ZooChat Big Year 2021

[German Zoo World]

BIRDS

Passerine birds

1.Common Blackbird

Pigeons

2.Wood pigeon
3. City Pigeon/Urban Pigeon

Corvidae

4.Common Magpie

Waterfowl

5.Mute Swan

Birds of Prey

6.Common Kestrel

@Junklekitteb i hope it is better now

 

[MRJ]

Missed this one from FN Queensland:

Bird
160. Royal spoonbill Platalea regia

 

[Vision]

Did you see the Black woodpecker near the area the Wallcreeper is in?

Yep, in the forests around Dinant (the wallcreeper hangs around on rock walls in the city proper). I have to say that I only got incredibly unsatisfactory views though, of one flying in the distance for a few seconds... But I suppose that's how most of my Black woodpecker views are. The Wallcreeper is being exceptionally tough also, constantly disappearing and reappearing 1-2 weeks later and being very hard to twitch.

 

[Pertinax]

Yep, in the forests around Dinant (the wallcreeper hangs around on rock walls in the city proper). I have to say that I only got incredibly unsatisfactory views though, of one flying in the distance for a few seconds... But I suppose that's how most of my Black woodpecker views are. The Wallcreeper is being exceptionally tough also, constantly disappearing and reappearing 1-2 weeks later and being very hard to twitch.

In about 1966 there was a Wallcreeper which spent time on the south coast of the UK, living in a quarry for quite a while. I only visited once, from my home only about ten miles away, and was lucky enough to see it.

Black Woodpecker remains a bird I really want to see(properly) as I have only had an obscured view of one -behind a tree before it flew away! They seem quite secretive for such a large bird.

 

[16217]

BIRDS:
118: - Crested Tit Lophophanes cristatus
119: - Marsh Tit Poecile palustris

 

[Dhole dude]

I went on a walk 2 days ago and saw

7)American goldfinch

8)downy woodpecker

9)house finch

mammals:2
birds:9

Haven’t gotten out much recently, due to how cold it’s been outside, but I have been able to se a few things from my window, including

Birds:
10) American crow

11) Mallard

mammals
3) eastern cottontail

 

[Kazaa67]

14/02/21 (Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant)
BIRDS:
112). Middle-spotted woodpecker, Leiopicus medius
113). Eurasian bullfinch, Pyrrhula pyrrhula

 

[German Zoo World]

BIRDS

Passerine birds

1.Common Blackbird

Pigeons

2.Wood pigeon
3. City Pigeon/Urban Pigeon

Corvidae

4.Common Magpie

Waterfowl

5.Mute Swan

Birds of Prey

6.Common Kestrel

@Junklekitteb i hope it is better now

BIRDS

Corvidae

7. Carrion Crow

 

[CMP]

Because of the huge winter storm that went across the US the past few days, many birds (in number of individuals, not so much species) came to my newly set-up bird feeder. I have one more to add:
Bird:
15. Black-Capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)

 

[MRJ]

Lying back relaxing in the spa last night and what should fly overhead?

Mammals
31. Grey-headed flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus

 

[Mehdi]

I hear thick-knees at night basically every day from my house and each year I only have to look by from my balcony to get them. One was calling especially loud tonight so I decided to take a peek and indeed, there were two foraging not too far:

16/02/2021 (Agadir, Morocco)
BIRDS:
101 - Eurasian thick-knee, Burhinus oedicnemus

16/02/2021 (Embouchure de l'Oued Souss, Morocco)
BIRDS:
102 - Peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus
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(Plage d'Anza-Nord, Morocco)
103 - Whimbrel, Numenius phaeopus

 

[MRJ]

Another invertebrate from Far North Queensland

41. Common oakblue Arhopala micale

And at Moonlit Sanctuary

42. Bluetail damselfly Ischnura heterosticta

 

[German Zoo World]

BIRDS

Corvidae

7. Carrion Crow

BIRDS

Birds of Prey

8.Common Buzzard

 

[BerdNerd]

I saw these birds while hanging out with my friends after school:

Birds:

9. Northern Cardinal
10. Blue Jay
11. Black-Capped Chickadee

With the help of my new binoculars I recently got for my birthday, I was able to observe a new species of bird I haven't personally seen yet!

Birds:

12. Song Sparrow

 

[Great Argus]

With the help of my new binoculars I recently got for my birthday, I was able to observe a new species of bird I haven't personally seen yet!

Birds:

12. Song Sparrow

Nice! Just a note, we usually bold lifers.

 

[BerdNerd]

Nice! Just a note, we usually bold lifers.

Ok I just fixed it. Thanks!

 

[MRJ]

Probably the last two invertebrates I'll be able to identify from FN Queensland. Both in the Mission Beach area. In total I identified and recorded 178 species during my 11 day trip to far north Queensland. The cricket is the 100th invertebrate species I have recorded on my personal list.

43. Swamp tiger Danaus affinis
44. (true cricket sp.) Cardiodactylus novaeguineae

 

[Great Argus]

And the one bird streak continues.

Birds:

67. White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)

4-67-3-2-0-6

Finally a bigger update! Got a Bald Eagle hanging out along the river in the middle of town, a handful of species at one of the better waterfowl spots, another bird in a fast food parking lot, and a reptile in a drip irrigation box.

Birds:

68. Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
69. Gadwall (Mareca strepera)
70. Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides thayeri)
71. Common Merganser (Mergus merganser)
72. Great-tailed Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus)

Reptiles:

4. Southern Alligator Lizard (Elgaria multicarinata)

Uncountable:

-- unidentified centipede
-- unidentified beetle
-- unidentified wood louse

4-72-4-2-0-6

 

[aardvark250]

Went to a nice site, seen a few nice species.

Birds:
19. Pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
20. Common greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
21. Northern shoveler (Spatula clypeata)
22. Black winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus)
23. Black kite (Milvus migrans)
24. Gray heron (Ardea cinerea)
25. Red-flanked bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus)
26. Olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgsoni)

Fish
Great blue spotted mudskipper (Boleophthalmus pectinirostris)

Birds:
27. Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)
28. Black faced spoonbill (Platalea minor)
29. White wagtail (Motacilla alba)

 

[carl the birder]

63 rook (Corvus frugilegus)