ZooChat Big Year 2017

For mammals certainly, that should be at about 55 species now, for birds I think I am around 300. I haven't sorted my last Kenya trip yet....

 

Additions from the 30th, 1st and 2nd of April/May from a visit to Biebrza National Park in Northeastern Poland:

Birds:
374) White Stork
375) Eurasian Wigeon
376) House Martin
377) European Honey Buzzard
378) Northern Lapwing
379) Garganey
380) Common Redshank
381) Little Tern
382) Common Sandpiper
383) Black Tern
384) Wood Sandpiper
385) Western Yellow Wagtail
386) Meadow Pipit
387) Northern Shoveler
388) Northern Pintail
389) Common Whitethroat
390) Gadwall
391) Eurasian Teal
392) Northern Wheatear
393) Dunnock
394) Black-necked Grebe
395) Thrush Nightingale
396) Greater Spotted Eagle
397) Great Reed Warbler
398) Common Cuckoo
399) Savi's Warbler
400) Bluethroat
401) Common Linnet
402) Whinchat
403) Tawny Pipit
404) Black Kite
405) Montagu's Harrier
406) Common Chiffchaff
407) Common Reed Warbler
408) Willow Warbler
409) Eurasian Penduline Tit
410) Icterine Warbler
411) Lesser Whitethroat
412) Marsh Warbler
413) Barred Warbler
414) Great Snipe
415) Lesser Spotted Eagle
416) Wood Warbler
417) Sedge Warbler
418) European Pied Flycatcher
419) Tree Pipit
420) Grey Wagtail
421) Collared Flycatcher
422) Common Snipe (LIFER #1000!)
423) Woodlark
424) Eurasian Curlew
425) Eurasian Bittern
426) Green Sandpiper

(Poland-only total 157)

Herptiles:
28) Moor Frog
29) Viviparous Lizard - first typical lizard (not Slow Worm) seen in Europe
30) Edible Frog

Mammals:
36) Common Shrew
37) Eurasian Elk (as in Moose)

Needless to say I'm super pleased with the number of species seen on this trip, particularly some of the lifers and hitting 1000 birds. Some pictures, most notably of the Elk which was probably the highlight species seen, to be uploaded today or tomorrow.

 

Thanks.

Passerines from Ifrane, including a really nice lifer!

128 - Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes
129 - Meadow pipit , Anthus pratensis
130 - Tawny pipit , Anthus campestris
131 - Dupont's lark, Chersophilus duponti
132 - Great reed warbler, Acrocephalus arundinaceus

I should upload pictures of what I've seen (including macaques) when I return home.

 

Pictures: Poland - Wildlife - Photo Galleries | ZooChat

 

Miscounted, plus additions:

17. Rough-legged Hawk
18. Snow Bunting
19. White-fronted Goose
20. Arctic Tern
21. Glaucouse Gull
22. Mew Gull

 

102. Cetti's Warbler (Cettia cetti)
103. Grasshopper Warbler (Locustella naevia)
104. Mediterranean Gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus)
105. Grey Plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
106. Common Whitethroat (Sylvia communis)
107. Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)

 

My first bat survey of the year was at what is left of Severalls psychiatric hospital last night. Even though the development work is well underway and most of the old buildings have gone, I still managed to see two new species for this year's list:

14. Common pipistrelle bat Pipistrellus pipistrellus
15. Brown long-eared bat Plecotus auritus

 

So I checked and I have a double entry for Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus, #7 and #27) which means my current total stands at 131 without the following entries :

Inside Rabat Zoo :

132 - Sardinian warbler, Sylvia melanocephala - Pictured
133 - African blue tit, Cyanistes teneriffae - Pictured

And around Casablanca's outskirt fields, there was a bird looking like a bustard too but I couldn't identify it and I have got no picture as I was driving.

134 - Montagu's harrier, Circus pygargus
135 - Collared pratincole, Glareola pratincola
136 - Eurasian curlew, Numenius arquata

 

23. Bonaparte Gull

 

It must be summer, the swifts are here:

427) Common Swift

 

An evening trip to Stanage Edge (on, by coincidence, the exact same date as last year) produced a reliable year sighting:

146. Ring Ouzel - Turdus torquatus

 

24. Red-necked Grebe

 

A short day around the derbyshire/cheshire border added another 6.

166. Dotterel
167. Twite
168. Redstart
169. Tree pipit
170. Common sandpiper
171. Dipper

 

151. Yellow-vented Flowerpecker



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25. Canada Goose
26. American Wigeon
27. Northern Shoveler
28. Sandhill Crane
29. Greater Yellow-Legs.

 

428) Yellow-legged Gull

 

Went birdwatching yesterday with KevinVar and our friend Ole at Voorne-Putten island. Got myself 22 new species.

103. Eurasian bullfinch (pyrrhula pyrrhula)
104. Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)
105. Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola)
106. Little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
107. Northern wheater (Oenanthe oenanthe)
108. Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
109. Little ringed plover (Charadrius dubius)
110. Woodlark (Lullula arborea)
111. Pale grasshopper warbler (Locustella naevia)
112. Common whitethroat (Sylvia communis)
113. Little egret (Egretta garzetta)
114. Red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator)
115. Common swift (apus apus)
116. Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)
117. Cetti's warbler (Cettia cetti)
118. Mediterranean gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus)
119. Common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
120. Grey plover (Pluvialis squatarola)
121. European stonechat (Saxicola rubicola)
122. Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
123. Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)
124. Common stern (sterna hirundo)

 

Just back from a fantastic week in Scotland. 128 species seen in total, including:

163. Lesser Whitethroat (Sylvia curruca)
164. Garden Warbler (Sylvia borin)
165. Eider (Somateria mollissima)
166. Sanderling (Calidris alba)
167. Razorbill (Alca torda)
168. Whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus)
169. Ring Ouzel (Turdus torquatus)
170. Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix)
171. Red Grouse (Lagopus lagopus)
172. Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica)
173. Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
174. Hobby (Falco subbuteo)
175. Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix)
176. Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis)
177. Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus)
178. Rock Dove (Columba livia)
179. Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
180. White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
181. Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
182. Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
183. Garganey (Anas querquedula)

 

Fish
243. Variegated Lizardfish
244. Blueband Glidergoby
245. Shoulderbar Goby
246. Dusky Wrasse
247. Wahoo



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