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  1. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    There was a Northern Shoveller reported up the coast at the Otaki Sewage Ponds earlier in the week. I've seen them overseas but not in New Zealand, so today I went up to see if it was still there. It took me three hours to get there (bus then train then bus; and the last bus only runs every two hours so it is a bit inconvenient). Anyway, I found two sleepy shovellers which could have been the Northern when they were hunched up, but when they eventually poked their heads up in the air they weren't.

    I saw a few birds for the year list, as well as a bunch of rabbits (this year I saw a Leopard Seal before I saw a rabbit...)


    BIRDS:
    59) White-faced Heron Ardea novaehollandiae
    60) Australasian Shoveller Anas rhynchotis
    61) New Zealand Dabchick Poliocephalus rufopectus
    62) Black-fronted Dotterel Elseyornis melanops

    MAMMALS:
    5) European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus
     
    Chlidonias, 21 Sep 2019
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  2. boof

    boof Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Alaska list.
    (Listed in alphabetical order.)
    1. Black-capped chickadee
    2. Chestnut-backed chckadee
    3. Sandhill crane
    4. Northwestern crow
    5. American dipper
    6. Bald eagle
    7. Golden eagle
    8. Peregrine falcon. ( already on my Aussie list this year.)
    9. Canada goose
    10. Spruce grouse
    11. Gyrfalcon
    12. Northern Harrier
    13. Darke eyed junco
    14. American kestrel
    15. Belted kingfisher
    16. Ruby-crowned kinglet
    17. Black-billed magpie
    18. Rock pigeon ( already on my Aussie list this year.)
    19. Willow ptarmigan
    20. Comman raven
    21. American robin
    22. Golden-crowned sparrow
    23. Savannah sparrow
    24. White-crowned sparrow
    25. European starling ( already on my Aussie list this year.)
    26. Trumpeter swan
    27. Blue- winged teal
    28. Yellow warbler
    29. Hairy woodpecker
     
    boof, 21 Sep 2019
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  3. MRJ

    MRJ Well-Known Member 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Across the road earlier today.

    312. White-browed scrubwren Sericornis frontalis
     
    MRJ, 21 Sep 2019
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  4. Hix

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

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    Location:
    Sydney
    Birds
    173. Australian Shoveller
    174. Northern Shoveller
    175. Whiskered Tern
    176. Baillon's Crake
    177. Latham's Snipe
    178. Gang-gang Cockatoo

    Mammals
    11. Red Fox

    The Latham's Snipe was a lifer, and brings my global total to 1000.

    :p

    Hix
     
    Hix, 21 Sep 2019
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  5. Najade

    Najade Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    A couple hours at South Hedland Poo Ponds (and Finucane Island Mangroves for local subspecies of Dusky Gerygone and Mangrove Robin):

    Mammals
    52. Little Red Kaluta (Dasykaluta rosamondae)

    Birds
    52. White-backed Swallow (Cheramoeca leucosterna)
     
    Najade, 22 Sep 2019
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  6. Birdlover

    Birdlover Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Rhode Island
    Working on getting caught up...
    Inverts:
    19. Asian Shore Crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus
    20. Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus
    21. Grapevine Epimenis Moth Psychomorpha epimenis
    22. Spring Fishfly Chauliodes rastricornis
    23. Red Milkweed Beetle Tetraopes tetrophthalmus
     
    Birdlover, 22 Sep 2019
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  7. birdsandbats

    birdsandbats Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Unexpected addition seen flying by in the day:

    178. Eastern Whip-Poor-Will Antrostomus vociferus
     
    birdsandbats, 22 Sep 2019
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  8. Vision

    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Antwerp, Belgium
    BIRDS:
    658) Eurasian rock pipit, Anthus petrosus

    (Benelux: 207)
     
    Vision, 23 Sep 2019
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  9. Luca Bronzi

    Luca Bronzi Well-Known Member

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    Birds

    White-eyed gull removed from the list.
    I've seen some gulls in Egypt from far and now I'm not sure about the identification I gave them.
    Unfortunately I think the checklist won't grow in the next months.
     
    Luca Bronzi, 23 Sep 2019
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  10. Birdlover

    Birdlover Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Location:
    Rhode Island
    Birds:
    160. Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
    161. Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius
    162. Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla
    163. Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri
    164. Common Murre Uria aalge
    165. Blue-winged Teal Spatula discors
    166. Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
    Mammals:
    15. American Black Bear Ursus americanus
    16. Moose Alces alces
    Herps:
    12. Mink Frog Lithobates septentrionalis
    Fishes:
    1. Common Carp Cyprinus carpio
     
    Birdlover, 23 Sep 2019
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  11. Birdlover

    Birdlover Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Inverts:
    24. Large Lace-border Scopula limboundata
    25. Spotted Lady Beetle Coleomegilla maculata
    26. Bald-faced Hornet Fly Spilomyia fusca
    27. Green Comma Polygonia faunus
    28. Red-shouldered Pine Borer Stictoleptura canadensis
    29. Pale Green Assassin Bug Zelus luridus
    30. A Velvet Ant Pseudomethoca simillima
    31. Banded Hairstreak Satyrium calanus
    32. Glossy Black Idia Idia lubricalis
    33. Grapevine Beetle Pelidnota punctata
    34. Pelecinid Wasp Pelecinus polyturator
    35. Goldenrod Soldier Beetle Chauliognathus pensylvanicus
    36. Twice-stabbed Stink Bug Cosmopepla lintneriana
    37. Asiatic Garden Beetle Maladera castanea
    38. Oriental Beetle Anomala orientalis
     
    Birdlover, 23 Sep 2019
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  12. boof

    boof Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    25/10/2019
    198. BLACK HONEYEATER*
    It's always good getting a lifer when you aren't even looking for one. I dropped the kids off at school this morning and a male black honeyeater was busy feeding in the grevilleas near the school's front gate. Great start to the day.
     
    boof, 25 Sep 2019
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  13. Vision

    Vision Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    A fun twitch together with @KevinVar got me a fantastic new vagrant bunting! The day got even better when a vagrant little bunting showed up only about 20 meters away, meaning we got views of both vagrant "ticking" buntings in a matter of minutes...

    BIRDS:
    659) Rustic bunting, Emberiza rustica

    (Benelux: 208)

    INVERTS:
    97) Red-veined darter, Sympetrum fonscolombii
     
    Vision, 25 Sep 2019
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  14. Birdlover

    Birdlover Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Another update, a missing mammal and all my odes.
    Mammals:
    17. Human Homo sapiens (should have been my first one)
    Inverts:
    39.Common Whitetail Plathemis lydia
    40.Great Blue Skimmer Libellula vibrans
    41. Ebony Jewelwing Calopteryx maculata
    42. Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis
    43. Eastern Forktail Ischnura verticalis
    44. Fragile Forktail Ischnura posita
    45. Painted Skimmer Libellula semifasciata
    46. Spangled Skimmer Libellula cyanea
    47. White Corporal Ladona exusta
    48. Common Pondhawk Erythemis simpicicollis
    49. Calico Pennant Celithemis elisa
    50. Widow Skimmer Libellula luctuosa
    51. Seaside Dragonlet Erythrodiplax berenice
    52. Halloween Pennant Celithemis eponina
    53. Eastern Amberwing Perithemis tenera
    54. Violet Dancer Argia fumipennis
    55. Twelve-spotted Skimmer Libellula pulchella
    56. Slender Spreadwing Lestes rectangularis
    57. Black Saddlebags tramea lacerata
    58. Canada Darner Aeshna canadensis
    59. Common Green Darner Anax junius
     
    Birdlover, 26 Sep 2019
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  15. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Birds
    This one used to be easier:

    97) Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus

    ~Thylo
     
    ThylacineAlive, 26 Sep 2019
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  16. birdsandbats

    birdsandbats Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I don't know about where you are, but here in northeast Wisconsin Bald Eagle is super easy.
     
    birdsandbats, 26 Sep 2019
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  17. ThylacineAlive

    ThylacineAlive Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    I used to be able to walk across the street and see them, where I live now is more developed and doesn't have good nearby eagle habitat.

    ~Thylo
     
    ThylacineAlive, 26 Sep 2019
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  18. Luca Bronzi

    Luca Bronzi Well-Known Member

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    I think humans aren't countable.
     
    Luca Bronzi, 27 Sep 2019
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  19. WhistlingKite24

    WhistlingKite24 Well-Known Member 10+ year member Premium Member

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    Had a great trip to Australia Zoo yesterday and came away with some lovely wild bird species.

    The wetlands area and kangaroo walk-throughs were particularly abundant with birdlife. Almost every flowering tree or plant had honeyeaters of some sort (the scarlet honeyeaters were abundant). As a waxbill lover, I was particularly thrilled to see wild red-browed finches for the first time!

    Birds
    80. Lewin’s Honeyeater Meliphaga lewinii
    81. White-cheeked Honeyeater Phylidonyris niger
    82. Spectacled Monarch     Symposiachrus trivirgatus
    83. Peaceful Dove Geopelia placida
    84. Grey Goshawk Accipiter novaehollandiae
    85. Red-browed Finch Neochmia temporalis
     
    WhistlingKite24, 28 Sep 2019
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  20. MRJ

    MRJ Well-Known Member 15+ year member Premium Member

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    A stopover in Singapore, For such a small overbuilt island, Singapore continues to offer new species. All observed either at the Botanic Gardens or Pasir Ris Park.

    Mammals

    36. Common tree-shrew Tupaia glis
    37. Smooth-coated otter Lutrogale perspicillata

    Birds

    314. Milky stork Mycteria cinerea
    315. Little tern Sternula albifrons
    316. Stork-billed kingfisher Pelargopsis capensis
    317. Common flameback Dinopium javanense
    318. Swinhoe's white-eye Zosterops simplex
    319. Crimson sunbird Aethopyga siparaja
    320. Brown-throated sunbird Anthreptes malacensis
    321. Plain sunbird Anthreptes simplex
    322. Pacific swallow Hirundo tahitica

    Reptiles

    15. Clouded monitor Varanus bengalensis
     
    MRJ, 28 Sep 2019
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