ZooChat Big Year 2019

Mammals
1. Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus)
2. House Mouse (Mus musculus)
3. Grey Headed Flying Fox (Pteropus poliocephalus)
4. Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)

 

Reptiles
1. Eastern Water Dragon (Intellagama lesueurii)
2. Blue Tongued Skink (Tiliqua)
3. Common Garden Skink (Lampropholis guichenoti)
4. Common House Gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus)
5. Elegant Snake Eyed Skink (Cryptoblepharus pulcher)
6. Short Necked Turtle (Emydura macquarii)
7. Lace Moniter (Varanus varius)

 

2/1/2019
127. yellow throated scrubwren. ( I overlooked this when I was adding my birds from the 2nd.)

 

26 - Goldcrest (Regulus regulus)

 

Fish
1. Bream (Abramis brama)
2. Whiting (Merlangius merlangus)
3. Bartail Flathead (Platycephalus indicus)
4. Freshwater Mullet (Pseudomyxus capensis)
5. Flathead Grey Mullet (Mugil cephalus)
6. Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)
7. Crimson Spotted Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia duboulayi)
8. Australian Smelt (Retropinna semoni)
9. Pacific Blue Eyes (Pseudomugil signifer)
10. Green Swordtail (Xiphophorous hellerii)
11. Platy (Xiphophorus maculatus)
12. Empire Gudgeon (Hypseleotris compressa)

 

Reptiles
8. Saw Shelled Turtle (Myuchelys latisternum)
9. Delicate Garden Skink (Lampropholis delicata)

 

Amphibians
1. Kane Toad (Rhinella marina)
2. Whistling Tree Frog (Litoria verreauxii)

 

Finally, I had a big day (for city standards) - went out to the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, which is within Mumbai's city limits, with some more seasoned birders this morning. Saw a decent number of species, including some winter migrants from Europe/Central Asia and one fantastic raptor.

Mammals:
3. Bonnet macaque (Macaca radiata)
4. Southern Plains grey langur (Semnopithecus dussumieri)
5. Chital (Axis axis)

Birds:
16. Spotted dove (Spilopelia chinensis)
17. Pale-billed flowerpecker (Dicaeum erythrorhynchos)
18. Asian palm swift (Cypsiurus balasiensis)
19. Rosy starling (Pastor roseus)
20. Plum-headed parakeet (Psittacula cyanocephala)
21. Golden-fronted leafbird (Chloropsis aurifrons)
22. Greenish warbler (Phylloscopus trochiloides)
23. Purple sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus)
24. Ashy drongo (Dicrurus leucophaeus)
25. Long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach)
26. Oriental magpie-robin (Copsychus saularis)
27. Indian silverbill (Euodice malabarica)
28. Green bee-eater (Merops orientalis)
29. Yellow-throated sparrow (Gymnoris xanthocollis)
30. White-bellied sea eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster) - an excellent #30!!!!!
31. Racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus)
32. Greater coucal (Centropus sinensis)
33. Little cormorant (Microcarbo niger)
34. Little egret (Egretta garzetta)

That sea eagle was a real nice surprise. It was almost the end of our session, and I saw what I thought was one of our many black kites soaring at a distance. But then I noticed the white face and thought it might be a Brahminy kite. Shouted out to the others and one of them gasped just seconds before it came close enough for us to see that spectacular white-and-black coloration. It is a highly erratic species in the Mumbai area... fortunately, I got a picture.

 

1/18/19
66. Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
I also saw a melanistic Eastern Gray Squirrel though I have it as a species already this year.

 

Woohoo making big waves this year!

Birds
5) Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
6) Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
7) House Sparrow Passer domesticus

~Thylo

 

wnet on a ful they birding trip today. it was great.
46 golden eagle
47 rough-legged buzzerd
48 northern goshawk
49 great grey shrike
50 grey partridge
51 ring necked pheasant
52 common raven
53 rook
54 grey wagtail
55 norther hawk owl
i got two new mammals both was a suprise but the second one was relly
7 moose Alces alces

8 eurasian beaver ​

Castor fiber i got only a few meter from it wile it was eating sticks​

 

Also known as Avengers tower!

 

40) European Robin

 

One of the weirdest sighting I've ever had (and also one of the most enjoyable) coupled with a bunch of cool birds meant that today was amazing:

During the course of the week (Agadir, Issen)
INVERTEBRATES:
2 - Beet webworm moth, Spoladea recurvalis
3 - Small white, Pieris rapae
4 - Clouded yellow, Colias croceus

19/01/2019
BIRDS:
33 - Mediterranean gull, Ichthyaetus melanocephalus
34 - Sandwich tern, Thalasseus sandvicensis
35 - Black-headed gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus
36 - Eurasian oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus
37 - Black-winged stilt, Himantopus himantopus
38 - Ruff, Philomachus pugnax
39 - Common sandpiper, Actitis hypoleucos
40 - Zitting cisticola, Cisticola juncidis
41 - Lesser kestrel, Falco naumanni
42 - Osprey, Pandion haliaetus
43 - Black-tailed godwit, Limosa limosa
44 - Greater flamingo, Phoenicopterus roseus
45 - Common shelduck, Tadorna tadorna
46 - Pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta
47 - Grey heron, Ardea cinerea

MAMMALS:
1 - Cuvier's gazelle, Gazella cuvieri

 

Reptiles
10. Dtella Gecko (Gehyra dubia)

 

A nice addition!

Birds:
85. Yellow-billed Magpie (Pica nuttalli)

 

FISH
4 - Short-finned Eel (Anguilla australis)

 

BIRDS
83. Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla)
84. Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)
85. Eurasian Nuthatch (Sitta europaea)
86. Northern Raven (Corvus corax)
87. Common Firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla)

MAMMALS
2. Eurasian Red Squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris)

INVERTS
4. Pale Brindled Beauty (Phigalia pilosaria)

 

A few more from this weekend, mostly from today, spent working my way from Rother Valley Country Park down to Attenborough in Nottingham via a couple of twitchable novelties on the way. Slightly tactical as I had the option of going north from Rother Valley or south - probably would have added a similar number of species on the northern option but there would have been fewer rarities, so I was playing the long game. In a classic example of the perversity of wildlife, I'd been struggling to find Goldcrest, normally common in these parts, all month, with no joy - until, that is, I'm peering into a bush trying to find a (very much rarer) Firecrest, when suddenly the local Goldcrest is front-and centre...

(fortunately the Firecrest soon showed itself as well!)

Birds:
83. Willow Tit - Poecile montanus
84. Common Kingfisher - Alcedo atthis
85. Smew - Mergellus albellus
86. Pink-footed Goose - Anser brachyrhynchus
87. Hooded Crow - Corvus cornix
88. Bohemian Waxwing - Bombycilla garrulus
89. Goldcrest - Regulus regulus
90. Common Firecrest - Regulus ignicapilla
91. Greater Scaup - Aythya marila

Fishes:
2. Northern Pike - Esox lucius

 

i shod note that i herd parrot crosbills asveel witch is a lifer for me but sens you dont include herd only here i will not get on the list. but i will count it on my personal list