ZooChat Big Year 2019

Are the boars in Italy considered a separate taxa?

Either way, I'd imagine they're all considered the same species so subspecific hybrids should count.

~Thylo

 

A beautiful vagrant duck and a nice woodpecker for today:

Birds
175. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
176. Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus

 

I don't know

 

As far as I know, they are not (species level wise that is, not subspecifically). You should be able to count them.

 

From what I know, in Italy there are hybrids between domestic pigs and boars and between autochtonous boars and introduced ones.

 

Recently I went on a one-day boat trip to find sea birds. I really enjoyed it and we had multiple great sightings, such as skuas flying at only ten meters distance, gannets hanging around just above our heads or encountering guillemots resting on the sea surface. Best bird was undoubtely a Northern Fulmar. No porpoises or shearwaters unfortunately, they'll have to wait for the next boat trip!

Birds
240. Great Skua, Stercorarius skua
241. Northern Fulmar, Fulmaris glacialis

 

I've a question I hope you are able to answer.
As you know,in my Bird checklists I signed the Hooded wheatear, but I'm not sure anymore the ID is correct.
I saw the two birds in Nabq Desert, Egypt (near Sharm el Sheikh) in May.
Is this species a resident there?

 

Another day at the coast got me a few more great species!

BIRDS:
653) Eurasian dotterel, Charadrius morinellus
654) Common quail, Coturnix coturnix
656) Richard's pipit, Anthus richardi
657) Little stint, Calidris minuta

(Benelux: 205)

INVERTS:
82) Saltmarsh knot-horn, Ancylosis oblitella
83) Small heath, Coenonympha pamphilus
84) Meadow brown, Maniola jurtina
85) Lesser treble-bar, Aplocera efformata
86) Small copper, Lycaena phlaeas
87) Lunar underwing, Agrochola lunosa
88) Square-spot rustic, Xestia xanthographa
89) Red underwing, Catocala nupta
90) Bright-line brown-eye, Lacanobia oleracea

 

A few updates from Eastern Germany (mammals) and Jihlava zoo (bird)

574. Hawfinch


Mammals

91. Red fox
92. Striped field mouse

I have also uploaded the remaining pictures from Kenya:
Kenya - Wildlife - ZooChat

 

@Chlidonias I found out where I went wrong, in my post about Panama (here) I skipped #32 for some reason. I must have noticed it later and changed it on my personal lists but not here, but 41 is my actual correct count! I put the full correct list in the spoiler below.

Spoiler

1) European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus
2) Brown hare, Lepus europaeus
3) Short-finned pilot whale, Globicephala macrorhynchus
4) Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops trunctatus
5) Siberian chipmunk, Eutamias sibiricus
6) Greater white-toothed shrew, Crocidura russula
7) Western roe deer, Capreolus capreolus
8) Pallas’ squirrel, Callosciurus erythraeus
9) Javan mongoose, Herpestes javanicus
10) Maritime striped squirrel, Tamiops maritimus
11) Berdmore's ground squirrel, Menetes berdmorei
12) Delacour's langur, Trachypithecus delacouri
13) Asian red-cheeked ground squirrel, Dremomys rufigenis
14) Burmese ferret-badger, Melogale personata
15) Red-shanked douc, Pygathrix nemaeus
16) Black giant squirrel, Ratufa bicolor
17) Rhesus macaque, Macaca mulatta
18) Crab-eating macaque, Macaca fascicularis
19) Northern smooth-tailed tree-shrew, Dendrogale murina
20) Southern buff-cheeked gibbon, Nomascus gabriellae
21) Northern tree shrew, Tupaia belangeri
22) Sambar, Rusa unicolor
23) Black-shanked douc, Pygathrix nigripes
24) European red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris
25) Western hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus
26) Common pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pipistrellus
27) Stoat, Mustela erminea
28) Beech marten, Martes foina
29) Red fox, Vulpes vulpes
30) Central American agouti, Dasyprocta punctata
31) Brown-throated three-toed sloth, Bradypus variegatus
32) Variegated squirrel, Sciurus variegatoides
33) White-nosed coati, Nasua narica
34) Red-tailed squirrel, Sciurus granatensis
35) White-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus
36) Hoffmann's two-toed sloth, Choloepus hoffmanni
37) Mantled howler monkey, Alouatta palliata (Coiba Island howler monkey)
38) White-faced capuchin, Cebus capucinus (Panamanian white-faced capuchin)
39) Western dwarf squirrel, Microsciurus mimulus (Boquete dwarf squirrel)
40) House mouse, Mus musculus
41) Harbour seal, Phoca vitulina

 

Birds

So, during these days I thinked a lot about the Hooded wheatear and at the end I've decided to eliminate it from my list.
But it's okay, because I'm almost sure I identified the gull I saw some weeks ago in Apulia, Italy.
It had a red beak and a Michahellis-similar irid, so in conclusion it was a juvenile of...


64. Slender-billed gull - Chroicocephalus genei



Edit:

I'm not anymore sure about the ID, so for now I won't sign this species.

The bird list counts 63 species

 

A couple more minor updates:

Birds
231. American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)

Mammals
33. Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus)

 

Mammals

6. Wild boar - Sus scrofa

Fishes

A species from Red Sea I forgot to sign.

60. Yellowtail tang - Zebrasoma xanthurum

 

Just realized I missed one:

Mammals
34. House Mouse (Mus musculus)

 

-Mammals

6 Species

-Birds

62 Species

-Reptiles

7 Species

-Amphibians

2 Species

-Fishes

60 Species

-Invertebrates


49 Species


This is the actual situation.

 

A few more from a few places in the country! In my previous post I jumped from 654 to 656 for some reason, which I've now fixed - 657 is the correct total.

BIRDS:
657) Yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella

(Benelux: 206)

MAMMALS:
42) Brown rat, Rattus norvegicus

INVERTS:
91) Carnation tortrix, Cacoecimorpha pronubana
92) Common blue, Polyommatus icarus
93) Blue-winged grasshopper, Oedipoda caerulescens
94) Barred grass-veneer, Agriphila inquinatella
95) Migrant hawker, Aeshna mixta
96) Wall brown, Lasiommata megera

 

Seen on a school field trip (to the zoo!) today:

Birds
177. Olive-sided Flycatcher Contopus cooperi