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  1. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    so do you want your thread-ranking to be on UK birds or world birds? I can put you at whichever you prefer.
     
    Chlidonias, 30 May 2016
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  2. BeardsleyZooFan

    BeardsleyZooFan Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Better late than never.

    BIRDS:
    1. Canada Goose
    2. Herring Gull
    3. American Crow
    4. Mourning Dove
    5. Blue Jay
    6. House Sparrow
    7. Dark-Eyed Junco
    8. Northern Cardinal
    9. Mallard
    10. Mute Swan
    11. Yellow-Crowned Sparrow
    12. American Robin
    13. Wild Turkey
    14. Northern Mockingbird
    15. Eastern Bluebird
    16. Great Blue Heron
    17. European Starling
    18. Great Egret
    19. Osprey
    20 Warbling Vireo
    21. Baltimore Oriole
    22. Gray Catbird
    23. Chimney Swift
    24. Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
    25. Black-and-White Warbler
    26. Black-Throated Green Warbler
    27. Black-Crowned Night Heron
    28. Eastern Kingbird
    29. White-Breasted Nuthatch
    30. Wood Duck
    31. Red-Winged Blackbird
    32. Yellow Warbler
    33. Common Grackle
    34. Canada Warbler
    35. Chipping Sparrow
    36. Redheaded Woodpecker
    37. Northern Flicker
    38. Magnolia Warbler
    39. Blackburnian Warbler
    40. Wood Thrush

    MAMMALS:
    1. Gray Squirrel
    2. White-Tailed Deer
    3. Eastern Chipmunk
    4. Eastern Cottontail
    5. Red Fox
    6. Groundhog
    7. Coyote
     
    BeardsleyZooFan, 31 May 2016
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  3. Hevden

    Hevden Well-Known Member

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    Just one more this weekend

    193. Hobby
     
    Hevden, 31 May 2016
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  4. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    An update from Ethiopia, all additions either seen from the hotel window in Addis, on the Addis - Awash road or just north of Awash NP:

    297. Dusky turtle dove
    298. Brown-rumped seedeater
    299. White-collared pigeon
    300. Tacazze sunbird
    301. Mountain trush
    302. White-backed vulture
    303. Dark chanting goshawk
    304. Hooded vulture
    305. Fan-tailed raven
    306. Spur-winged goose
    307. Cut-throat finch
    308. Swainson’s sparrow
    309. Striated heron
    310. African palm trush
    311. Abdim’s stork
    312. Orange-bellied parrot
    313. Abyssinian roller
    314. Black-billed woodhoopoe
    315. Senegal thick-knee
    316. Egyptian vulture
    317. Ethiopian boubou
    318. Ethiopian swallow
    319. Deckens hornbill
    320. Double-banded courser
    321. Vitelline masked weaver
    322. Northern carmine bee-eater
    323. Yellow bellied eremomela
    324. Chestnut-backed sparrowlark

    Mammals:

    38. Salt’s dikdik
    39. Grivet monkey
    40. Northern lesser kudu
    41. Hamdryas baboon
    42. African golden wolf jackal (or whatever it is called now...)

    With Abdim's stork I have finally completed my African set of storks (also for this year), somehow I have managed to miss this species before, but now they are everywhere giving the recent rains in Afar...

    The coolest mammal that I saw (well allmost) is Naked mole rat, I have seen the burrow and the sand that was actively being pushed out of it, but I failed to spot the little critter responsible for the activity, so unfortunately it is not countable...


    I will have one week in the eastern Ethiopian highlands later in June and I plan to visit the southern highlands of Ethiopia later this year. Together with a return trip to Baringo Kenya and almost 2 months in Tanzania (most of which in E Usambara mountains again), I hope to get at at least 600 bird species this year...
     
    lintworm, 31 May 2016
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  5. robmv

    robmv Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Go with the worldwide number - it's probably simpler. I'll use that numbering from now on.
     
    robmv, 31 May 2016
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  6. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Mwahaha!

    He's one of us now...
     
    Maguari, 31 May 2016
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  7. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    and with that, here is the monthly round-up:


    BIRDS:

    robmv – 346
    lintworm – 324
    LaughingDove – 317
    Maguari – 313
    jbnbsn99 – 303
    Ituri – 300
    boof – 216
    Hevden – 193
    TeaLovingDave – 130
    DesertRhino150 – 125
    KevinVar – 95
    Macaw16 – 81
    Fireplume – 72
    ThylacineAlive – 51
    Chlidonias – 50
    BeardsleyZooFan – 40
    Hix – 29
    canaryboy2 – 28
    Vision – 26
    zooboy28 – 25
    Pleistohorse – 9


    MAMMALS:

    Maguari – 49
    lintworm – 42
    LaughingDove – 39
    Ituri – 29
    TeaLovingDave – 16
    Fireplume – 16
    jbnbsn99 – 15
    DesertRhino150 – 15
    ThylacineAlive – 10
    KevinVar – 9
    Pleistohorse – 7
    BeardsleyZooFan – 7
    Macaw16 – 5
    Hix – 3
    Chlidonias – 2
    Vision – 2
    zooboy28 – 1


    HERPTILES:

    Ituri – 14 Herptiles total (12 Reptiles, 2 Amphibians)
    lintworm – 11 Herptiles total (8 Reptiles, 3 Amphibians)
    ThylacineAlive – 11 Herptiles total (4 Reptiles, 7 Amphibians)
    Maguari – 8 Herptiles total (4 Reptiles, 4 Amphibians)
    Fireplume – 7 Herptiles total (4 Reptiles, 3 Amphibians)
    LaughingDove – 6 Herptiles total (4 Reptiles, 2 Amphibians)
    TeaLovingDave – 5 Herptiles total (0 Reptiles, 5 Amphibians)
    DesertRhino150 – 5 Herptiles total (3 Reptiles, 2 Amphibians)
    KevinVar – 5 Herptiles total (0 Reptiles, 5 Amphibians)
    Macaw16 – 3 Herptiles total (0 Reptiles, 3 Amphibians)
    Hix – 2 Herptiles total (2 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)


    FISH:

    Hix – 268
    DesertRhino150 – 5
    Maguari – 5
    Fireplume – 1


    INVERTEBRATES:

    Maguari – 49 various
    lintworm – 6 Butterflies, 37 Molluscs
    Hix – 38 various
    DesertRhino150 – 6 Bumblebees, 1 Hornet, 9 Butterflies, 4 Damselflies
    ThylacineAlive – 3 insects
     
    Chlidonias, 31 May 2016
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  8. DesertRhino150

    DesertRhino150 Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Just got back from a three day trip to Minsmere. Despite the weather being rather rough, I still managed eleven new birds (four of which were lifers), three mammals and a fish:

    126. Barnacle goose Branta leucopsis
    127. Black-legged kittiwake Rissa tridactyla
    128. Long-tailed duck Clangula hyemalis (Vu)
    129. Great bittern Botaurus stellaris
    130. Little tern Sternula albifrons
    131. Eurasian hobby Falco subbuteo
    132. Dartford warbler Sylvia undata (Nt)
    133. Eurasian stone curlew Burhinus oedicnemus
    134. Purple heron Ardea purpurea
    135. Sandwich tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
    136. Mediterranean gull Ichthyaetus melanocephalus

    16. Red deer Cervus elaphus
    17. Eurasian otter Lutra lutra (Nt)
    18. Northern water vole Arvicola amphibius

    6. Three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus
     
    DesertRhino150, 3 Jun 2016
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  9. Macaw16

    Macaw16 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    And a few additions :p...

    The following are from Anglesey and RSPB South Stack (31/5/2016), there was also a Pipit I am still in the process of identifying:

    82. Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax
    83. European Stonechat Saxicola rubicola

    And some from Snowdonia (1/6/2016), including the second time I've ever seen a wild reptile:

    84. Common Raven Corvus corax
    85. White-throated Dipper Cinclus cinclus

    Reptiles:
    1. Common Lizard Zootoca vivipara

    From the National Trust's Bodnant Gardens (2/6/2016):

    86. Grey Wagtail Motacilla cinerea
    87. European Jay Garrulus glandarius

    And finally from RSPB Conwy (2/6/2016):

    88. Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus
     
    Macaw16, 3 Jun 2016
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  10. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    The rest of the new species from a week in Afar.

    325. Chestnut weaver
    326. Somali fiscal
    327. Arabian bustard
    328. Somali ostrich
    329. Straw-tailed whydah
    330. Lappet-faced vulture
    331. Nile-valley sunbird
    332. Black-billed barbet
    333. White-bellied bustard
    334. Rueppel’s weaver

    Mammals

    43. Soemmerings gazelle
    44. Beisa oryx

    Now a week of meetings in Adama, so I do not expect much new...
     
    lintworm, 4 Jun 2016
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  11. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    51) White-winged Black Tern Chlidonias leucopterus

    My first year bird since the 14th of March. I've almost caught up with lintworm now! Almost.

    The tern was at the local oxidation ponds in Christchurch, and I think it is the first one I have seen in breeding plumage. They are only sporadically seen in New Zealand.
     
    Chlidonias, 4 Jun 2016
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  12. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    A very nice bird though, especially in breeding plumage ;). I am still looking for a companion on a short trip through southern Ethiopia and if you would join, you would catch up quite a lot ;)
     
    lintworm, 4 Jun 2016
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  13. Hix

    Hix Wildlife Enthusiast and Lover of Islands 15+ year member Premium Member

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    30. Cattle Egret

    A single bird in full breeding plumage. This is the sixth record for the island, the last being in 2008.

    :p

    Hix
     
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    Hix, 5 Jun 2016
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  14. robmv

    robmv Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    A long, but most enjoyable, day trip to Anglesey yesterday to fill in some gaps:

    347. Puffin (Fratercula arctica)
    348. Gannet (Morus bassanus)
    349. Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)
    350. Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
    351. Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle)

    (212 UK)
     
    robmv, 5 Jun 2016
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  15. DesertRhino150

    DesertRhino150 Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Since I got back home, I have heard a turtle dove several times (and possibly seen two) but since I cannot guarantee the sighting yet I will not count it for now.

    While out looking for the turtle doves over the past couple of days, I have managed to find one new fish, one new butterfly and three new Odonata:

    7. Northern pike Esox lucius

    10. Gatekeeper butterfly Pyronia tithonus

    5. White-legged damselfly Platycnemis pennipes
    6. Hairy dragonfly Brachytron pratense
    7. Broad-bodied chaser dragonfly Libellula depressa
     
    DesertRhino150, 5 Jun 2016
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  16. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Birds
    52) Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica

    ~Thylo:cool:
     
    ThylacineAlive, 6 Jun 2016
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  17. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Evening wander at Carr Vale got me one new bird:

    314. Common Tern - Sterna hirundo

    Significantly, this is UK species 175, which means I've already matched last year's British total - one more species will be the record! (I'm so early reaching this largely thanks to the Scottish trip earlier in the year)
     
    Maguari, 6 Jun 2016
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  18. jbnbsn99

    jbnbsn99 Well-Known Member

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    Mammals

    16. Bobcat
    17. Black Rat
     
    jbnbsn99, 7 Jun 2016
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  19. LaughingDove

    LaughingDove Well-Known Member

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    A few mostly common things from my first day in Perth, no mammals yet though, and a bit of spotlighting was unsuccessful.

    318) Australian Magpie
    319) Australian Ringneck Parrot
    320) Australian Raven
    321) New Holland Honeyeater
    322) Magpie Lark
    323) Galah
    324) Australian White Ibis
    325) Carnaby's White-tailed Black Cockatoo
    326) Square-tailed Kite
    327) Singing Honeyeater
    328) Spotted Pardalote
    329) Rufous Whistler
    330) Grey Fantail
    331) Weebill
    332) Striated Pardalote
    333) Red-tailed Black Cockatoo
    334) Laughing Kookaburra
    335) Little Crow

    Still quite a few more common things for me to get over the next couple of days.
     
    LaughingDove, 7 Jun 2016
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  20. Hevden

    Hevden Well-Known Member

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    One more this evening

    194. Ring Ouzel
     
    Hevden, 7 Jun 2016
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