Species list October 2025

I promised people a list of species. These were either seen, signed, or both (If someone knows the subspecies of any of these, let me know, as they were most of the time not signed with subspecies status!):

Anseriformes:

African pygmy goose - Nettapus auritus

Cotton pygmy goose - Nettapus coromandelianus

White-faced whistling duck - Dendrocygna viduata

Eurasian teal - Anas crecca

Mandarin duck - Aix galericulata

Common eider - Somateria mollissima

Harlequin duck - Histrionicus histrionicus

Scaly-sided merganser - Mergus squamatus

Red-breasted merganser - Mergus serrator

Smew - Mergellus albellus

Fuegian steamer duck - Tachyeres pteneres

Lake duck - Oxyura vittata

Radjah shelduck - Radjah radjah

Phoenicopteriformes:

Chilean flamingo - Phoenicopterus chilensis

Podicipediformes:

Little grebe - Tachybaptus ruficollis

Great crested grebe - Podiceps cristatus

Red-necked grebe - Podiceps grisegena

Black-necked grebe - Podiceps nigricollis

Ciconiiformes:

White stork - Ciconia ciconia

Pelecaniformes:

Scarlet ibis - Eudocimus ruber

Buff-necked ibis - Theristicus caudatus

Madagascar crested ibis - Lophotibis cristata

Gruiformes:

Sarus crane - Antigone antigone

White-naped crane - Antigone vipio

Blue crane - Grus paradisea

Demoiselle crane - Grus virgo

Black-necked crane - Grus nigricollis

Wattled crane - Grus carunculata

Black crowned crane - Balearica pavonina

Grey crowned crane - Balearica regulorum

Red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis)

Charadriiformes:

Little ringed plover - Charadrius dubius

Northern lapwing - Vanellus vanellus

Eurasian stone-curlew - Burhinus oedicnemus

Ruff - Calidris pugnax

Common redshank - Tringa totanus

Black-winged stilt - Himantopus himantopus

Pied avocet - Recurvirostra avosetta

Pheasant-tailed jacana - Hydrophasianus chirurgus

Rufous-collared pratincole - Glareola nuchalis liberiae

Inca tern - Larosterna inca

Columbiformes:

Nicobar pigeon - Caloenas nicobarica

Casuariiformes:

Southern cassowary - Casuarius casuarius

Coraciiformes:

European bee-eater (Merops apiaster)

Northern carmine bee-eater (Merops nubicus)

Sphenisciformes:

Humboldt penguin - Spheniscus humboldti

Bucerotiformes:

Great hornbill - Buceros bicornis

Rhinoceros hornbill - Buceros rhinoceros

Southern rufous hornbill - Buceros mindanensis

Northern rufous hornbill - Buceros hydrocorax

Luzon hornbill - Penelopides manillae

Knobbed hornbill - Rhyticeros cassidix

Blyth's hornbill - Rhyticeros plicatus

Wreathed hornbill - Rhyticeros undulatus

Writhed hornbill - Rhabdotorrhinus leucocephalus

Piciformes:

Curl-crested araçari - Pteroglossus beauharnaisii

Spot-billed toucanet - Selenidera maculirostris

Toco toucan - Ramphastos toco

Great barbet - Psilopogon virens

Irenidae:

Asian fairy-bluebird - Irena puella

Paradisaeidae:

Greater bird-of-paradise - Paradisaea apoda

Ptilonorhynchidae:

Flame bowerbird - Sericulus ardens

Sturnidae:

Common hill myna - Gracula religiosa

Golden myna - Mino anais

Yellow-faced myna - Mino dumontii

Coleto - Sarcops calvus

Leiothrichidae:

White-crested laughingthrush - Garrulax leucolophus

Red-tailed laughingthrush - Trochalopteron milnei

Cotingidae:

Guianan cock-of-the-rock - Rupicola rupicola

Prunellidae:

Dunnock - Prunella modularis

Artamidae:

Hooded butcherbird - Cracticus cassicus

Corvidae:

Indochinese green magpie - Cissa hypoleuca

Australian magpie - Gymnorhina tibicen

Strigiformes:

Snowy owl - Bubo scandiacus

Western Siberian eagle owl - Bubo bubo sibiricus

Verreaux's eagle-owl - Ketupa lactea

Spectacled owl - Pulsatrix perspicillata

Ural owl - Strix uralensis

Accipitriformes:

Bearded vulture - Gypaetus barbatus

Andean condor - Vultur gryphus

Golden eagle - Aquila chrysaetos

Verreaux's eagle - Aquila verreauxii

Bateleur - Terathopius ecaudatus

Black-chested buzzard-eagle - Geranoaetus melanoleucus

Martial eagle - Polemaetus bellicosus

Crowned hawk-eagle - Stephanoaetus coronatus

White-bellied sea eagle - Icthyophaga leucogaster

Bald eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Steller's sea eagle - Haliaeetus pelagicus

Galliformes:

Palawan peacock-pheasant - Polyplectron napoleonis

Vulturine guinea fowl - Acryllium vulturinum

Otidiformes:

Kori bustard - Ardeotis kori

Musophagiformes:

Great blue turaco (Corythaeola cristata)

Mammalia:

Brushtail possum - Trichosurus vulpecula

Eastern wallaroo - Osphranter robustus robustus

Lowland paca - Cuniculus paca

Red-rumped agouti - Dasyprocta leporina

Patagonian mara - Dolichotis patagonum

Alpine marmot - Marmota marmota

Grant's zebra - Equus quagga boehmi

South American tapir - Tapirus terrestris

Alpine ibex - Capra ibex

Blackbuck - Antilope cervicapra

Lechwe - Kobus leche

Sitatunga - Tragelaphus spekii

Gemsbok - Oryx gazella?

Testudines:

African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata)

Cypriniformes:

Chinese sucker - Myxocyprinus asiaticus