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104 - Eight-armed Seastar Meridiastra calcar
Zoochat Big Year 2025
- Thread starter Chlidonias
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104 - Eight-armed Seastar Meridiastra calcar
I have gone through all the year’s posts, the tallies so far will be provided below.
However, these people will need to go through their lists and sort out some issues:
@birdsandbats – your bird total is about ten birds too high: you had made a typo and followed #142 with #153 and then just continued on from that number (i.e. your numbering went 142, 153, 154, 155, and so on). In a couple of places you removed birds as well, so I’m not sure what your actual total is but it must be about 265 rather than 275.
Your mammals are also wrongly totalled but in the opposite direction – you were on 8 mammals but then numbered your next mammal as 7, then had 8 again, then continued on from that point. I think that means your are two ahead of your listed total (23) but you’ll need to recalculate.
@DaLilFishie – your bird total is also way out. You were on 53 but then jumped straight to 65, continued from there to 108 but then jumped to 110 (skipping 109), continued on to 152, used the number 152 twice, and then continued from there. Your listed total is 205 which must be about 12 birds too high.
Your fish total also seems to be wrong – you jumped from 120 to 122 (skipping 121), and later you mentioned you would be removing #133 from the list as an unsure ID but your numbering continued without a break.
@Dr. Wolverine – I have no idea what your bird total is. You numbered them up to 18, then your next bird was numbered as 13 and you continued from that point up to 91, then you relisted them up to 109 but the birds didn’t fully match, and you continued from 109 to 118, then went down to 114, continued from that number to 192, then used number 192 again, and then continued from there to 228. You’ll need to do a complete re-list.
Your mammal total is also wrong – you used number 14 twice so I think your latest total should be 18 not 17, but you’ll need to check.
@Prochilodus246 – you have skipped at least two numbers in your bird lists – numbers 93 and 101 are missing from your posts, so your total is at least two birds too high. And in your invertebrate listings you had at least two numbers repeated (6 and 8), so the total for those is probably two numbers too low.
@MRJ – your reptile total must be two higher (21?) – you used both 18 and 19 twice.
@Enzo – your bird total is one too high – you jumped from 37 to 39 (skipping 38).
@MOG2012 – you used number 62 twice in your bird lists, and number 24 twice in your invertebrate lists, so you’ll need to check those.
However, these people will need to go through their lists and sort out some issues:
@birdsandbats – your bird total is about ten birds too high: you had made a typo and followed #142 with #153 and then just continued on from that number (i.e. your numbering went 142, 153, 154, 155, and so on). In a couple of places you removed birds as well, so I’m not sure what your actual total is but it must be about 265 rather than 275.
Your mammals are also wrongly totalled but in the opposite direction – you were on 8 mammals but then numbered your next mammal as 7, then had 8 again, then continued on from that point. I think that means your are two ahead of your listed total (23) but you’ll need to recalculate.
@DaLilFishie – your bird total is also way out. You were on 53 but then jumped straight to 65, continued from there to 108 but then jumped to 110 (skipping 109), continued on to 152, used the number 152 twice, and then continued from there. Your listed total is 205 which must be about 12 birds too high.
Your fish total also seems to be wrong – you jumped from 120 to 122 (skipping 121), and later you mentioned you would be removing #133 from the list as an unsure ID but your numbering continued without a break.
@Dr. Wolverine – I have no idea what your bird total is. You numbered them up to 18, then your next bird was numbered as 13 and you continued from that point up to 91, then you relisted them up to 109 but the birds didn’t fully match, and you continued from 109 to 118, then went down to 114, continued from that number to 192, then used number 192 again, and then continued from there to 228. You’ll need to do a complete re-list.
Your mammal total is also wrong – you used number 14 twice so I think your latest total should be 18 not 17, but you’ll need to check.
@Prochilodus246 – you have skipped at least two numbers in your bird lists – numbers 93 and 101 are missing from your posts, so your total is at least two birds too high. And in your invertebrate listings you had at least two numbers repeated (6 and 8), so the total for those is probably two numbers too low.
@MRJ – your reptile total must be two higher (21?) – you used both 18 and 19 twice.
@Enzo – your bird total is one too high – you jumped from 37 to 39 (skipping 38).
@MOG2012 – you used number 62 twice in your bird lists, and number 24 twice in your invertebrate lists, so you’ll need to check those.
Here are the totals for everybody so far (albeit with some question marks added for the miscalculations mentioned in the post above, for those not yet corrected):
BIRDS:
Chlidonias – 411
birdsandbats – 265
Mehdi – 240
Mr. Zootycoon – 235
WhistlingKite24 – 228
Dr. Wolverine – 223
DesertTortoise – 219
MRJ – 213
Crotalus – 212
DaLilFishie – 205
Platypusboy – 194
oflory – 188
Bisonblake – 181
Maguari – 178
Ituri – 176
Prochilodus246 – 163
Hix – 160
Tiktaalik – 159
KiwiBirb – 150
Najade – 144
Lota lota – 132
Tetzoo Quizzer – 130
amur leopard – 127
Osedax – 121
Dr. Loxodonta – 111
Ding Lingwei – 110
Junklekitteb – 101
Lafone – 100
komodoskar – 95
CarnotaurusSastrei – 92
BerdNerd – 91
akasha – 88
DesertRhino150 – 70
MOG2012 – 68 ?
Matthew Typpo – 57
Enzo – 51 ?
Yoshistar888 – 28
KevinB – 15
WalkingAgnatha – 1
CMP – 1
MAMMALS:
Najade – 101
Chlidonias – 43
Mr. Zootycoon – 27
birdsandbats – 24
Maguari – 23
WhistlingKite24 – 18
Dr. Wolverine – 18
Giant Eland – 17
Crotalus – 17
MRJ – 16
Bisonblake – 15
Mehdi – 14
CarnotaurusSastrei – 14
Yoshistar888 – 13
DesertTortoise – 13
Prochilodus246 – 13
DaLilFishie – 13
Junklekitteb – 12
Osedax – 12
Platypusboy – 12
amur leopard – 12
oflory – 11
KiwiBirb – 11
akasha – 10
Dr. Loxodonta – 9
Matthew Typpo – 9
Hix – 9
Lafone – 8
MOG2012 – 7
BerdNerd – 7
Ding Lingwei – 6
Ituri – 6
Tetzoo Quizzer – 6
DesertRhino150 – 5
komodoskar – 4
KevinB – 2
Enzo – 2
REPTILES:
WhistlingKite24 – 21
MRJ – 21 ?
DesertTortoise – 17
Crotalus – 15
Najade – 14
Yoshistar888 – 13
Osedax – 11
birdsandbats – 10
DaLilFishie – 9
Mr. Zootycoon – 8
Bisonblake – 7
Enzo – 5
MOG2012 – 5
amur leopard – 5
oflory – 4
Matthew Typpo – 4
BerdNerd – 3
Hix – 3
Maguari – 2
CarnotaurusSastrei – 2
Prochilodus246 – 1
KiwiBirb – 1
akasha – 1
AMPHIBIANS:
Crotalus – 15
Najade – 13
Mr. Zootycoon – 10
DaLilFishie – 8
DesertTortoise – 8
WhistlingKite24 – 7
birdsandbats – 5
Maguari – 5
Prochilodus246 – 5
Tetzoo Quizzer – 3
Dr. Loxodonta – 2
BerdNerd – 2
Matthew Typpo – 2
Yoshistar888 – 1
Platypusboy – 1
oflory – 1
Bisonblake – 1
Osedax – 1
CarnotaurusSastrei – 1
FISH:
DaLilFishie – 147
WhistlingKite24 – 21
DesertTortoise – 8
Crotalus – 8
MOG2012 – 7
birdsandbats – 6
MRJ – 6
Maguari – 6
Matthew Typpo – 5
CarnotaurusSastrei – 4
Mr. Zootycoon – 2
Tetzoo Quizzer – 1
Prochilodus246 – 1
Hix – 1
INVERTEBRATES:
WhistlingKite24 – 296
Mr. Zootycoon – 263 (87 moths; 63 butterflies; 42 Odonata; 19 beetles; 14 grasshoppers; 13 flies; 12 bees; 8 gastropods; 5 isopods)
Prochilodus246 – 212
DaLilFishie – 104
Maguari – 51
Crotalus – 42 (29 assorted; 9 lepidoptera; 4 Odonata)
MOG2012 – 28 ?
Hix – 23
Tetzoo Quizzer – 19
MRJ – 15
akasha – 14
BerdNerd – 14
Lafone – 13
CarnotaurusSastrei – 10
Matthew Typpo – 7
Tiktaalik – 6 lepidoptera
DesertRhino150 – 4
Najade – 3
WalkingAgnatha – 2 (1 insect; 1 mollusc)
BIRDS:
Chlidonias – 411
birdsandbats – 265
Mehdi – 240
Mr. Zootycoon – 235
WhistlingKite24 – 228
Dr. Wolverine – 223
DesertTortoise – 219
MRJ – 213
Crotalus – 212
DaLilFishie – 205
Platypusboy – 194
oflory – 188
Bisonblake – 181
Maguari – 178
Ituri – 176
Prochilodus246 – 163
Hix – 160
Tiktaalik – 159
KiwiBirb – 150
Najade – 144
Lota lota – 132
Tetzoo Quizzer – 130
amur leopard – 127
Osedax – 121
Dr. Loxodonta – 111
Ding Lingwei – 110
Junklekitteb – 101
Lafone – 100
komodoskar – 95
CarnotaurusSastrei – 92
BerdNerd – 91
akasha – 88
DesertRhino150 – 70
MOG2012 – 68 ?
Matthew Typpo – 57
Enzo – 51 ?
Yoshistar888 – 28
KevinB – 15
WalkingAgnatha – 1
CMP – 1
MAMMALS:
Najade – 101
Chlidonias – 43
Mr. Zootycoon – 27
birdsandbats – 24
Maguari – 23
WhistlingKite24 – 18
Dr. Wolverine – 18
Giant Eland – 17
Crotalus – 17
MRJ – 16
Bisonblake – 15
Mehdi – 14
CarnotaurusSastrei – 14
Yoshistar888 – 13
DesertTortoise – 13
Prochilodus246 – 13
DaLilFishie – 13
Junklekitteb – 12
Osedax – 12
Platypusboy – 12
amur leopard – 12
oflory – 11
KiwiBirb – 11
akasha – 10
Dr. Loxodonta – 9
Matthew Typpo – 9
Hix – 9
Lafone – 8
MOG2012 – 7
BerdNerd – 7
Ding Lingwei – 6
Ituri – 6
Tetzoo Quizzer – 6
DesertRhino150 – 5
komodoskar – 4
KevinB – 2
Enzo – 2
REPTILES:
WhistlingKite24 – 21
MRJ – 21 ?
DesertTortoise – 17
Crotalus – 15
Najade – 14
Yoshistar888 – 13
Osedax – 11
birdsandbats – 10
DaLilFishie – 9
Mr. Zootycoon – 8
Bisonblake – 7
Enzo – 5
MOG2012 – 5
amur leopard – 5
oflory – 4
Matthew Typpo – 4
BerdNerd – 3
Hix – 3
Maguari – 2
CarnotaurusSastrei – 2
Prochilodus246 – 1
KiwiBirb – 1
akasha – 1
AMPHIBIANS:
Crotalus – 15
Najade – 13
Mr. Zootycoon – 10
DaLilFishie – 8
DesertTortoise – 8
WhistlingKite24 – 7
birdsandbats – 5
Maguari – 5
Prochilodus246 – 5
Tetzoo Quizzer – 3
Dr. Loxodonta – 2
BerdNerd – 2
Matthew Typpo – 2
Yoshistar888 – 1
Platypusboy – 1
oflory – 1
Bisonblake – 1
Osedax – 1
CarnotaurusSastrei – 1
FISH:
DaLilFishie – 147
WhistlingKite24 – 21
DesertTortoise – 8
Crotalus – 8
MOG2012 – 7
birdsandbats – 6
MRJ – 6
Maguari – 6
Matthew Typpo – 5
CarnotaurusSastrei – 4
Mr. Zootycoon – 2
Tetzoo Quizzer – 1
Prochilodus246 – 1
Hix – 1
INVERTEBRATES:
WhistlingKite24 – 296
Mr. Zootycoon – 263 (87 moths; 63 butterflies; 42 Odonata; 19 beetles; 14 grasshoppers; 13 flies; 12 bees; 8 gastropods; 5 isopods)
Prochilodus246 – 212
DaLilFishie – 104
Maguari – 51
Crotalus – 42 (29 assorted; 9 lepidoptera; 4 Odonata)
MOG2012 – 28 ?
Hix – 23
Tetzoo Quizzer – 19
MRJ – 15
akasha – 14
BerdNerd – 14
Lafone – 13
CarnotaurusSastrei – 10
Matthew Typpo – 7
Tiktaalik – 6 lepidoptera
DesertRhino150 – 4
Najade – 3
WalkingAgnatha – 2 (1 insect; 1 mollusc)
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Dr. Wolverine
Well-Known Member
I apologize for the mix-up, I have renumbered the lists and my Mammal count is 18, and my bird count is 223. Below is the complete list.
Mammals:
1) Japanese Macaque
2) Taiwanese Squirrel
3) Tanuki
4) Japanese Squirrel
5) Brown Rat
6) Lesser Mousedeer
7) Crab Eating Macaque
8) Sunda Colugo
9) Common Treeshrew
10) Slender Squirrel
11) Plantain Squirrel
12) Horsefield’s Flying Squirrel
13) Wild Boar
14) Smooth Coated Otter
15) Red Fox
16) Japanese Deer
17) Feral Rabbit
18) Masked Palm Civet
Birds:
1) Japanese Tit
2) Varied Tit
3) Long Tailed Tit
4) Eurasian Nuthatch
5) Japanese Woodpecker
6) Great Spotted Woodpecker
7) Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker
8) Red Flanked Bluetail
9) Japanese Wagtail
10) Eurasian Wren
11) Pale Thrush
12) Willow Tit
13) White Wagtail
14) Brown Dipper
15) Gadwall
16) Falcated Duck
17) Eastern Spot Billed Duck
18) Mallard
19) Common Pochard
20) Tufted Duck
11) Eurasian Jay
12) Coal Tit
13) Brown Eared Bulbul
14) Goldcrest
15) Eurasian Tree Creeper
16) Japanese Grosbeak
17) Rustic Bunting
18) Eurasian Tree Sparrow
19) Rock Pigeon
20) Rose Ringed Parakeet
21) Vega Gull
22) Red Breasted Flycatcher
23) Oriental Turtle Dove
24) Ruddy Breasted Crake
25) Eurasian Woodcock
26) Common Snipe
27) Bull Headed Shrike
28) Carrion Crow
29) Large Billed Crow
30) Japanese Bush Warbler
31) Chinese Hwamei
32) Brown Headed Thrush
33) Daurian Redstart
34) Masked Bunting
35) Ring Necked Duck
36) Common Kingfisher
37) Eurasian Wigeon
38) American Teal
39) House Swift
40) Eurasian Moorhen
41) Eurasian Coot
42) Long Billed Plover
43) Common Sandpiper
44) Black Headed Gull
45) Little grebe
46) Great Cormorant
47) Little Egret
48) Great Egret
49) Grey Heron
50) Osprey
51) Eurasian Goshawk
52) Eastern Marsh Harrier
53) Black Kite
54) Eurasian Kestrel
55) Peregrine Falcon
56) Zitting Cisticola
57) Masked Laughingthrush
58) White Cheeked Starling
59) Grey Wagtail
60) Buff-Bellied Pipit
61) Oriental Greenfinch
62) Chestnut Eared Bunting
63) Meadow Bunting
64) Blue Rock Thrush
65) Northern Shoveler
66) Greater Scaup
67) Red Breasted Merganser
68) Kentish Plover
69) Dunlin
70) Slaty Backed Gull
71) Horned Grebe
72) Great Crested Grebe
73) Eared grebe
74) Black Faced Spoonbill
75) Eurasian Sparrowhawk
76) Eastern Buzzard
77) Azure Winged Magpie
78) Pale Thrush
79) Northern Pintail
80) Eurasian Curlew
81) Saunder’s Gull
82) Common Gull
83) Japanese Cormorant
84) White’s Thrush
85) Siberian Sand Plover
86) Eurasian Skylark
87) Olive Backed Pipit
88) Grey Bunting
89) Ural Owl
90) Ferruginous Duck
91) Smew
92) Green Pheasant
93) Northern Lapwing
94) Oriental Stork
95) Long Eared Owl
96) Long Tailed Rosefinch
97) Dusky Thrush
98) Common Reed Bunting
99) Whooper Swan
100) Brown Cheeked Rail
101) Japanese Accentor
102) Copper Pheasant
103) Naumann’s Thrush
104) Javan Myna
105) Great Egret
106) House Crow
107) Black Nest Swiftlet
108) White Nest Swiftlet
109) Red Junglefowl
110) Asian Koel
111) Spotted Dove
112) Grey Headed Fish Eagle
113) Banded Woodpecker
114) Long Tailed Parakeet
115) Asian Glossy Starling
116) Chestnut Munia
117) Oriental Magpie Robin
118) Ornate Sunbird
119) Olive Winged Bulbul
120) Zebra Dove
121) Brahminy Kite
122) Pin Tailed Snipe
123) Pacific Reef heron
124) White Breasted Waterhen
125) Yellow Bittern
126) Red Wattled lapwing
127) Blue tailed bee eater
128) Oriental Honey Buzzard
129) Asian Openbill
130) Eastern Cattle Egret
141) Purple Heron
142) Medium Egret
143) Large Tailed Nightjar
144) Whimbrel
145) Common Redshank
146) Lesser Adjutant
147) Painted Stork
148) Milky Stork
149) Von Schrenck’s Bittern
150) Great Billed Heron
151) White Bellied Sea Eagle
152) Buffy Fish Owl
153) Blue Throated Bee Eater
154) Collared Kingfisher
155) Lineated Barbet
153) Red Breasted Parakeet
156) Straw Headed Bulbul
157) Common Myna
158) White Rumped Shama
159) Scarlet Backed Flowerpecker
160) Brown throated sunbird
161) Striated Heron
162) Chinese Pond Heron
163) Common Iora
164) Oriental Pied Hornbill
165) Laced Woodpecker
166) Pied triller
167) Asian Brown Flycatcher
168) Common Kingfisher
169) Collared Scops Owl
170) Stork Billed Kingfisher
171) Common Flameback
172) Monk Parakeet
173) Blue Winged Pitta
174) Yellow Vented Bulbul
175) Brown Boobook
176) Cinammon Bittern
177) Black Swan
178) Mute Swan
179) Crested Serpent Eagle
180) Taimyr gull
181) Stejneger’s Scoter
182) Sanderling
183) Bar Tailed Godwit
184) Grey Plover
185) Eurasian Oystercatcher
186) Glaucous Gull
187) Far Eastern Curlew
188) Mongolian gull
189) Heuglin’s Gull
190) Thayer’s Gull
191) Common Greenshank
192) Barn Swallow
193) Pacific Swallow
194) Little Ringed Plover
195) Terek Sandpiper
196) Great Knot
197) Little Tern
198) Common Tern
199) Narcissus Flycatcher
200) Greater Sand Plover
201) Red Necked Stint
202) Asian House Martin
203) Ashy Minivet
204) Eastern Crowned Warbler
205) Asian Stubtail
206) Blue and White Flycatcher
207) Siberian Blue Robin
208) Yellow Bunting
209) Japanese Robin
210) White Bellied Green Pigeon
211) Grey-tailed tattler
212) Chinese Bamboo Partridge
213) Red Billed Leiothrix
214) Japanese Paradise Flycatcher
215) Japanese Night Heron
216) Japanese Quail
217) Whiskered Tern
218) Black Browed Reed Warbler
219) Oriental Reed Warbler
220) Marsh Grassbird
221) Black Winged Stilt
222) Northern Boobook
223) Lesser Cuckoo
I've rechecked my birds, the missing numbers 54-64 and 109 had simply not been posted here (my primary yearlist is on a discord server, from which I copy to Zoochat, so I may occasionally forget to list some things here!!).
I did use the number 152 twice, but I realised I'd also counted Little Friarbird twice, so the numbers of some species has changed but the total has not.
Here is the corrected list:
BIRDS
1 - Australasian Figbird
2 - House Sparrow
3 - Torresian Imperial-Pigeon
4 - Pacific Black Duck
5 - Rock Dove
6 - Magpie-lark
7 - White-breasted Cuckooshrike
8 - Common Myna
9 - Peaceful Dove
10 - White-breasted Woodswallow
11 - Silver Gull
12 - Bar-tailed Godwit
13 - Whimbrel
14 - Little Egret
15 - Rainbow Lorikeet
16 - Australian Pelican
17 - Welcome Swallow
18 - Masked Lapwing
19 - Eastern Great Egret
20 - Far Eastern Curlew
21 - Willie-wagtail
22 - Bush Stone-curlew
23 - Eastern Reef-Heron
24 - Varied Honeyeater
25 - Rainbow Bee-eater
26 - Great Crested Tern
27 - Black Noddy
28 - Brown Noddy
29 - Black-naped Tern
30 - Sooty Tern
31 - Buff-banded Rail
32 - Ashy-bellied White-eye
33 - Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove
34 - Orange-footed Scrubfowl
35 - Great Frigatebird
36 - Common Greenshank
37 - Sacred Kingfisher
38 - Great Knot
39 - Metallic Starling
40 - Sahul Sunbird
41 - Black Butcherbird
42 - Hornbill Friarbird
43 - Papuan Frogmouth
44 - Pacific Baza
45 - Australian Brush Turkey
46 - Plumed Whistling-Duck
47 - Pacific Heron
48 - Whistling Kite
49 - Forest Kingfisher
50 - Brown-backed Honeyeater
51 - Black Kite
52 - Australian Magpie
53 - Chinese Pond Heron
0 - Australian Reed-warbler (heard)
54 - Yellow Honeyeater
55 - Australasian Swiftlet
56 - Royal Spoonbill
57 - Terek Sandpiper
58 - Bar-shouldered Dove
59 - Spangled Drongo
60 - Spotted Dove
0 - Torresian Kingfisher (heard)
61 - Australian Pied Oystercatcher
62 - Nankeen Night-Heron
63 - Magpie Goose
64 - Australasian Swamphen
65 - Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
66 - Little Pied Cormorant
67 - Striated Heron
68 - Little Black Cormorant
69 - Helmeted Guineafowl
70 - Golden-headed Cisticola
71 - Eastern Yellow Wagtail
72 - Australasian Pipit
0 - Greylag Goose (domestic)
73 - Grey-tailed Tattler
74 - Red-necked Stint
75 - Nordmann's Greenshank
76 - White-faced Heron
77 - Pied Stilt
78 - Straw-necked Ibis
79 - Crimson Finch
80 - Eurasian Wigeon
81 - Eastern Spot-billed Duck
82 - Mallard
83 - Eurasian Teal
84 - Eurasian Coot
85 - Grey Heron
86 - Carrion Crow
87 - Large-billed Crow
88 - Brown-eared Bulbul
89 - Warbling White-eye
90 - White-cheeked Starling
91 - Eurasian Tree Sparrow
92 - Japanese Wagtail
93 - White Wagtail
94 - Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker
95 - Long-tailed Tit
96 - Black-headed Gull
97 - Grey Wagtail
98 - Oriental Turtle Dove
99 - Common Merganser
100 - Common Shelduck
101 - Great Cormorant
102 - Little Grebe
103 - Dusky Thrush
104 - Asian House Martin
105 - Daurian Redstart
106 - Blue Rock-thrush
107 - Eurasian Jay
108 - Asian Tit
109 - Varied Tit
110 - Japanese Woodpecker
111 - Barn Swallow
112 - Brown Dipper
113 - Meadow Bunting
114 - Oriental Greenfinch
115 - Bull-headed Shrike
116 - Brown-headed Thrush
117 - Azure-winged Magpie
118 - Greater Scaup
119 - Common Pochard
120 - Black-tailed Gull
121 - Black-faced Spoonbill
122 - Northern Shoveler
124 - Tufted Duck
126 - Mute Swan
126 - Japanese Green Pheasant
127 - Eastern Buzzard
128 - Brambling
129 - Mandarin Duck
130 - Gadwall
131 - Little Friarbird
132 - Blue-faced Honeyeater
133 - Red-browed Finch
134 - Lewin's Honeyeater
135 - Great Crested Grebe
136 - Black Swan
137 - Hardhead
138 - Silvereye
139 - Brown Gerygone
140 - Yellow-faced Honeyeater
141 - Yellow-breasted Boatbill
142 - Eastern Yellow Robin
143 - Spectacled Monarch
144 - Rufous Shrikethrush
145 - Victoria's Riflebird
146 - Chestnut-breasted Mannikin
147 - Wandering Whistling-Duck
148 - Coal Tit
149 - Black-fronted Dotterel
150 - Laughing Kookaburra
151 - Red-backed Fairywren
152 - Channel-billed Cuckoo
153 - Green Oriole
154 - Varied Triller
155 - Rufous Whistler
156 - Double-eyed Fig-Parrot
157 - Superb Fruit-Dove
158 - Osprey
159 - Vega Gull
160 - Masked Bunting
161 - Japanese Cormorant
162 - Galah
163 - Great Bowerbird
164 - White-chinned Honeyeater
165 - Black-faced Cuckooshrike
166 - Olive-backed Oriole
167 - Double-barred Finch
168 - Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
169 - White-gaped Honeyeater
170 - Pied Currawong
171 - Torresian Crow
172 - Eastern Cattle Egret
173 - Southern Cassowary
174 - Superb Fairywren
175 - Yellow Wattlebird
176 - New Holland Honeyeater
177 - Common Blackbird
178 - Brown Thornbill
179 - Tasmanian Native-hen
180 - European Starling
181 - Australian Little Penguin
182 - Little Wattlebird
183 - Forest Raven
184 - Black-faced Cormorant
185 - Grey Fantail
186 - Chestnut Teal
187 - Green Rosella
188 - Australian Shelduck
189 - Kelp Gull
190 - Pacific Gull
191 - Sooty Oystercatcher
192 - Australasian Gannet
193 - Swamp Harrier
194 - Wedge-tailed Eagle
195 - Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo
196 - Scarlet Robin
197 - Black Currawong
198 - Strong-billed Honeyeater
199 - Grey Shrikethrush
200 - Musk Duck
201 - Noisy Miner
202 - Australasian Shoveler
203 - Australian Wood Duck
204 - Crescent Honeyeater
205 - Grey Currawong
I'll recount the fishes tomorrow.
Matthew Typpo
Well-Known Member
July 3, 2025
Birds
58. Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
Totals
Birds: 58
Mammals: 9
Invertebrates: 7
Fish: 5
Reptiles: 4
Amphibians: 2
Total: 85
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Prochilodus246
Well-Known Member
Thanks for noting this @Chlidonias. I must admit I'm surprised I haven't made more errors with my numbering as my listing in general has been a state in my own personal records this year.
Birds should in fact be on 163 with the complete list as follows:
1) Brent Goose
2) Canada Goose
3) Barnacle Goose
4) Greylag Goose
5) Pink-footed Goose
6) Mute Swan
7) Egyptian Goose
8) Common Shelduck
9) Mandarin Duck
10) Garganey
11) Northern Shoveler
12) Gadwall
13) Eurasian Wigeon
14) Mallard
15) Northern Pintail
16) Common Teal
17) Common Pochard
18) Tufted Duck
19) Common Eider
20) Common Scoter
21) Common Goldeneye
22) Goosander
23) Red-breasted Merganser
24) Red Grouse
25) Grey Partridge
26) Common Pheasant
27) Red-legged Partridge
28) European Nightjar
29) Common Swift
30) Common Cuckoo
31) Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon)
32) Stock Dove
33) Common Woodpigeon
34) Eurasian Collared Dove
35) Water Rail
36) Eurasian Moorhen
37) Eurasian Coot
38) Little Grebe
39) Great Crested Grebe
40) Slavonian Grebe
41) Black-necked Grebe
42) Common Oystercatcher
43) Grey Plover
44) Common Ringed Plover
45) Northern Lapwing
46) Eurasian Curlew
47) Black-tailed Godwit
48) European Woodcock
49) Common Snipe
50) Common Sandpiper
51) Green Sandpiper
52) Common Redshank
53) Greenshank
54) Turnstone
55) Ruff
56) Dunlin
57) Purple Sandpiper
58) Arctic Tern
59) Black-legged Kittiwake
60) Black-headed Gull
61) Common Gull
62) European Herring Gull
63) Great Black-backed Gull
64) Lesser Black-backed Gull
65) Atlantic Puffin
66) Black Guillemot
67) Razorbill
68) Common Guillemot
69) Red-throated Diver
70) Great Northern Diver
71) Northern Fulmar
72) Manx Shearwater
73) Northern Gannet
74) Eurasian Cormorant
75) European Shag
76) Glossy Ibis
77) Great Bittern
78) Little Egret
79) Great White Egret
80) Grey Heron
81) Western Osprey
82) Sparrowhawk
83) Hen Harrier
84) Marsh Harrier
85) Red Kite
86) White-tailed Eagle
87) Common Buzzard
88) Western Barn Owl
89) Little Owl
90) Long-eared Owl
91) Tawny Owl
92) Common Kingfisher
93) Great Spotted Woodpecker
94) European Green Woodpecker
95) Common Kestrel
96) Merlin
97) Ring-necked Parakeet
98) Eurasian Jay
99) Eurasian Magpie
100) Red-billed Chough
101) Western Jackdaw
102) Rook
103) Carrion Crow
104) Hooded Crow
105) Common Raven
106) Coal Tit
107) Crested Tit
108) Willow Tit
109) Eurasian Blue Tit
110) Great Tit
111) Woodlark
112) Eurasian Skylark
113) Sand Martin
114) Barn Swallow
115) House Martin
116) Cetti's Warbler
117) Long-tailed Tit
118) Willow Warbler
119) Common Chiffchaff
120) Sedge Warbler
121) Eurasian Reed Warbler
122) Common Grasshopper Warbler
123) Eurasian Blackcap
124) Garden Warbler
125) Lesser Whitethroat
126) Common Whitethroat
127) Goldcrest
128) Eurasian Wren
129) Western Nuthatch
130) Eurasian Treecreeper
131) Common Starling
132) Song Thrush
133) Mistle Thrush
134) Redwing
135) Eurasian Blackbird
136) Fieldfare
137) Spotted Flycatcher
138) European Robin
139) Pied Flycatcher
140) Common Redstart
141) European Stonechat
142) Northern Wheatear
143) White-throated Dipper
144) Eurasian Tree Sparrow
145) House Sparrow
146) Dunnock
147) Yellow Wagtail
148) Grey Wagtail
149) Pied Wagtail
150) Meadow Pipit
151) Tree Pipit
152) Rock Pipit
153) Eurasian Chaffinch
154) Eurasian Hawfinch
155) Eurasian Bullfinch
156) European Greenfinch
157) Common Linnet
158) Redpoll
159) European Goldfinch
160) Eurasian Siskin
161) Corn Bunting
162) Yellowhammer
163) Common Reed Bunting
Amphibs should be on five with them comprising of the following:
1) Smooth Newt
2) Great Crested Newt
3) Palmate Newt
4) Common Frog
5) Common Toad
I'll recount my inverts tomorrow
121 I had simply forgotten to post here (Ward's Damsel, Pomacentrus wardi), and I've adjusted the numbers to accommodate removal of Pacific Redfin Pseudaspius brandtii.
FISHES
1 - Crescent Grunter
2 - Silverlined Mudskipper
3 - Lemon Tongue Sole
4 - Brassy Trevally
5 - Thumbprint Emperor
6 - Blacktail Snapper
7 - Yellowfin Surgeonfish
8 - Ocellate Glidergoby
9 - White Damsel
10 - Snubnose Dart
11 - Pastel-green Wrasse
12 - Cutribbon Wrasse
13 - Cook's Cardinalfish
14 - Lined Butterflyfish
15 - Threadfin Butterflyfish
16 - Whitetail Damsel
17 - Whitebarred Goby
18 - Live Sharksucker
19 - Whitebarred Triggerfish
20 - Yellowtail Emperor
21 - Moon Wrasse
22 - Floral Maori Wrasse
23 - Titan Triggerfish
24 - Lemon Damsel
25 - Scissortail Sergeant
26 - Queensland Combtooth Blenny
27 - Fine-spotted Blenny
28 - Marbled Parrotfish
29 - Flowery Rockcod
30 - Yellowspot Goatfish
31 - Vagabond Butterflyfish
32 - Regal Demoiselle
33 - Chinese Demoiselle
34 - Bluespotted Rockcod
35 - Bengal Sergeant
36 - Bluespine Unicornfish
37 - Steephead Parrotfish
38 - Bluebarred Parrotfish
39 - Blue-green Chromis
40 - Yellowtail Demoiselle
41 - Two-lined Monocle-bream
42 - Dot-and-dash Goatfish
43 - Palenose Parrotfish
44 - Surf Parrotfish
45 - Diamondscale Goatfish
46 - Schroeder's Rainbow Wrasse
47 - Dusky Surgeonfish
48 - Lined Bristletooth
49 - Goldstripe Butterflyfish
50 - Piano Fangblenny
51 - Convict Tang
52 - Bluebarred Rabbitfish
53 - Manybar Goatfish
54 - Sixbar Goatfish
55 - Spotted Rabbitfish
56 - Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse
57 - Black Rabbitfish
0 - hybrid Bluebarred Rabbitfish X Goldlined Rabbitfish
58 - Copperband Butterflyfish
59 - Collared Razorfish
60 - Blackbarred Garfish
61 - Silverstreak Wrasse
62 - Blackspot Snapper
63 - Cheek-ring Wrasse
64 - Lined Monocle-bream
65 - Cigar Wrasse
66 - Eyeline Surgeonfish
67 - Forktail Rabbitfish
68 - Stripey Snapper
69 - Pearly Monocle-bream
70 - Hoeven's Wrasse
71 - Pacific Sailfin Tang
72 - Paddletail Snapper
73 - Southern Grubfish
74 - Striped Barracuda
75 - Slaty Sweetlips
76 - Leopard Coralgrouper
77 - Yellowtail Fusilier
78 - Rainbow Monocle-bream
79 - Whitetail Dascyllus
80 - Staghorn Damsel
81 - Southern Tubelip Wrasse
82 - Eastern Triangle Butterflyfish
83 - Blackaxil Chromis
84 - Sabre Squirrelfish
85 - Oneline Wrasse
86 - Pacific Bird Wrasse
87 - Lattice Butterflyfish
88 - Blackback Wrasse
89 - Pacific Bullethead Parrotfish
90 - Redbreast Maori Wrasse
91 - Orangelined Triggerfish
92 - Flagtail Triggerfish
93 - Sixbar Wrasse
94 - Sixband Parrotfish
95 - Scopas Tang
96 - Bicolour Angelfish
97 - Reticulated Dascyllus
98 - Swarthy Parrotfish
99 - Bluebridle Parrotfish
100 - Longfin Rockcod
101 - Spangled Emperor
102 - Giant Trevally
103 - Orbicular Batfish
104 - Twospot Red Snapper
105 - Blackback Butterflyfish
106 - Goldline Rabbitfish
107 - Indo-Pacific Sergeant
108 - Threadfin Emperor
109 - Sixbar Angelfish
110 - Eastern Rainbowfish
111 - Pacific Shortfin Eel
112 - Australian Snakehead Gudgeon
113 - Pikey Bream
114 - Northern River Garfish
115 - Sevenspot Archerfish
116 - Banded Archerfish
117 - Mangrove Jack
118 - Silver Moony
119 - Java Rabbitfish
120 - Narrow-lined Puffer
121 - Ward's Damsel
122 - Stars-and-stripes Puffer
123 - Reticulated Puffer
124 - Whitespotted Grouper
125 - Russell's Snapper
126 - Striped Scat
127 - Blackspotted Longtom
128 - Longfin Batfish
129 - Humphead Batfish
130 - Squaretail Mullet
131 - Amur Carp
132 - Rainbow Trout
133 - Barbel Steed
134 - Grass Carp
135 - Pacific Blue-eye
136 - Great Barracuda
137 - Blacktip Silverbiddy
138 - Ornate Sandgoby
139 - Yellowtail Grunter
140 - Milkfish
141 - Spiny Chromis
142 - Blue-tail Mullet
143 - Indo-Pacific Tarpon
144 - Variable Triplefin
145 - Southern Gobbleguts
146 - Yellowtail Scad
147 - Southern Hulafish
Day trip to Bruny Island to look for the Forty-spotted Pardalote - no luck with that species, but got two other lifers so can't complain too much!
MAMMALS
14 - Red-necked (Bennett's) Wallaby Notamacropus rufogriseus
BIRDS
206 - Yellow-throated Honeyeater Lichenostomus flavicollis
207 - Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus
208 - Black-headed Honeyeater Melithreptus affinis
209 - Australian Golden Whistler Pachycephala pectoralis
210 - Hooded Plover Thinornis cucullatus
Mammals - 14
Birds - 210
Herps - 17
Fishes - 147
Inverts - 104
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Forgot some herps:
6. Saltwater crocodile, Crocodylus porosus
7. Dusky earless agama, Aphaniotis fusca
Prochilodus246
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The Inverts:
1) Great Pond Snail
2) Western Dusky Slug
3) Large Black Slug
4) Green Cellar Slug
5) Brown-lipped Snail
6) Garden Snail
7) Pfeiffer's Amber-snail
8) Striped Millipede
9) White-legged Snake Millipede
10) Common Pill Millipede
11) Western Yellow Centipede
12) Easter Fox Spider
13) European Nursery Web Spider
14) Long-bodied Cellar Spider
15) Sycamore Cherry Mite
16) Red Nail Gall Mite
17) Alder Leaf Gall Mite
18) Common Marble
19) Dark-barred Tortrix
20) Poplar Hawkmoth
21) Eurasian Hummingbird Hawkmoth
22) Straw Dot
23) The Snout
24) Muslin Moth
25) Buff Ermine
26) Cinnabar Moth
27) Red-necked Footman
28) Yellow-tail
29) Pale Tussock
30) Puss Moth
31) Lunar Marbled brown
32) The Flame
33) Shuttle-shaped Dart
34) Heart & Dart
35) Flame Shoulder
36) Small Square Spot
37) Purple Clay
38) Ingrailed Clay
39) The Gothic
40) Double Square-spot
41) Large Yellow Underwing
42) Small Angle Shades
43) Angle Shades
44) Middle-barred Minor
45) Clouded-bordered Brindle
46) Dark Arches
47) Light Arches
48) Smoky Wainscot
49) The Clay
50) Hebrew Character
51) Common Quaker
52) Clouded Drab
53) Pale-shouldered Brocade
54) Bright-line Brown-eye
55) Plain Golden Y
56) Silver Y
57) Burnished Brass
58) Freyer's Pug
59) Common Pug
60) Yellow Shell
61) Green Carpet
62) Barred Straw
63) Purple Bar
64) Chimney-sweeper
65) Latticed Heath
66) Brimstone Moth
67) Common White Wave
68) The Engrailed
69) Peppered Moth
70) Common Heath
71) Willow Beauty
72) Grass Wave
73) March Moth
74) Brown Silver-line
75) Bee Moth
76) Garden Grass-veneer
77) Meadow Longhorn
78) Yellow-barred Longhorn
79) Six-spot Burnet
80) Cocksfoot Moth
81) Common Swift Moth
82) Ethmia quadrillella
83) Brindled Flat-body
84) Brown House Moth
85) Common Nettle-tap
86) Chinese Character
87) Yellow Horned
88) Large Skipper
89) Painted Lady
90) Red Admiral
91) European Comma
92) European Peacock
93) Small Tortoiseshell
94) Small Heath
95) Meadow Brown
96) Ringlet
97) Speckled Wood
98) Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary
99) Green Hairstreak
100) Small Copper
101) Holly Blue
102) Common Blue
103) Common Brimstone
104) Orange-tip
105) Small White
106) Large White
107) Green-veined White
108) Hairy-footed Flower Bee
109) Early Bumblebee
110) Tree Bumblebee
111) Common Carder Bee
112) White-tailed Bumblebee
113) Buff-tailed Bumblebee
114) Red-tailed Bumblebee
115) Western Honey Bee
116) Tawny Mining Bee
117) Chocolate Mining Bee
118) Early Mining Bee
119) Common Wasp
120) Oak Apple Gall Wasp
121) Eupontania pundunculi
122) Wheat Stem Sawfly
123) Willow Bean Galler
124) Strawberry Seed Beetle
125) Bronze Ground Beetle
126) Granulated Ground Beetle
127) Violet Ground Beetle
128) Varied Carpet Beetle
129) Rosemary Leaf Beetle
130) Willow Leaf Beetle
131) Black-punctured Leaf Beetle
132) Heather Beetle
133) Black-margined Loosestrife Beetle
134) Alder Leaf Beetle
135) Donacia crassipes
136) Common Asparagus Beetle
137) Harlequin Ladybird
138) 7-spot Ladybird
139) Orange Ladybird
140) 14-spot Ladybird
141) Black-headed Cardinal Beetle
142) Rough-haired Lagria Beetle
143) Thick-legged Flower Beetle
144) Resin Weevil
145) Nettle Weevil
146) Clover Root Weevil
147) Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil
148) Oak Leaf-roller Weevil
149) Two-banded Longhorn Beetle
150) Wasp Beetle
151) Golden-bloomed Longhorn Beetle
152) Grey Sailor Beetle
153) Dark Sailor Beetle
154) Rhagonycha nigriventris
155) Welsh Chafer
156) Violet Dor Beetle
157) Long-winged Conehead
158) Speckled Bush-cricket
159) Roesel's Bush Cricket
160) 16-spot Ladybird
161) Common Field Grasshopper
162) Red & Black Froghopper
163) Cabbage Whitefly
164) Rose Aphid
165) Sycamore Aphid
166) Sthenarus rotermundi
167) Handsome Plant Bug
168) Orange-spotted Plant Bug
169) European Tarnished Plant Bug
170) Grass Bug
171) Meadow Plant Bug
172) Four-spotted Plant Bug
173) Nettle Ground Bug
174) Forest Bug
175) Green Shield Bug
176) Dock Bug
177) Broad-bodied Chaser
178) Black Darter
179) Emperor Dragonfly
180) Hairy Dragonfly
181) Banded Demoiselle
182) Common Blue Damselfly
183) Blue-tailed Damselfly
184) Large Red Damselfly
185) Hawthorn Fly
186) Two-banded Wasp Hoverfly
187) Spring Epistrophe
188) Eurasian Smoothwing
189) Marmalade Hoverfly
190) Grey-spotted Sedgesitter
191) Sun Fly
192) Batman Hoverfly
193) Tapered Dronefly
194) Orange-belted Leafwalker
195) Common Snout Hoverfly
196) Narcissus Bulb Fly
197) Yellow Dung Fly
198) European Holly Leafminer
199) Thistle Stem Gall Fly
200) Downlooker Snipefly
201) Greater Bee Fly
202) Pearly Green Lacewing
203) German Scorpionfly
204) Two-spotted Water Slater
205) Common Rough Woodlouse
206) Common Shiny Woodlouse
207) Common Pill Woodlouse
208) Common Earthworm
209) 22-spot Ladybird
210) Green Dock Beetle
211) Common Malachite Beetle
212) Cantharis decipiens
1) Great Pond Snail
2) Western Dusky Slug
3) Large Black Slug
4) Green Cellar Slug
5) Brown-lipped Snail
6) Garden Snail
7) Pfeiffer's Amber-snail
8) Striped Millipede
9) White-legged Snake Millipede
10) Common Pill Millipede
11) Western Yellow Centipede
12) Easter Fox Spider
13) European Nursery Web Spider
14) Long-bodied Cellar Spider
15) Sycamore Cherry Mite
16) Red Nail Gall Mite
17) Alder Leaf Gall Mite
18) Common Marble
19) Dark-barred Tortrix
20) Poplar Hawkmoth
21) Eurasian Hummingbird Hawkmoth
22) Straw Dot
23) The Snout
24) Muslin Moth
25) Buff Ermine
26) Cinnabar Moth
27) Red-necked Footman
28) Yellow-tail
29) Pale Tussock
30) Puss Moth
31) Lunar Marbled brown
32) The Flame
33) Shuttle-shaped Dart
34) Heart & Dart
35) Flame Shoulder
36) Small Square Spot
37) Purple Clay
38) Ingrailed Clay
39) The Gothic
40) Double Square-spot
41) Large Yellow Underwing
42) Small Angle Shades
43) Angle Shades
44) Middle-barred Minor
45) Clouded-bordered Brindle
46) Dark Arches
47) Light Arches
48) Smoky Wainscot
49) The Clay
50) Hebrew Character
51) Common Quaker
52) Clouded Drab
53) Pale-shouldered Brocade
54) Bright-line Brown-eye
55) Plain Golden Y
56) Silver Y
57) Burnished Brass
58) Freyer's Pug
59) Common Pug
60) Yellow Shell
61) Green Carpet
62) Barred Straw
63) Purple Bar
64) Chimney-sweeper
65) Latticed Heath
66) Brimstone Moth
67) Common White Wave
68) The Engrailed
69) Peppered Moth
70) Common Heath
71) Willow Beauty
72) Grass Wave
73) March Moth
74) Brown Silver-line
75) Bee Moth
76) Garden Grass-veneer
77) Meadow Longhorn
78) Yellow-barred Longhorn
79) Six-spot Burnet
80) Cocksfoot Moth
81) Common Swift Moth
82) Ethmia quadrillella
83) Brindled Flat-body
84) Brown House Moth
85) Common Nettle-tap
86) Chinese Character
87) Yellow Horned
88) Large Skipper
89) Painted Lady
90) Red Admiral
91) European Comma
92) European Peacock
93) Small Tortoiseshell
94) Small Heath
95) Meadow Brown
96) Ringlet
97) Speckled Wood
98) Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary
99) Green Hairstreak
100) Small Copper
101) Holly Blue
102) Common Blue
103) Common Brimstone
104) Orange-tip
105) Small White
106) Large White
107) Green-veined White
108) Hairy-footed Flower Bee
109) Early Bumblebee
110) Tree Bumblebee
111) Common Carder Bee
112) White-tailed Bumblebee
113) Buff-tailed Bumblebee
114) Red-tailed Bumblebee
115) Western Honey Bee
116) Tawny Mining Bee
117) Chocolate Mining Bee
118) Early Mining Bee
119) Common Wasp
120) Oak Apple Gall Wasp
121) Eupontania pundunculi
122) Wheat Stem Sawfly
123) Willow Bean Galler
124) Strawberry Seed Beetle
125) Bronze Ground Beetle
126) Granulated Ground Beetle
127) Violet Ground Beetle
128) Varied Carpet Beetle
129) Rosemary Leaf Beetle
130) Willow Leaf Beetle
131) Black-punctured Leaf Beetle
132) Heather Beetle
133) Black-margined Loosestrife Beetle
134) Alder Leaf Beetle
135) Donacia crassipes
136) Common Asparagus Beetle
137) Harlequin Ladybird
138) 7-spot Ladybird
139) Orange Ladybird
140) 14-spot Ladybird
141) Black-headed Cardinal Beetle
142) Rough-haired Lagria Beetle
143) Thick-legged Flower Beetle
144) Resin Weevil
145) Nettle Weevil
146) Clover Root Weevil
147) Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil
148) Oak Leaf-roller Weevil
149) Two-banded Longhorn Beetle
150) Wasp Beetle
151) Golden-bloomed Longhorn Beetle
152) Grey Sailor Beetle
153) Dark Sailor Beetle
154) Rhagonycha nigriventris
155) Welsh Chafer
156) Violet Dor Beetle
157) Long-winged Conehead
158) Speckled Bush-cricket
159) Roesel's Bush Cricket
160) 16-spot Ladybird
161) Common Field Grasshopper
162) Red & Black Froghopper
163) Cabbage Whitefly
164) Rose Aphid
165) Sycamore Aphid
166) Sthenarus rotermundi
167) Handsome Plant Bug
168) Orange-spotted Plant Bug
169) European Tarnished Plant Bug
170) Grass Bug
171) Meadow Plant Bug
172) Four-spotted Plant Bug
173) Nettle Ground Bug
174) Forest Bug
175) Green Shield Bug
176) Dock Bug
177) Broad-bodied Chaser
178) Black Darter
179) Emperor Dragonfly
180) Hairy Dragonfly
181) Banded Demoiselle
182) Common Blue Damselfly
183) Blue-tailed Damselfly
184) Large Red Damselfly
185) Hawthorn Fly
186) Two-banded Wasp Hoverfly
187) Spring Epistrophe
188) Eurasian Smoothwing
189) Marmalade Hoverfly
190) Grey-spotted Sedgesitter
191) Sun Fly
192) Batman Hoverfly
193) Tapered Dronefly
194) Orange-belted Leafwalker
195) Common Snout Hoverfly
196) Narcissus Bulb Fly
197) Yellow Dung Fly
198) European Holly Leafminer
199) Thistle Stem Gall Fly
200) Downlooker Snipefly
201) Greater Bee Fly
202) Pearly Green Lacewing
203) German Scorpionfly
204) Two-spotted Water Slater
205) Common Rough Woodlouse
206) Common Shiny Woodlouse
207) Common Pill Woodlouse
208) Common Earthworm
209) 22-spot Ladybird
210) Green Dock Beetle
211) Common Malachite Beetle
212) Cantharis decipiens
Thanks. Looked through these again and yes - 265 birds is correct. My mammal total is 24.
Forgot this from a few days ago. On the plane leaving Tasmania as I type this.
BIRDS
211 - Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus (subspecies lifer cinereus)
05.07.25 - Allrode, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Mammals
102. Lesser Noctule (Nyctalus leisleri)
103. Brandt’s Bat (Myotis brandtii)
104. Western Barbastelle (Barbastella barbastellus)
105. Common Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus)
106. Brown Long-eared Bat (Plecotus auritus)
107. Serotine (Eptesicus serotinus)
108. Northern Bat (Eptesicus nilsonii)
109. Parti-coloured Bat (Vespertilio murinus)
Osedax
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I just realised I counted Little Corella twice, so with today’s new bird I am on 121.
121. Australasian Gannet (Morus serrator)
KiwiBirb
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Been putting off writing this update for way to long, I started writing super long but eventually I had written so long across so much time that I forgot some of my experiences and the writing was beginning to be to much to read when I included every new bird, although I still will feature my highlights from this migration season. It begins right after my last update when I went to Cape May County to go birding for 2 consecutive weekends. The first trip was relatively uneventful on the bird front, picking up typical migrates and of course the South Jersey Carolina Chickadee, however I finally got views of wild Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins swimming off the coast along with 2 species of Snake: Eastern Rat Snake and the Black Racer. One the way back however, a stop at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge proved to be quite successful, picking a pretty uncommon Merlin along with a lifer Seaside Sparrow, a bird I had only heard last year. The next day I went to Garret Mountain where I had an amazing day of birding, rounding off a majority of common spring migrants in what was by far my most successful birding outing to date, seeing 63 species of birds, beating my old record by 12. Among the birds was a lifer buzzing Blue-Winged Warbler and an overdue Rose-Breasted Grosbeak. I continued to pick up migrants throughout the week including another overdue bird in the Wood Thrush, and a colony of Cliff Swallows just 5 minutes from my house that I had completely missed last year. That weekend I was back down in Cape May where my first stop was Belleplain State Forest, which I had previously visited before birding. Despite my checklists there being small, the new habitat provided for several new birds including the abundant Yellow-Throated Warbler, a distant yet easily noticeable Summer Tanager, a shy Hooded Warbler, and a White-Eyed Vireo high in the trees. The next day I traveled to Cape May proper where I had a successful sea watch, getting a lifer Parasitic Jaeger, along with a lifer Yellow-Breasted Chat in the meadows. The chat somehow wasn’t even the coolest thing I saw in the Cape May Meadows as when crossing a bridge, and North American River Otter poked its head out of the water to look a me, a mammal I had long been searching for. A couple stops along the way home lead to several herons and shorebirds being added to me list including a White-Faced Ibis in Manahawkin that I was barely able to make out in the pouring rain. After another week of local birding I tried out a new place in the Meadowlands- Losen Slote Creek Park. I wish I knew about that place sooner because birds were singing in every direction, including Bay-Breasted Warbler and Cape May Warbler, both of which I missed last year, didn’t even hear (the Bay-Breasted Warbler I would see a lot of for the next 2 weeks.) The next weekend I went up to Sterling Forest in New York in search of the Golden-Winged Warbler. Of course this is the year that didn’t produced any records (there was a Brewster’s Warbler, although I can’t county hybrids), but I did walk out with a lifer Cerulean Warbler and about 20 ticks on me. The next day I went back to Losen Slote Creek Park due to reports of a long-staying Bicknell’s Thrush. After a walk around the park, we heard it when we got back near the entrance, and after about 10 minutes of hearing it, we saw the Bicknell’s Thrush being some thick foliage. For Memorial Day Weekend I went back down the shore, closer to Ocean City, although I did get a chance to see an Acadian Flycatcher in Belleplain, a bird I missed last time. A trip to the beach gave me a shock Royal Tern flyover, a bird I went to Sandy Hook to see and miss during their peak migration last year. That night I took a trip down to the salt marshes of the southern NJ coast where I was able to see a long-staying American Barn Owl as it flew over its marsh. Before leaving, I stopped a small park near where I was staying where I finally got looks of a Prothonotary Warbler, a bird I had been seeking since I first went down the shore last year. Not only that but I saw a group of 3 rare lingering Bay-Breasted Warblers in some tall trees. June didn’t have much birding in it due to a mix of the strong heat waves late in the month, 2 flat tires, and my dog sadly getting sick, although at the beginning of the month I was quite shocked to see a Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher during a short trip to Garret Mountain along with a trip to West Jersey late in the month to see a Swainson’s Warbler. While I went on the one day the warbler was no-show, I spotted a Bobcat along the backroads of west Jersey along with a small Common Gallinule at a stop up in Wallkill River NWR on the way back. Over the next month I’ll be taking 2 trips (unfortunately missing the opening of the World of Darkness at the Bronx Zoo) the first an annual family trip to the Andirondacks, and the second, a 3 and a half week trip across the southern US where I will visit some schools, zoos, and parks, where I hope to see animals like Red-Cockaded Woodpecker, American Alligator, Bachman’s Sparrow, and Elk.This update begins as I traveled to Sandy Hook to try and see some of the last ocean birds I need for the year, along with some possible Thrashers and Towhees. It wasn’t long after arriving that I saw a couple of Laughing Gulls flying around and a Barn Swallow flying shortly after I arrived. After going on a small hike through the woods where I saw the Western Tanager in January, I went to the beach where I saw a Common Loon flyby. After trying 2 more short walks in the bushy woods of Sandy Hook in search of Towhees, Thrashers, and any other songbirds that turned up nothing but a couple late Kinglets and a couple of Black-Capped Chickadees being flagged as rare (they’re common in Sandy Hook but not the county,) nothing turned up. However a walk to the north end turned up a Loon up close in breeding plumage and a distant Northern Gannet in the water, my first for the US. On the way back I took a short stop to Raritan Bay Waterfornt Park to try and see a Black-Headed Gull spotted there. Despite the Gull seemingly moving on, there was still a pair of Bonaparte’s Gull hanging around. The next day I went to Richard DeKorte Park in the meadowlands after hearing reports of Ruff. Of course I forgot to check the tide times and there were no mudflats open for the Ruff with high tide aboutDespite this their were plenty of Forster’s Terns flying around and a Snowy Egret at a nearby pond. The next day I got up early to try and see the Ruff at low tide. Despite initial struggles to find the bird from myself and other birders, with myself only seeing plenty of Yellowlegs including a few Lesser Yellowlegs, another birder located the Ruff far out on the mud flats and I was able to get in my scope for a couple seconds. After leaving the Eurasian visitor, I took a hike up the more woodsy side of DeKorte where plenty of Barn and Northern Rough-Winged Swallows were flying just inches from me on top a hill. The next day I went to Garrett Mountain in search of a Vesper Sparrow that had been spotted there. When arriving, I was greeted by not just a Vesper Sparrow but 5 of them, something many more experienced birders told me was unheard of in my area. After seeing the sparrows I went on a walk with another local birder who helped me learn how to bird in the Preserve that I had been to just once. Along said walk I saw plenty of Eastern Towhees and Brown Thrashers which I had missed in Sandy Hook earlier in the week. After getting home from Garrett Mountain at lunchtime, I decided to take a ride to the NJ/NY border in the north to Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge which is apparently a good place to see Sandhill Cranes. Sure enough it didn’t take long after arriving to see the 2 cranes which are an east-coast lifer (saw them in Yellowstone before I started Birding.) After taking a break for Easter when I saw some of my first mid-spring migrants in Chimney Swift, Northern House Wren, and Northern Parula, I took a trip to Teaneck Creek. Despite it being a hotspot for Warblers in the past couple days, I only saw more Yellow-Rumped, although there was a Solitary Sandpiper and Gray Catbird there to add to my year list. Finally yesterday I went to Van Saun where after seeing a pair of Warbling Vireo, I saw my first Rarity for the pond in a Little Blue Heron foraging on the mudflats bringing my bird list to a nice round 150.
Mammals
10) Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)
11) American Red Squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus)
Birds
129) Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla)
130) Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
131) Common Loon (Gavia immer)
132) Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus)
133) Bonaparte’s Gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia)
134) Forster’s Tern (Sterna forsteri)
135) Snowy Egret (Egretta thula)
136) Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
137) Ruff (Calidris pugnax)
138) Northern Rough-Winged Swallow (Stelgidopteryx serripennis)
139) Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus)
140) Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum)
141) Eastern Towhee (Pipilo erythrophthalmus)
142) Sandhill Crane (Antigone canadensis)
143) Northern Parula (Setophaga americana)
144) Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica)
145) Northern House Wren (Troglodytes aedon)
146) Blue-Headed Vireo (Vireo solitarius)
147) Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)
148) Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)
149) Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus)
150) Little Blue Heron (Egretta caerulea)
Progress:
Mammals- 11
Birds- 150
Herptiles- 1 (Got to get around to IDing some turtles)
Total- 162
Mammals
12) Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
13) North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis)
14) Bobcat (Lynx rufus)
Birds
151) Purple Martin (Progne subis)
152) Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)
153) Prairie Warbler (Setophaga discolor)
154) Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis)
155) Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas)
156) Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
157) Willet (Tringa semipalmata)
158) Least Tern (Sternula antillarum)
159) Short-Billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus)
160) Seaside Sparrow (Ammospiza maritima)
161) Gull-Billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica)
162) Merlin (Falco columbarius)
163) Black-and-White Warbler (Mniotilta varia)
164) Black-Throated Blue Warbler (Setophaga caerulescens)
165) Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca)
166) Blue-Winged Warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera)
167) Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla)
168) Veery (Catharus fuscescens)
169) American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)
170) Nashville Warbler (Leiothlypis ruficapilla)
171) Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)
172) Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia)
173) American Kestrel (Falco sparverius)
174) Rose-Breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus)
175) Purple Finch (Haemorhous purpureus)
176) Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus)
177) Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula)
178) Green Heron (Butorides virescens)
179) Yellow-Crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)
180) Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata)
181) Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis)
182) Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina)
183) Great Crested Flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus)
184) Red-Eyed Vireo (Vireo olivaceus)
185) Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota)
186) American White Ibis (Eudocimus albus)
187) Yellow-Throated Warbler (Setophaga dominica)
188) Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens)
189) Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra)
190) Hooded Warbler (Setophaga citrina)
191) White-Eyed Vireo (Vireo griseus)
192) Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea)
193) Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
194) Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus)
195) Yellow-Breasted Chat (Icteria virens)
196) Hudsonian Whimbrel (Numenius hudsonicus)
197) Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
198) Semipalmated Plover (Charadrius semipalmatus)
199) Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)
200) Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
201) Black-Bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
202) Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius)
203) Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans)
204) Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor)
205) White-Faced Ibis (Plegadis chihi)
206) Black-Throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens)
207) Swainson’s Thrush (Catharus ustulatus)
208) Magnolia Warbler (Setophaga magnolia)
209) Scarlet Tanager (Piranga olivacea)
210) Bay-Breasted Warbler (Setophaga castanea)
211) Cape May Warbler (Setophaga tigrina)
212) Orchard Oriole (Icterus spurius)
213) Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)
214) Chestnut-Sided Warbler (Setophaga pensylvanica)
215) Canada Warbler (Cardellina canadensis)
216) Marsh Wren (Cistothorus palustris)
217) Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea)
218) Bicknell’s Thrush (Catharus bicknelli)
219) Worm-Eating Warbler (Helmitheros vermivorum)
220) Acadian Flycatcher (Empidonax virescens)
221) Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus)
222) American Barn Owl (Tyto furcata)
223) Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea)
224) Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher (Empidonax flaviventris)
225) Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii)
226) Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata)
Herptiles
2) Eastern Rat Snake (Pantherophis quadrivittatus)
3) Eastern Racer (Coluber constrictor)
4) Pond Slider (Trachemys scripta)
5) Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina)
6) Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer)
Progress:
Mammals- 14
Birds- 226
Herptiles- 6 (Still backed up on IDing)
Total- 246
I've become so desperate for new state birds that I took a canoe out on Lake Michigan today to go for Piping Plover. This is probably a really bad idea but I lived, and got my plovers! Plus another bonus bird (not new for my state list though)
Birds
266. White-rumped Sandpiper Calidris fuscicollis
267. Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
A few more locally and then another family trip- this time to Cabo San Lucas and California has almost doubled my daughter's lifelist.
Highlight was extended views (45 minutes!) of a group of 5 Dwarf Sperm Whales that were curious and swimming around our boat off the coast of La Ventana, Mexico. The captain was as excited as I was and said he'd never seen anything like this in 15 years of being on the sea!
The Bobcat was only my 2nd ever wild, and way better than my first view on the road at night in Florida. This time it crossed the road in the heat of day as we approached Joshua Tree NP. My daughter's view from her car seat is so low that she wasn't able to see anything. So, we quickly pulled over and I got her out of the car as fast as possible to try to find the animal again. 30 seconds later I was able to show my daughter her first Bobcat and first overall wild cat.
The Pocket Gopher was the first species my daughter spotted for the 1st time before her parents did for her- right along our parked car as we were getting ready for a hike at Pinnacles NP.
My daughter also got to experience her first Whales and Dolphins alongside fellow members @zoo_sipsik & @zoo_enthusiast .
Species in Bold = Wild Lifer for me
DL = Daughter Lifer
Long Island:
18. Northern Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina brevicauda) (May 30)
19. Common Raccoon (Procyon lotor) (Jun 4)
20. White-footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) DL (Jun 11)
La Ventana, Mexico:
21. Dwarf Sperm Whale (Kogia sima) (Jun 17) FAMILY LIFER!!
San Diego/Escondido California:
22. Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger) DL (Jun 19)
23. Brush rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani) DL
24. Desert cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii) DL
25. Northern Baja Deer Mouse (Peromyscus fraterculus)
26. Dulzura kangaroo rat (Dipodomys simulans)
27. Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) (Jun 20)
Joshua Tree NP/Palm Springs, California:
28. Bobcat (Lynx rufus) DL (Jun 21)
29. Black-tailed Jackrabbit (Lepus californicus) DL
30. White-tailed antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus leucurus) DL
31. Western gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus) DL
32. California Chipmunk (Neotamias obscurus) DL
33. Canyon bat (Parastrellus hesperus) DL
Pinnacles NP, California:
34. California Ground Squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi) DL (Jun 22)
35. Dusky-footed Woodrat (Neotoma fuscipes) DL
36. Bryant's Woodrat (Neotoma bryanti)
37. Pinyon Mouse (Peromyscus truei)
38. California myotis (Myotis californicus)
39. Long-eared myotis (Myotis evotis)
40. Heermann's kangaroo rat (Dipodomys heermanni)
41. Striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis)
42. Merriam's chipmunk (Neotamias merriami) DL (Jun 23)
43. Botta's Pocket Gopher (Thomomys bottae) DL (Jun 24)
Point Lobos, California:
44. Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) DL
45. Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) DL
46. California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) DL
47. California vole (Microtus californicus)
Monterey Bay, California:
48. Risso's Dolphin (Grampus griseus) DL (Jun 25)
49. Eastern North Pacific Long-beaked Common Dolphin (Delphinus bairdii)
50. Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) DL
51. Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) (Jun 26)
Ragle Ranch Park, California:
52. Long-tailed Weasel (Neogale frenata) DL (Jun 27)
I also added a few captive lifers that I'll list here just for fun:
Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius)- San Diego Safari Park
Eastern hoolock gibbon (Hoolock leuconedys)- Gibbon Conservation Center
Western red bat (Lasiurus frantzii)- Bat Rescue in Sacramento
Southern grasshopper mouse (Onychomys torridus)- California Academy of Sciences
Prochilodus246
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Invert additions from this weekend:
213) Horse Chestnut Leafminer Cameraria ohridella
214) Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus
213) Horse Chestnut Leafminer Cameraria ohridella
214) Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus
Thank you for that note re reptiles. I will correct it next time I have a reptile to add. In the meantime, a couple of birds from a quick trip to Brisbane for a wedding.
214. Blue-faced honeyeater Entomyzon cyanotis
215. Australasian figbird Sphecotheres vieilloti