ZooChat Big Year 2018

Since this will be my first new year on Zoochat, I will participate this year. Today is Saturday in my part of the world, (a few more days to the New Year!), and got my lifer Rough-Legged Hawk today!

Here is a little bit about the classification systems I will be using:

Mammals - I don't know of any good mammal checklists, so I will be counting mammals the way I learned their taxonomy (except for some splits and lumps that I think make sents.)

Birds - I will be using Clemont's Checklist of Birds of the World (common names may vary a bit.)

Herptiles - Same as mammals.

Fish - Again same as mammals and herpitiles, but one question, Do species cough on hook and line count for the total?

Inverts - I can't ID them very well, but the few I can I will be counting.

 

I guess I'll start with an animal I saw in the first minute of 2018.

Mammals:
1. Grey-Headed Flying Fox (Pteropus poliocephalus)

 

Cool first mammal!

 

And it's not even 2018 here yet.

 

It isn't here either. Those people on the other side of the International Date Line, always getting a head start.

 

We need someone from Kiribati and someone from Hawaii to do this challenge.

 

Birds:
1. Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala)
2. Indian Mynah (Acridotheres tristis)
3. Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis)

Reptiles:
1. Delicate Garden Skink (Lampropholis delicata)
2. Eastern Blue-Toungued Skink (Cracticus nigrogularis)

Invertebrates:
1. Golden Orb Spider (Nephila sp)

 

2018. I predict I will finish with approx. 175 birds. No plans to travel to far this year.
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1/1/2018.
1. Tawny frogmouth
2. Australian magpie
3. Fairy martin
4. Yellow-rumped thornbill
5. Willie wagtail
6. Yellow-throated miner
7. Black-faced cuckoo-shrike
8. Common starling
9. Spotted bowerbird
10. Little crow
11. Magpie-lark
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With my job I'm always rostered to work night shift on New year's eve. In April 2017 I transfered from the Illawarra area of New South Wales to Nyngan in the centre of New South Wales. When I was working in the Illawarra on New year's eve my first year bird would always be a silver gull at one of the McDonald's carparks. It was good to start the year off with a Tawny Frogmouth. It will be interesting to read everyone's first bird.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR

 

1/1/2018
12. red rump parrot
13. black kite
14. house sparrow

 

1/1/2018
15. galah

 

My first additions... Probably the only time this year I'll be in first place

BIRDS:
1) Western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula
2) Carrion crow, Corvus corone
3) Common wood pigeon, Columba palumbus
4) Eurasian collared dove, Streptopelia decaocto
5) European herring gull, Larus argentatus
6) Eurasian magpie, Pica pica
7) Mew gull, Larus canus
8) Black-headed gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus
9) Common blackbird, Turdus merula
10) Common chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs
11) Egyptian goose, Alopochen aegyptiaca
12) Greylag goose, Anser anser
13) Eurasian jay, Garrulus glandarius
14) Common buzzard, Buteo buteo
15) Eurasian blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus
16) Mute swan, Cygnus olor
17) Bewick's swan, Cygnus bewickii
18) Grey heron, Ardea cinerea
19) Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos
20) Common shelduck, Tadorna tadorna
21) Northern shoveler, Anas clypeata
22) Eurasian coot, Fulica atra
23) Northern pintail, Anas acuta
24) Tufted duck, Aythya fuligula
25) Common pochard, Aythya ferina
26) Eurasian wigeon, Anas penelope
27) Great tit, Parus major
28) Gadwall, Anas strepera
29) Eurasian teal, Anas crecca
30) Eurasian curlew, Numenius arquata
31) Northern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus
32) Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes
33) Great spotted woodpecker, Dendrocopos major
34) European robin, Erithacus rubecula
35) Lesser redpoll, Acanthis cabaret
36) Cetti's warbler, Cettia cetti
37) Common merganser, Mergus merganser
38) Stock dove, Columba oenas
39) Common kestrel, Falco tinnunculus
40) White wagtail, Motacilla alba
41) Dunnock, Prunella modularis
42) Common starling, Sturnus vulgaris

 

Birds:
1. Common blackbird, Turdus merula
2. European Herring Gull, Larus argentatus
3. European Robin, Erithacus rubecula
4. Eurasian Magpie, Pica pica
5. Coal Tit, Periparus ater
6. Long-tailed Tit, Aegithalos caudatus
7. Feral Pigeon, Columba livia
8. Common Woodpigeon, Columba palumbus
9. House Sparrow, Passer domesticus
10. Eurasian Blue Tit, Cyanistes caeruleus

 

Very busy at the moment so just some additions from my garden and a quick visit to a local park:

1) Great Tit
2) Blue Tit
3) Eurasian Tree Sparrow
4) Eurasian Magpie
5) Eurasian Collared Dove
6) Feral Pigeon
7) Eurasian Jackdaw
8) Rook
9) Black-headed Gull
10) Caspian Gull
11) Hooded Crow
12) Mallard Duck
13) Mandarin Duck
14) European Jay
15) Eurasian Coot
16) Goosander
17) Mute Swan
18) House Sparrow
19) Eurasian Wren

1) Red Squirrel
2) Striped Field Mouse (Apodemus agrarius)

I should be able to go birding properly in a couple of weeks, but this year's really interesting additions should start around May .

 

As I expected, this guy came back to the feeders in the garden today as well! I think that'll be it for today, unless I get lucky

BIRDS:
43) Coal tit, Periparus ater.

 

11. Carrion Crow, Corvus corone
12. Dunnock, Prunella modularis