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Discussion in 'Wildlife & Nature Conservation' started by Chlidonias, 31 Dec 2019.

  1. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    The basic rules as always:

    1. Make sure to number your lists.
    2. Keep separate numbered lists for whichever animals you are listing (birds, mammals, herptiles, fish, invertebrates)
    3. Species must be part of an established wild population or be a natural migrant/vagrant/straggler. Exotics don't count unless they are part of an established breeding population in the country.
    4. Animals must be wild.
    5. Subspecies do not count towards your total, only full species.
    6. Don't bother counting Human on your mammal list - everyone is going to see at least one.
    7. Have fun and go out looking for animals.

    *It is helpful if you include scientific names (especially for the mammals because I keep track of them to post a full list at the end of the year).


    Links to the previous years can be found here: ZooChat Big Year - Index
     
  2. Luca Bronzi

    Luca Bronzi Well-Known Member

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    I'm ready!
     
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  3. MRJ

    MRJ Well-Known Member 15+ year member Premium Member

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    OK I will kick it off:

    Outside the backdoor (staying in a farmhouse across the road at the moment, so all introduced):

    1. European blackbird Turdus merula
    2. House sparrow Passer domesticus
    3. Spotted turtle-dove Spilopelia chinensis

    On the 200m walk to the office.

    4. Striated thornbill Acanthiza lineata
    5. Australasian swamphen Porphyrio melanotus

    More later.
     
  4. Yoshistar888

    Yoshistar888 Well-Known Member

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    Outside our Phillip island beach house a few species to start off the year

    1. Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus moluccanus
    2. Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
    3. Common Myna Acridotheres tristis


    Invertebrates

    1. White Cabbage Moth Pieris rapae
     
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  5. animal_expert01

    animal_expert01 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Just a few common birds seen in the Goldcoast Suburbs. There will almost certainly be more later on.

    Birds:
    1. Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala)
    2. White-throated Needletail (Hirundapus caudacutus)
    3. Indian Mynah (Acridotheres tristis)
    4. Australians White Ibis (Threskiornis moluccus)
    5. Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus)
     
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  6. Yoshistar888

    Yoshistar888 Well-Known Member

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    I feel bad for @MRJ that I’ve purposely gone out to get an early lead which I definitely won’t maintain but it ended up yielding an unexpected unidentifiable lifer.
    If you can help ID the bird it is under Aussie Wildlife in Media.

    Phillip and Churchill Island

    4. Red Wattlebird
    5. Black Shouldered Lapwing
    6. Magpie Lark
    7. Silver Gull
    8. Australasian Swamphen
    9. Cape Barren Goose
    10. Australian White Ibis
    11. Little Raven
    12. Black Swan
    13. Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo
    14. Fork Tailed Swift

    Invertebrates

    2. Australasian Hornet

    (it’s not actually a hornet it’s a mud dauber)


    I really really really can’t be bothered doing scientific names.
     
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  7. Yoshistar888

    Yoshistar888 Well-Known Member

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    Successful ID

    15. White Fronted Chat

    First lifer of the year and certainly is not going to be the last.
     
  8. MRJ

    MRJ Well-Known Member 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Sorry, @Yoshistar888, at least you are still ahead in invertebrates. ;)

    Walking around at work. I love my job.

    6. Royal spoonbill Platalea regia
    7. Chestnut teal Anas castanea
    8. Grey teal Anas gracilis
    9. Pacific black duck Anas superciliosa
    10. Cape Barren goose Cereopsis novaehollandiae
    11. Maned duck Chenonetta jubata
    12. Eurasian coot Fulica atra
    13. Dusky moorhen Gallinula tenebrosa
    14. Masked lapwing Vanellus miles
    15. Crested pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes
    16. Common bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera
    17. Rainbow lorikeet Trichoglossus moluccanus
    18. Red wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata
    19. Noisy miner Manorina melanocephala
    20. Weebill Smicrornis brevirostris
    21. Grey shrikethrush Colluricincla harmonica
    22. Grey fantail Rhipidura albiscapa
    23. Magpie-lark Grallina cyanoleuca
    24. Silvereye Zosterops lateralis
    25. Common Myna Acridotheres tristis
    26. European starling Sturnus vulgaris
     
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  9. Junklekitteb

    Junklekitteb Well-Known Member

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    And here I am..
    Birds
    1. Common Pigeon Columba livia
    2. Black Kite Milvus migrans
     
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  10. WhistlingKite24

    WhistlingKite24 Well-Known Member 10+ year member Premium Member

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    I'll give this another go this year. I don't expect to collate a very a big list this year but I get personal enjoyment, satisfaction and new-found appreciation from the species I do find.

    Birds:
    1. Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala
    2. Indian Myna Acridotheres tristis
    3. Pied Butcherbird Cracticus nigrogularis
    4. Spotted Turtle Dove Spilopelia chinensis
    5. Scaly-breasted Lorikeet Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus
    6. Torresian Crow Corvus orru
    7. Australian White Ibis Threskiornis moluccus
    8. Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus moluccanus
    9. Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
    10. Australasian Figbird Sphecotheres vieilloti
    11. Pied Currawong Strepera graculina
    12. Australian Magpie Cracticus tibicen
    13. Feral Pigeon Columba livia
    14. Magpie Lark Grallina cyanoleuca
    15. Crested Pigeon Ocyphaps lophotes
    16. Straw-necked Ibis Threskiornis spinicollis
    17. Brush Turkey Alectura lathami
    18. Pacific Black Duck Anas superciliosa
    19. Intermediate Egret Ardea intermedia
    20. Grey Teal Anas gracilis
    21. Purple Swamphen Porphyrio melanotus
    22. Dusky Moorhen Gallinula tenebrosa
    23. Little Black Cormorant Phalacrocorax sulcirostris
    24. Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae
    25. Superb Fairy Wren Malurus cyaneus
    26. Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles
    27. Galah Eolophus roseicapilla
    28. Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys
    29. Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus

    Herptiles:
    1. Eastern Water Dragon Intellagama lesueurii
    2. Cane Toad Rhinella marina

    Fish:
    1. Long-finned Eel Anguilla reinhardtii

    Invertebrates
    1. Plumbago Blue Leptotes plinius
    2. Housefly Musca domestica
    3. Meadow Argus Junonia villida
    4. Odorous Black Ant Tapinoma sessile
    5. Lemon Migrant Butterfly Catopsilia pomona
    6. Large Grass-yellow Eurema hecabe
    7. Cabbage White Pieris rapae
    8. Blue Skimmer Orthetrum caledonicum
    9. Scarlet Percher Diplacodes haematodes
    10. Red Arrow Rhodothemis lieftincki
    11. Golden-tailed Spiny Ant Polyrhachis ammon
    12. Green-headed Ant Rhytidoponera metallica
    13. Orchard Swallowtail Papilio aegeus
    14. Common Crow Butterfly Euploea core
    15. Dome Tent Spider Cyrtophora moluccensis
    16. European Honeybee Apis mellifera
     
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  11. Junklekitteb

    Junklekitteb Well-Known Member

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    Another two species...
    3. Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
    4. House Crow Corvus splendens
     
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  12. Yoshistar888

    Yoshistar888 Well-Known Member

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    More species

    Birds

    16. Spotted Turtle Dove
    17. Eurasian Blackbird
    18. Straw Necked Ibis
    19. Common Starling
     
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  13. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    For today's New (Big) Year I went to Zealandia. First days of the year are great - everything is new again - but they are also frustrating because all those birds which you see everywhere casually have suddenly become really difficult to find.

    On the day-list, the first seven and the last three of the birds were just around the neighbourhood, and all the rest were in Zealandia.

    For most of December when coming home in the evenings I have been seeing a young rabbit around the corner from my place, grazing on the edge of a bit of parkland. I popped round there just before and (surprisingly!) he was there tonight and became mammal number one for 2020.



    BIRDS:

    1) House Sparrow Passer domesticus
    2) Common Starling Sturnus vulgaris
    3) Feral Pigeon Columba livia
    4) Tui Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae
    5) Southern Black-backed (Kelp) Gull Larus dominicanus
    6) European Blackbird Turdus merula
    7) Red-billed Gull Larus novaehollandiae
    8) Kaka Nestor meridionalis
    9) Little Pied Shag Phalacrocorax melanoleucos
    10) Pied Shag Phalacrocorax varius
    11) New Zealand Scaup Aythya novaeseelandiae
    12) Pied Fantail Rhipidura fuliginosa
    13) Waxeye Zosterops lateralis
    14) Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
    15) Brown Teal Anas chlorotis
    16) Hedge Sparrow (Dunnock) Prunella modularis
    17) Whitehead Mohoua albicilla
    18) Red-crowned Kakariki Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae
    19) Grey Warbler Gerygone igata
    20) New Zealand Robin Petroica australis
    21) Stitchbird Notiomystis cincta
    22) New Zealand Bellbird Anthornis melanura
    23) Welcome Swallow Hirundo neoxena
    24) Californian Quail Callipepla californica
    25) Saddleback Philesturnus carunculatus
    26) New Zealand Pigeon Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae
    27) New Zealand Falcon Falco novaeseelandiae
    28) Paradise Duck Tadorna variegata
    29) European Goldfinch Carduelis carduelis
    30) Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
    31) Spur-winged Plover (Masked Lapwing) Vanellus miles


    MAMMALS:

    1) European Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus
     
  14. boof

    boof Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Happy hunting for 2020 everyone.
    I kicked off 2020 with a terrible first bird. I would have loved a night parrot as No.1 but it wasn't to be. Maybe next year.
    1/1/2020
    1. House sparrow
    2. Apostlebird
    3.Australian Magpie
    4. Australian pelican
    5. Australian raven
    6. Australian reed warbler
    7. Australian white ibis
    8. Australian wood duck
    9. Black kite
    10. Black-fronted dotterel
    11. Black-winged stilt
    12. Blue-faced honeyeater
    13. Brown songlark
    14. Common blackbird
    15. Common myna
    16. Common starling
    17. Crested pigeon
    18. Dusky moorhen
    19. Galah
    20. Glossy ibis
    21. Grey butcherbird
    22. Grey shrike-thrush
    23. Grey teal
    24. Magpie-lark
    25. Masked lapwing
    26. Nankeen Night-heron
    27. Pacific black duck
    28. Peaceful dove
    29. Pied butcherbird
    30. Red-rumped parrot
    31. Red-winged parrot
    32. Rock dove
    33. Straw-necked ibis
    34. Superb parrot
    35. Welcome swallow
    36. Whistling kite
    37. White-breasted woodswallow
    38. White-necked heron
    39. White-winged chough
    40. Willie wagtail
    41. Yellow-throated miner
     
  15. animal_expert01

    animal_expert01 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    For anyone in Victoria there is currently a very unusual duck at the Western Treatment Plant.

    Most people think it’s either a paradise shelduck or a South African shelduck. Either way, a very exciting and rare bird for Australia.
     
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  16. Yoshistar888

    Yoshistar888 Well-Known Member

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    So I’ve got the good news and bad news

    The good news is I’ve picked up some new and some other species.

    The bad news is I didn’t get photos of any of them as my glimpses of them were brief and a whopping 2 species are making me hit the books again I’ll briefly list their features.


    A) Small ground dwelling bird with soft white belly but not a willie wagtail. Small poking tail kind of like a wren but down. Had small bits of black but was predominantly grey. Hopped around.


    B. I only got an aerial view of this bird but it was large and had a flowing tail and was up very high. Was most likely some type of migratory bird.

    C?) I’m not too sure of this one but it was cuckoo and honeyeater like and had a reddish green wing


    Now the definite additions.

    Birds


    20. Australian Raven
    21 New Holland Honeyeater
    22. Little Wattlebird
    23. Galah
    24. Dusky Moorhen
    25. Sooty oystercatcher



    I’m really happy about that oystercatcher while in the car leaving the island as it’s a lifer.

    Bad news: i didn’t see a kookaburra today which leaves me with the unlikely event of seeing one soon on the mainland (unless I get to banuyle flats)

    Unfortunately I didn’t get the chance to go to woolami or Nobbies and still haven’t seen a short tailed shearwater. Also unfortunately I haven’t seen a penguin on the trip but they are fairly easy to see at Stkilda Pier.

    I could tell that the Australian raven was not a little raven was by its call. (I did see the bird)



    I’ve never been to Werribee (Treatment plant I have been to the zoo) before and and trying to however I’m quite busy so I hope the duck will stay there.
     
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  17. amur leopard

    amur leopard Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    And my first few.
    1. Feral pigeon, Columba livia
    2. House sparrow, Passer domesticus
    3. Eurasian blue tit, Cyanistes caeruleus
    4. Great tit, Parus major
    5. Common wood pigeon, Columba palumbus
    6. Eurasian magpie, Pica pica
    7. Common raven, Corvus corax
    8. Carrion crow, Corvus corone
     
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  18. Yoshistar888

    Yoshistar888 Well-Known Member

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    Forget my poor recollection of the first species but I figured it out what it was

    25: White browed Scrubwren
     
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  19. animal_expert01

    animal_expert01 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Birds:
    6. Short Billed Corella (Cacatua sanguinea)
    7. Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla)
    8. Feral Pigeon (Columba livia)
    9. Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes)
    10. Blue-faced Honeyeater (Entomyzon cyanotis)
    11. Masked Plover (Vanellus miles)
    12. Welcome Swallow (Hirundo neoxena)
    13. Torresian Crow (Corvus orru)
    14. Australian Magpie (Cracticus tibicen)

    Mammals:
    1. Grey-headed Flying Fox (Pteropus poliocephalus)
     
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  20. Luca Bronzi

    Luca Bronzi Well-Known Member

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    New Year, New Start!

    A walk in my city brought me some species, including even a lifer!

    Birds

    1. Italian Sparrow - Passer italiae

    2. Yellow-legged Gull - Larus michahellis

    3. Black Redstart - Phoenicorus ochrusos

    4. Black-headed Gull - Chroicocephalus ridibundus

    5. Gray Wagtail - Motacilla cinerea

    6. Eurasian Blackbird - Turdus merula

    I won't count feral pigeons in my checklist, but only genuine Rock Doves.
     
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