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  1. mstickmanp

    mstickmanp Well-Known Member

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    Exactly, there are several parks by where I live that could easily get me around 70-80 species.
     
    mstickmanp, 14 Jan 2015
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  2. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    98 Barrow's Goldeneye
     
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  3. boof

    boof Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    71. sooty oystercatcher
    72. australasian figbird
    73. common starling
    74. black winged stilt
    75. black shouldered kite
    76. australian hobby
     
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  4. Pleistohorse

    Pleistohorse Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Birds:
    1. Common Raven
    2. Black-billed Magpie
    3. Rock Dove
    4. Bohemian Waxwing
    5. Black-capped Chickadee
    6. Bald Eagle

    Mammals:
    1. Red-backed Vole
    2. Red Fox
     
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  5. AverageWalrus

    AverageWalrus Well-Known Member

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    Today brought 2 new birds

    12) American Robin
    13) Black Capped Chickadee
     
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  6. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    BIRDS
    99 Mountain Chickadee
    100 Clark's Nutcracker
    101 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch
    102 Black Rosy-Finch
    103 Hairy Woodpecker
    104 Pileated Woodpecker
    105 Steller's Jay
    106 Bohemian Waxwing
    107 Harris's Sparrow
    108 American Tree Sparrow

    MAMMALS
    10 American Red Squirrel
     
    Ituri, 16 Jan 2015
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  7. mstickmanp

    mstickmanp Well-Known Member

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    154. Wrentit
    155. Lincoln's Sparrow
    156. Egyptian Goose
     
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  8. Hix

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

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    Egyptian Goose? In your part of the world?

    :p

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  9. jbnbsn99

    jbnbsn99 Well-Known Member

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    Unless he went to Florida, it's not countable.
     
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  10. cloudedleopard

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    @mstickmanp- This is only WILD sightings, not sightings in zoos. Wait until there is a "Geese" challenge for the ZooChat Challenge for captive geese. If you did go to Florida, it is countable, according to jbnbsn99. There is Egyptian Geese at my home zoo and I do not put them on a wild sightings list.
     
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  11. LaughingDove

    LaughingDove Well-Known Member

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    Surprised it took so long but out of my window today was:
    48) Chaffinch
     
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  12. jbnbsn99

    jbnbsn99 Well-Known Member

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    Do you even know what you're talking about?
     
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  13. cloudedleopard

    cloudedleopard Well-Known Member

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    @jbnbsn99. Oh, yes I do. I meant, "mstickmanp was probably putting a captive sighting of an Egyptian goose and passing it off as a wild sighting." Sorry for the misunderstanding :)
     
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  14. jbnbsn99

    jbnbsn99 Well-Known Member

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    That's not what I mean at all. Being a friend of mstickmanp, and having birded with him before, I know he's not adding a captive bird to his list. I'm referring to the issue of countability among birds. A bird that has been released and is not part of an officially recognized, stable breeding population cannot officially count toward year lists. Egyptian Geese are widespread, but only officially countable in Florida.
     
    jbnbsn99, 16 Jan 2015
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  15. cloudedleopard

    cloudedleopard Well-Known Member

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    Mammals-
    3. House mouse with tusks
     
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  16. AverageWalrus

    AverageWalrus Well-Known Member

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    Today I got a sighting of a bird that must have crossed over from the year round range, because I live in an area where It's year round and Summer Ranges overlap

    14) Turkey Vulture

    Aswell as a..

    15) Northern Mockingbird (I think it might be my first sighting! Well, at least the first time I got a good look at one)
     
    AverageWalrus, 16 Jan 2015
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  17. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    42) White-fronted tern Sterna striata
    43) Variable oystercatcher Haematopus unicolor
    44) Black-fronted tern Sterna albostriata
    45) Spotted shag Stictocarbo punctatus
    46) Common coot Fulica atra
    47) Great crested grebe Podiceps cristatus


    ...and my first mammal for the year,
    1) European hare Lepus europeaus


    Photo of the grebes with their cute widdle babies: http://www.zoochat.com/680/southern-crested-grebes-podiceps-cristatus-australis-398709/
     
    Chlidonias, 16 Jan 2015
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  18. mstickmanp

    mstickmanp Well-Known Member

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    cloudedleopard- Egyptian Geese are all over the place in Southern California as WILD animals and are actively breeding, but it wasn't until this week that I was finally able to see one at a local park by my house.

    As for counting it or not, I will for my Zoochat list. Mainly because Ebird doesn't make the distinction between countable or non-countable birds by ABA rules and can get quite confusing considering all the exotics in Southern California. I wouldn't be surprised if they become countable in SoCal in the years to come, along with other established exotics.

    Also, I've only seen two mammals so far:

    1. Eastern Fox Squirrel
    2. Raccoon
     
    mstickmanp, 17 Jan 2015
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  19. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    109 Turkey Vulture
    110 Pine Grosbeak
     
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  20. Hix

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

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    Birds
    59. Sooty Oystercatcher
    60. Pied Cormorant
    61. Silver Gull
    62. Crested Tern
    63. Red-necked Stint
    64. Ruddy Turnstone
    65. Welcome Swallow
    66. Brown Cuckoo-dove
    67. Sacred Kingfisher
    68. Lewin's Honeyeater

    Mammals
    1. European Rabbit
    2. Swamp Wallaby

    :p

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    Hix, 17 Jan 2015
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