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  1. Hix

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

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    OK, last two species identified from Uganda (so bump up the relevant numbers in my last post by two):

    Birds:
    403. Slender-billed Weaver
    404. Yellow-throated Leaflove

    :p

    Hix
     
  2. nanoboy

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    160 Yellow-tufted Honeyeater
    161 Fuscous Honeyeater
    162 Jacky Winter

    All ticked in the greater Bendigo National park on New Year's eve. I end the year on 162, though my app where I keep my tally says 163 for some reason. Anyway, my target for 2014 is 175.
     
  3. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    I didn't quite get to 500 for the year but it was close. I made an even 60 mammals though.

    (I took out milky stork from Kuala Selangor because I think they were probably openbills storks (I've seen loads in Burma and from below they appear to have yellow bills for some reason. Weird).

    Anyway:

    BIRDS:

    YANGON (BURMA):
    459) Jungle mynah Acridotheres fuscus
    460) Lesser whistling duck Dendrocygna javanica

    HLAWGA PARK (YANGON, BURMA):
    461) Asian openbill stork Anastomus oscitans
    462) Red-whiskered bulbul Pycnonotus jocosus
    463) Black-naped monarch Hypothymis azurea
    464) Rosy minivet Pericrocotus roseus
    465) Asian little cormorant Phalacrocorax niger
    466) Common iora Aegithina tiphia
    467) Scarlet-backed flowerpecker Dicaeum cruentatum
    468) Green bee-eater Merops orientalis
    469) Ashy drongo Dicrurus leucophaeus
    470) Small minivet Pericrocotus cinnamomeus

    BAGAN (BURMA):
    471) Vinous-breasted starling Acridotheres burmannicus
    472) White-throated babbler Turdoides gularis

    473) Pied bushchat Saxicola caprata
    474) Burmese shrike Lanius collurioides
    475) Streak-eared bulbul Pycnonotus blanfordi
    476) Plain prinia Prinia inornata
    477) River lapwing Vanellus duvaucelii
    478) Yellow-streaked warbler Phyllosopus armandii
    479) Tickell's leaf warbler Phylloscopus affinis
    480) Burmese bushlark Mirafra microptera
    481) Spotted owlet Athene brama

    482) Eurasian collared dove Streptopelia decaocto
    483) Plain-backed sparrow Passer flaveolus
    484) Ashy woodswallow Artamus fuscus
    485) Indian roller Coracias benghalensis
    486) Scaly-breasted munia (Nutmeg finch) Lonchura punctulata

    SHWESETTAW WILDLIFE SANCTUARY (BURMA):
    487) Blossom-headed parakeet Psittacula roseata
    488) Grey-breasted prinia Prinia hodgsonii
    489) Hooded treepie Crypsirina cucullata

    490) Black-crested bulbul Pycnonotus melanicterus
    491) Greater coucal Centropus sinensis
    492) Short-toed snake-eagle Circaetus gallicus
    493) Pied harrier Circus melanoleucos
    494) Long-billed pipit Anthus similis
    495) Hainan blue flycatcher Cyornis hainanensis

    496) Golden-fronted leafbird Chlropsis aurifrons
    497) White-browed fantail Rhipidura aureola


    MAMMALS:

    58) Black rat Rattus rattus (in Kuala Lumpur and Yangon)

    59) Rhesus macaque Macaca mulatta – Hlawga Park (Yangon, Burma)

    60) Irrawaddy squirrel Callosciurus pygerythrus – Bagan (Burma)
     
  4. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    Ah, you saw a Spotted Owlet! Excellent; as you know I rather like owls, and this is a species I have enjoyed observing at the World Owl Trust on a number of occasions.
     
  5. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    I thought you liked small carnivores? I am so confused! Spotted owlets are actually pretty easy to find at Bagan because they sit on the pagodas during the day and try to stare you down when you see them. I only saw them in pairs as well, which is a little strange for owls. I even managed to get photos which shall be posted in ....... well, when there is somewhere to post them! Much easier to spot than most owls which seem to prefer to come out at night for some odd reason.

    If you like owls you might like the one new bird I saw at Yangon Zoo (I have no idea if they are common in European zoos or not....you can check when you find out what it is!)
     
  6. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    Hehe, you will note that both my user-image and profile image are owls!

    I get to see owls every few weeks in the wild, as Hel lives out in the countryside and three of the five native species are found in her garden; the other two are pretty common in the area too. Takes a bit of patience but there is nothing like seeing a wild owl.
     
  7. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    I checked Zootierliste just now and the owl I saw at Yangon is not at all common in Europe. They do have it at Muncaster (albeit a different subspecies) so you would have seen it already, but it is such a magnificent owl that you'd probably want to see it again.
     
  8. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    so are the following final numbers correct? (I only updated mine and Hix's totals and I'm not sure if there's anyone between lintworm and nanoboy, just because nanoboy and zooboy28 were just the last ones to post updated numbers and I didn't want to search the thread for others -- that's jbnbsn99's job! -- but it would be nice to have a "top ten")

    1. Chlidonias - 497
    2. Hix - 404
    3. Ituri - 302
    4. jbnbsn99 - 282
    5. Boof - 253
    6. lintworm - 247
    7. nanoboy - 162
    8. zooboy28 - 148


    Also what were the totals for mammals? I only know that I got to 60 species.
     
  9. nanoboy

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    I am aiming for 175 this year. :) This is fun.
     
  10. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    that's one of the good things about year lists. I used to think they were silly, going chasing around after common birds you've already seen hundreds of times, but I did my first year list in 2006 and realised what a brilliant thing they actually are. The main thing I like about them is that at the start of the year everything is "new" again, and you look forward to seeing starlings and blackbirds. It gives you a new appreciation for those common birds.

    Other good things about year lists are that they make you go out looking for birds instead of just sitting around watching tv or whatever, and that of course is when you do see lifers as well as seeing new places. Obviously the more you're out birding the better you get with IDs etc because you're getting more practice. It is also interesting to compare how long it takes to see certain common species or numbers this year than last year (e.g. last year you might have seen a common mynah first thing, and then this year for some reason you don't see one until day five).

    And it is just plain fun seeing if you can beat last year's total!
     
  11. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    a very quick browse and are the top three mammalers these ones? We need jbnbsn99 to give us a proper list.....

    1. Chlidonias - 60
    2. lintworm - 54
    3. Hix - 48
     
  12. Hix

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

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    I'm actually on 406 - a couple of late ID's from Uganda.

    ......for the first two hours of January 1, then you loathe them again for the rest of the year.

    :p

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  13. Chlidonias

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    the slender-billed weaver and yellow-throated leaflove? Or two more new ones?


    better to be loved for two hours than never at all.....
     
  14. jbnbsn99

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    Why do I have to do it? Harrumph.
     
  15. Hix

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

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    Yup.

    And I've just realised what I have done, silly me. 404 is correct. I shouldn't try maths at 2am.

    :p

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    Yeah and birding is also something I do together with my wife (who missed Latham's Snipe and Spotted Crake in 2013), so it's a great bonding thing for couples to build the relationship yadda yadda. It beats going to the pub with the boys.
     
  17. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    I've just been updating my animal lists on my laptop, and it turns out I listed jungle mynah twice (I had already seen it in Samoa before going to Asia) but I had forgotten to put on purple heron in Malaysia so the year total actually remains the same.

    However I ended the year with 61 mammals not 60. As far as I can make out this is because I added in Moupin pika as a late identification and it screwed the numbers a little.
     
  18. Hix

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    Ignoring species I saw on a daily basis around the house or driving to work etc. (so those sighted specifically on birding trips) the species I saw most frequently in Australia was the Willie Wagtail (on 30 different birding days, out of 55 birding days) and the species I saw the most numbers of was the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, with at least 485. However, this is just an estimate from my records as many species - like Eurasian Coot and Superb Blue wrens - may have been grossly undercounted.

    In Uganda, out of a total of 17 birding days, the species seen most frequently was the Speckled Mousebird (on 13 days), and the greatest numbers belonged to the Western Cattle Egret and the Pied Kingfisher with around 250 birds of each species seen (although I'm sure for the Kingfisher that's a gross underestimate).

    :p

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  19. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    Below is the full 2013 Big Year Mammal List.

    Total number of species is 219.

    I'm not doing the bird list because it would be too time-consuming, nor herptiles simply because they are less recognisable/more obscure than mammal species.



    Short-beaked Echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus

    Common Brushtail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula
    Common Ringtail Possum Pseudocheirus peregrinus
    Eastern Grey Kangaroo Macropus giganteus
    Common Wallaroo Macropus robustus
    Red Kangaroo Macropus rufus
    Red-necked Wallaby Macropus rufogriseus
    Swamp Wallaby Wallabia bicolor
    Black-footed Rock Wallaby Petrogale lateralis
    Koala Phascolarctus cinereus
    Virginian Opossum Didelphis virginiana

    Nine-Banded Armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus

    Eurasian Red Squirrel Sciurus vulgaris
    Eastern Grey Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis
    Arizona Grey Squirrel Sciurus arizonensis
    Eastern Fox Squirrel Sciurus niger
    American Red Squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
    Siberian Chipmunk Tamias sibiricus
    Eastern Chipmunk Tamias striatus
    Red-tailed Chipmunk Tamias ruficaudus
    Yellow Pine Chipmunk Tamias amoenus
    Swinhoe's Striped Squirrel Tamiops swinhoei
    Maritime Striped Squirrel Tamiops maritimus
    Himalayan Striped Squirrel Tamiops macclellandi
    Grey-bellied Squirrel Callosciurus caniceps
    Plantain Squirrel Callosciurus notatus
    Irrawaddy Squirrel Callosciurus pygerythrus
    Pallas' (Red-bellied) Squirrel Callosciurus erythraeus
    Slender Squirrel Sundasciurus tenuis
    Red-legged Sun Squirrel Heliosciurus rufobrachium
    Striped Ground Squirrel Xerus erythropus
    Pere David's Rock Squirrel Sciurotamias davidianus
    European Souslik Spermophilus citellus
    Long-tailed Ground Squirrel Spermophilus undulatus
    Piute Ground Squirrel Spermophilus mollis
    Mexican Ground Squirrel Spermophilus mexicanus
    Columbian Ground Squirrel Spermophilus columbianus
    California Ground Squirrel Otospermophilus beecheyi
    Rock Squirrel Otospermophilus variegatus
    Harris's Antelope Squirrel Ammospermophilus harrisii
    Idaho Ground Squirrel Urocitellus brunneus
    Uinta Ground Squirrel Urocitellus armatus
    Franklin's Ground Squirrel Poliocitellus franklinii
    Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel Callospermophilus lateralis
    Black-tailed Prairie Dog Cynomys ludovicianus
    Groundhog Marmota monax
    Yellow-bellied Marmot Marmota flaviventris
    Alpine marmot Marmota marmota
    Siberian Marmot Marmota sibirica
    Common Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus
    Coypu/Nutria Myocastor coypus
    House Mouse Mus musculus/domesticus
    Long-tailed Wood Mouse Apodemus sylvaticus
    Yellow-necked Wood Mouse Apodemus flavicollis
    Striped Field Mouse Apodemus agrarius
    Harvest Mouse Micromys minutus
    Black Rat Rattus rattus
    Brown Rat Rattus norvegicus
    Cotton Hispid Rat Sigmodon hispidus
    Australian Water Rat Hydromys chrysogaster
    Edible dormouse Glis glis
    Bank Vole Myodes glareolus
    Northern Water Vole Arvicola terrestris/amphibius
    Mongolian Five-toed Jerboa Allactaga sibirica
    Mongolian Three-toed Jerboa Dipus sagitta
    American Beaver Castor canadensis
    North American Porcupine Erethizon dorsatum

    Pallas' Pika Ochotona pallasii
    Black-lipped (Plateau) Pika Ochotona curzoniae
    Gansu Pika Ochotona cansus
    Moupin Pika Ochotona thibetana
    European Brown Hare Lepus europaeus
    Tolai Hare Lepus tolai
    Snowshoe Hare Lepus americanus
    Black-tailed Jack-rabbit Lepus californicus
    European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus
    Eastern Cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus
    Desert Cottontail Sylvilagus audubonii
    Mountain Cottontail Sylvilagus nuttallii

    Grey-headed Flying Fox Pteropus poliocephalus
    Samoan Flying Fox Pteropus samoensis
    Long-tongued Fruit Bat Eonycteris spelaea
    Common Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus
    Nathusius' Pipistrelle Pipistrellus nathusii
    Savi's Pipistrelle Hypsugo (Pipistrellus) savii
    Serotine Bat Eptesicus serotinus
    Big Brown Bat Eptesicus fuscus
    Daubenton's Bat Myotis daubentonii
    Little Brown Bat Myotis lucifugus
    Long-fingered (Cappacini's) Bat Myotis capaccinii
    Geoffrey's Bat Myotis emarginatus
    Greater Mouse-eared Bat Myotis myotis
    Common Noctule Nyctalus noctula
    Greater Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum
    Lesser Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus hipposideros
    Mediterranean Horseshoe Bat Rhinolophus euryale
    Grey Long-eared Bat Plecotus austriacus
    Brown Long-eared Bat Plecotus auritus
    European Free-tailed Bat Tadarida teniotis
    Yellow-winged Bat Lavia frons

    Greater Hedgehog Tenrec Setifer setosus

    European Hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus
    Eurasian Common Shrew Sorex araneus
    Greater White-toothed Shrew Crocidura russula
    Pygmy Shrew Sorex minutus
    Chinese Mole-shrew Anourosorex squamipes
    European Mole Talpa europaea

    Colugo Cynocephalus variegatus

    Greater Tree-shrew Tupaia glis

    Demidoff's Bushbaby Galagoides demidovii
    Rufous Mouse Lemur Microcebus rufus
    Grey Bamboo Lemur Hapalemur griseus
    White fronted Lemur Eulemur albifrons
    Black & White Ruffed Lemur Varecia variegata
    Diademed Sifaka Propithecus diadema
    Indri Indri indri
    Red-tailed Monkey Cercopithecus ascanius
    L'Hoests Monkey Cercopithecus lhoesti
    Vervet Monkey Chlorocebus pygerythrus
    Patas Monkey Erythrocebus patas
    Grey-cheeked Mangabey Lophocebus albigena
    Olive Baboon Papio anubis
    Tibetan Macaque Macaca thibetanus
    Crab-eating Macaque Macaca fascicularis
    Southern Pig-tailed Macaque Macaca nemestrina
    Rhesus Macaque Macaca mulatta
    Eastern Guereza Colobus guereza
    Ugandan Red Colobus Piliocolobus tephrosceles
    Yunnan Snub-nosed Monkey Rhinopithecus bieti
    White-thighed Langur Presbytis siamensis
    Dusky Langur Trachypithecus obscurus
    Silvered Langur Trachypithecus cristatus
    Siamang Symphalangus syndactylus
    Common Chimpanzee Pan troglodytes
    Mountain Gorilla Gorilla beringei

    Przewalski's Horse Equus ferus przewalskii
    Feral Horse Equus caballus
    Plains Zebra Equus quagga

    Southern White Rhino Ceratotherium simum

    Reeves' Muntjac Muntiacus reevesi
    Chinese Water Deer Hydropotes inermis
    European Roe Deer Capreolus capreolus
    European Fallow Deer Dama dama
    White-Tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus
    Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus
    Red Deer Cervus elaphus
    Wapiti Cervus canadensis
    Sika Cervus nippon
    Sambar Cervus unicolor
    Pere David's Deer Elaphus davidianus
    Caribou Rangifer tarandus
    Moose Alces americanus

    Pronghorn Antilocapra americana

    Tibetan Gazelle Procapra picticaudata
    Impala Aepyceros melampus
    Common Duiker Sylvicapra grimmia
    Waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus
    Kob Kobus kob
    Bushbuck Tragelaphus sylvaticus
    Oribi Ourebia ourebi
    Hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus
    Topi Damaliscus lunatus

    Dall Sheep Ovis dalli
    Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis
    Argali Ovis ammon
    Siberian Ibex Capra sibirica
    Chamois Rupicapra rupicapra
    Pyrenean chamois Rupicapra pyrenaica
    Bharal (Blue Sheep) Pseudois nayaur
    Takin Budorcas taxicolor
    Musk-Ox Ovibos moschatus

    African Buffalo Syncerus caffer
    American Bison Bison bison

    Common Hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius

    Wild Pig Sus scrofa
    Common Warthog Phacochoerus africanus

    Giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis

    African Elephant Loxodonta africana

    West Indian Manatee Trichechus manatus

    Brown Bear Ursus arctos
    American Black Bear Ursus americanus
    Dingo Canis dingo
    Coyote Canis latrans
    Red Fox Vulpes vulpes
    Arctic Fox Vulpes lagopus
    Tibetan fox Vulpes ferrilata
    American Grey Fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus
    Raccoon Dog Nyctereutes procyonoides
    Lion Panthera leo
    Leopard Panthera pardus
    Bobcat Lynx rufus
    Feral Cat Felis (silvestris) catus
    Leopard Cat Prionailurus bengalensis
    Spotted Hyaena Crocuta crocuta
    Red Panda Ailurus fulgens
    Least Weasel Mustela nivalis
    Stoat Mustela erminea
    Mountain Weasel Mustela altaica
    American Mink Neovison vison
    Beech Marten Martes foina
    Smooth-coated Otter Lutrogale perspicillata
    Eurasian Badger Meles meles
    Hog Badger Arctonyx collaris
    American Badger Taxidea taxus
    Striped Skunk Mephitis mephitis
    Dwarf Mongoose Helogale parvula
    Ring-tailed Mongoose Galidia elegans
    Brown-tailed Mongoose Salanoia concolor
    Common Raccoon Procyon lotor

    Harbor/Common Seal Phoca vitulina
    California Sea Lion Zalophus californianus
    Australian Fur Seal Arctocephalus pusillus
    New Zealand Fur Seal Arctocephalus forsteri
    Northern Elephant Seal Mirounga angustirostris

    Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops truncatus
    Short-beaked Common Dolphin Delphinus delphis
    Hector’s Dolphin Cephalorhynchus hectori
    Killer Whale/Orca Orcinus orca
    Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae
     
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