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  1. Hix

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

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    Pictures, images. People still call them photos even though they are digital, yet in the film age I was using slide film, and I still call my images slides.

    :p

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  2. nanoboy

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    I was looking through some photos on my external drive over the weekend, and I came across a photo I took of a wild Nankeen Night Heron at Melbourne Zoo back in 2011!! This was before I got into birding, and I clearly had no idea what I was seeing - I don't even remember the sighting, so 2014's entry record in my bird guide still stands.

    Since I distinctly recall the sightings of the following birds from a 2009 trip to Darwin (and still have the photos), I have recorded them in my guide: Crimson Finch, White-bellied Sea Eagle, Comb-crested Jacana, Jabiru and Plumed Whistling Duck.
     
  3. Hix

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

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    596. Village Indigobird
    597. White-winged Widowbird

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  4. Hix

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

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    Birds
    598. Northern Greenbul
    599. Parrot-billed Sparrow

    Reptiles
    30. Tree Gecko (Hemidactylus platycephalus)

    :p

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  5. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    so close.....!
     
  6. Hix

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

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    I know!

    The funny thing is, eBird already says I'm on 605 birds for the year, and I'm not sure where the discrepancy is.

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  7. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    I've never used eBird but discrepancies do seem par for the course with it.
     
  8. jbnbsn99

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    eBird will count regional uncountable birds (escapees, non-established populations, etc.)
     
  9. Hix

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

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    I haven't seen escapees this year, otherwise I'm counting everything I can identify.

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

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    600. Black-bellied Glossy Starling

    :p :p :p

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    Well done Hix!!!!!!!
    I'm usually not in favour of using too many exclamation marks but that's quite the achievement!!!
     
  12. Hix

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

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    And I still have a few thousand images left to sort through, though I don't think I'll find much more.

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

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    31. Blue-tailed Gliding Lizard (Holaspis guentheri)

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

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    Reptiles
    32. Speckle-lipped Skink


    Frogs
    3. Vermiculated Tree Frog (Leptopelis vermiculatus)
     
  15. cloudedleopard

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    Just totaling up my animals :)
    Mammals- 6
    Birds- 29
    Reptiles- 17 (around 3-4 different lizard sp.)
     
  16. Hix

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

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    Birds
    601. Somali Short-toed Lark


    Amphibians
    4. Mascarene Grass Frog
    5. Angolan River Frog


    And I think that's it.

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  17. Hix

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

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    Found another -

    602. Rattling Cisticola

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  18. Hix

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

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    And another two ...

    Birds
    603. Long-billed Pipit

    Reptiles
    33. Black-necked Tree Agama

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  19. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    Below is the full 2014 Big Year Mammal List. There is a good worldwide spread: from Europe and North America where most Zoochatters are; from Central America thanks to Maguari; from Africa mostly thanks to Hix and Maguari; from Madagascar thanks to lintworm; from Asia thanks to Chlidonias; and from Australia mostly thanks to Hix and zooboy28.

    Total number of species is 332.

    I'm not doing the bird list because it would be too time-consuming, nor herptiles simply because they are less recognisable/more obscure than mammal species.


    Platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus
    Short-beaked Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus

    Common Brushtail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula
    Common Ringtail Possum Pseudocheirus peregrinus
    Sugar Glider Petaurus breviceps
    Koala Phascolarctos cinereus
    Eastern Grey Kangaroo Macropus giganteus
    Western Grey Kangaroo Macropus fuliginosus
    Common Wallaroo Macropus robustus
    Red Kangaroo Macropus rufus
    Red-necked Wallaby Macropus rufogriseus
    Agile Wallaby Macropus agilis
    Swamp Wallaby Wallabia bicolor
    Black-flanked Rock Wallaby Petrogale lateralis
    Red-legged Pademelon Thylogale stigmatica
    Common Wombat Vombatus ursinus
    Long-nosed Bandicoot Perameles nasuta
    Yellow-footed Antechinus Antechinus flavipes
    Virginian Opossum Didelphis virginiana

    Nine-Banded Armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus
    Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth Bradypus variegatus
    Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth Choloepus hoffmanni

    Eurasian Red Squirrel Sciurus vulgaris
    Eastern Grey Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis
    Western Grey Squirrel Sciurus griseus
    Arizona Grey Squirrel Sciurus arizonensis
    Eastern Fox Squirrel Sciurus niger
    Variegated Squirrel Sciurus variegatoides
    Red-tailed (Neotropical Red) Squirrel Sciurus granatensis
    Poas Squirrel Syntheosciurus brochus
    American Red Squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
    Douglas's Squirrel Tamiasciurus douglasii
    Eastern Chipmunk Tamias striatus
    Least Chipmunk Tamias minimus
    Yellow Pine Chipmunk Tamias amoenas
    Townsend's Chipmunk Tamias townsendii
    Cliff Chipmunk Tamias dorsalis
    California Chipmunk Tamias obscurus
    Himalayan Striped Squirrel Tamiops macclellandii
    Slender Squirrel Sundasciurus tenuis
    Jentink's Squirrel Sundasciurus jentinki
    Plain Pigmy Squirrel Exilisciurus exilis
    Plantain Squirrel Callosciurus notatus
    Ear-spot Squirrel Callosciurus adamsi
    Prevost's Squirrel Callosciurus prevostii
    Irrawaddy Squirrel Callosciurus pygerythrus
    Phayre's Squirrel Callosciurus phayrei
    Variable Squirrel Callosciurus finlaysonii
    Red-bellied (Pallas') Squirrel Callosciurus erythraeus
    Grey-bellied Squirrel Callosciurus caniceps
    Bornean Black-banded Squirrel Callosciurus orestes
    Red-cheeked Ground Squirrel Dremomys rufigenis
    Mountain Ground Squirrel Dremomys everetti
    Three-striped Ground Squirrel Lariscus insignis
    Five-striped Palm Squirrel Funambulus pennantii
    Bicoloured Giant Squirrel Ratufa bicolor
    Gambian Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus gambianus
    Red-legged Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus rufobrachium
    Ochre Bush Squirrel Paraxerus ochraceus
    Tanganyika Mountain Squirrel Paraxerus lucifer
    Striped Ground Squirrel Xerus erythropus
    Piute Ground Squirrel Spermophilus mollis
    Belding's Ground Squirrel Spermophilus beldingi
    Columbian Ground Squirrel Spermophilus columbianus
    Mexican Ground Squirrel Spermophilus mexicanus
    Arctic Ground Squirrel Spermophilus parryii
    California Ground Squirrel Otospermophilus beecheyi
    Rock Squirrel Otospermophilus variegatus
    Harris's Antelope Squirrel Ammospermophilus harrisii
    White-tailed Antelope Squirrel Ammospermophilus leucurus
    Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel Callospermophilus lateralis
    Idaho Ground Squirrel Urocitellus brunneus
    Uinta Ground Squirrel Urocitellus armatus
    Yellow-bellied Marmot Marmota flaviventris
    Groundhog Marmota monax
    Common Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus
    Coypu/Nutria Myocastor coypus
    Red Giant Flying Squirrel Petaurista petaurista
    House Mouse Mus musculus/domesticus
    Striped Field Mouse Apodemus agrarius
    Long-tailed Wood Mouse Apodemus sylvaticus
    Yellow-necked Wood Mouse Apodemus flavicollis
    Harvest Mouse Micromys minutus
    Four-striped Mouse Rhabdomys pumilio
    White-footed Mouse Peromyscus leucopus
    Arizona Pocket Mouse Perognathus amplus
    Black Rat Rattus rattus
    Brown Rat Rattus norvegicus
    Polynesian Rat Rattus exulans
    Blick's Grass Rat Arvicanthis blicki
    Black-clawed Brush-furred Rat Lophuromys melanonyx
    Eastern Red Forest Rat Nesomys rufus
    Long-tailed Giant Rat Leopoldamys sabanus
    Bushy-tailed Woodrat Neotoma cinerea
    Arizona Cotton Rat Sigmodon arizonae
    Common Vole Microtus arvalis
    Pine Vole Microtus pinetorum
    Short-tailed Field Vole Microtus agrestis
    Tundra Vole/Root Vole Microtus oeconomus
    Bank Vole Myodes glareolus
    Northern Red-backed Vole Myodes rutilus
    Northern Collared Lemming Dicrostonyx groenlandicus
    Northern Water Vole Arvicola terrestris/amphibius
    Ethiopian Giant Mole Rat Tachyoryctes macrocephalus
    Malayan Crested Porcupine Hystrix brachyura
    Asian Brush-tailed Porcupine Atherurus macrourus
    North American Porcupine Erethizon dorsatum
    Mexican Prehensile-tailed Porcupine Sphiggurus mexicanus
    Central American Agouti Dasyprocta punctata

    European Brown Hare Lepus europeaus
    Mountain Hare Lepus timidus
    Abyssinian Hare Lepus fagani
    Starck's Hare Lepus starcki
    Savanna Hare Lepus microtis
    Black-tailed Jack-rabbit Lepus californicus
    European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus
    Brush Rabbit Sylvilagus bachmani
    Marsh Rabbit Sylvilagus palustris
    Swamp Rabbit Sylvilagus aquaticus
    Desert Cottontail Sylvilagus audubonii
    Eastern Cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus
    Mountain Cottontail Sylvilagus nuttallii

    Indian Flying Fox Pteropus giganteus
    Grey-headed Flying Fox Pteropus poliocephalus
    Spectacled Flying Fox Pteropus conspicillatus
    Greater Short-nosed Fruit Bat Cynopterus sphinx
    Common Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus
    Soprano Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pygmaeus
    Common Noctule Nyctalus noctula
    Leisler's Bat Nyctalus leisleri
    Whiskered Bat Myotis mystacinus
    Daubenton's Bat Myotis daubentonii
    Natterer's Bat Myotis nattereri
    Brown Long-eared Bat Plecotus auritus
    Serotine Bat Eptesicus serotinus
    Northern Broad-nosed Bat Scotorepens sanborni
    Long-nosed Bat Rhynchonycteris naso
    Mexican Free-Tailed Bat Tadarida brasiliensis
    Egyptian Free-tailed Bat Tadarida aegyptiaca

    Greater Hedgehog Tenrec Setifer setosus
    Lowland Streaked Tenrec Hemicentetes semispinosus

    European Hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus
    Short-tailed Gymnure Hylomys suillus
    Eurasian Common Shrew Sorex araneus
    Pygmy Shrew Sorex minutus
    Eurasian water shrew Neomys fodiens
    Asian House Shrew Suncus murinus
    European Mole Talpa europaea

    Colugo Cynocephalus variegatus

    Northern Tree-shrew Tupaia belangeri
    Mountain Tree-shrew Tupaia montana

    Horsfield's Tarsier Tarsius bancanus
    Bornean Slow Loris Nycticebus menagensis
    Senegal Bushbaby Galago senegalensis
    Rufous Mouse Lemur Microcebus rufus
    Ravelobe Mouse Lemur Microcebus ravelobensis
    Grey Mouse Lemur Microcebus murinus
    Simmon's Mouse Lemur Microcebus simmonsi
    Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur Cheirogaleus medius
    Milne-Edwards' Sportive Lemur Lepilemur edwardsi
    Small-toothed Sportive Lemur Lepilemur microdon
    Western Woolly Lemur Avahi occidentalis
    Eastern Woolly Lemur Avahi laniger
    Greater Bamboo Lemur Prolemur simus
    Eastern Grey Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur griseus
    Golden Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur aureus
    White fronted Lemur Eulemur albifrons
    Red-fronted Lemur Eulemur rufifrons
    Common Brown Lemur Eulemur fulvus
    Mongoose Lemur Eulemur mongoz
    Red-bellied Lemur Eulemur rubriventer
    Ring-tailed Lemur Lemur catta
    Black & White Ruffed Lemur Varecia variegata
    Diademed Sifaka Propithecus diadema
    Coquerel's Sifaka Propithecus coquereli
    Verreaux's Sifaka Propithecus verreauxi
    Milne-Edwards' Sifaka Propithecus edwardsi
    Indri Indri indri
    Mantled Howler Monkey Alouatta palliata
    Geoffroy's Spider Monkey Ateles geoffroyi
    White-faced Capuchin Cebus capucinus
    Red-tailed Monkey Cercopithecus ascanius
    Blue Monkey Cercopithecus mitis
    Vervet Monkey Chlorocebus pygerythrus
    Grivet Monkey Chlorocebus aethiops
    Gelada Theropithecus gelada
    Hamadrayas Baboon Papio hamadryas
    Olive Baboon Papio anubis
    Northern Pig-tailed Macaque Macaca leonina
    Rhesus Macaque Macaca mulatta
    Stump-tailed Macaque Macaca arctoides
    Crab-eating Macaque Macaca fascicularis
    Eastern Guereza Colobus guereza
    Angolan Colobus Colobus angolensis
    Dusky Langur Trachypithecus obscurus
    Capped Langur Trachypithecus pileatus
    Golden Langur Trachypithecus geei
    White-thighed Langur Presbytis siamensis
    Banded Leaf Monkey Presbytis femoralis
    White-handed Gibbon Hylobates lar
    Western Hoolock Gibbon Hylobates (Hoolock) hoolock

    Indian Rhinoceros Rhinoceros unicornis

    Plains Zebra Equus quagga
    Feral Horse Equus caballus

    Reeves' Muntjac Muntiacus reevesi
    Common Muntjac Muntiacus muntjak
    Chinese Water Deer Hydropotes inermis
    European Roe Deer Capreolus capreolus
    European Fallow Deer Dama dama
    White-Tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus
    Mule Deer/Black-tailed Deer Odocoileus hemionus
    Hog Deer Axis porcinus
    Red Deer Cervus elaphus
    Wapiti Cervus canadensis
    Sambar Cervus unicolor
    Rusa Deer Cervus rusa
    Barasingha Cervus duvaucelii
    Eld's Deer Cervus eldii
    Caribou Rangifer tarandus
    Moose Alces americanus

    Pronghorn Antilocapra americana

    Thomson's Gazelle Eudorcas thomsonii
    Grant's Gazelle Nanger granti
    Soemmerring's Gazelle Nanger soemmerringii
    Impala Aepyceros melampus
    Red Duiker Cephalophus natalensis
    Bush Duiker Sylvicapra grimmia
    Common Wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus
    Kirk's Dik-dik Madoqua kirkii
    Harar Dik-dik Madoqua (saltiana) hararensis
    Gerenuk Litocranius walleri
    Klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus
    Oribi Ourebia ourebi
    Steenbok Raphicerus campestris
    Waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus
    Bushbuck Tragelaphus sylvaticus
    Lesser Kudu Tragelaphus imberbis
    Mountain Nyala Tragelaphus buxtoni
    Hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus
    Topi Damaliscus lunatus
    Bohor Reedbuck Redunca redunca
    Eland Taurotragus oryx
    Beisa Oryx Oryx beisa

    Wild Water Buffalo Bubalus arnee
    African Buffalo Syncerus caffer
    Gaur Bos gaurus
    American Bison Bison bison
    European Bison Bison bonasus

    Feral Goat Capra hircus
    Mouflon Ovis orientalis
    Dall Sheep Ovis dalli
    Chinese (Grey Long-tailed) Goral Naemorhedus griseus
    Rocky Mountain Goat Oreamnos americanus
    Musk-Ox Ovibos moschatus

    Common Hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius

    Wild pig Sus scrofa
    Common Warthog Phacochoerus africanus

    Collared Peccary Tayassu tajacu

    Dromedary Camel Camelus dromedarius

    Giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis

    Asian Elephant Elephas maximus
    African Elephant Loxodonta africana

    Cape Rock Hyrax Procavia capensis
    Yellow-spotted Bush Hyrax Heterohyrax brucei
    Southern Tree Hyrax Dendrohyrax arboreus

    Brown Bear Ursus arctos
    Ethiopian Wolf Canis simensis
    Dingo Canis dingo
    Coyote Canis latrans
    Golden Jackal Canis aureus
    Black-backed Jackal Canis mesomelas
    Side-striped Jackal Canis adustus
    Red Fox Vulpes vulpes
    Arctic Fox Vulpes lagopus
    Blanford's Fox Vulpes cana
    American Grey Fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus
    Tiger Panthera tigris
    Lion Panthera leo
    Leopard Panthera pardus
    Cheetah Acinonyx jubatus
    Serval Leptailurus serval
    Canada Lynx Lynx canadensis
    Bobcat Lynx rufus
    Feral Cat Felis (silvestris) catus
    Spotted Hyaena Crocuta crocuta
    Stoat Mustela erminea
    Least Weasel Mustela nivalis
    Yellow-throated Marten Martes flavigula
    Eurasian Badger Meles meles
    Eurasian Otter Lutra lutra
    Smooth-coated Otter Lutrogale perspicillata
    North American River Otter Lontra canadensis
    Neotropical River Otter Lontra longicaudis
    Sea Otter Enhydra lutris
    Small-toothed Palm Civet Arctogalidia trivirgata
    Large Indian Civet Viverra zibetha
    Common Genet Genetta genetta
    Small Indian Mongoose Herpestes auropunctatus
    Small Asian Mongoose Herpestes javanicus
    White-tailed Mongoose Ichneumia albicauda
    Banded Mongoose Mungos mungo
    Slender Mongoose Galerella sanguinea
    Dwarf Mongoose Helogale parvula
    Fossa Cryptoprocta ferox
    Ring-tailed Mongoose Galidia elegans
    Brown-tailed Mongoose Salanoia concolor
    Broad-striped Mongoose Galidictis fasciata
    Kinkajou Potos flavus
    White-nosed Coati Nasua narica
    Northern Raccoon Procyon lotor

    Harbor/Common Seal Phoca vitulina
    Ringed Seal Pusa hispida
    Atlantic Grey Seal Halichoerus grypus
    Australian Sea Lion Neophoca cinerea
    California Sea Lion Zalophus californianus
    Steller's Sea Lion Eumetopias jubatus
    Australian Fur Seal Arctocephalus pusillus
    New Zealand Fur Seal Arctocephalus forsteri
    Northern Elephant Seal Mirounga angustirostris

    Atlantic Bottle-nosed Dolphin Tursiops truncatus
    Indo-Pacific Bottle-nosed Dolphin Tursiops aduncus
    Short-Beaked Common Dolphin Delphinus delphis
    Dusky Dolphin Lagenorhynchus obscurus
    Killer Whale/Orca Orcinus orca
    Irrawaddy Dolphin Orcaella brevirostris
    Gangetic Dolphin Platanista gangetica
    Harbour Porpoise Phocoena phocoena
    Dall's Porpoise Phocoenoides dalli
    Sperm Whale Physeter macrocephalus
    Grey Whale Eschrichtius robustus
    Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae
    Fin Whale Balaenoptera physalus
     
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