ZooChat Big Year 2019

Winton Wetlands, a 8,500ha wetland restoration project about 3 hours north of Melbourne. I only had about an hour for birdwatching.

281. Red-rumped parrot (Psephotus haematonotus)
282. White-winged chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos)
 
I've done a few wildilfe-y things lately, icluding a search of nocturnal creatures (great for owls, less so for mammals) and a fantastic birding day in the Biesbosch which unfortunately did not yield any new birds for the year list. I've got a week of wildlife-ing ahead of me, so I hope I'll get a few more species then.

Birds
216. European Golden Plover, Pluvialis apricaria
217. Rose-Ringed Parakeet, Psittacula krameri
218. Barn Owl, Tyto alba

Invertebrates
164. Orange Swift, Triodina sylvina
165. Antlion, Euroleon nostras
166. Silver Y, Autographa gamma
167. Spiny Shieldbug, Picromerus bidens
168. Harvestman, Leiobunum rotundum
 
lintworm said:
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
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Update after one week in Kenya. Not many updates as I have been confined to two compounds and spent only limited time outside.

395. Goliath heron
396. Black-headed heron
397. Glossy ibis
398. Lesser flamingo
399. Grey crowned crane
400. African orange-bellied parrot
401. Hartlaub’s turaco
402. Red-chested cuckoo
403. White-browed coucal
404. African scops owl
405. Verreaux’s eagle owl
406. Slender-tailed nightjar
407. Woodland kingfisher
408. Cinnamon-chested bee-eater
409. Lilac-breasted roller
410. Rufous-crowned roller
411. Green wood-hoopoe
412. Jackson’s hornbill
413. D’Arnaud’s barbet
414. Greater honeyguide
415. Nubian woodpecker
416. African rock martin
417. Black cuckooshrike
418. Cape robin-chat
419. Heuglin’s robin-chat
420. Spotted mourning-thrush
421. Brown parisoma
422. Cinnamon bracken warbler
423. Brown woodland warbler
424. White-eyed slaty flycatcher
425. African paradise flycatcher
426. Rufous chatterer
427. Northern double-collared sunbird
428. Amethyst sunbird
429. Beautiful sunbird
430. Variable sunbird
431. Collared sunbird
432. Common fiscal
433. Tropical boubou
434. Black-backed puffback
435. Northern white-crowned shrike
436. White-crested helmetshrike
437. African black-headed oriole
438. Red-winged starling
439. Rueppell’s long-tailed starling
440. Parrot-billed sparrow
441. White-billed buffalo weaver
442. Red-headed weaver
443. Yellow bishop
444. Common waxbill


Mammals

43. Vervet monkey
44. Yellow-winged bat
45. Impala
46. Thomson’s gazelle
47. Grant’s zebra
 
BIRDS:
637) Red-crested pochard, Netta rufina
638) Curlew sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea

INVERTS:
78) Mottled shieldbug, Rhaphigaster nebulosa
79) Gatekeeper, Pyronia tithonus
 
170 caspian tern
i got som bad fotos of it i almsot mist it. i thout it was a regular gul at firts then as it flew past notis that it wasent a gull
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Mammals
18) American Red Squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

~Thylo
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Forgot a bird:

Birds
95) Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris

EDIT: Also he's a bird I thought I'd added a while ago:

96) Ring-Billed Gull Larus delawarensis

~Thylo
 
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i the seson of the wader and i saw 3 new for the year and 2 off them was lifers
171 bar-tailed godwit
172 red knot
173 dunlin
 
Well, it seems like fall has started! The first rarity of the fall migration has been found, so just like last year's greenish warbler I figured I had to go take a look!

BIRDS:
639) Western Bonelli's warbler, Phylloscopus bonelli

After the warbler a friend and I went to some fields to look for interesting water birds and I found a cattle egret, which was exciting (but not new for the year).

Benelux: 189
 
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Najade said:
Reptiles
23. Two-spined Rainbow-skink (Carlia amax)
24. Northern Spotted Rock Dtella (Gehyra nana)
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Birding session at DeGrey River:

Mammals
51. Feral Goat (Capra hircus)

Birds
—. Black-tailed (Allied) Treecreeper (ssp wellsi)
 
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lintworm said:
Update after one week in Kenya. Not many updates as I have been confined to two compounds and spent only limited time outside.

395. Goliath heron
396. Black-headed heron
397. Glossy ibis
398. Lesser flamingo
399. Grey crowned crane
400. African orange-bellied parrot
401. Hartlaub’s turaco
402. Red-chested cuckoo
403. White-browed coucal
404. African scops owl
405. Verreaux’s eagle owl
406. Slender-tailed nightjar
407. Woodland kingfisher
408. Cinnamon-chested bee-eater
409. Lilac-breasted roller
410. Rufous-crowned roller
411. Green wood-hoopoe
412. Jackson’s hornbill
413. D’Arnaud’s barbet
414. Greater honeyguide
415. Nubian woodpecker
416. African rock martin
417. Black cuckooshrike
418. Cape robin-chat
419. Heuglin’s robin-chat
420. Spotted mourning-thrush
421. Brown parisoma
422. Cinnamon bracken warbler
423. Brown woodland warbler
424. White-eyed slaty flycatcher
425. African paradise flycatcher
426. Rufous chatterer
427. Northern double-collared sunbird
428. Amethyst sunbird
429. Beautiful sunbird
430. Variable sunbird
431. Collared sunbird
432. Common fiscal
433. Tropical boubou
434. Black-backed puffback
435. Northern white-crowned shrike
436. White-crested helmetshrike
437. African black-headed oriole
438. Red-winged starling
439. Rueppell’s long-tailed starling
440. Parrot-billed sparrow
441. White-billed buffalo weaver
442. Red-headed weaver
443. Yellow bishop
444. Common waxbill


Mammals

43. Vervet monkey
44. Yellow-winged bat
45. Impala
46. Thomson’s gazelle
47. Grant’s zebra
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A bird update will have to wait for some time, as I gave away my field guide to a group of rangers in a remote Kenyan conservancy. They profit more from it than I do...

Mammals

48. Unstriped ground squirrel
49. Heart-faced bat
50. Nubian (Rotschildt's) giraffe
51. Guenther's dikdik
52. (Black-necked) rock hyrax

+ an as yet unidentified free-tailed bat.
 
Well, someone says that who changes idea is intelligent.
If it's true, I'm incredibly intelligent.
From now, also the non-native birds I'm going to see will be added to a list (with a *).
This new rule won't be valid for mammals and other animals.
So, here we go.

56. Rose-ringed parakeet * - Psittacula krameri

57. Canada goose * - Branta canadensis

58. Egyptian goose * - Alopochen aegyptiaca

59. Mute swan * - Cygnus olor

60. Red-crested pochard (seen in Hyde Park, London) * - Nettia rufina

61. House crow * - Corvus splendens


Fishes

64. Five-spotted wrasse (Symphodus roissali)
 
Luca Bronzi said:
56. Rose-ringed parakeet * - Psittacula krameri

57. Canada goose * - Branta canadensis

58. Egyptian goose * - Alopochen aegyptiaca

59. Mute swan * - Cygnus olor

60. Red-crested pochard (seen in Hyde Park, London) * - Nettia rufina

61. House crow * - Corvus splendens
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As soon as you posted this list I knew it was in either St James's Park or Hyde Park, because during the week I live right next to them.
 
carl the birder said:
wher did you se the house crow
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Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.


So guys, I'm in a conflict with two animals which I'm hating because I can't identify them.
One is a falcon which I identified for first as a Pallid harrier, then as a Eurasian marsh harrier (which for now is cancelled from the list, but the situation probably will change.This is the last animal I eliminate from my checklists), and now as a Montagu's harrier, the second a gull which maybe was a Gray-headed gull (a rarity here in Italy!).
I think I'll be able to give you news about the bird checklist (60 species) during the next days.
Sorry for the drawback, but I'm soooo bad at identifiyng birds.
 
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