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weather · May 18, 2004

I was just wondering if anyone has a life list of mammals, insects, etc like birders often keep? I've been thinking of starting one on butterflies. Ohio has a checklist of birds that now stands at 412, but only around 110 butterflies. I imagine this to be more manageable. Also a shorter season...

Mike

Nightranger · May 18, 2004

weather said:
I was just wondering if anyone has a life list of mammals, insects, etc like birders often keep? I've been thinking of starting one on butterflies. Ohio has a checklist of birds that now stands at 412, but only around 110 butterflies. I imagine this to be more manageable. Also a shorter season...

Mike

I keep a mammal list although I am no more diligent about chasing species than I am for my bird list. For interest my list (as far as I can remember) is:

Common or harbour porpoise
Red deer
Roe deer
Fallow deer
Muntjac
House mouse
Brown rat
Black rat
Short-tailed field vole
Bank vole
Water vole
Field mouse
Red fox
European otter
Pipistrelle bat
Long-eared bat
Noctule bat
Weasel
Stoat (including an ermine seen in Scotland)
Rabbit
Brown hare
Grey squirrel
Red squirrel

weather · May 18, 2004

Names are so different across the pond. What's a Muntjac?

Mike

marek_walford · May 18, 2004

weather said:
Names are so different across the pond. What's a Muntjac?

Mike

It's a species of deer (very small). Don't think you get them in the USA.

lassa8 · May 18, 2004

I've kept track of all the fish species I've seen while snorkeling in oceans/clear rivers

pete woodall · May 21, 2004

Hi Mike and others

Yes, as a compulsive naturalist and "collector" I do keep life lists of animals and plants, in addition to those on birds.

I use an Australian software program "BirdInfo" which allows me to record Australian vertebrates (but not fish) and also butterflies in the latest edition.

For those in other lands, I have my records on a spreadsheet MS Excel and, more recently, on a database, MS Access.

I don't have numbers to hand, but I do know that the totals for mammals, reptiles, etc are much lower than those for birds but it is fun to keep tabs on them and to try to identify them to species.

It annoys me that so many locals just call it a "roo" or "wallaby" without trying to go for species. It is not that hard and we know have an excellent field guide in Menkhorst and Knight.

Cheers

Peter

Karl J · May 21, 2004

Hi there

Sort of ...... I don't actually keep an up to date list of them all but I'm fairly diligent with written nature records of various sorts - birds, butterflies, dragonflies, wildflowers and just about anything else that happens to interest me on any particular day. Occasionally i'll update one or all of them into a proper list.

For a bit about Muntjac deer - http://www.deer-uk.com/muntjac_deer.htm

Charles Harper · May 21, 2004

I keep an (uncounted) lifelist of mammals. There is a convenient (but in all likelihood outdated) world checklist in Desmond Morris' The Mammals, but it doesn't list all the species in large groups like the Chiroptera.

Zheljko · May 22, 2004

Let's see, my mammal list:
-Eastern Hedgehog (I saw several color morphs)
-One Neomys shrew (it seems that we have two species, well, I don't know which one)
*One Crocidura shrew (found dead by the side of forest path, skull crushed by some predator. The species couldn't be determined due to damage to the skull)
-Common Mole
*there were many bats but I never held them in my hand or observed them on the roost so I don't know the species. The most abundant species in the area seems to be Noctule and Kuhl's Pipistrelle.
-Red Squirrel (ours are chocolate-brown)
-Common Vole
-House Mouse
-Brown Rat
-Black Rat (or at least it seemed like one)
-Wood Mouse
-Brown Hare
*one escapee of Rabbit, with wild color. We don't have wild rabbits here.
Weasel
Feral Dog
Feral Cat
*one Wild Cat (a roadkill)
Roe Deer

there are many more mammals here but they are usually seen in more remote regions.

snowyowl · May 30, 2004

I've been working on a mammal list using Birder's Diary. I've got 33 species on it so far but still need to input rats, mice and bats. Obviously all the species are in the wild, no zoo animals allowed.

RockyRacoon · May 30, 2004

I keep lists on all vertebrates

harry eales · May 30, 2004

Jake Apps said:
I keep lists on all vertebrates

That's a man witrh some sense, especially when you consider that 95% of all the life forms on this planet (excluding virus's and bacteria) are in fact insects.
Harry
(Unfortunately I'm addicted to insects).

weather · May 31, 2004

harry eales said:
That's a man witrh some sense, especially when you consider that 95% of all the life forms on this planet (excluding virus's and bacteria) are in fact insects.
Harry
(Unfortunately I'm addicted to insects).

Do you really keep a life list of insects?

Mike

Bluetail · May 31, 2004

I've never kept a list of the animals I've seen, but I've just compiled one. Considering they're only an incidental interest, I'm amazed at the variety I've seen: I had no idea.

Britain
Red Fox Vulpes vulpes
Scottish Wild Cat
Badger
Mink
Stoat
Weasel
Common Seal
Grey Seal
Fallow Deer
Red Deer
Sika Deer
Roe Deer
Chinese Water Deer
Mole
Hedgehog
Common Shrew
Pygmy Shrew
Brown Rat
House Mouse
Wood Mouse
Bank Vole
Red Squirrel Sciurus vulgaris
Grey Squirrel
Brown Hare
Mountain Hare
Rabbit
Common Frog
Common Toad
Common Newt
Adder
Grass Snake
Common Lizard
Slow Worm
Common Dolphin
Bottle-nosed Dolphin

North America
Racoon
Red Fox Vulpes fulva (but is it really distinct from Vulpes vulpes?)
Woodchuck
Eastern Chipmunk
Red Squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
Eastern Cottontail
Muskrat
Whitetail Deer
Moose

Also: any offers on this chappie which I photographed in Puget Sound (at the Ilahee State Park WA) in Oct '98? Sorry about the quality - I only had a bog standard 35mm SLR.

harry eales · May 31, 2004

weather said:
Do you really keep a life list of insects?

Mike

Hi Mike,
As I stated 95% of all wildlife forms are insects. It would be impossible to keep a list of everything I have seen.

I specialise in British Butterflies, Moths, Bumblebees, Lacewings, Larger Shieldbugs (stinkbugs) that occur in the counties of Northumberland and Durham in England. That's a total area of some 3,000 square miles. I keep computer spreadsheets for these groups having transferred all my records from field notebooks onto my computer. I am now in my early 60's and have recorded for 45 years. In retrospect I think I should have confined my interest to just one county. There's more than enough work there to last a man several lifetimes.

I do have to identify insects of other Orders at times as my work as an Entomological Consultant calls for it, but many of these are difficult groups and occasionally I send specimens to other specialists for verification. It's not well paid work, but it gets me out and about in the countryside nearly every day of the year, and no naturalist could ask for more than that.

Harry.

Michael Frankis · May 31, 2004

Hi Jason,

Bluetail said:
.....
Red Fox Vulpes fulva (but is it really distinct from Vulpes vulpes?)

All the references I've seen treat them as the same species

Also: any offers on this chappie which I photographed in Puget Sound (at the Ilahee State Park WA) in Oct '98? Sorry about the quality - I only had a bog standard 35mm SLR.

Either a Steller's Sea-lion (Eumetopias jubatus) or a California Sea-lion (Zalophus californianus, not sure if they get so far north though)

Michael

Bluetail · May 31, 2004

Thanks, Michael.

david2004 · Sep 3, 2004

wasnt muntjac an escape/introduced species?

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