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  1. animal_expert01

    animal_expert01 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Birds:
    51. Black Swan (Cygnus atratus)

    Fish:
    6. Platy (Xiphophorus variatus)
    7. Guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
    8. Indo-Pacific Sergeant Major (Abudefduf vaigiensis)
    9. Stripey (Microcanthus strigatus)
    10. Estuary Cod (Epinephelus malabaricus)

    Amphibians:
    3. Eastern Dwarf Tree Frog (Litoria fallax)
     
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  2. birdsandbats

    birdsandbats Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    These birds just arrived back in my area from migration:

    Birds
    34. Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscala
     
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  3. Vision

    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    The first signs of spring are finally coming through, so even though I didn't see that many new species today while birding I did have an absolutely great time!

    BIRDS:
    145) Black redstart, Phoenicurus ochruros
    146) Water pipit, Anthus spinoletta
    147) Bearded reedling, Panurus biarmicus
    148) Ruff, Calidris pugnax
     
    Vision, 4 Mar 2018
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  4. LaughingDove

    LaughingDove Well-Known Member

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    A couple of nice birds of prey from today:

    92) Common Kestrel
    93) Peregrine Falcon
     
    LaughingDove, 4 Mar 2018
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  5. birdsandbats

    birdsandbats Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Went birding today. Saw several thousand gulls, probably including several more species new to this year and lifers than I am aware of, but was able to ID only a few, sadly:

    Birds
    35. Ring-Billed Gull Larus delawarensis
    36. Great Black-Backed Gull Larus marinus
    37. Gadwall Mareca strepera
     
    birdsandbats, 4 Mar 2018
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  6. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Connecticut, U.S.A.
    Mammals
    23) Bobcat Lynx rufus

    Birds
    98) Orange-Crowned Warbler Leiothlypis celata
    99) Common Gallinule Gallinula galeata

    ~Thylo
     
    ThylacineAlive, 5 Mar 2018
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  7. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    You and your Bobcats! If I ever go to America I'm going to have to set aside some time to lurk around your backyard.
     
    Chlidonias, 5 Mar 2018
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  8. animal_expert01

    animal_expert01 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I have incorrectly identified a grey goshawk as a pacific baza.
    39. Grey Goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus)
     
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  9. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    I just happen to drive around at night a lot thanks mainly to work :p It's also why I've been seeing opossums fairly regularly these past couple years as well. Last night I was driving to pick up some pizza for my family and one was just crossing the road at the end of my street :p :)

    ~Thylo
     
    ThylacineAlive, 5 Mar 2018
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  10. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    BIRDS:
    78 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - Regulus calendula
    79 Wild Turkey - Meleagris gallopavo
    80 Great Horned Owl - Bubo virginianus
    81 Short-eared Owl - Asio flammeus
    82 Eastern Meadowlark - Sturnella magna
    83 Red-winged Blackbird - Agelaius phoeniceus
    84 Killdeer - Charadrius vociferus
    85 Blue-winged Teal - Spatula discors
    86 Northern Shrike - Lanius borealis
    87 Least Sandpiper - Calidris minutilla
    88 Greater Yellowlegs - Tringa melanoleuca
    89 American Pipit - Anthus rubescens
    90 Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes
     
    Ituri, 5 Mar 2018
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  11. Macaw16

    Macaw16 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Another thrush from the weekend (3/3/2018):

    49. Redwing Turdus iliacus
     
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  12. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    Wait, are you Batman? Does Connecticut even need a Batman?
     
    Chlidonias, 5 Mar 2018
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  13. Vision

    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    He's the hero Connecticut deserves, but not the one it needs right now.

    Oh, and here's a mammal I forgot in a previous post:
    MAMMALS:
    9) House mouse, Mus musculus
     
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  14. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    If New York was Gotham, than Bruce Wayne would live in Connecticut. :)
     
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  15. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    But would he be eight feet tall?
     
    Chlidonias, 6 Mar 2018
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  16. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    All from leafing through my photos from Brownsville, Texas:

    Birds
    100) American Coot Fulica americana
    101) American Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia
    102) Black-Crested Titmouse Baeolophus atricristatus
    103) Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla
    104) Blue-Grey Gnatcatcher Polioptila caerulea
    105) Tricolored Heron Egretta tricolor
    106) Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius

    ~Thylo
     
    ThylacineAlive, 6 Mar 2018
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  17. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    If it means I can be a billionaire then yes I'm Batman.

    ~Thylo
     
    ThylacineAlive, 6 Mar 2018
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  18. Ituri

    Ituri Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    No, an 8 foot tall batman is just ridiculous. ;)
     
    Ituri, 6 Mar 2018
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  19. Vision

    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Travelled way too far for three owl species, of which I saw one (short-eared), heard the other (little), and failed to find the third (long-eared), though upon coming home, right in front of my house I heard that species as well.
    Not much to add, but the one I can add is definitely one of my new favorite bird species!

    BIRDS:
    149) Short-eared owl, Asio flammeus
     
    Vision, 6 Mar 2018
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  20. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    Commissioner Gordon, looking around the room: "Now, which one of these ordinary citizens could possibly be the secret identity of the eight-foot-tall Batman...?"

    ThylacineAlive quickly sitting down: "Not me!"
     
    Chlidonias, 7 Mar 2018
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