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  1. jbnbsn99

    jbnbsn99 Well-Known Member

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    439 Common Goldeneye - Bucephala clangula
     
    jbnbsn99, 14 Dec 2015
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  2. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Technically not a new bird for the year, because I heard some in Oregon back in February, but I got a genuinely good look at a White-winged Crossbill (Loxia leucoptera) today!
     

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  3. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    511. Yellow-bellied waxbill
    512. Harlequin quail
    513. African cuckoo hawk

    Herps:
    25. Black centipede eater (Aparallactus guentheri)
    26. Trachylepis maculilabris (a species of skink ;))
     
    lintworm, 16 Dec 2015
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  4. zooboy28

    zooboy28 Well-Known Member

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    But, very surprisingly, I did see a new bird, and its a lifer:

    Birds
    115 Tawny Frogmouth Podargus strigoides

    It was sitting on the ground in a park at midday yesterday - my dog was rather interested in it, but it wasn't so keen to get acquainted.
     
    zooboy28, 17 Dec 2015
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  5. Hix

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

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    Speckle-lipped Skink.
     
    Hix, 17 Dec 2015
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    Hix Wildlife Enthusiast and Lover of Islands 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Invertebrates
    10. Christmas Island Blue Crab (Discoplax celeste), an endemic species.

    :p

    Hix
     
    Hix, 17 Dec 2015
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  7. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Last update from the E Usambara, tomorrow I am leaving for Dar es Salaam and monday evening I will fly back to Europe...

    514. Eastern green tinkerbird
    515. Black-bellied starling
     
    lintworm, 19 Dec 2015
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  8. boof

    boof Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    224. Azure Kingfisher
    225. Red kneed dotterel
     
    boof, 20 Dec 2015
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  9. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Probably my last update this year, I am flying back to Zurich in a few hours and I do not expect to see anything new in Switzerland / Netherlands.

    Today I went to look for something that looked like mudflats (so with possibility of crab plovers...) but I never reached there, but still got 2 new bird species for this year:

    516. Dimorphic egret
    517. Blue-cheeked bee-eater

    Herps:
    27. Yellow-headed dwarf gecko
     
    lintworm, 21 Dec 2015
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  10. Hix

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

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    A very enjoyable Christmas Day scuba diving, seeing five more species of fish forthis year, two of them lifers (one quite attractive, the other very ugly and one of the deadliest creatures in the oceans), plus a beautiful hybrid and two rare colour morphs.

    Went spotlighting after dinner, but all I saw were some chooks, black rats, and a bunch of spiders (plus centipedes and crabs).

    Fish
    203. Giant Moray
    204. Stonefish
    205. Saddled Butterflyfish
    206. Threespot Angelfish
    207. Arrow Dartfish (also known as Black Firegoby)

    Mammals
    20. Black Rat

    :p

    Hix
     
    Hix, 26 Dec 2015
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  11. LaughingDove

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    One more addition from Richmond Park today. Almost certainly my last for the year.

    269) Stonechat
     
    LaughingDove, 27 Dec 2015
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  12. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    233) Californian quail Callipepla californica

    A pair seen on my way to work yesterday.
     
    Chlidonias, 27 Dec 2015
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  13. Hix

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

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    208. Clown Coris
    209. Paletail Puller
    210. Mackerel Tuna
    211. Scaly Puller

    Invertebrates
    11. Christmas Tree Worms (Spirobranchus giganteus)

    :p

    Hix
     
    Hix, 28 Dec 2015
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  14. Hix

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

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    Spent part of the last day of the year exploring Christmas Island, until it started to rain and I returned home. A bit later I went snorkeling in a tidal rockpool and picked up a few more fish and inverts.

    Fish
    212. Bullethead Parrotfish
    213. Sleek Unicornfish
    214. Whiteband Damsel
    215. Christmas Blenny
    216. Rippled Rockskipper
    217. Broadstripe Cardinalfish
    218. Bigtail Fusilier


    Invertebrates
    12. Coral Banded Shrimp
    13. Yellow Nipper Crab
    14. Red Nipper Crab
    15. Wolf Spider (Hogna crispipes)
    16. Christmas Island Paper Wasp (Polistes balder)
    17. Yellow Locust (Valanga irregularis)
    18. Bennett's Featherstar

    There were at least three other featherstars but I can't identify them positively (there doesn't appear to be a field guide for them). Also a Nephila sp. spider.

    :p

    Hix
     
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    Hix, 31 Dec 2015
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  15. DesertRhino150

    DesertRhino150 Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Managed a final trip to Abberton Reservoir this year, which allowed me to add one final lifer to my year list:

    154. Slavonian grebe Podiceps auritus

    And it begins all over again tomorrow!
     
    DesertRhino150, 31 Dec 2015
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  16. nanoboy

    nanoboy Well-Known Member

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    Happy new year, everyone! If anyone is doing a tally, note that I am on a maximum of 185 species. I will not know the final number until I get to a desktop in a few weeks. The last bird I saw for the year was a lifer too: Baillon's Crake.
     
    nanoboy, 31 Dec 2015
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  17. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    I have a few more birds and at least one amphibian to add on but I'm not sure I'll have time to do it tonight as I'm not with my notes atm.

    ~Thylo:cool:
     
    ThylacineAlive, 1 Jan 2016
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  18. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    the year is over, but I'll hold off on posting the full tallies for a couple of weeks so everyone can get their final sightings in.

    However, the top places will be undisputed:

    Birds, mammals and herptiles all go to lintworm.

    Fish go to Hix.
     
    Chlidonias, 1 Jan 2016
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  19. LaughingDove

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    One or two species that I somehow missed off from the year:

    270) Canada Goose (really not sure how I missed that off)
    [271) Rock Kestrel (from Tanzania). Does this count? Some places list it as a subspecies of the common Kestrel, whilst others list it as a full species...]
     
    LaughingDove, 1 Jan 2016
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  20. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    if it can be treated as a legitimate split - and you consider it to be a full species - then you can count it.

    A quick google suggests it is commonly split now.
     
    Chlidonias, 1 Jan 2016
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