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  1. LaughingDove

    LaughingDove Well-Known Member

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    Checked through some photos that I though were all redwings but one proved to be:
    44) Fieldfare

    This should have been added to my first post (it is in my birding notes)
    45) Mistle Thrush
     
    LaughingDove, 6 Jan 2015
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  2. Maguari

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

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    Went for a tramp along the edges of the fields near work this lunchtime and managed to pick up one new species:

    44. Eurasian Sparrowhawk - Accipiter nisus

    :)
     
    Maguari, 6 Jan 2015
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  3. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    Whatever had the tramp done to you? :p
     
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  4. AverageWalrus

    AverageWalrus Well-Known Member

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    Here are todays new species

    5) Canada Goose
    6) either Tundra or Mute Swan

    MAMMALS

    1) Eastern Gray Squirrel
     
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  5. Hix

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

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    24. Australian White Ibis
    25. White-necked Heron
    26. Australian Pelican
    27. Pink-eared Duck
    28. Grey Teal
    29. Australasian Shoveller
    30. Great Cormorant
    31. Australian Magpie
    32. Hoary-headed Grebe
    33. Musk Duck
    34. Yellow-rumped Thornbill
    35. Common Starling
    36. Galah

    :p

    Hix
     
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  6. jbnbsn99

    jbnbsn99 Well-Known Member

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    Feral cat doesn't count.
     
    jbnbsn99, 6 Jan 2015
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  7. AverageWalrus

    AverageWalrus Well-Known Member

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    Oh, I didnt know, well atleast I have 1 mammal
     
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  8. jbnbsn99

    jbnbsn99 Well-Known Member

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    In general, feral animals don't count. So dogs, cats, and most other forms of domestics won't count. Exceptions to this would be "wild" horses in the American west, feral hogs, and a maybe one or two others.
     
    jbnbsn99, 6 Jan 2015
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  9. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Pigeons, too.

    ~Thylo:cool:
     
    ThylacineAlive, 7 Jan 2015
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  10. zooboy28

    zooboy28 Well-Known Member

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    I think some rules should be added to the first post to specify what species can be counted, as this issue of introduced/feral/domestic species seems to come up every year (e.g http://www.zoochat.com/65/2014-zoochat-big-year-350079/index15.html).

    My rule for whether something can be counted or not is simply: Any species I saw wild-living that is part of an established population. Therefore basically everything is countable, except pets or farm animals, captive animals and escapees that have not established.

    So I would count feral pigeons in any town I saw them, as they are almost certainly part of a wild, established population, but not a cat I saw as how would I know if its a pet, recent escapee or feral? However if I saw a cat in the central Australian outback, where there is hardly any chance of it being a pet, I would count it as a feral cat.
     
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  11. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    BIRDS
    84 Sharp-shinned Hawk
    85 Bewick's Wren
    86 Canyon Wren

    MAMMALS
    6 Mountain Cottontail
    7 Red Fox
     
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  12. cloudedleopard

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    Birds (9)-
    Dark-eyed junco
    White-throated sparrow
    Northern cardinal
    Canada goose
    Cooper's hawk
    Tufted titmouse
    Black-capped chickadee
    White-breasted nuthatch
    Downy woodpecker
    Mammals (1)-
    Eastern gray squirrel
     
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  13. mstickmanp

    mstickmanp Well-Known Member

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    Did a whole day of birding today from dawn to dusk. I got three lifers, but the Worm-eating Warbler was the highlight.

    65. Western Gull
    66. Northern Flicker
    67. Hermit Thrush
    68. Worm-eating Warbler
    69. Snow Goose
    70. Tundra Swan
    71. Gadwall
    72. American Wigeon
    73. Cinnamon Teal
    74. Northern Pintail
    75. Green-winged Teal
    76. Cooper's Hawk
    77. Black-necked Stilt
    78. Least Sandpiper
    79. Long-billed Dowitcher
    80. Peregrine Falcon
    81. Yellow Warbler
    82. Lesser Goldfinch
    83. American Goldfinch
    84. Northern Red Bishop
    85. Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
    86. Bushtit
    87. American Robin
    88. Cedar Waxwing
    89. Swamp Sparrow
    90. Western Meadowlark
    91. Brewer's Blackbird
    92. Band-tailed Pigeon
    93. Acorn Woodpecker
    94. Painted Redstart
    95. Chipping Sparrow
    96. Sharp-tailed Hawk
    97. Costa's Hummingbird
    98. Merlin
    99. Bewick's Wren
    100. Cactus Wren
    101. Spotted Towhee
    102. California Towhee
     
    mstickmanp, 7 Jan 2015
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  14. boof

    boof Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    1. Australian Magpie
    2. Australian Pelican
    3. Australian Raven
    4. Australian Wood Duck
    5. Caspian Tern
    6. Chestnut Teal
    7. Common Myna
    8. Crested Pigeon
    9. Crimson Rosella
    10.Dusky Moorhen
    11.Eurasian Coot
    12.Hardhead
    13.House Sparrow
    14.Little Black Cormorant
    15.Little Corella
    16.Little Wattlebird
    17.Magpie-Lark
    18.Masked Lapwing
    19.Noisy Miner
    20.Pacific Black Duck
    21.Rainbow Lorikeet
    22.Royal Spoonbill
    23.Silver Gull
    24.Spotted Dove
    25.Square-Tailed Kite
    26.Welcome Swallow
    27.Willie Wagtail
    28.Galah
    29.Grey Fantail
    30.Red Wattlebird
    31.Whistling Kite
    32.Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo
    33.Brown Thornbill
    34.Great Cormorant
    35.New Holland Honeyeater
    36.Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo
    37.Superb Fairy-Wren
    38.White-Faced Heron
    39.Australian Pied Oystercatcher
    40.Eastern Great Egret
    41.White-Bellied Sea-Eagle
    42.Brush Bronzewing
    43.Crested Tern
    44.Dollarbird
    45.Laughing Kookaburra
    46.Little Lorikeet
    47.Little Pied Cormorant
    48.White-Throated Treecreeper
    49.Curlew Sandpiper
    50.Lesser Sand Plover
    51.Lewin's Honeyeater
    52.Little Tern
    53.Red-Capped Plover
    54.Red-Necked Stint
    55.Sharp-Tailed Sandpiper
    56.WHITE RUMPED SANDPIPER*
    57.Eastern Spinebill
    58.Long Billed Corella
    59.Rock Dove
    60.Swamp Harrier
    61.Nankeen Kestrel
    62.Australian White Ibis
    63.Eastern Curlew
    64.Eastern Koel
    65.Satin Bowerbird
     
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  15. boof

    boof Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    66. Black Faced Cuckoo Shrike
    67. Red Whiskered Bulbul
     
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  16. Hix

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

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    37. Long-billed Corella
    38. Australian King Parrot

    :p

    Hix
     
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  17. Pleistohorse

    Pleistohorse Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    1) Northern Red-backed Vole
     
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  18. AverageWalrus

    AverageWalrus Well-Known Member

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    After a little backyard birding session, I swa two new species

    7) Northern Cardinal
    8) Tufted Titmouse
     
    AverageWalrus, 9 Jan 2015
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  19. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    87 Barred Owl
    88 Wild Turkey
    89 Lesser Black-backed Gull
    90 Herring Gull
    91 Great Horned Owl
     
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  20. mstickmanp

    mstickmanp Well-Known Member

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    Today I got one more lifer and five year birds.

    103. American Redstart
    104. Orange-crowned Warbler
    105. Varied Thrush
    106. Fox Sparrow
    107. Dark-eyed Junco
    108. Ring-necked Duck
     
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