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  1. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    95 Common Merganser
    96 Great Egret
     
  2. BeardsleyZooFan

    BeardsleyZooFan Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    BIRDS:
    5. Blue Jay
    6. Rock Dove

    MAMMALS:
    1. Eastern Gray Squirrel

    I have seen a few hawks, but I haven't gotten very good views of them, though I suspect one is a juvenile Red-Shouldered Hawk. But I don't know for sure, so for now, it stays off the list.
     
  3. DesertRhino150

    DesertRhino150 Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Managed to get two new birds while driving through Chelmsford:

    62. Herring gull Larus argentatus
    63. Feral pigeon Columba livia

    And then added six new birds - half of them lifers (indicated in bold) - on Wallasea Island.

    64. Common redshank Tringa totanus
    65. Corn bunting Emberiza calandra
    66. Reed bunting Emberiza schoeniclus
    67. Common shelduck Tadorna tadorna
    68. Bewick's swan Cygnus columbianus
    69. Rough-legged buzzard Buteo lagopus

    Also added a new mammal on Wallasea:

    4. Brown hare Lepus europaeus
     
  4. Pleistohorse

    Pleistohorse Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Birds:
    1. Common Raven
    2. Black-billed Magpie

    Mammals:
    1. Northern Red-backed Vole
    2. Red Fox
     
  5. Arizona Docent

    Arizona Docent Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Are there free ranging muntjacs in England? :eek:
     
  6. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    There are indeed; have been for something close to a century.
     
  7. Arizona Docent

    Arizona Docent Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    I guess the saying is true, you learn something new every day.
     
  8. DesertRhino150

    DesertRhino150 Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Yes - in 1901 eleven Reeve's and thirty-one Indian muntjac were released in the woodlands around Woburn (the Indian deer died out after a relatively short time). Between the 1930s and 1952 there were seven further releases in other counties. The first one recorded in Essex - where I live - was exactly 40 years after that first release. Now they are found pretty much anywhere in the county with reasonably tall vegetation; they are much more common than any of the other three species of deer in the county.
     
  9. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    Common misconception; the pure Woburn Indians hung on a lot longer than was initially thought - into the 1940's I believe - and later releases also included Indian blood. It is believed that the feral population in the UK is more or less entirely Reeves now, but with a dash of Indian blood still present in animals found in Bedfordshire.
     
  10. DesertRhino150

    DesertRhino150 Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Interesting. One question - were these animals released into the deer park and then escaped or properly into the wild?
     
  11. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    As I understand it all "releases" were accidental, involving escapes from the deer park and other private collections.
     
  12. cloudedleopard

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    No, not thylacine but I got more birds today-
    10. House finch
    11. Red-bellied woodpecker
     
  13. AverageWalrus

    AverageWalrus Well-Known Member

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    Today brought 3 new species for me

    10) Blue Jay
    11) American Crow

    MAMMALS:

    2) White Tailed Deer
     
  14. cloudedleopard

    cloudedleopard Well-Known Member

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    12) American crow
    (How do Hix, Chlidonias and some of these others get 80 or 90 by now?)
     
  15. Pleistohorse

    Pleistohorse Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    3) Rock Dove
     
  16. jbnbsn99

    jbnbsn99 Well-Known Member

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    We know our local birds. We know where to find them We travel to see birds we can't get locally.
     
  17. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    9 Northern Pocket Gopher
     
  18. mstickmanp

    mstickmanp Well-Known Member

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    Went looking for a Tropical Kingbird and Eurasian Wigeon but I dipped on both. Fortunately I did get two lifers and three year birds while looking for these two vagrants.

    149. Red-throated Loon
    150. Least Bittern
    151. Thayer's Gull

    152. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
    153. Redhead
     
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  19. Hix

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

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    And we know the locations with relatively high species diversity.

    :p

    Hix
     
  20. boof

    boof Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    70. Topknot Pigeon
     
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