ZooChat Big Year 2019

Now, I have to do a question:
In July, I saw two times boars.
Recently I've discovered that boars in Italy (except Sardinian ones) are almost all hybrids between Italian original boars and East/Central-European boars,that hunters introduced here in the 50's.
Can I sign them or not?

Are the boars in Italy considered a separate taxa?

Either way, I'd imagine they're all considered the same species so subspecific hybrids should count.

~Thylo
 
Birds
170. Sedge Wren Cistothorus stellaris

171. Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata
172. Sora Porzana carolina
173. Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
174. Green-winged Teal Anas crecca

I missed a vagrant Red-necked Phalarope today, but two lifers and 56 species is still nothing to scoff at!
A beautiful vagrant duck and a nice woodpecker for today:

Birds
175. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis

176. Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
 
Recently I went on a one-day boat trip to find sea birds. I really enjoyed it and we had multiple great sightings, such as skuas flying at only ten meters distance, gannets hanging around just above our heads or encountering guillemots resting on the sea surface. Best bird was undoubtely a Northern Fulmar. No porpoises or shearwaters unfortunately, they'll have to wait for the next boat trip!

Birds
240. Great Skua, Stercorarius skua
241. Northern Fulmar, Fulmaris glacialis
 
I've a question I hope you are able to answer.
As you know,in my Bird checklists I signed the Hooded wheatear, but I'm not sure anymore the ID is correct.
I saw the two birds in Nabq Desert, Egypt (near Sharm el Sheikh) in May.
Is this species a resident there?
 
And some very nice rarities were found at the coast today as well, which was very nice!

BIRDS:
650) Red-breasted flycatcher, Ficedula parva

651) Greenish warbler, Phylloscopus trochiloides
652) Grey partridge, Perdix perdix

Another day at the coast got me a few more great species!

BIRDS:
653) Eurasian dotterel, Charadrius morinellus
654) Common quail, Coturnix coturnix
656) Richard's pipit, Anthus richardi
657) Little stint, Calidris minuta

(Benelux: 205)

INVERTS:
82) Saltmarsh knot-horn, Ancylosis oblitella

83) Small heath, Coenonympha pamphilus
84) Meadow brown, Maniola jurtina
85) Lesser treble-bar, Aplocera efformata
86) Small copper, Lycaena phlaeas

87) Lunar underwing, Agrochola lunosa
88) Square-spot rustic, Xestia xanthographa
89) Red underwing, Catocala nupta
90) Bright-line brown-eye, Lacanobia oleracea
 
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MAMMALS:
40) House mouse, Mus musculus
41) Harbour seal, Phoca vitulina
I went back a few pages but couldn't find your last post with mammals. However I already had you on 40, so is there a numbering error somewhere?
 
And now the birds

Baringo

445. Common ostrich
446. African darter
447. Purple heron
448. Squacco heron
449. White-faced whistling duck
450. African fish eagle
451. Verreaux’s eagle
452. Crested francolin
453. Black crake
454. African jacana
455. Black-headed lapwing
456. Gull-billed tern
457. Meyer’s brown parrot
458. Diederik cuckoo
459. Jacobin cuckoo
460. Common hoopoe
461. Pied kingfisher
462. African pygmy kingfisher
463. Malachite kingfisher
464. Striped kingfisher
465. Red-fronted barbet
466. Grey woodpecker
467. Cardinal woodpecker
468. Wire-tailed swallow
469. Lesser striped swallow
470. White-browed scrub-robin
471. Northern crombec
472. Grey-backed camaroptera
473. Southern black flycatcher
474. Grey-backed shrike
475. Wattled starling
476. Bristle-crowned starling
477. Eastern violet-backed sunbird
478. Yellow-spotted petronia
479. Cut-throat finch
480. Northern masked weaver
481. Pin-tailed whyda


Aberdare

482. African spoonbill
483. African black duck
484. Yellow-billed duck
485. Black sparrowhawk
486. Mountain buzzard
487. Long-crested eagle
488. Scaly francolin
489. African snipe
490. Eastern bronze-naped pigeon
491. Red-fronted parrot

492. White-rumped swift
493. African black swift
494. European bee-eater
495. White-cheeked hornbill
496. Crowned hornbill
497. Black saw-wing
498. Red-rumped swallow
499. Mountain wagtail
500. White-bellied tit
501. Little rock thrush
502. Moorland chat
503. Northern anteater chat
504. Aberdare cisticola
505. Chestnut-throated apalis

506. Slender-billed starling
507. Golden-winged sunbird
508. Kenya rufous sparrow
509. Spectacled weaver
510. Brown-capped weaver
511. African firefinch
512. Purple grenadier
513. Reichenow’s seedeater


Ol Pejeta

514. Intermediate egret
515. Pink-backed pelican
516. Black-shouldered kite
517. Egyptian vulture
518. Yellow-necked spurfowl
519. Kori bustard
520. Black-bellied bustard
521. White-bellied bustard
522. Spotted thick-knee
523. Temminck’s courser
524. Kittlitz’s plover
525. African three-banded plover
526. Blacksmith plover
527. Black-winged lapwing
528. Common greenshank
529. Cape turtle dove
530. Emeral spotted-wood dove
531. Secretary bird
532. Bearded woodpecker
533. Red-winged lark
534. Fischer’s sparrow lark
535. African pipit
536. Black-lored babbler
537. African grey flycatcher
538. Violet-backed starling
539. Yellow-billed oxpecker
540. Red-billed buffalo weaver
541. Grey-capped social weaver
542. Speke’s weaver

Samburu

543. Somali ostrich
544. Lappet-faced vulture
545. Brown snake eagle
546. Bateleur
547. Gabar goshawk
548. Shikra
549. Steppe eagle
550. Martial eagle
551. Vulturine guineafowl
552. Buff-crested bustard
553. Black-faced sandgrouse
554. African palm swift
555. White-headed mousebird
556. Abyssinian scimitarbill
557. Eastern yellow-billed hornbill
558. Decken’s hornbill
559. Black-throated barbet
560. Red-and-yellow barbet
561. Northern brownbul
562. Bare-eyed thrush
563. Banded parisoma
564. Brubru
565. Slate-coloured boubou
566. Hunter’s sunbird
567. Donaldson-Smith’s sparrow weaver
568. Black-capped social weaver

569. Lesser masked weaver
570. Black-necked weaver
571. Black-cheeked waxbill
572. White-bellied canary
573. Somali golden-breasted bunting

A few updates from Eastern Germany (mammals) and Jihlava zoo (bird)

574. Hawfinch


Mammals

91. Red fox
92. Striped field mouse

I have also uploaded the remaining pictures from Kenya:
Kenya - Wildlife - ZooChat
 
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@Chlidonias I found out where I went wrong, in my post about Panama (here) I skipped #32 for some reason. I must have noticed it later and changed it on my personal lists but not here, but 41 is my actual correct count! I put the full correct list in the spoiler below.

1) European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus
2) Brown hare, Lepus europaeus
3) Short-finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus
4) Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops trunctatus
5) Siberian chipmunk, Eutamias sibiricus
6) Greater white-toothed shrew, Crocidura russula

7) Western roe deer, Capreolus capreolus
8) Pallas’ squirrel, Callosciurus erythraeus
9) Javan mongoose, Herpestes javanicus
10) Maritime striped squirrel, Tamiops maritimus
11) Berdmore's ground squirrel, Menetes berdmorei
12) Delacour's langur, Trachypithecus delacouri
13) Asian red-cheeked ground squirrel, Dremomys rufigenis
14) Burmese ferret-badger, Melogale personata
15) Red-shanked douc, Pygathrix nemaeus
16) Black giant squirrel, Ratufa bicolor
17) Rhesus macaque, Macaca mulatta

18) Crab-eating macaque, Macaca fascicularis
19) Northern smooth-tailed tree-shrew, Dendrogale murina
20) Southern buff-cheeked gibbon, Nomascus gabriellae
21) Northern tree shrew, Tupaia belangeri

22) Sambar, Rusa unicolor
23) Black-shanked douc, Pygathrix nigripes
24) European red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris
25) Western hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus
26) Common pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pipistrellus
27) Stoat, Mustela erminea
28) Beech marten, Martes foina
29) Red fox, Vulpes vulpes
30) Central American agouti, Dasyprocta punctata
31) Brown-throated three-toed sloth, Bradypus variegatus
32) Variegated squirrel, Sciurus variegatoides
33) White-nosed coati, Nasua narica
34) Red-tailed squirrel, Sciurus granatensis

35) White-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus
36) Hoffmann's two-toed sloth, Choloepus hoffmanni
37) Mantled howler monkey, Alouatta palliata (Coiba Island howler monkey)
38) White-faced capuchin, Cebus capucinus (Panamanian white-faced capuchin)
39) Western dwarf squirrel, Microsciurus mimulus (Boquete dwarf squirrel)

40) House mouse, Mus musculus
41) Harbour seal, Phoca vitulina
 
Birds

So, during these days I thinked a lot about the Hooded wheatear and at the end I've decided to eliminate it from my list.
But it's okay, because I'm almost sure I identified the gull I saw some weeks ago in Apulia, Italy.
It had a red beak and a Michahellis-similar irid, so in conclusion it was a juvenile of...


64. Slender-billed gull - Chroicocephalus genei



Edit:

I'm not anymore sure about the ID, so for now I won't sign this species.

The bird list counts 63 species
 
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It had a red beak and a Michahellis-similar irid, so in conclusion it was a juvenile of...
64. Slender-billed gull - Chroicocephalus genei
This might be an error in your translation, but juvenile Slender-billed Gulls have a pale orange bill with dark tip, not a red bill.
 
Haven't done much birding, so just have a couple of overdue July updates:

Birds
230. Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)

Mammals
32. North American Deer Mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus)

A couple more minor updates:

Birds
231. American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)

Mammals
33. Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus)
 
Mammals

6. Wild boar - Sus scrofa

Fishes

A species from Red Sea I forgot to sign.

60. Yellowtail tang - Zebrasoma xanthurum
 
-Mammals

6 Species

-Birds

62 Species

-Reptiles

7 Species

-Amphibians

2 Species

-Fishes

60 Species

-Invertebrates


49 Species


This is the actual situation.

 
A few more from a few places in the country! In my previous post I jumped from 654 to 656 for some reason, which I've now fixed - 657 is the correct total.

BIRDS:

657) Yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella

(Benelux: 206)

MAMMALS:
42) Brown rat, Rattus norvegicus

INVERTS:
91) Carnation tortrix, Cacoecimorpha pronubana
92) Common blue, Polyommatus icarus
93) Blue-winged grasshopper, Oedipoda caerulescens
94) Barred grass-veneer, Agriphila inquinatella
95) Migrant hawker, Aeshna mixta
96) Wall brown, Lasiommata megera
 
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A beautiful vagrant duck and a nice woodpecker for today:

Birds
175. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis

176. Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
Seen on a school field trip (to the zoo!) today:

Birds
177. Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi
 
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