ZooChat Big Year 2021

Birds:

79. House Wren (Troglodytes aedon)
80. Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichia)
81. Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata)

Mammals: 7
Birds: 81
Herptiles: 8
Fish: 4
Invertebrates: 23
Total: 123
 
I noted a discrepancy with my records of the number of bird species I have seen this year and the number of species I have reported here. So after spending the evening comparing lists I discover that it is three species I missed from far north Queensland.

187. Brown cuckoo-dove Macropygia amboinensis
188. Cattle egret Bubulcus ibis
189. Black-faced monarch Monarcha melanopsis
 
Najade said:
Another quick trip after work. Only one lifer. No luck with Tree Pipit or Ring Ouzel, but nice views of a couple Whinchats.

Oberhausen Neue Mitte

Birds
6. Woodlark (Lullula arborea)
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Back to Bislicher Insel again for the first species. I think the birds should coordinate better and not pop up one at a time to save me some fuel money.
The rest from a forest in Hünxe. No wryneck though :(

Bislicher Insel, Hünxe

Birds
7. Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra)
8. Wood Warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix)
9. Tree Pipit (Anthus trivialis)
10. European Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur)
 
Birds:

82. American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)

Mammals: 7
Birds: 82
Herptiles: 8
Fish: 4
Invertebrates: 23
Total: 124
 
Birds:

83. Black-throated Blue Warbler (Setophaga caerulescens)
84. Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)

Mammals: 7
Birds: 84
Herptiles: 8
Fish: 4
Invertebrates: 23
Total: 126
 
I've been sat at home all day on call for work watching rain on the window. When I was liberated at 6pm the weather was still pretty miserable, but with a couple of hours' daylight to play with I decided on a drive down to Ogston Reservoir south of town to see anything interesting had been blown in. It was actually a remarkably productive little exercise - nothing super-rare but a big mixed group of waders filled in a trio of obvious 'gaps' and provided my second Whimbrel of the year (a species I completely missed last year). The drive back also produced my third Red Fox of the year.

Birds:
130. Dunlin - Calidris alpina
131. Common Ringed Plover - Charadrius hiaticula
132. Sanderling - Calidris alba

:)
 
MRJ said:
I noted a discrepancy with my records of the number of bird species I have seen this year and the number of species I have reported here. So after spending the evening comparing lists I discover that it is three species I missed from far north Queensland.

187. Brown cuckoo-dove Macropygia amboinensis
188. Cattle egret Bubulcus ibis
189. Black-faced monarch Monarcha melanopsis
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You might need to keep looking!

I just had a look at your posts, and you already listed Cattle Egret as being missed from Queensland, on post #926 (here ZooChat Big Year 2021).

Brown Cuckoo-Dove you did originally list with your Queensland account, but under the name Macropygia unchall (which is an Asian species) - post #511 here: ZooChat Big Year 2021

The Australian species is M. phasianella (the name you have above, M. amboinensis, is now restricted to New Guinea and the Moluccan region after a split a few years ago).
 
EternalPigeon said:
I saw a couple of these insects crawling around in the grass outside my school.

Invertebrates:

3. Colorado Potato Beetle
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I saw both of these birds in my backyard out my window today.

Birds:

26. Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
27. House Finch
 
Chlidonias said:
You might need to keep looking!

I just had a look at your posts, and you already listed Cattle Egret as being missed from Queensland, on post #926 (here ZooChat Big Year 2021).

Brown Cuckoo-Dove you did originally list with your Queensland account, but under the name Macropygia unchall (which is an Asian species) - post #511 here: ZooChat Big Year 2021

The Australian species is M. phasianella (the name you have above, M. amboinensis, is now restricted to New Guinea and the Moluccan region after a split a few years ago).
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Curse you, @Chlidonias ! Well I give up. I just don't have the time to do it all again.

I copied the scientific name for the barred cuckoo-dove, instead of the brown cuckoo-dove, which sits above it on my list. Sadly not the first time I have done that. Thanks for the split, I must have been using an older source first time I saw one.

At least I still have the monarch!
 
Great Argus said:
Rough-wing and not Tree? Tree Swallow would generally be more likely in that setting.
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I don’t feel like they were Tree Swallows because the birds I saw were brown and Tree Swallows are a bluish-green color. There were at least five of these birds in my backyard and none of them were this color.
 
EternalPigeon said:
I don’t feel like they were Tree Swallows because the birds I saw were brown and Tree Swallows are a bluish-green color. There were at least five of these birds in my backyard and none of them were this color.
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Tree Swallows can be brownish, immature birds are often fairly brown still in spring. If none of them showed any bluegreen then they were probably rough-wings.
 
Great Argus said:
Finally had some more spring migrants pop up.

Birds:

99. Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas)
100. Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus)
101. Bullock's Oriole (Icterus bullockii)

Invertebrates:

23. Western Pondhawk (Erythemis collocata)

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Bit overdue for an update!

Birds:

102. Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius)
103. Ash-throated Flycatcher (Myiarchus cinerascens)
104. MacGillivray's Warbler (Geothlypis tolmiei)
105. Wilson's Warbler (Cardellina pusilla)
106. Hooded Oriole (Icterus cucullatus)
107. Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana)
108. Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri)

Invertebrates:

24. Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia)

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MRJ said:
Curse you, @Chlidonias ! Well I give up. I just don't have the time to do it all again.

I copied the scientific name for the barred cuckoo-dove, instead of the brown cuckoo-dove, which sits above it on my list. Sadly not the first time I have done that. Thanks for the split, I must have been using an older source first time I saw one.

At least I still have the monarch!
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That’s why I don’t keep year lists for birds. There’s just too many to keep track...

Join the club of only-lifer-listers! ;)
You can double the number of members. :D
 
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Birds
103 Swift Apus apus
104 Yellow Wagtail Motacilla flava
105 Sedge Warbler Acrocephalus schoenobaenus
106 Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
 
birdsandbats said:
Birds
260. Veery Catharus fuscescens
261. Field Sparrow Spizella pusilla
262. Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
263. Clay-colored Sparrow Spizella pallida
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birdsandbats said:
Birds
228. Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum

Mammals
29. Eastern Fox Squirrel Sciurus niger
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Birds
264. Indigo Bunting Passerina cyanea
265. Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
266. Wood Thrush Hylocichla mustelina

Mammals
30. Gray Fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus
 
Dannelboyz said:
Yeah stacks of buttonquail around this season - I assume because it's been so wet. Very hard to get views of any but the LBQs. I hear the other two species a fair bit but keep flushing them with unsatisfying views :p Ningbing was at Sir John Gorge, climbing around on the rocks. A couple brief views under the spotlight before it disappeared :) No picture though, unfortunately.

BIRDS
309 - Cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus)
310 - Eastern Osprey (Pandion cristatus)
311 - Varied Lorikeet (Psitteuteles versicolor)
312 - Square-tailed Kite (Lophoictinia isura)

MAMMALS
25 - Yellow-bellied Sheath-tailed Bat (Saccolaimus flaviventris)

REPTILES
25 - Green Tree Snake (Dendrelaphis punctulatus)
26 - Little Spotted Snake (Suta punctata)
27 - Top End Blind Snake (Anilios guentheri)

AMPHIBIANS
17 - Bilingual Frog (Crinia bilingua)

FISH
14 - Spangled Perch (Leiopotherapon unicolor)
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BIRDS
313 - Black-breasted Buzzard (Hamirostra melanosternon)

REPTILES
28 - Burton's Legless Lizard (Lialis burtonis)
29 - Kimberley Long-necked Turtle (Chelodina walloyarrina)
 
birdsandbats said:
Birds
230. Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius
231. Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis
232. Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
233. American Woodcock Scolopax minor
234. Ovenbird Seiurus aurocapilla
235. Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia
236. Orchard Oriole Icterus spurius
237. Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
238. Baltimore Oriole Icterus galbula
239. Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
240. American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla
241. Chestnut-sided Warbler Setophaga pensylvanica
342. Least Flycatcher Empidonax minimus
343. Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca
244. Eastern Kingbird Tyrannus tyrannus
245. Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens
246. Black Tern Chlidonias niger
247. Solitary Sandpiper Tringa solitaria
248. Tennessee Warbler Leiothlypis peregrina
249. Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus

Herps
10. Common Snapping Turtle Chelydra serpentina
11. Common Garter Snake Thamnophis sirtalis

Fish
3. Northern Pike Esox lucius
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Fish
4. Largemouth Bass Micropterus salmoides
 
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