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  1. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    ooh, some nice lifers there! I think from all the list, though, beach stone curlew is the best of the lot.
     
    Chlidonias, 15 Sep 2016
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  2. Vision

    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Nothing new on my trip to Copenhagen, but did spot these on our way back from the airport;

    Belgium:
    22) Common shrew, Sorex araneus
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    124) Lesser black-backed gull, Larus fuscus
     
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  3. Maguari

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

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    A few mixed additions from a long weekend in Switzerland for Zoohistorica (plus the first of the two moths that turned up in my flat a few days before!):

    Birds:
    334. Eurasian Crag Martin - Ptyonoprogne rupestris
    335. Yellow-legged Gull - Larus michahelis
    336. European White Stork - Ciconia ciconia

    Reptiles:
    7. Common Wall Lizard - Podarcis muralis

    Amphibians:
    6. Palmate Newt - Lissotriton helveticus (an appropriate species for Switzerland!)

    Invertebrates:
    95. Angle Shades - Phlogophora meticulosa
    96. Hummingbird Hawkmoth - Macroglossum stellatarum

    :)
     
    Maguari, 16 Sep 2016
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  4. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    145) American Black Vulture Coragyps atratus

    ~Thylo:cool:
     
    ThylacineAlive, 16 Sep 2016
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  5. boof

    boof Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    have you seen a fully coloured up red backed fairy wren? Probably my new favourite bird. stunning.
     
    boof, 17 Sep 2016
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  6. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    yup, I've likened them to sunburnt mice.

    All the fairy-wrens are pretty stunning though.
     
    Chlidonias, 17 Sep 2016
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  7. LaughingDove

    LaughingDove Well-Known Member

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    Black Stork is a species that I have wanted to see for a long while, and a species that is noticeably absent from my list, so today I decided to devote the whole day to trying to see one this year before they head off to Africa. I went to a national park about an hour's drive south of Warsaw which the book Birding in Poland (a guide to birding locations) suggested was a place where Black Stork was relatively easy to see, and the symbol of the national park is a Black stork. Did I manage to see one? Of course not.

    I did manage to get a few final summer visitors though. They will be all gone soon. :(

    591) Montagu's Harrier
    592) Common Grasshopper Warbler (a very late staying one. Though the recent hot weather may be contributing to that)
     
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    LaughingDove, 18 Sep 2016
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  8. KevinVar

    KevinVar Well-Known Member

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    Very limited amount of additions over the last few weeks from my side as well.

    111. Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)
    112. Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)
    113. Bearded Reedling (Panurus biarmicus)
     
    KevinVar, 18 Sep 2016
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  9. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    A long, long overdue update - my last one having been in April - containing species seen during trips to the Scottish Highlands, the Isle of Arran, many birding trips to the Northumberland coastline along with inland areas of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and County Durham, and a few wildlife-watching trips in Germany during my trip to Hamburg in June. I will (eventually) be writing about these wildlife-watching trips in more detail in the relevant trip report thread.

    Current Bird Total: 191 Taxa

    131) Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica)
    132) Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus)
    133) Corncrake (Crex crex)
    134) Common Crane (Grus grus)
    135) Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra)
    136) Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix)
    137) Dotterel (Charadrius morinellus)
    138) Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata)
    139) Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)
    140) Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
    141) Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca)
    142) Red-breasted Flycatcher (Ficedula parva)
    143) Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)
    144) Gannet (Morus bassanus)
    145) Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
    146) Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
    147) Black Grouse (Lyrurus tetrix)
    148) Red Grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica)
    149) Black Guillemot (Cepphus grylle)
    150) Caspian Gull (Larus cachinnans)
    151) Mediterranean Gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus)
    152) Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis)
    153) Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus)
    154) Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
    155) Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)
    156) Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
    157) Woodlark (Lullula arborea)
    158) Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)
    159) Nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus)
    160) Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
    161) Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus)
    162) Storm Petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus)
    163) Tree Pipit (Anthus trivialis)
    164) Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius)
    165) Puffin (Fratercula arctica)
    166) Razorbill (Alca torda)
    167) Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea)
    168) Redshank (Tringa totanus)
    169) Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus)
    170) Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis)
    171) Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)
    172) Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio)
    173) Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus)
    174) Great Skua (Stercorarius skua)
    175) Little Stint (Calidris minuta)
    176) Black Stork (Ciconia nigra)
    177) White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
    178) Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
    179) Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
    180) Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii)
    181) Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis)
    182) Crested Tit (Lophophanes cristatus)
    183) Short-toed Treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla)
    184) Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava)
    185) Greenish Warbler (Phylloscopus trochiloides)
    186) Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)
    187) Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
    188) Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)
    189) Lesser Whitethroat (Sylvia curruca)
    190) Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis)
    191) Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)
    192) Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
    193) Black Woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)
    194) Middle Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos medius)

    Current Mammal Total: 34 Taxa


    17) Common shrew (Sorex araneus)
    18) Pygmy Shrew (Sorex minutus)
    19) Water Shrew (Neomys fodiens)
    20) Common Noctule (Nyctalus noctula)
    21) Common Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus)
    22) Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)
    23) Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus)
    24) Stoat (Mustela erminea)
    25) Least Weasel (Mustela nivalis)
    26) Wild Boar (Sus scrofa)
    27) Red Deer (Cervus elaphus)
    28) Sika Deer (Cervus nippon)
    29) Fallow Deer (Dama dama)
    30) Minke Whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)
    31) Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
    32) Short-beaked Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
    33) Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
    34) Striped Field Mouse (Apodemus agrarius)


    Current Herp Total: 16 Taxa

    6) Adder (Vipera berus)
    7) Grass Snake (Natrix natrix)
    8) Viviparous Lizard (Zootoca vivipara)
    9) Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis)
    10) Red-eared Terrapin (Trachemys scripta)
    11) European Pond Turtle (Emys orbicularis)
    12) Natterjack Toad (Bufo calamita)
    13) European Tree Frog (Hyla arborea)
    14) Moor Frog (Rana arvalis)
    15) Pool Frog (Pelophylax lessonae)
    16) Marsh Frog (Pelophylax ridibundus)

    And I haven't been bothering to keep track of fish, but this one is worth it as a one-off....

    Current Fish Total: 1 taxon

    1) Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus)
     
    TeaLovingDave, 18 Sep 2016
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  10. Hix

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

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    285. Clown Coris (Coris aygula)

    :p

    Hix
     
    Hix, 19 Sep 2016
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  11. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    I am now in the airport of Addis, so no new birds from Ethiopia anymore this year, though I probably will have to return for some time next year...

    449. Kori bustard
    450. Wahlberg's eagle
    451. European oriole
    452. Grasshopper buzzard
     
    lintworm, 22 Sep 2016
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  12. KevinVar

    KevinVar Well-Known Member

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    Looking over my Grey wagtail photographs again it has been re-identified as a Western yellow wagtail, which I had of course already seen this year. However, there are two species I had forgotten to add so Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos) will take place #106 instead.
    Another addition is the scrub robin, a bird I decided to twitch because it was close by and it's only the second time this species has been recorded in the Netherlands!

    114. Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
    115. Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin (Cercotrichas galactotes)
     
    KevinVar, 24 Sep 2016
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  13. DesertRhino150

    DesertRhino150 Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Over the past week or so I have managed to see another new fish species (again, a lifer) along the local river together with a new butterfly species and two Odonata, one of which only arrived in Britain in 2009.

    11. Common bream Abramis brama

    20. Holly blue butterfly Celastrina argiolus

    14. Willow emerald damselfly Lestes viridis
    15. Ruddy darter dragonfly Sympetrum sanguineum
     
    DesertRhino150, 24 Sep 2016
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  14. Maguari

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

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    Back from an East Yorkshire birding weekend - Saturday at Spurn, Sunday on a seabird cruise in the morning and at Flamborough in the afternoon. 6 new birds with a 50% rate of lifers, plus some very nice 'not new' species (including gannets, puffins and divers) - and the skua was my 200th UK bird for the year (the first time I've made it to that milestone).

    337. Grey Plover - Pluvialis squatarola
    338. Sanderling - Calidris alba
    339. Yellow-browed Warbler - Phylloscopus inornatus
    340. Jack Snipe - Limnocryptes minimus
    341. Arctic Skua - Stercorarius parasiticus
    342. Taiga Bean Goose - Anser fabalis


    And as a fellow thread participant was present, some of those birds will be echoed in a subsequent post. ;)
     
    Maguari, 25 Sep 2016
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  15. Hix

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

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    Some vagrants have made their way to the island, and are spending time with each other, which made it easier to find them.

    36. Gray-tailed Tattler
    37. Greater Sand Plover

    :p

    Hix
     
    Hix, 26 Sep 2016
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  16. boof

    boof Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    312. white eared honeyeater
    313. yellow tufted honeyeater
    314. white cheeked honeyeater
     
    boof, 26 Sep 2016
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  17. jbnbsn99

    jbnbsn99 Well-Known Member

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    399 Mourning Warbler - Geothlypis philadelphia
    400 Sabine's Gull - Xema sabini
     
    jbnbsn99, 29 Sep 2016
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  18. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    a few birds seen round Reefton (which is a little town in the Southern Alps):

    54) Weka Gallirallus australis
    55) Tui Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae
    56) NZ robin Petroica australis
    57) NZ tomtit Petroica macrocephala
    58) NZ bellbird Anthornis melanura

    And also feral goats, but I won't count them for this thread.
     
    Chlidonias, 30 Sep 2016
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  19. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    I'd just like to quote this post - number 2 in the thread.

    LaughingDove is currently listed at 592 birds for the year...
     
    Chlidonias, 30 Sep 2016
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  20. LaughingDove

    LaughingDove Well-Known Member

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    This year turned out better than I expected! :D
    When I posted that 450 number, I was unsure how much stuff in Queensland I was going to do. I knew I was going to get a week in Kenya, and I knew I would get to go to Perth, but I was only expecting to do either Southern or Northern Queensland. As it turned out, I got to do both.

    I won't increase my total by very much more this year though. I should be able to hit 600, but I won't go much beyond that as I don't think I will get to do much birding in new areas the rest of this year. I will just get to bird in places around Warsaw that I have already done this year which will only get me odd birds here and there.
     
    LaughingDove, 30 Sep 2016
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