting goshawk
336. Augur buzzard
337. Tawny eagle
338. Pygmy falcon
339. Helmeted guineafowl
340. Red-knobbed coot
341. Spur-winged lapwing
342. Crowned lapwing
343. Speckled pigeon
344. Namaqua dove
345. African mourning dove
346. Dusky turtle dove
347. Laughing dove
348. White-bellied go-away-bird
349. Little swift
350. Mottled swift
351. Speckled mousebird
352. Blue-naped mousebird
353. Grey-headed kingfisher
354. White-throated bee-eater
355. Madagascar bee-eater
356. Little bee-eater
357. European roller
358. Black-billed woodhoopoe
359. Northern red-billed hornbill
360. African grey hornbill
361. Abyssinian ground hornbill
362. Banded martin
363. Common bulbul
364. Tawny-flanked prinia
365. Abyssinian slaty flycatcher
366. Somali fiscal
367. Fork-tailed drongo
368. Pied crow
369. Fan-tailed raven
370. Somali crow
371. Red-billed oxpecker
372. Greater blue-eared starling
373. Superb starling
374. Swainson’s sparrow
375. White-browed sparrow weaver
376. White-headed buffalo weaver
377. Village weaver
378. Rueppell’s weaver
379. Chestnut weaver
380. Northern red bishop
381. Red-billed firefinch
382. African silverbill
383. Long-tailed paradise whydah
384. Village indigobird
385. Brown-rumped seedeater
386. Red-eyed dove
387. Baglafecht’s weaver
388. Montane white-eye
389. Streaky seedeater
390. White-collared pigeon
391. Rueppell’s robin-chat
392. Olive thrush
393. African dusky flycatcher
394. Tacazze sunbird


Mammals

38. Beisa oryx
39. Soemmerring’s gazelle
40. Olive baboon
41. Hamadryas baboon
42. Common warthog
 
Ok guys,because I'm *****ng bad at identifying birds,another species in cancelled by my list:
The Pallid swift.
So now the list counts only 53 species )but the situation will change soon,I promise!)
Also,a mammal (the Wood mouse) maybe is going to be replaced with House mouse (I saw them in May in the exhibits of the Nocturnal house in London Zoo).


Fishes

63. Epinephelus costae (a very interesting animal!)

Invertebrates

45. Thaumetopoea pityocampa
46. Clibanarius erythropus


 
Spent Sunday and Monday on a slightly random tour of southern England with my dad, with the main targets being butterflies in the Chilterns and his first visit to Arne in Dorset.

In addition to the below assorted additions, I finally got a British reptile on the board for this year. The good news was it was a species I've never before seen in the UK, and only twice before overseas. The bad news is that both those two times overseas were in Poland earlier this year, so the Sand Lizard of Arne does not actually affect my Big Year total. New subspecies though..!

Birds:
239. Whimbrel - Numenius phaeopus
240. Dartford Warbler - Sylvia undata

(UK: 188)

Mammals:
36. Sika - Cervus nippon

Fishes:
11. Three-spined Stickleback - Gasterosteus aculeatus

Invertebrates:
71. Gatekeeper - Puronia tithonus
72. Small Skipper - Thymelicus sylvestris
73. Chalkhill Blue - Lysandra coridon
74. Brown Argus - Aricia aegestis
75. Silver-spotted Skipper - Hesperia comma
76. Dark Green Fritillary - Argynnis aglaja
77. Adonis Blue - Lysandra belargus
78. Silver-washed Fritillary - Argynnis paphia
79. Common Grayling - Hipparchia semele
80. Wall Brown - Lasiommata megera
81. Hairy Shieldbug - Dolycoris baccarum
82. Common Black Ground Beetle - Pterostichus melanarius
83. Ruddy Darter - Sympetrum sanguineum


:)
 
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Birds

23. House martin (Delichon urbicum)
24. Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)
25. Common swift (Apus apus)
26. Eurasian marsh-harrier (Circus aeroginosus)
27. European bee-eater (Merops apiaster)
28. Common starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

Mammals

1. Common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
2. Striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba)
3. Feral boar (Sus scrofa)
4. Red fox (Vulpes vulpes)
5. Grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
6. Common roe deer (Caproelus caproelus)

Reptiles

1. Podarcis siculus
2. Podarcis muralis
3. Hemidactylus turcicus
4. Tarentola mauritanica
5. Zamenis longissimus
 
Birds

54. Peregrine falcon - Falco peregrinus
55. Mistle thrush - Turdus viscivorus

Invertebrates

47. Uca tetragonon
48. Celastrina argiolus
 
So, due to another misidentification (yes I'm very bad at identifying animals),also the Corn bunting is cancelled by the bird list (54 species).
Please forgive me.
Fortunately, early I'm going to visit a natural reserve in Sicily where I can add to my list a lot of new animals (I think ten or more, flamingoes are almost sure), so my checklists (which is very mediocre for now) will be enlarged.
 
Zoo Tycooner FR said:
Forgot another mammal seen before the Red deer (so that one should be 5th and the following 4th). Along with that I've finally got most (if not all) the lizards seen at El Escorial identified adding me a few neat species!

20/07/2019 (Soto de las Juntas, Parque Regional del Sureste, Spain)
MAMMALS:
5 - European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus

21/07/2019 (Cañada Real Open Centre, El Escorial, Spain)
HERPS:
6 - Guadarrama wall lizard, Podarcis guadarramae
7 - Algerian psammodromus, Psammodromus algirus
8 - Ocellated lizard, Timon lepidus
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My first additions since coming from Spain were seen yesterday and they got quite the (partially undeserved, in my opinion) hate from the neighbourhood.

Rats tend to elude me for some reason so I was quite happy to see these two hours from each other, making for a great comparison!

15/08/2019 (L'Irak Bouargane, Agadir, Morocco)
MAMMALS:
6 - Black rat, Rattus rattus
7 - Brown rat, Rattus norvegicus
 
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