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  1. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    Been seriously behind in updating my list this year :p but better late than never. This update comprises many trips into the Northumberland countryside and coastline, along with sightings in the Czech Republic, Home Counties and Wales.

    Bird Total (as of 23/12/2017) - 207 species

    116) Tundra Bean Goose (Anser serrirostris)
    117) Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii)
    118) Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca)
    119) Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna)
    120) American Wigeon (Mareca americana)
    121) Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina)
    122) Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca)
    123) Red-legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa)
    124) Grey Partridge (Perdix perdix)
    125) Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)
    126) White Stork (Ciconia ciconia)
    127) Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia)
    128) Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
    129) Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
    130) Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)
    131) Red Kite (Milvus milvus)
    132) Common Crane (Grus grus)
    133) Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
    134) European Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria)
    135) American Golden Plover (Pluvialis dominica)
    136) Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola)
    137) Greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
    138) Ruff (Calidris pugnax)
    139) Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima)
    140) Little Stint (Calidris minima)
    141) Grey Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius)
    142) Caspian Gull (Larus cachinnans)
    143) Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis)
    144) Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis)
    145) Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii)
    146) Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
    147) Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
    148) Little Auk (Alle alle)
    149) Guillemot (Uria aalge)
    150) Puffin (Fratercula arctica)
    151) Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur)
    152) Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
    153) Eurasian Scops Owl (Otus scops)
    154) Little Owl (Athene noctua)
    155) Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus)
    156) Alpine Swift (Tachymarptis melba)
    157) Common Swift (Apus apus)
    158) Middle-spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocoptes medius)
    159) Lesser-spotted Woodpecker (Dryobates minor)
    159) Black Woodpecker (Dryocopus martius)
    160) Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis)
    161) Grey-headed Woodpecker (Picus canus)
    162) Merlin (Falco columbarius)
    163) Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus)
    164) Ring-necked Parakeet (Psittacula krameri)
    165) Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
    166) Crested Tit (Lophophanes cristatus)
    167) Marsh Tit (Poecile palustris)
    168) Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus)
    169) Eurasian Skylark (Alauda arvensis)
    170) Sand Martin (Riparia riparia)
    171) Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
    172) House Martin (Delichon urbicum)
    173) Red-rumped Swallow (Cecropis daurica)
    173) Cetti's Warbler (Cettia cetti)

    174) Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus)
    175) Common Chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita)
    176) Wood Warbler (Phylloscopus sibilatrix)
    177) Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus)
    178) Reed Warbler (Acrocephalus scirpaceus)
    179) Marsh Warbler (Acrocephalus palustris)
    180) Grasshopper Warbler (Locustella naevia)
    181) Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla)
    182) Garden Warbler (Sylvia borin)
    183) Whitethroat (Sylvia communis)
    184) Short-toed Treecreeper (Certhia brachydactyla)
    185) Ring Ouzel (Turdus torquatus)
    186) Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos)
    187) Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata)
    188) Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca)
    189) Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis)
    190) Common Flycatcher (Phoenicurus phoenicurus)
    191) Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)
    192) Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)
    193) Dipper (Cinclus cinclus)
    194) Yellow Wagtail (Motacilla flava)
    195) Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis)
    196) Water Pipit (Anthus spinoletta)
    197) Hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)
    198) Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula)
    199) Greenfinch (Chloris chloris)
    200) Common Linnet (Linaria cannabina)
    201) Common Redpoll (Acanthis flammea)
    202) Lesser Redpoll (Acanthis cabaret)
    203) European Serin (Serinus serinus)
    204) European Siskin (Spinus spinus)
    205) Corn Bunting (Emberiza calandra)
    206) Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella)
    207) Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus)


    Mammal Total (as of 23/12/2017) - 37 species

    1) Bank Vole (Myodes glareolus)
    2) Field Vole (Microtus agrestis)
    3) Water Vole (Arvicola amphibius)
    4) Wood Mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus)
    5) Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus)
    6) Yellow-necked Mouse (Apodemus flavicollis)
    7) House Mouse (Mus musculus)
    8) Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris)
    9) Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
    10) Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus)
    11) European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
    12) European Mole (Talpa europaea)
    13) Common Shrew (Sorex araneus)
    14) Pygmy Shrew (Sorex minutus)
    15) Water Shrew (Neomys fodiens)
    16) European Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)
    17) Natterer's Bat (Myotis nattereri)
    18) Serotine Bat (Eptesicus serotinus)
    19) Common Noctule (Nyctalus noctula)
    20) Common Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus)
    21) Soprano Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pygmaeus)
    22) Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)
    23) Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus)
    24) Common Seal (Phoca vitulina)
    25) Stoat (Mustela erminea)
    26) Least Weasel (Mustela nivalis)
    27) European Polecat (Mustela putorius)
    28) European Otter (Lutra lutra)
    29) European Badger (Meles meles)
    30) Wild Boar (Sus scrofa)
    31) Red Deer (Cervus elaphus)
    32) Sika Deer (Cervus nippon)
    33) Fallow Deer (Dama dama)
    34) Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus)
    35) Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
    36) Short-beaked Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
    37) Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

    Reptile/Amphibian Total (as of 23/12/2017) - 10 species

    1) Adder (Vipera berus)
    2) Barred Grass Snake (Natrix helvetica)
    3) Ringed Grass Snake (Natrix natrix)
    4) Common Lizard (Zootoca vivipara)
    5) Great Crested Newt (Triturus cristatus)
    6) Smooth Newt (Lissotriton vulgaris)
    7) Palmate Newt (Lissotriton helveticus)
    8) Common Toad (Bufo bufo)
    9) Common Frog (Rana temporaria)
    10) Yellow-bellied Toad (Bombina variegata)
     
  2. Vision

    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Looking back through pictures of New York I found out that I misidentified a wren as a winter wren, when it actually wasn't that species. While I was busy checking some birds anyways I decided to go over all of my New York pictures and ID'd another small brown passerine, as well.

    BIRDS:
    284) House wren, Troglodytes aedon
    285) Orange-crowned warbler, Leiothlypis celata
     
  3. Maguari

    Maguari Never could get the hang of Thursdays. 15+ year member Premium Member

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    One more from a quick outing to Darley Dale yesterday:

    216. Hawfinch - Coccothraustes coccothraustes

    Will be very surprised if that's not the last new one for the year.
     
  4. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    Which species is Common Shrew?
     
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  5. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    The birds will follow later but I would be able to add about 70 and counting. The mammals from the Falklands ans southern Chile are more important for the moment though.

    85. Patagonian sea lion
    86. Southern elephant seal
    87. Orca
    88. Guanaco
    89. Culpeo
    90. Humboldt's hog-nosed skunk
    91. Hairy armadillo


    The final update will follow mid-January.
     
  6. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    Safe.
    First-equal now, but that's fine.
    Noooooooooo!
     
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  7. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    Ah, but *which* hairy armadillo? :p

    I move to strike that one from the record due to imprecision!
     
  8. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    I am still waiting for you to secretly fly to Australia to see some new mammals..
     
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  9. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    I think even Chli wouldn't join a sect in order to beat your mammal total :p
     
  10. lintworm

    lintworm Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    This is why I hate smartphones...
     
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    2. Masked Shrew.
     
  12. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    I don't even own one :p
     
  13. Hix

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

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    Inverts
    55. Crown of Thorns Starfish
    56. Splendid Reef Crab
    57. Blue Starfish

    (@Chlidonias: that's 20 Crabs, 12 molluscs, 12 Echinoderms, 6 insects, 4 shrimp and 3 other marine inverts)

    Fish
    310. Goldbelly Damsel
    311. Lunar Wrasse
    312. Starry Puffer
    313. Crinoid Clingfish
    314. Saddleback Pigfish

    315. 50/50 Chromis
    316. Pacific Gregory
    317. Milkfish
    318. Orange Basslet
    319. Scissortail Sargent

    320. Pastel Slender Wrasse
    321. Whiteblotch Razorfish
    322. Blackstreak Surgeonfish
    323. Tennant's Surgeonfish
    324. Japanese Wrasse
    325. Blotched Bigeye
    326. Mackeral Scad

    327. Grey Demoiselle
    328. Whitebar Gregory
    329. Radiated (White-lined) Lionfish
    330. Red-blotched (Clown) Coris

    :p

    Hix
     
  14. savethelephant

    savethelephant Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Just out of sheer curiosity would we be able to include Homo sapient on our mammal list?
     
  15. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    If you want to - so long as you saw one living free and not in a cage.
     
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  16. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    You'd have to discover a species of that name first :p
     
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    savethelephant Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I blame the smart phone :D
     
  18. KevinVar

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    While adding the fieldfares I saw today to my ''Dutch year list'', as I had only seen these in the Czech republic earlier in the year, I noticed I never added the sanderlings I saw on my trip to Scheveningen in November, upping my total for this year by one.
    172. Sanderling (Calidris alba)
     
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    Hix Wildlife Enthusiast and Lover of Islands 15+ year member Premium Member

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    331. Eared Blenny

    A new record for Christmas Island.

    :p

    Hix
     
  20. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    I've a little bit of catching up to do...

    Continuing my worst birding year on record:
    214 Franklin's Gull - Leucophaeus pipixcan
    215 Swainson's Thrush - Catharus ustulatus
    216 Nashville Warbler - Oreothlypis ruficapilla
    217 Yellow Warbler - Setophaga petechia
    218 Wilson's Warbler - Cardellina pusilla
    219 Spotted Towhee - Pipilo maculatus
    220 Black-throated Green Warbler - Setophaga virens
    221 White-throated Sparrow - Zonotrichia albicollis
    222 Dark-eyed Junco - Junco hyemalis
    223 Song Sparrow - Melospiza melodia
    224 Brown Creeper - Certhia americana
    225 Winter Wren - Troglodytes hiemalis
    226 Harris's Sparrow - Zonotrichia querula
    227 Whooping Crane - Grus americana
    228 White-crowned Sparrow - Zonotrichia leucophrys
    229 Snow Goose - Anser caerulescens
    230 Greater White-fronted Goose - Anser albifrons
    231 Ruddy Duck - Oxyura jamaicensis
    232 Eared Grebe - Podiceps nigricollis
    233 Cackling Goose - Branta hutchinsii
    234 Bufflehead - Bucephala albeola
    235 Common Redpoll - Acanthis flammea
    236 Fox Sparrow - Passerella iliaca*
    237 Golden-crowned Kinglet - Regulus satrapa
    238 Sharp-shinned Hawk - Accipiter striatus
    239 Greater Scaup - Aythya marila
    240 Horned Lark - Eremophila alpestris
    241 American Pipit - Anthus rubescens
    242 Lapland Longspur - Calcarius lapponicus
    243 Snowy Owl - Bubo scandiacus
    244 American Tree Sparrow - Spizelloides arborea
    245 Field Sparrow - Spizella pusilla

    Mammals:
    14 Black-tailed Prairie Dog - Cynomys ludovicianus
    15 Nine-banded Armadillo - Dasypus novemcinctus
    16 American Beaver - Castor Canadensis

    *If I were following any taxonomy other than the AOU, this bird would have been a lifer as it was of the Red Fox Sparrow variety rather than the Slate-colored I have seen before out west.
     
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