ZooChat Big Year 2019

BIRDS
86. Grey heron, Ardea cinerea
87. Goldcrest, Regulus regulus
88. Long-tailed tit, Aegithalos caudatus
89. Rook, Corvus frugilegus
90. Ferruginous duck, Aythya nyroca
91. Bewick's swan, Cygnus colombianus bewickii
92. Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes
93. White stork, Ciconia ciconia

 

birds
maldivs
1/1
1 house crow Corvus splendens
2 asian koel Eudynamys scolopaceus
3 common sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
4 grey heron Ardea cinerea
1/2
5 striaeted heron Butorides striata
5/1
6 white brested waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus
6/1 ariport malhe maldivs
7 common myna Acridotheres tristis
8 pacific golden plover Pluvialis fulva
while wating for the plane in doha qatar
9 eurasian collared pigon Streptopelia decaocto

mammals
1/1
1indian flying fox Pteropus giganteus
3/1
2 spinner dolphin Stenella longirostris
5/1
3 small flying fox Pteropus hypomelanus
i will uplod fishes tomorow

 

Day out at Slimbridge today to make the most out of the weekend as my next chance for proper birding probably won't be for a fortnight or so. The highlights of a Slimbridge visit tend to be a very reliable range of regular speciality species with one surprise, and so it was again, with the cranes, white-fronted geese, rails and swans joined by a very pleasing Jack Snipe.

Birds:
63. Bewick's Swan - Cygnus columbianus
64. Northern Pintail - Anas acuta
65. Common Shelduck - Tadorna tadorna
66. Common Snipe - Gallinago gallinago
67. Northern Shoveler - Spatula clypeata
68. Common Crane - Grus grus
69. Water Rail - Rallus aquaticus
70. Eurasian Curlew - Numenius arquata
71. European Oystercatcher - Haematopus ostralegus
72. Barnacle Goose - Branta leucopsis
73. Jack Snipe - Limnocryptes minimus
74. European Golden Plover - Pluvialis apricaria
75. Black-tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa
76. Stock Dove - Columba oenas
77. Greater Black-backed Gull - Larus marinus
78. Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
79. Song Thrush - Turdus philomelos
80. Greater White-fronted Goose - Anser albifrons
81. Common Chiffchaff - Phylloscopus collybita

Mammals:
3. Brown Rat - Rattus norvegicus

 

7/1/18
I spent the morning at Brisbane Botanic Gardens (Mt Cootha).

Birds
35. White-breasted Woodswallow Artamus leucorynchus
36. Eurasian Coot Fulica atra
37. Australasian Grebe Tachybaptus novaehollandiae
38. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Cacatua galerita
39. Bush Stone Curlew Burhinus grallarius
40. Little Egret Egretta garzetta
41. Royal Spoonbill Platalea regia

Amphibians
1.Cane Toad Rhinella marina

Invertebrates
31. Blue Skimmer Orthetrum caledonicum
32. Graphic Flutterer Rhyothemis graphiptera
33. Tent Spider Cyrtophora molluccensis

I also have 20+ unknown invertebrate species that I’m awaiting IDs on.

I also found a dead, but completely intact Coastal Carpet Python. Rangers at the botanical gardens informed me that it was most likely poisoned by a Cane Toad, which is becoming an increasing problem for the local wildlife. A real shame.
Dead Coastal Carpet Python (Morelia spilota mcdowelli) | ZooChat

 

Invertebrates
34. Anthrax Bee Fly Anthrax confluensis

 

I'm going to do this right in 2019. My ability to ID birds, bats and rodents is near-zero right now, and this will be a great way to up my skills. I think herps/fish/invertebrates are still a bit too much of a challenge, but I'll do birds and mammals this year!

Also, the prospect of this challenge got me to take my still-not-entirely-sober self straight to a local sacred fig tree at 7:00am on 1/1, where I got most of the species below before trooping home to sleep at 9:00am. Since then, I haven't been able to add too many - but I'm going to try to get out to some of the wetlands and forests on Mumbai's outskirts in the months to come.

Mammals:
1. Three-striped palm squirrel (Funambulus palmarum)
2. Indian flying fox (Pteropus giganteus)

Birds:
1. Barn owl (Tyto alba)
2. Coppersmith barbet (Psilopogon haemacephalus)
3. Rock pigeon (Columba livia)
4. Indian house crow (Corvus splendens)
5. Black kite (Milvus migrans)
6. Indian myna (Acridotheres tristis)
7. Asian koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus)
8. Rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri)
9. Purple-rumped sunbird (Leptocoma zeylonica)

That's it for now. But I should be able to get 2-3 bats, 2-3 rodents and 8-10 birds more between my home and that sacred fig, and then I'll have to start venturing out into the funner places. I've had trouble ID-ing bats and rats so far.

 

A quiet start of the year, it doesn't help I don't have any functional binoculars at the moment.....

1. Jackdaw (Corvus monedula)
2. Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
3. Common gull (Larus canus)
4. Blackbird (Turdus merula)
5. Great tit (Parus major)
6. Blue tit (Cyanistes caerulea)
7. Long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus)
8. Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla)
9. Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
10. Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris)
11. Green woodpecker (Picus viridis)
12. Great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)
13. Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
14. Tufted duck (Aythia fuligula)
15. Eurasian magpie (Pica pica)
16. Carrion crow (Corvus corone)
17. Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius)
18. Little grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
19. Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
20. Common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
21. House sparrow (Passer domesticus)
22. Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus)
23. European robin (Erithacus rubecula)
24. Stock dove (Columba oenas)
25. European wood dove (Columba palumbus)
26. Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
27. Greylag goose (Anser anser)
28. Mute swan (Cygnus olor)
29. Grey heron (Ardea cinerea)
30. Great white heron (Ardea alba)
31. Common pheasant
32. Herring gull (Larus argentatus)
33. Great cormorant (Phalocrocorax carbo)
34. European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

Mammals

1. European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)

 

It would be, but as I don't think it is realistic in the near future I'll buy a new pair tomorrow . Unvoluntarily I made somebody in Ethiopia really happy with my old pair...

 

repilels 1-6 januari
1 commmon house gecko Hemidactylus frenatus
2 oriental garden lizard Calotes versicolor
3 green sea turtle Chelonia mydas
4 hawksbill sea turtle Eretmochelys imbricata
probely will stay at this numer for a wille

 

do you have to write dow the latin name ?

 

fish
1 blacktip reef shark
2 whitetip reef shark
3 tawny nurese shark
4 black-blotched stingray
5 mangrove whipray
6 porcupine stingray
7 feathertail stingray
8 yellowmarign moray
9 white eye morey
10 fringelipe mulet
11 Barnes' silverside
12 houndfish
13 dussumiers habeak
14 bluespotted cornetfish
15 chinese trumpetfish
16splendid soliderfish
17 whitetip soliderfish
18 sabre squirrelfish
19 common lionfish
20 spotfin lion fishs
21 sixspot rock cod
22 redmouth grupre
23 slender gruper
24 peacok rock cod
25 white-spotted grouper
26 four-saddle geouper
27 black saddle coralgrouper
28 yellowmarine lyretail grouper
29 yellowtail anthias
30 orange anthias
31 black jack
32 blufin jack
33 smal spoted darter
34 kashmir snaper
35 two-spot red snaper
36 blackspoted snapper
37 humpback red snaper
38 lunar fusilier
39 yellowback fusilier
40 neon fusilier
41oriental sweetlips
42 harlequin sweetlips
43 orange-fin emperor
44 blackspot emperor
45 orange-stripe empero
46 bigeye bream
47 two-lined monocle bream
48 higfin rudderfish
49 dash-dot goatfish
50 longbarbel goatfish
51 sidespot goat fish
52 spotted butterflyfish
53 citron butterflyfish
54 threadfin butterflyfish
55 collered butterflyfish
56 double-saddled butterflyfish
57 klein butterflyfish
58 racoon butterflyfish
59 meyers butterflyfish
60 oval butterflyfish
61 yellowhede butterflyfish
62 longnose butterflyfish
63 black pyramid butterflyfish
64 indina bannerfish
65 blue-faced angelgfish
66 rengal angelfish
67 threesopt angelfish
68 afrikan pygmy angelfish
69 imperial anglefish
70 blackside hawkfish
71 sergent major
72 black-spot sergeant
73 clarks anemonefish
74 maldive anemonfish
75 grean damsel fish
76 chocolate-dip fish
77 blue-green chomis
78 surge damselfish
79 humbug dascyllus
80 threespot dascyllus
81 neon damselfish
82 napoleon wrasse
83 bird wrasse
84 chekcebord weasse
85 zigzag wrasse
86 cleaner wrasse
87 bicolour clener wrasse
88 blackeye thicklip wrasse
89 blunthead wrasse
90 six barred wrasse
91moon wrasse
92 roundhead parrotfish
93 bridled parrotfish
94 spot tail sandpeerche
95 smith sabertoott bleeny
96biocolour bleeny
97 maginifecent firegoby
98 two tone dartfish
99 longfin batfish
100 forktail rabbitfish
101lined rabbfish
102 stary rabbfish
103 coral rabbitfish
104 morish idol
105 powder blu surgronfish
104 lined surgonfish
105 eye stripe surgeonfish
106 convickt surgeonfish
107 yellowfin surgeonfish
108 rwospot bistletooh sugronfish
109 humpback uinicornfish
110 spotted uincornfish
111 bluespine unicornfish
111 orangespine unicornfish
112 salifin tang
113 brushail ltang
114 scribblled filefish
115 clown triggerfish
116 lagon triggerfish
117 yellowmargin triggerfish
118 orange-striped triggerfish
119 titan triggerfish
120 red-toothed triggerfish
121 indian triggerfish
122 bomerang triggerfish
123 yellow boxfish
123 spotted boxfish
124 black spotted pufferfish
125 starry pufferfish
126 spottted porcupinefish
127 bloched pocupinefish
no latin name couse if i wid newer get don
all of this was in the maldivs

 

Mammal bonus on the drive home from work:

Mammals:
4. Red Fox - Vulpes vulpes

 

7/1
birds
10 eurasian magpie Pica pica
11 common blackbird Turdus merula
12 blue tit Cyanistes caeruleust
13 great tit Parus major
14 mallard Anas platyrhynchos
15 tufted duck Aythya fuligula
16 eurasian coot Fulica atra
17 european robin Erithacus rubecula
18 eurasian jay Garrulus glandarius
19 fieldfare Turdus pilaris

mamals
4 red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris

 

do you have to se it or can you just herer it to count for exsampel some wabllers i newere really se but i here often

 

birds 8/1
20 eurasian tree sparow Passer montanus
21 house sparrow Passer domesticus
22 hawfinch Coccothraustes coccothraustes
23 rock dove Columba livia
24 european greefinch Chloris chloris

 

I would sign up for that surgery in a heartbeat!