ZooChat Big Year 2016

well it's the first of the month in NZ, so here are the latest totals (and LaughingDove's post above moves him to the top of the herptile ranks). There's obviously a lot of people who aren't up to date on their posts though.


BIRDS:

LaughingDove – 592
lintworm – 452
jbnbsn99 – 400
robmv – 352
Maguari – 342
Ituri – 335
boof – 314
Hevden – 221
TeaLovingDave – 194
DesertRhino150 – 146
ThylacineAlive – 145
Vision – 124
KevinVar – 115
Macaw16 – 100
Fireplume – 76
Zoo Tycooner FR – 70
Mr. Zootycoon – 60
Chlidonias – 58
BeardsleyZooFan – 40
Hix – 37
canaryboy2 – 28
zooboy28 – 25
Pleistohorse – 9


MAMMALS:

lintworm – 73
LaughingDove – 67
Maguari – 54
TeaLovingDave – 34
Ituri – 31
jbnbsn99 – 23
ThylacineAlive – 23
Vision – 22
Fireplume – 22
DesertRhino150 – 21
Zoo Tycooner FR – 19
KevinVar – 16
Macaw16 – 9
Mr. Zootycoon – 7
Pleistohorse – 7
BeardsleyZooFan – 7
Chlidonias – 6
Hix – 3
zooboy28 – 1


HERPTILES:

LaughingDove – 30 Herptiles total (22 Reptiles, 8 Amphibians)
Ituri – 26 Herptiles total (20 Reptiles, 6 Amphibians)
lintworm – 18 Herptiles total (13 Reptiles, 5 Amphibians)
ThylacineAlive – 17 Herptiles total (6 Reptiles, 11 Amphibians)
TeaLovingDave – 16 Herptiles total (6 Reptiles, 10 Amphibians)
Vision – 13 Herptiles total (10 Reptiles, 3 Amphibians)
Maguari – 13 Herptiles total (7 Reptiles, 6 Amphibians)
Fireplume – 7 Herptiles total (4 Reptiles, 3 Amphibians)
DesertRhino150 – 6 Herptiles total (3 Reptiles, 3 Amphibians)
KevinVar – 6 Herptiles total (1 Reptiles, 5 Amphibians)
Macaw16 – 5 Herptiles total (1 Reptiles, 4 Amphibians)
Hix – 2 Herptiles total (2 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)
Mr. Zootycoon – 2 Herptiles total (2 Reptiles, 0 Amphibians)


FISH:

Hix – 285
DesertRhino150 – 11
Maguari – 9
Fireplume – 1
TeaLovingDave – 1


INVERTEBRATES:

Maguari – 96 various
lintworm – 6 Butterflies, 37 Molluscs
Hix – 43 various
DesertRhino150 – 20 Butterflies, 15 Damsel/Dragonflies, 6 Bumblebees, 1 Hornet
robmv – 10 Butterflies, 6 Damsel/Dragonflies
ThylacineAlive – 3 insects

 

I've been in Auckland for the weekend. I did have some wildlifey plans but they sort of fell apart because I ended up somewhat under the weather. Didn't even go to the zoo in the end. However Monday was spent wader-watching at the Mangere ponds. A friend of mine was flying into Auckland in the morning and I was flying out in the evening, and the ponds are quite near the airport so it made a good combination. The tides weren't good, and most of the birds seen were ones seen earlier in the year, but there were a few additons.

59) Eastern rosella Platycercus eximius
60) Common mynah Acridotheres tristis
61) Wrybill Anarhynchus frontalis
62) Spot-necked dove Streptopelia chinensis
63) NZ dabchick Poliocephalus rufopectus
64) NZ dotterel Charadrius obscurus

 

My friend Mr. Andy wanted to go birding with me somewhere, so we went to Borneo. Because he has adult responsibilities, like a wife and a baby and a job, it could only be a short trip - just ten days or so - and we chose places I had been before so I knew my way around, but to which he hadn't so there would be lots of new birds and mammals for him to see. The flights from New Zealand come in to Kuala Lumpur, so we decided to start off at the nearby hill station of Bukit Fraser where we would spend two days looking for siamang before continuing on to Sabah. In Sabah we will be visiting Sepilok (which is where we are right now) and then Mt. Kinabalu because he has always wanted to go there. This was my fourth time at Bukit Fraser, my third at Sepilok, and will be my fourth at Mt. Kinabalu. Consequently I am expecting lifer birds to be few and far between. Hopefully there will be some nice mammal lifers to make up for that.
In the meantime, here are the birds and mammals seen at Bukit Fraser.



BIRDS:

65) House crow Corvus splendens
66) Glossy swiftlet Collocalia esculenta
67) Asian glossy starling Aplonis panayensis
68) Tree sparrow Passer montanus
69) Zebra dove Geopelia striata
70) Pacific swallow Hirundo tahitica
71) Long-tailed sibia Heterophasia picaoides
72) Fire-breasted flowerpecker Dicaeum ignipectus
73) Chestnut-capped laughing-thrush Garrulax mitratus
74) Mountain imperial pigeon Ducula badia
75) Oriental magpie-robin Copsychus saularis
76) Mountain bulbul Hypsipetes macclellandii
77) Black-throated sunbird Aethopyga saturata
78) Grey-chinned minivet Pericrocotus solaris
79) Lesser racquet-tailed drongo Dicrurus remifer
80) Mountain leaf-warbler Phylloscopus trivirgatus
81) Silver-eared mesia Leiothrix argentauris
82) Little spiderhunter Arachnothera longirostris
83) Blue-winged minla Siva (Minla) cyanouroptera
84) Bar-winged flycatcher-shrike Hemipus picatus
85) Bronzed drongo Dicrurus aeneus
86) Grey wagtail Motacilla cinerea
87) Little cuckoo-dove Macropygia ruficeps
88) White-throated fantail Rhipidura albicollis
89) Fire-tufted barbet Psilopogon pyrolophus
90) Streaked spiderhunter Arachnothera magna
91) Mountain fulvetta Alcippe peracensis
92) Golden babbler Stachridopsis chrysaea
93) Black-eared shrike-babbler Pteruthius melanotos
94) Mountain tailorbird Phyllergates cucullatus
95) Common green magpie Cissa chinensis
96) Grey-throated babbler Stachyris nigriceps
97) Brown shrike Lanius cristatus
98) Green-winged (Emerald) dove Chalcophaps indica
99) White-rumped shama Copsychus malabaricus


MAMMALS:

7) Himalayan striped squirrel Tamiops macclellandii
8) Grey-bellied squirrel Callosciurus caniceps
9) Siamang Symphalangus syndactylus
10) Red-bellied (Pallas') squirrel Callosciurus erythraeus
11) Dusky langur Trachypithecus obscurus
12) Sunda slow loris Nycticebus coucang
13) Greater tree shrew Tupaia glis
14) Crab-eating macaque Macaca fascicularis

 

thread here: Chlidonias Goes To Asia, part five: 2016