Zoochat Big Year 2024

Hix said:
A good start to the year yesterday.

Birds
1. Australian Wood Duck
2. Pacific Black Duck
3. Hardhead
4. Australian Grebe
5. Crested Pigeon
6. Pacific Koel
7. Dusky Moorhen
8. Eurasian Coot
9. Australasian Swamphen
10. Masked Lapwing
11. Little PIed Cormorant
12. Little Black Cormorant
13. Australian White Ibis
14. Little Corella
15. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
16. Red-rumped Parrot
17. Superb Fairy Wren
18. Noisy Miner
19. Striated Pardalote
20. Australian Magpie
21. Willie Wagtail
22. Australian Reed Warbler
23. Little Grassbird
24. Welcome Swallow
25. Common (Indian) Mynah
26. Laughing Kookaburra
27. Satin Bowerbird
28. Bell Miner
29. Channel-billed Cuckoo
30. Long-billed Corella
31. Rainbow Lorikeet
32. White-browed Scrubwren
33. Brown Thornbill
34. Australasian Figbird
35. Grey Butcherbird
36. White-winged Chough
37. European Blackbird

:p

Hix
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Birds
38. Fan-tailed Cuckoo
39. Wonga Pigeon
40. Crimson Rosella
41. Superb Lyrebird
42. Variegated Fairy Wren
43. Eastern Spinebill
44. Yellow-faced Honeyeater
45. Little Wattlebird
46. Red Wattlebird
47. New Holland Honeyeater
48. White-eared Honeyeater
49. Noisy Friarbird
50. Eastern Whipbird
51. Grey Shrike-thrush
52. Golden Whistler
53. Rufous Whistler
54. Grey Fantail
55. Eastern yellow Robin
56. Beautiful Firetail Finch
57. Red-browed Finch

Mammals
1. Swamp Wallaby
2. European Rabbit
3. Grey-headed Flying Fox

:p

Hix
 
A Couple of Spider Species to add to the list Today:

Inverts
5. Bowed Jumping Spider (Evarcha arcuata)
6. ‘Penny Spider’ (Erigone dentipalpis)

Total Species: 89
Birds: 78
Mammals: 4
Amphibians: 1
Invertebrates: 6
 
Bisonblake said:
1/23/24
79. House finch Haemorhous mexicanus

Total Species: 107
Birds: 79
Mammals: 6
Reptiles: 5
Fish: 17
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Not sure why I marked that species as a lifer, but alright. A few more incidental sightings from the past week or so.

80. Ring-billed gull Larus delawarensis
81. White-breasted nuthatch Sitta carolinensis
82. House sparrow Passer domesticus
83. Red-tailed hawk Buteo jamaicensis
84. Wild turkey Meleagris gallopavo

Total Species: 112
Birds: 84
Mammals: 6
Reptiles: 5
Fish: 17
 
Have not been to out much lately, so a short catch-up with no birds. Mammals are mostly introduced pests and the ever-present brushtail possum. The exception is the Burrunan dolphin, a local split from the Indo-Pacific bottlenosed dolphin. This split is not fully accepted yet, but whatever way it goes, it is still a new species for the year. I saw two animals off the headland at Snapper Point, Mornington, late yesterday afternoon.

Mammals
2. Common brushtail Trichosurus vulpecula
3. House mouse Mus musculus (introduced)
4. Black rat Rattus rattus (introduced)
5. Red fox Vulpes vulpes (introduced)
6. Burrunan dolphin Tursiops australis

Reptiles
1. Tiger snake Notechis scutatus
2. Eastern long-necked turtle Chelodina longicollis

Invertebrates
2. sp. roundhead longhorn beetle Phacodes personatus
3. Caper white Belenois java
4. Cabbage white Pieris rapae
5. Common brown Heteronympha merope
6. sp. cockroach Balta bicolor (new Family)
7. Social huntsman spider Delena cancerides
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Heck yeah

19) House Sparrow Passer domesticus

:p

~Thylo
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Finally have a new car! While this didn't do my savings account any favors, it has allowed me to finally get back outdoors. I had a few ideas on where I was going to go birding first, including both regular spots as well as a mini-trip to the Rhode Island coast to pick up some overwintering coastal species. I also considering making another go at the Western Flycatcher that was in RI but I found out it disappeared only a couple weeks ago after over a month. In the end I did something completely different and ended up twitching the State's third record of a very lost warbler.

But first, two species I've picked up on the road since my last update:
20) White-Throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
21) Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus

Knox Preserve (Avalonia Land Conservancy)
22) Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
23) American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
24) Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
25) Red-Bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
26) Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
27) Common Raven Corvus corax
28) Hermit Warbler Setophaga occidentalis
29) Common Loon Gavia immer
30) Black-Capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
31) Red-Breasted Merganser Mergus serrator

Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center
32) Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
33) White-Breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis

~Thylo
 
ThylacineAlive said:
Finally have a new car! While this didn't do my savings account any favors, it has allowed me to finally get back outdoors. I had a few ideas on where I was going to go birding first, including both regular spots as well as a mini-trip to the Rhode Island coast to pick up some overwintering coastal species. I also considering making another go at the Western Flycatcher that was in RI but I found out it disappeared only a couple weeks ago after over a month. In the end I did something completely different and ended up twitching the State's third record of a very lost warbler.

But first, two species I've picked up on the road since my last update:
20) White-Throated Sparrow Zonotrichia albicollis
21) Fish Crow Corvus ossifragus

Knox Preserve (Avalonia Land Conservancy)
22) Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
23) American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus
24) Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
25) Red-Bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
26) Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
27) Common Raven Corvus corax
28) Hermit Warbler Setophaga occidentalis
29) Common Loon Gavia immer
30) Black-Capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus
31) Red-Breasted Merganser Mergus serrator

Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center
32) Downy Woodpecker Dryobates pubescens
33) White-Breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis

~Thylo
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Of course forgot one:

34) Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula

~Thylo
 
KiwiBirb said:
As I left my house this morning, I saw a Hairy Woodpecker scanning my small Cherry Blossom Tree (it did not appear to be impressed.)

Birds
36) Hairy Woodpecker (Leuconotopicus villosus)

Total:
Mammals- 5
Birds- 36
Herptiles- 0
Heard-only Species- 2
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My update begins yesterday as I saw a lone waterfowl species standing on a rock while I was driving along the Passaic River.

Birds
37) Red-Breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)

Today I took a ride to Overpeck County Park where I saw 4 new Aquatic bird species, including a King Rail, which would definitely be a lifer for me, however since I only started keeping track this year, I will not count any species as a lifer until next year.

Birds
38) Double-Crested Cormorant (Nannopterum auritum)
39) Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
40) King Rail (Rallus elegans)
41) Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)

Progress:
Mammals- 5
Birds- 41
Herptiles- 0
Total- 46
Heard-only Species- 2
 
CMP said:
The first one in Bergen County since 2006? If so, very nice, but I haven't seen any King Rails on ebird north of Maryland. Virginia Rail, perhaps?
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Looking at the pictures of it again I think you’re right, although I think it’s a bit to colored to be a rail of any sorts. It honestly looks something like an American Bittern, which was my first assumption which I nearly put in, only changing it at the last minute. I was reluctant to put that, and still am due to its wintering range being 70-100 miles south. I think that due to this, I’ll just not count this species.
 
Birds

98. Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus 5/2/24
99. Tufted duck, Aythya fuligula 5/2/24
100. Canada goose, Branta canadensis 5/2/24
101. Mew gull, Larus canus 5/2/24
102. Great crested grebe, Podiceps cristatus 5/2/24

Goal: 102/200
 
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