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2018 Big Year
Topic Started: Dec 27 2017, 08:05 PM (7,789 Views)
Anton
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If there's one thing that brings all of the TRT members together, it's the love of animals. For most members this probably means an interest in zoos and animals in captivity in general, but there are a lot of members interested in observing wild animals as well.

Those that do are probably familiar with the "big year" concept: keeping track of all animals you see within a single calendar year. This can be done within a certain region (which is how the idea and name came to existence, after birders aimed to see as many species within the USA in one single year), but because we have members from all over the world we decided world listing would be more interesting.

Basically, the idea is as follows; from the 1st of January until the 31st of December, everyone who participates keeps track of the animals they see and identify, and lists them all in the order of seeing them. Every time you see a new species, you add onto that list by posting a new post in this topic. At the end of the year you can then easily compile a total list of the animals you saw that year, and keep the memories of seeing those species forever!
Of course, we'll add a little extra competition by bringing pointies into the mix. You'll be rewarded in pointies for every few animals you see, and at the end of each month the person with the most new species will be given a silhouette!

Rules:
  • Number your lists. This way it's always easy to check how many species you've seen.
  • We keep track of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates. If you choose to only list the groups that interest you most, that's fine! A lot of people generally don't bother counting invertebrates.
  • Keep different lists for different classes (except with fish and invertebrates, list all different fish classes together and all different invertebrate classes together for those). Separate the lists for birds, mammals, reptiles etc. from each other.
  • Highlight the species you see for the first time ("lifers") in bold. This makes for a more interesting overview, and makes the listing of species more rewarding as you can draw more attention to the species that are more special to you!
  • We only list species, not subspecies, to prevent taxonomical debates. However, if you see a different subspecies worth mentioning, it's always interesting to include that in your post (without numbering it and putting it on the list). Hybrid animals don't count either.
  • We only list species we've seen directly, not species we've only heard. Similarly to different subspecies, it's always interesting to add the heard-only species to your post without listing them!
  • We only list actual wild species, escaped exotic species don't count unless they've become self-established (like feral pigeons everywhere, ring-necked parakeets in Europe and common starlings in North America).
  • List common names and binominal names of all species you see. Common names differ immensely per bird checklist (Clements, IOC, etc.), so to keep things clear we ask this as a requirement.
  • You are welcome to join in after January, but people starting in another month will not be counted for the first month they enter. For example, if you join in March and immediately have a list of 50+ species when most of these were seen in January and February, it'd be unfair to others that already saw the majority of their species in January, when the competition for "new" species was a lot higher.
  • You do not have to provide photographic evidence, your word is your bond. We trust our members won't lie about seeing things they didn't just to get a higher score.

Prizes:
  • On the first day of every month starting February 1st, I will be giving an overview of how many species of each category people have seen in total. I will also calculate how many species everyone gained compared to the previous month.
  • For every species you gained compared to the previous month, you will receive 5 pointies for use in the pointies store.
  • The person with the most species gained that month will receive a pointies animal.

Extra:
  • The double-posting rule will be less strict here than it is in other areas of the forum (as it's possible that you see something new before someone else has), but keep it sensible. Try not to post list updates twice in the same day if you see or identify another species later, it's easier to just edit your previous post.
  • Have fun!
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Paranoid
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"The madman of the woods"

January 1 to January 14

Birds:
1-Bluish Tanager (Thraupis episcopus)

Fishes:
2-Tetra Drunk nose (H. rhodostomus)
3-Red-eyed Tetra (Moenkhausia Sanctaefilomenae)
4-Golden barb (Barbus schuberti)

I have not seen much, I've been sick x_x
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Danny
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January 15, 2018

REPTILES
3 - Common Garden Skink (Lampropholis guichenoti)

EDIT: I also just added some images of some of the species I've seen :) Check them out by clicking on the animals in my total list with links.

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Edited by Danny, Jan 15 2018, 09:46 AM.
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Anton
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Another bird that I'd never seen in my garden before, until today :D

BIRDS:
72) Mistle thrush, Turdus viscivorus

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Danny
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January 16, 2018

AMPHIBIANS
1 - Southern Brown Tree Frog (Litoria ewingii)

Also, I was given information from my uni's owl expert that has confirmed that it was indeed a southern boobook owl, as juvenile powerful owls do not hoot, barn owls do not hoot and both male and female adult boobooks sometimes do make single hoot sounds...

So I'm squeezing it back in at #55 :D
55 - Southern Boobook (Ninox boobook)

EDIT: Also not new, but I got a shot of an Eastern Grey Kangaroo, among a group of five or so:
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Dwarfbomb
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Dwarfbomb
Jan 14 2018, 03:45 PM
January 1 to January 14

Birds
1. American White ibis (Eudocimus albus)
2. Mourning Doves (Zenaida macroura)
3. Sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis)
4. Muscovy Ducks (significant invasive population in Florida) (Cairina moschata)
5. Rock dove (significant invasive population) (Columba livia)
6. Blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
7. Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)
8. Wood stork (Mycteria americana)
9. Great blue heron (Ardea herodias)
10. Great egret (Ardea alba)
11. Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)


Reptiles
1. Brown anole (significant invasive population) (Anolis sagrei)

Mammals
1. Humans (Significant invasive population) (Homo sapiens)

Invertebrates:
1. Red imported fire ants (Signifcant invasive population) (Solenopsis invicta)


January 16
Birds
12. Common Gallinule (Gallinula chloropus)
13.Green Heron (Butorides virescens)
14. Egyptian Geese (Invasive population in Florida) (Alopochen aegyptiaca)
15. Fishing crow (Corvus ossifragus)
16. Double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
17. Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)

Mammals
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
Edited by Dwarfbomb, Jan 16 2018, 06:39 PM.
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Danny
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Nothing new to add today, except a few pictures :) Just to keep things interesting! Unfortunately everything I saw today had already been seen, with the exception of perhaps the raptor I saw overhead which I currently assume to be a brown goshawk (if such, I have indeed already seen it).

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Australian Reed Warbler

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Brown Goshawk (?)

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Australian Wood Duck / Maned Duck (Female)

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Black-Faced Cuckoo-Shrike

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Brown Thornbill

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Common Myna

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Common Starling and House Sparrows

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Little Corella

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Eastern Rosella

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Dusky Moorhen (Juvenile)

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Pacific Black Duck

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Spotted Dove

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Little Pied Cormorant

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Little Raven

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Magpie-Lark

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Spotted Pardalote

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Tawny Frogmouths (there were three in a tree at Uni, making these the 4th, 5th and 6th frogmouths for the year!)

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Willy Wagtails
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Dwarfbomb
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Dwarfbomb
Jan 16 2018, 06:34 PM
Dwarfbomb
Jan 14 2018, 03:45 PM
January 1 to January 14

Birds
1. American White ibis (Eudocimus albus)
2. Mourning Doves (Zenaida macroura)
3. Sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis)
4. Muscovy Ducks (significant invasive population in Florida) (Cairina moschata)
5. Rock dove (significant invasive population) (Columba livia)
6. Blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata)
7. Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)
8. Wood stork (Mycteria americana)
9. Great blue heron (Ardea herodias)
10. Great egret (Ardea alba)
11. Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)


Reptiles
1. Brown anole (significant invasive population) (Anolis sagrei)

Mammals
1. Humans (Significant invasive population) (Homo sapiens)

Invertebrates:
1. Red imported fire ants (Signifcant invasive population) (Solenopsis invicta)


January 16
Birds
12. Common Gallinule (Gallinula chloropus)
13.Green Heron (Butorides virescens)
14. Egyptian Geese (Invasive population in Florida) (Alopochen aegyptiaca)
15. Fishing crow (Corvus ossifragus)
16. Double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
17. Anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)

Mammals
2. Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
January 17

Reptiles
2. Northern Curly-tailed lizard (significant invasive population) (Leiocephalus carinatus)
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Danny
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January 18, 2017

BIRDS
72 - Grey Shrikethrush (Colluricincla harmonica)

...and once again some pictures!

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Sulphur Crested Cockatoos

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Cockatoo with crest raised and wings out

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Crimson Rosella (juvenile)

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Dusky Moorhen (Juvenile with Adult)

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Grey Fantail

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Grey Shrikethrush

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Laughing Kookaburra

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Little Corella (left) and Long-Billed Corella (right) in the same tree

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Little Corellas struggling in the 40 degree weather

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Long-Billed Corella

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Musk Lorikeet

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White-Throated Treecreeper

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White-Browed Scrubwren

And hoping I'll get a bunch more new species while staying in Venus Bay over the weekend!

Total
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Zoo Tycooner FR
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#Lithopédion

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Jan 10 2018, 07:29 PM
10 - Cattle egret, Bubulcus ibis

Seen at Agadir Stadium. :)
And probably the last bird I will get before birding:

11 - House bunting, Emberiza sahari

These are quite common around here so I'm surprised I hadn't seen one until now. :P
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Fireplume
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Snok Snok Snerson

Birds
70. Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana)
71. American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis)
72. Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo lagopus)
73. Eared Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis)
74. Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)
75. American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
76. Ferruginous Hawk (Buteo regalis)
77. Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
78. Purple Finch (Haemorhous purpureus)
79. Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis)
80. Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)
81. Wilson’s Snipe (Gallinago delicata)
82. Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
83. Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)
84. American Wigeon (Anas americana)

Herptiles
1. Western Pond Turtle (Actinemys marmoratus)

Fish
3. Brown Bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus)

Most recent birding trip brought me alllll the winter visitors! :D
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Zoo Tycooner FR
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#Lithopédion

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Jan 18 2018, 07:24 AM
And probably the last bird I will get before birding:

11 - House bunting, Emberiza sahari

These are quite common around here so I'm surprised I hadn't seen one until now. :P
Aaaand I was wrong:

12 - White wagtail, Motacilla alba subpersonata
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Keniafan
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Last week was good for one new species:

63 - Lesser black-backed gull (Larus fiscus)

Yesterday though was a better day with 15 new species! Went to the sea so it shouldn't come as a surprise, as before I was mainly watching birds in forests and around lakes!

64 - Common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
65 - Common gull (Larus canus)
66 - Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)
67 - Common eider (Somateria mollissima)
68 - Common redshank (Tringa totanus)
69 - Great black-backed gull (Larus marinus)
70 - Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
71 - Ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
72 - Eurasian rock pipit (Anthus petrosus)
73 - Brant goose (Branta bernicla)
74 - Lapland longspur (Calcarius lapponicus)
75 - Northern pintail (Anas acuta)
76 - Red knot (Calidris canutus)
77 - Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
78 - Pied avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)

Today was also a good day, saw 2 more lifers!

79 - Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris)
80 - Northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
81 - Barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis)
82 - Bar-tailed goodwit (Limosa lapponica)
83 - Meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis)
84 - Snow bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)
85 - Horned lark (Eremophila alpestris)

86 - Common ringed plover (Charadrius hiaticula)

MAMMALS
4 - European hare (Lepus europaeus)
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January 20/21
Mammals:
3. Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana)
4. Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)

Squirrels are surprisingly rare around my house lol

All Species Seen
Edited by Xenephos, Jan 21 2018, 11:01 AM.
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caviar
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January 21, 2018

BIRDS

75 - Blue Winged Teal (Spatula discors)
76- White-Tailed Kite (Elanus leucurus)
77 - Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
78 - Brown Bellied Swallow (Notiochelidon murina)
79 - Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata)
80 - Spot Flanked Gallinule (Porphyriops melanops bogotensis) Critically endangered subspecies
81 - Noble Snipe (Gallinago nobilis)
82 - Silvery-Throated Spinetail (Synallaxis subpudica)
83 - Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)
84 - White Sided Flowerpiercer (Diglossa albilatera)
85 - Lesser Violetear (Colibri cyanotus)
86 - Yellow-Hooded Blackbird (Chrysomus icterocephalus bogotensis) Critically endangered subspecies

So today my family and i had dinner in a restaurant in Bogota suburbs, to my surprise there was a wetland just behind the restaurant. And i was very happy to find out it was thriving with life and endangered species, sadly this is a very endangered ecosystem, as the city is growing the wetlands are drained for the construction of buildings and roads. Thus killing the many endangered and endemic specied that live in the city.
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Danny
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January 19-21, 2017

MAMMALS
6 - European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
7 - Short-Beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)

BIRDS
73 - Yellow-Faced Honeyeater (Caligavis chrysops)
74 - Pacific Gull (Larus pacificus)
75 - European Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
76 - Grey Teal (Anas gracilis)
77 - Australian Kestrel (Falco cenchroides)
78 - Black Swan (Cygnus atratus)
79 - Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia)

Total
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