Zoochat Big Year 2023

ThylacineAlive said:
One additional fun lost bird:
684) White-Faced Ibis Plegadis chihi

~Thylo
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It has certainly been a very interesting migration season with lots of fun stuff popping up very infrequently across New England. Unfortunately, I've been too busy of late to get out so I have no new additions for now. On the contrary, I have a couple birds to remove from my list... I've been finally going through my Kenya photos to make some identifications and, while so far all the photos I took of birds that I couldn't identify in-field I also can't identify now, I have come to realize I made two misidentifications in-field.

I will be removing the Black-Crowned Tchagra and Southern Black Flycatcher from my list, bringing me down to 682 species.

I should be back with an update on my herps totals soon enough, along with a couple other fun things.

~Thylo
 
boof said:
4/11/2023
203. Painted Button-Quail.
( I'm 51. I've been birdwatching since I was 10. Yesterday was only the second time I've ever seen painted BQ. )
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Not related but Boof- I think you may be the longest-standing Zoochatter who is still an active poster. I am one too but I'm aware you are 'senior' to me...;)
 
I've just noted that it is five years since I started recording the animals I have seen in the wild in a coherent way. My list now stands at 2308 animals from 22 Classes, 118 Orders, and 421 families. While most were seen during the last five years, maybe as many as 200 were seen prior to that and not since.

The purists will dock me five animals. I allow myself to record dead mammals and birds provided they are in good condition and unlikely to be otherwise unlikely to be seen. There is one bird and two mammals in this category. I also allow myself to record unseen but heard frogs and there are two of these. Frog calls are a standard way of identifying frogs for biological surveys, and it is almost impossible to find a calling frog unless you have at least three people involved. But of course I would never list either here.

I've attached a chart showing how many species I have seen of each Class and zoogeographic realms. These realms are the classic ones, but I have modified it for my personal use. Australia is the political entity, including associated island territories. Oceania is south-west Pacific islands from New Zealand up to and through New Guinea then across to the Wallace Line. These islands share a high degree of endemism and a close relationship to Australia. You will notice no species from the Neotropics, something I hope to rectify next year.
 

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Bisonblake said:
Went back to find the surf scoters that were reported near campus, and I can happily say I found them! There were also white-winged and black scoters reported, but we couldn't properly identify them, even with a scope. We did see 5 scoters, but could only identify two surf scoters.

10/26/23
Birds:
138. Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata

Herptiles:
12. Wood frog Lithobates sylvaticus
13. DeKay's brownsnake Storeria dekayi

Total Species: 166
Birds: 138
Mammals: 16
Herptiles: 13
Fish: 2
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11/5/23
Birds:
139. Northern pintail Anas acuta
140. Rusty blackbird Euphagus carolinus

Total Species: 168
Birds: 140
Mammals: 16
Herptiles: 13
Fish: 2
 
Maguari said:
A couple more from RSPB Old Moor this afternoon.

Birds:
203. Great Bittern - Botaurus stellaris

(UK: 197)

Mammals:
25. Stoat - Mustela erminea

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A strangely parallel day at Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire today - much better weather, many more species overall (including my first Pink-footed Geese and Whooper Swans of the winter), and longer in the field - but the exact same amount of list movement. :D

Birds:
204: Sanderling - Calidris alba

(UK: 198)

Mammals:
26. Common Seal - Phoca vitulina

:)
 
DesertTortoise said:
Birds
September
171. American flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)
October
172. Sanderling (Calidris alba)
173. Pomarine jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus)

Herps
October
22. Eastern milksnake (Lampropeltis triangulum)

Invertebrates
94. Scolopocryptops rubiginosus
95. Painted lady (Vanessa cardui)
96. Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica)
97. Common eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens)
98. Viceroy (Limenitis archippus)
99. Checkered white (Pontia protodice)
100. American bumblebee (Bombus pensylvanicus)
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I am removing Virginia Rail from my bird list.

Birds
October
173. Swamp sparrow (Melospiza georgiana)
174. Pine siskin (Spinus pinus)
November
175. Black scoter (Melanitta americana)
176. Loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus)
177. Fox sparrow (Passerella iliaca)

Invertebrates
101. Oblique polypore fungus beetle (Penthe obliquata)
102. Chinese mantis (Tenodera sinensis)
103. Smeared dagger (Acronicta oblinita)
104. Horned passalus beetle (Odontotaenius disjunctus)
105. House centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata)
106. Spotted diaperis (Diaperis maculata)
107. Orange sulphur (Colias eurytheme)
 
Pertinax said:
Not related but Boof- I think you may be the longest-standing Zoochatter who is still an active poster. I am one too but I'm aware you are 'senior' to me...;)
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I think Simon has me covered by a few years. I remember when I first joined. I would read every post daily. Thats not possible now. I usually just read about the Aussie zoos, Singapore and I look at the bird lists.
 
oflory said:
Have been lax in posting, a few birds from the last couple of weeks. This time next week, I will be in Mexico with three dedicated birding days, so very excited for some seriously cool new species.

171. Green sandpiper
172. Glossy ibis
173. Pink-footed goose
174. Great white egret
175. Common snipe
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Back from a fantastic Mexican trip, perhaps one of the best birding experiences I have ever had. All thanks go to Rafa Calderon, Anuar Lopez and Leonel Bautista, our brilliant guides for three morning birding trips. Whilst it wasn't a dedicated wildlife trip (there's too much food and culture for that!), I still managed a lot of lifers and couldn't be more excited about the animals we saw. I have numerous lizards still to identify from photos, as well, so will post at a later date.

Mammals
22. Mexican free-tailed bat
23. Rock squirrel
24. Red-bellied squirrel

Birds
176. Rock wren
177. Ash-throated flycatcher
178. Dusky flycatcher
179. Barn owl
180. Cinnamon-rumped seedeater
181. Tropical kingbird
182. Great kiskadee
183. Grey-breasted woodpecker
184. Red-faced warbler
185. Russet nightingale-thrush
186. Brown-capped vireo
187. Plumbeous vireo
188. Blue-headed vireo
189. Short-tailed hawk
190. Yellow-winged tanager
191. Black-vented oriole
192. White-collared swift
193. Black-headed grosbeak
194. Rose-breasted grosbeak
195. Rufous-capped warbler
196. Audubon's oriole
197. White-throated towhee
198. Boucard's wren
199. Thick-billed kingbird
200. Dusky-capped flycatcher
201. Rose-throated becard
202. Mountain trogon
203. Oaxaca sparrow
204. Ocellated thrasher
205. Slaty vireo
206. Hairy woodpecker
207. Amethyst-throated mountain-gem
208. Western tanager
209. Spotted towhee
210. Common crossbill
211. Clay-coloured thrush
212. Woodhouse's scrub-jay
213. Rufous-crowned sparrow
214. Northern rough-winged swallow
215. Loggerhead shrike
216. Scissor-tailed flycatcher
217. Western kingbird
218. Social flycatcher
219. Crested caracara
220. Dusky hummingbird
221. Groove-billed ani
222. Hepatic tanager
223. Slate-throated redstart
224. Grace's warbler
225. MacGillivray's warbler
226. Bullock's oriole
227. Pine siskin
228. Elegant euphonia
229. Orange-billed nightingale-thrush
230. Grey-barred wren
231. Violet-green swallow
232. Chestnut-sided shrike-vireo
233. Pine flycatcher
234. Greenish elaenia
235. American kestrel
236. American black vulture
237. Rivoli's hummingbird
238. Western cattle egret
239. Belted kingfisher
240. Black-crowned night heron
241. Black-throated grey warbler
242. Yellow warbler
243. Nashville warbler
244. Bronzed cowbird
245. Marsh wren
246. Cassin's kingbird
247. Black phoebe
248. Red-tailed hawk
249. Osprey
250. White-faced ibis
251. Great blue heron
252. Tricoloured heron
253. Least sandpiper
254. Spotted sandpiper
255. American coot
256. American moorhen
257. Mourning dove
258. Pied-billed grebe
259. Ruddy duck
260. Wilson's warbler
261. Blue-grey gnatcatcher
262. Green heron
263. Snowy egret
264. Song sparrow
265. Rufous-backed robin
266. Lark sparrow
267. Lesser goldfinch
268. Canyon wren
269. Vermilion flycatcher
270. Hammond's flycatcher
271. Western flycatcher
272. Cooper's hawk
273. Turkey vulture
274. White-winged dove
275. Cinnamon-bellied flowerpiercer
276. Red warbler
277. Golden-browed warbler
278. Hermit warbler
279. Townsend's warbler
280. Hooded yellowthroat
281. Orange-crowned warbler
282. Crescent-chested warbler
283. Green-striped brushfinch
284. Olive warbler
285. Grey silky-flycatcher
286. Brown-backed solitaire
287. Western bluebird
288. Blue mockingbird
289. White-breasted nuthatch
290. Ruby-crowned kinglet
291. Mexican chickadee
292. Cassin's vireo
293. Hutton's vireo
294. Tufted flycatcher
295. Strickland's woodpecker
296. Sharp-shinned hawk
297. White-eared hummingbird
298. Bumblebee hummingbird
299. Broad-tailed hummingbird
300. Rufous hummingbird
301. Ruby-throated hummingbird
302. Mexican violetear
303. Lincoln's sparrow
304. Sierra Madre sparrow
305. Savannah sparrow
306. Vesper sparrow
307. Striped sparrow
308. Yellow-eyed junco
309. Clay-coloured sparrow
310. Chipping sparrow
311. House finch
312. Grass wren
313. House wren
314. Pygmy nuthatch
315. Shore lark
316. Say's phoebe
317. Buff-breasted flycatcher
318. Greater pewee
319. Northern flicker
320. Hermit thrush
321. Yellow-rumped warbler
322. Black-and-white warbler
323. Great-tailed grackle
324. Canyon towhee
325. American robin
326. Curve-billed thrasher
327. Bewick's wren
328. Bushtit
329. Ladder-backed woodpecker
330. Berylline hummingbird
331. Broad-billed hummingbird
332. Vaux's swift
333. Inca dove
334. Mexican duck
335. Great white egret

I also think we saw northern harrier from the bus to Puebla, can't see that a lanky, long-winged bird of prey could have been anything else, but was sadly against the sun from a moving vehicle, so hard to be sure. Anyone have any thoughts? If I'd been in Europe, I'd have had no hesitation in calling it as a harrier species.
 
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Well I am only seeing this now, but maybe I can help out with some South African Species:
(Also I haven't been keeping track of my mammal list so the count is just as I find them and not as I saw them through the year)
Mammals:
  1. Impala (Aepyceros melampus)
  2. Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus)
  3. Southern Giraffe (Giraffa giraffa)
  4. Common Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)
  5. Sable Antelope (Hippotragus niger)
  6. Waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus)
  7. Klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus)
  8. Common Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus)
  9. Steenbok (Raphicerus campestris)
  10. Cape Grysbok (Raphicerus melanotis)
  11. Common Duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia)
  12. African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer)
  13. Common Eland (Taurotragus oryx)
  14. Nyala (Tragelaphus angasii)
  15. Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros)
  16. Southern Bushbuck (Tragelaphus sylvaticus)
  17. Black-backed Jackal (Canis mesomelas)
  18. Caracal (Caracal caracal)
  19. Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta)
  20. Rusty-spotted Genet (Genetta maculata)
  21. Common Dwarf Mongoose (Helogale parvula)
  22. Common Slender Mongoose (Herpestes sanguineus)
  23. Cape Grey Mongoose (Galerella pulverulenta)
  24. African Wild/Painted Dog (Lycaon pictus)
  25. Honey Badger (Mellivora capensis)
  26. Lion (Panthera leo)
  27. Leopard (Panthera pardus)
  28. Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bat (Epomophorus wahlbergi)
  29. Cape Rock Hyrax (Procavia capensis)
  30. Scrub Hare (Lepus saxatilis)
  31. Plains Zebra (Equus quagga)
  32. Vervet Monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus)
  33. Thick-tailed Galago (Otolemur crassicaudatus)
  34. Chacma Baboon (Papio ursinus)
  35. Cape Porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis)
  36. Smith's Bush Squirrel (Paraxerus cepapi)
  37. Cape Ground Squirrel (Xerus inauris)
  38. African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana)
  39. House Mouse (Mus musculus)
  40. Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus)
  41. House Rat (Rattus rattus)
Birds:
  1. House Sparrow
  2. Cape Sparrow
  3. Common Myna
  4. Egyptian Goose
  5. Crowned Lapwing
  6. Red-eyed Dove
  7. Cape Turtle-Dove
  8. Laughing Dove
  9. Helmeted Guineafowl
  10. Cape Robin-chat
  11. Karoo Thrush
  12. Blacksmith Lapwing
  13. Speckled Pigeon
  14. Grey Go-away-bird
  15. Southern Masked-weaver
  16. African Red-eyed Bulbul
  17. Cape White-eye
  18. Hadeda Ibis
  19. Red-billed Wood Hoopoe
  20. Spotted Thick-knee
  21. Southern Red Bishop
  22. White-faced Whistling-duck
  23. Malachite Kingfisher
  24. Pin-tailed Whydah
  25. Reed Cormorant
  26. Spur-winged Goose
  27. Hoopoe
  28. Yellow-billed Stork
  29. Common Fiscal
  30. African Sacred Ibis
  31. African Spoonbill
  32. African Darter
  33. African Olive Pigeon
  34. White-browed Sparrow-weaver
  35. Red-knobbed Coot
  36. Red-billed Quelea
  37. Black-chested Prinia
  38. Burchell's Coucal (White-browed Coucal)
  39. Cape Wagtail
  40. Village Indigobird
  41. European Bee-eater
  42. Red-capped Lark
  43. Little Grebe (Dabchick)
  44. Common Moorhen
  45. African Stonechat
  46. African Paradise-Flycatcher
  47. White-fronted Plover
  48. African Black Oystercatcher
  49. Kelp Gull
  50. Cape Crow
  51. Pied Crow
  52. Streaky-headed Seedeater/Canary
  53. Fiscal Flycatcher
  54. Yellow-crowned Bishop
  55. Red-collared Widowbird
  56. Cape Bulbul
  57. Red-winged Starling
  58. Long-tailed Paradise-whydah
  59. Hammerkop
  60. Common Ostrich
  61. Black Sawwing
  62. Alpine Swift
  63. Black-shouldered Kite
  64. Grey Heron
  65. Black-headed Heron
  66. Cattle Egret
  67. Swift Tern
  68. African Pied Wagtail
  69. Amethyst Sunbird
  70. African Pied Starling
  71. Cape Vulture
  72. Jackal Buzzard
  73. Yellow-billed Duck
  74. Forest Buzzard
  75. White-necked Raven
  76. Fork-tailed Drongo
  77. Cape Batis
  78. Red-necked Spurfowl
  79. Knysna Turaco
  80. Yellow-fronted Canary
  81. Yellow Canary
  82. Cape Canary
  83. African Dusky Flycatcher
  84. Greater Double-collared Sunbird
  85. Great/White-breasted Cormorant
  86. Secretarybird
  87. Grey Crowned Crane
  88. Blue Crane / Stanley's Crane
  89. Dark-capped Bulbul
  90. Olive Thrush
  91. Black-collared Barbet
  92. Thick-billed Weaver
  93. Rock Pigeon
  94. Tawny-flanked Prinia
  95. Familiar Chat
  96. Red-faced Mousebird
  97. African Grey Hornbill
  98. Red-headed Finch
  99. Long-tailed Widowbird
  100. Capped Wheatear
  101. Grey-headed Gull
  102. Spotted Eagle-owl
  103. Knysna Woodpecker
  104. Speckled Mousebird
  105. White-bellied Sunbird
  106. Cape Glossy Starling
  107. Crested Barbet
  108. Wattled Starling
  109. African Wattled Lapwing
  110. Rose-ringed Parakeet
  111. Marsh Owl
  112. Pied Kingfisher
  113. Goliath Heron
  114. Brown-hooded Kingfisher
  115. Blue Waxbill
  116. Half-collared Kingfisher
  117. Green-backed Heron
  118. Squacco Heron
  119. Long-billed Crombec
  120. Chestnut-vented Warbler/Tit-babbler
  121. White-backed Mousebird
  122. Brown-crowned Tchagra
  123. Red-billed Teal
  124. Southern Pied-babbler
  125. Burchell's Starling
  126. Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill
  127. Southern Red-billed Hornbill
  128. Chinspot Batis
  129. Bearded Woodpecker
  130. Retz's Helmetshrike
  131. Tawny Eagle
  132. Magpie Shrike
  133. Southern White-crowned Shrike
  134. Gabar Goshawk
  135. Lilac-breasted Roller
  136. Golden-breasted Bunting
  137. Cape Bunting
  138. Red-headed Weaver
  139. Red-billed Oxpecker
  140. Red-crested Korhaan/Bustard
  141. African Hawk-eagle
  142. Lappet-faced Vulture
  143. White-backed Vulture
  144. Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
  145. African Fish-eagle
  146. Bateleur
  147. Southern Ground-hornbill
  148. Yellow-billed Oxpecker
  149. Purple Roller
  150. White-crested Helmetshrike
  151. Water Thick-knee
  152. Wire-tailed Swallow
  153. White-throated Robin-chat
  154. Acacia Pied Barbet
  155. Southern Black-tit
  156. Yellow-breasted Apalis
  157. Red-billed Buffalo-weaver
  158. African Mourning Dove
  159. Southern Grey-headed Sparrow
  160. Spectacled Weaver
  161. Cardinal Woodpecker
  162. Orange-breasted Bushshrike
  163. White-browed Scrub-robin
  164. Red-billed Firefinch
  165. Brown-headed Parrot
  166. Red-capped Robin-chat
  167. Common Scimitarbill
  168. African Black-headed Oriole
  169. African Pipit
  170. Green-winged Pytilia (Melba Finch)
  171. Jameson's Firefinch
  172. Natal Spurfowl
  173. Martial Eagle
  174. African Woolly-necked Stork
  175. Brown Snake Eagle
  176. Greater Blue-eared Starling
  177. Little Bee-eater
  178. White-fronted Bee-eater
  179. Marabou Stork
  180. Great Egret
  181. Black-backed Puffback
  182. Kori Bustard
  183. Black Crake
  184. Common Waxbill
  185. White-crowned Lapwing
  186. Yellow-throated Longclaw
  187. Black-crowned Tchagra
  188. Green/Gray-backed Camaroptera
  189. Hooded Vulture
  190. Cape Bunting
  191. Saddle-billed Stork
  192. Scarlet-chested Sunbird
  193. Southern Black-flycatcher
  194. Levaillant's Cisticola
  195. African Cuckoo Hawk
  196. Black-bellied Bustard
  197. Ashy Flycatcher
  198. Purple-crested Turaco
  199. Collared Sunbird
  200. Pearl-spotted Owlet
  201. Long-crested Eagle
Reptiles:
  1. Nile Crocodile
  2. Southern Tree Agama
  3. Southern Rock Agama
  4. Rough-scaled Plated Lizard (Gerrhosaurus major)
  5. African Striped Skink
  6. White-throated Rock Monitor
  7. Nile Monitor
  8. Serrated Hinged terrapin
Amphibians
  1. Southern/Grey Foam Nest Frog
(Sorry didn't know that using the bullet list would space it out this much)
 
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