ZooChat Big Year 2019

Definitely into the 'law of diminishing returns' phase of the year around these parts in terms of year listing, but had a very pleasant afternoon at Old Moor today that gained me one new one:

Birds:
245. Little Stint - Calidris minuta

(UK: 195)

:)
 
birdsandbats said:
One earlier bird species is removed due to suspected misidentification, bringing my total to 169 species.

Mammals
14. Hoary Bat Aeorestes cinereus
15. Snowshoe Hare Lepus americanus
16. Little Brown Bat Myotis lucifugus

Herpitiles
13. Green Frog Lithobates clamitans
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Seen in the talons of a Red-tailed Hawk:

Mammals
17. Norway Rat Rattus norvegicus
 
animal_expert01 said:
Birds:
133. Eastern Whip Bird (Psophodes olivaceus)
134. Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)
135. Jabiru (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus)

Saw the glossy ibis for real this time. The jabirus were very, very unexpected lifers. I saw a pair, who, along with the glossy ibis, were feeding in a small dam along the Yandina Coolum Road. A pair is known to frequent the Yandina wetlands so this was probably them. Easily one of the rarest birds on the Sunshine Coast.

Also decided that the oriental Pratincoles (number 119) were almost certainly Australian Pratincoles so Oriental Pratincole is removed from my list and Australian Pratincole is added.
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Birds:
136. Red Backed Fairy Wren (Malurus melanocephalus)
137. Australian Pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae)

Fish:
23. Cowtail Stingray (Pastinachus sephen)

A few new additions from the mangroves near my house. Also saw a male variegated Fairy Wren, a lace monitor and a very large male eastern grey kangaroo,
 
Autumn migration has really started in the Netherlands, and I've already seen several rarities during migration counting. Most them them (like tawny pipit and lapland longspur) are not new for my year list, but it also yielded an unexpected lifer!

Birds
242. Richard's Pipit, Anthus richardi
 
Birds:
167. Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
Inverts:
60. Orange-patched Smoky Moth Pyromorpha dimidiata
61. Dimorphic Jumping Spider Maevia inclemens
62. Tan Jumping Spider Platycryptus undatus
63. Bold Jumping Spider Phidippus audax
64. Zebra Jumping Spider Salticus scenicus
65. A Picture-winged Fly Delphinia picta
66. Black Horse Fly Tabanus atratus
67. Atlantic Sand Fliddler Uca pugilator
68. Atlantic Mole Crab Emerita talpoida
69. Eastern Black Carpenter Ant Camponotus pennsylvanicus
 
Dannelboyz said:
MAMMALS
27 - Southern Long-nosed Bandicoot (Perameles nasuta)
28 - Western Grey Kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus)

BIRDS
253 - Yellow-tufted Honeyeater (Lichenostomus melanops)
254 - Fuscous Honeyeater (Ptilotula fusca)
255 - Noisy Friarbird (Philemon corniculatus)
256 - Yellow-plumed Honeyeater (Ptilotula ornata)
257 - Black-chinned Honeyeater (Melithreptus gularis)
258 - Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis)
259 - Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis)
260 - Greater Bluebonnet (Northiella haematogaster)
261 - Chestnut-rumped Thornbill (Acanthizia uropygialis)
-- Brown Songlark (Megalurus cruralis) [heard]
-- Rufous Songlark (Megalurus mathewsi) [heard]
-- Crested Bellbird (Oreoica gutturalis) [heard]
-- Southern Scrub-robin (Drymodes brunneopygia) [heard]
262 - Inland Thornbill (Acanthizia apicalis)
263 - Purple-gaped Honeyeater (Lichenostomus cratitius)
-- Red-lored Whistler (Pachycephala rufogularis) [heard]
-- Shy Heathwren (Hylacola cauta) [heard]
264 - White-fronted Honeyeater (Purnella albifrons)
-- Purple-backed Fairywren (Malurus lamberti) [heard]
265 - Mallee Emuwren (Stipiturus mallee)
266 - Tawny-crowned Honeyeater (Gliciphila melanops)
267 - Jacky Winter (Microeca fascinans)
-- Brown Treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus) [heard]
-- White-browed Babbler (Pomatostomus superciliosis) [heard]
-- Black-eared Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx osculans) [heard]
268 - White-winged Triller (Lalage tricolor)
-- Little Crow (Corvus bennetti) [heard]
269 - Striated Grasswren (Amytornis striatus)
270 - Yellow-throated Miner (Manorina flavigula)
271 - Red-capped Robin (Petroica goodenovii)
272 - Black Falcon (Falco subniger)
273 - Gilbert's Whistler (Pachycephala inornata)
274 - Australian Ringneck Parrot (Barnardius zonarius)
275 - Splendid Fairywren (Malurus splendens
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BIRDS
276 - Shining Bronze Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus)
277 - Australian Little Bittern (Ixobrychus dubius)
 
Pasir Ris Park in Singapore has a small area of preserved mangroves, well serviced by boardwalks. I managed to observe the following from said boardwalks, one a true crab, the other not, but far more interesting.

Inverts.

3. Singapore tree-climbing crab Episesarma singaporense
4. Mangrove horseshoe crab Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda
 
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LaughingDove said:
93) Chimney Swift
94) Cliff Swallow
95) Redwing blackbird
96) American Robin
97) American Crow
98) Mourning Dove
99) Northern Cardinal
100) Blue Jay
101) Black-capped Chickadee
102) Wood Thrush
103) Common Grackle
104) House Wren
105) White-throated Sparrow
106) Swainson's Hawk
107) Eastern Kingbird
108) Brown-headed Cowbird
109) Brewer's Blackbird
110) Red-tailed Hawk

22) Eastern Cottontail Rabbit

111) American Goldfinch
112) Chipping Sparrow
113) Northern Mockingbird
114) House Finch
115) Killdeer
116 Cooper's Hawk
117 Eastern Meadowlark
118 Green Heron
119 American Kestrel
120 Eastern Towhee
121 Turkey Vulture
122 Cedar waxwing
123 Great Blue Heron
124 Great White Egret
125 Downy Woodpecker
126 Grey Catbird
127 Brown Thrasher
128 Northern Flicker
129 Belted Kingfisher
130 Red-eyed Vireo

9(amphibs)/ 11(herps) American Toad

22 White-tailed Deer
23 Woodchuck
24 Thirteen-lined Ground-Squirrel
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Back in Europe now, but I never updated this thread with the last couple of bits and bobs seen around Illinois this summer:

131) Dickcissel
132) Baltimore Oriole
133) Song Sparrow
134) Ruby-throated Hummingbird
135) Red-headed Woodpecker
136) Field Sparrow
137) Common Yellowthroat
138) Eastern Wood-peewee
139) Least Flycatcher
140) Tufted Titmouse
141) Ovenbird
142) White-breasted Nuthatch
143) Warbling Vireo
144) Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
145) Orchard Oriole

25) Eastern Chipmunk
26) Meadow Vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus)

I believe that should be it from this summer.
 
Najade said:
Nice little going away present at the SH Poo Ponds today:

Birds
53. Garganey (Spatula querquedula)
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Back on the road. Only one new species today around Augusta, WA:

Amphibians
05. Motorbike Frog (Litoria moorei)
 
Najade said:
Back on the road. Only one new species today around Augusta, WA:

Amphibians
05. Motorbike Frog (Litoria moorei)
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Jalbarragup, Hamelin Bay and Reabold Hill (Perth)

Birds
54. Baudin’s Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus baudinii)

Reptiles
27. King’s Skink (Egernia kingii)

Amphibians
06. Western Banjo Frog (Lymnodynastes dorsalis)
07. Moaning Frog (Heleioporus eyrei)
08. Turtle Frog (Myobatrachus gouldii)
 
One more from Erewash Meadows this afternoon:

Birds:
246. Western Barn Owl - Tyto alba

(UK: 196)

:)
 
MRJ said:
A stopover in Singapore, For such a small overbuilt island, Singapore continues to offer new species. All observed either at the Botanic Gardens or Pasir Ris Park.

Mammals

36. Common tree-shrew Tupaia glis
37. Smooth-coated otter Lutrogale perspicillata

Birds

314. Milky stork Mycteria cinerea
315. Little tern Sternula albifrons
316. Stork-billed kingfisher Pelargopsis capensis
317. Common flameback Dinopium javanense
318. Swinhoe's white-eye Zosterops simplex
319. Crimson sunbird Aethopyga siparaja
320. Brown-throated sunbird Anthreptes malacensis
321. Plain sunbird Anthreptes simplex
322. Pacific swallow Hirundo tahitica

Reptiles

15. Clouded monitor Varanus bengalensis
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I was at Pasir Ris the day before you posted this! I didn't realise the white-eyes had been split - I'll have to look into that. (Edit: although I just realised the white-eyes I saw that day were Oriental Z. palpebrosus anyway)
 
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Went birding at the coast again yesterday, and had an absolutely fantastic day! Three new birds for the year, but two friends and I also discovered a yellow-browed warbler and 4 zitting cisticolas, which is the highest number of that species seen in Belgium at one place since 2010. It was also a bit of a robin 'fall' of sorts because we saw 80 European robins - 4 times as many as our previous best day!

BIRDS:
660) European serin, Serinus serinus
661) Pink-footed goose, Anser brachyrhynchus
662) Tundra bean goose, Anser serrirostris

(Benelux: 214) - additions are the three above, Eurasian woodcock, yellow-browed warbler and zitting cisticola.

INVERTS:
98) Common darter, Sympetrum striolatum
 
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