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  1. Pleistohorse

    Pleistohorse Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    40. Collared Lemming
     
  2. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    276 Lapland Longspur - Calcarius lapponicus
     
  3. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    494. Eurasian marsh harrier
    495. Gull-billed tern
    496. White-fronted bee-eater


    74. Grant's gazelle
    75. Defassa
    waterbuck
     
  4. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    a couple of splits don't change my year total but do give me two lifers:

    136) White-tailed leaf-warbler Phylloscopus ogilviegranti (the species with the name P. davisoni is now called Davison's leaf-warbler, and I have seen it previously in Thailand).

    165) Indochinese yuhina Yuhina torqueola


    However today I did see an additional bird for the year:
    231) Australian shelduck Tadorna tadornoides

    A vagrant pair has been hanging around the estuary for a couple of weeks and I managed to go off to see them this afternoon (although I could only find the male).
     
  5. Hix

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

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    Mammals
    19. Spinner Dolphin

    Fish
    179. Bluestripe Snapper
    180. Yellowedge Coronation Trout
    181. Spotbanded Butterflyfish
    182. Lyretail Pigfish
    183. Red Firegoby
    184. Mimic Surgeonfish
    185. Yellowback Tubelip
    186. Earmuff Wrasse
    187. Eightline Wrasse
    188. Coral Rockcod
    189. Pastel Slender Wrasse
    190. Doublebar Puller
    191. Leopard Rockcod
    192. Yellowbreasted Wrasse
    193. Reef Flat Cardinalfish
    194. Bicolor Combtooth Blenny
    195. Sixline Wrasse

    Invertebrates
    7. Pineapple Seacucumber
    8. Swell Moth (Brana calopasa)

    :p

    Hix
     
  6. Maguari

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

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    Day out at London Zoo yesterday; a city zoo day is not the obvious kind of day for new birds but Regent's Park is very good for:

    194. Ring-necked Parakeet - Psittacula krameri

    :)
     
  7. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    I am back in Amani (Usambara) now and this morning I hit the 500 species mark:

    497. Osprey
    498. Striped kingfisher
    499. Yellow-throated canary
    500. Peter's twinspot



    76. Yellow baboon

    I have now seen 4 baboon species over the past 4 months. Yesterday was also a "good" roadkill day with a fresh serval and African civet along the road....
     
  8. zooboy28

    zooboy28 Well-Known Member

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    Still been a slow bird year, still because of a lack of effort on my part. Recently spotted one new bird in Melbourne, Australia; and three in the lower North Island of New Zealand:

    Birds
    111 Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus
    112 North Island Kaka Nestor meriondalis
    113 Lesser Redpoll Acanthis cabaret
    114 New Zealand Wood Pigeon Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae

    Its unlikely I will see anything new locally this year, but I'm hopeful of seeing one or two new things before the year is out.
     
  9. Hix

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

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    196. Palenose Parrotfish
    197. Banded Lizardfish

    :p

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  10. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    277 Northern Pygmy-Owl - Glaucidium gnoma
    278 Purple Finch - Haemorhous purpureus
     
  11. Hix

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

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    Invertebrates
    9. Little Nipper Crab (Geograpsus grayi)

    :p

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  12. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Some new birds from E Usambara, including my first turaco, and some frogs from the past few weeks and some butterflies from Europe still :p

    501. Scarlet-chested sunbird
    502. Black & white shrike flycatcher
    503. Crowned eagle
    504. Cabanis's bunting
    505. Fischer's turaco
    506. African citril


    Herps

    21. Cape river frog
    22. Brown-backed tree frog
    23. Amani forest tree frog
    24. Spotted reed frog


    Invertebrates
    10. Old world swallowtail
    11. Dingy skipper
    12. Grizzled skipper
    13. Gatekeeper
    14. Eurasian white cardinal
    15. Adonis blue
    16. Common blue
     
  13. nanoboy

    nanoboy Well-Known Member

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    500 is a great milestone. Well done! Are servals and civets so common where you are that they get run over regularly?
     
  14. Hix

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

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    The African Citril has been split, the one found in Amani has been elevated to full species status and is the Southern Citril (Serinus hypostictus).

    :p

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  15. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    232) New Zealand dotterel Charadrius obscurus

    An unusual vagrant to the Christchurch area, probably from Stewart Island (the southern subspecies now breeds only on Stewart Island; the North Island subspecies is from the northern North Island).
     
  16. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Thanks, the field guide can really need an updated edition, but that one should be on it's way....


    @Nanoboy, Serval and Civet are both supposed to be quite common. I saw both roadkills on the road from Dar es Salaam to the Usambara's, so that is a stretch of 200 km through degraded Miombo woodland / farmlands. Both roadkills were about 50 km apart and they are the first I have seen here so far. Dogs are still by far the most common roadkill...
     
  17. Hix

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

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    I only know because I listed my sighting as African Citril in eBird and they contacted me and asked me to verify or amend the record. I was probably using the same books as you.

    :p

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  18. Hix

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

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    198. Threespot Wrasse
    199. Tennants Surgeonfish
    200. Clown Triggerfish
    201. Bluestreaked Rockskipper
    202. Poss's Scorpionfish

    :p

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  19. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    I accompanied a Canadian birder up to Arthurs Pass in the Southern Alps to find him a Rock Wren, at which we succeeded, and I also luckily saw a Chamois whilst there.

    32) Chamois Rupicapra rupicapra
     
  20. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Some additions from the Usambara's, this is my last week in Africa for this year and I am hoping for 12 lifers, to end the year with a total of 800 bird species on my life list.


    507. Lesser honeyguide

    508. Trumpeter hornbill
    509. Brown-crowned tchagra
    510. Retz's helmet shrike


    Helmet shrikes are now my new favourite birds on the African mainland, they are very enjoyable to watch and a very diverse group. It is a shame they are almost not represented in zoos....
     
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