1000 Species Challenge Homestretch--Day 28 Update

Northern Brown Snake

A big day, starting early driving down to Philadelphia to take my Rosemont College students on their first birding expedition to the John Heinz NWR.  We met up with a small group and walked the dike trail out into the refuge, and picked up a lot of new birds for the month including Bald Eagle, Peregrine Falcon, and Marsh Wren.  I also picked up four reptiles--including a Northern Brown Snake, and several turtles.


On my way home I stopped off at Todd Marcus Birds Exotic in Delran, NJ and picked up a couple dozen exotic birds, mostly parrots.

The last species of the day reflects the difficulty of identifying many species in the food trade--wild caught Chinese Crawfish.  One can only hope these are accurately labeled, though I can only guess that they are native Asian crawfish, which would be from the family Cambaridae.  I don't have any other crawfish on my list, so it is a new species for the month even if it is misidentified.  But it sure would be nice to have species labels on seafood--and hats off to those companies that I found this month that do label their packaging.  Lets hope they are accurately labeled!



Cumulative Species Total: 974

New Species
African Grey Parrot                            Psittacus erithacus

American Black Duck	Anas rubripes
Bald Eagle	Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Black-capped Parakeet	Pyrrhura rupicola
Blue-and-yellow Macaw	Ara ararauna
Blue-fronted Amazon	Amazona aestiva
Blue-headed Parrot	Pionus menstruus
Blue-winged Teal	Anas discors
Brown-headed Parrot	Poicephalus cryptoxanthus
Canary	Serinus canaria
Chestnut-fronted Macaw	Ara severus
Cockatiel	Nymphicus hollandicus
Curl-crested Aracari	Pteroglossus beauharnaesii
Eclectus Parrot	Eclectus roratus
Galah	Eolophus roseicapilla
Gouldian Finch	Erythrura gouldiae
Greater Yellowlegs	Tringa melanoleuca
Green Singing Finch	Serinus mozambicus
Green-backed Twinspot	Mandingoa nitidula
Green-cheeked Parrot	Ara severus
Green-winged Macaw	Ara chloropterus
Green-winged Teal	Anas carolinensis
Hyacinth Macaw	Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus
Lesser Yellowlegs	Tringa flavipes
Little Blue Heron	Egretta caerulea
Marsh Wren	Cistothorus palustris
Northern Harrier	Circus cyaneus
Northern Rough-winged Swallow	Stelgidopteryx serripennis
Pacific Parrotlet	Forpus coelestis
Palm Cockatoo	Probosciger aterrimus
Peach-faced Lovebird	Agapornis roseicollis
Peregrine Falcon	Falco peregrinus
Pied-billed Grebe	Podilymbus podiceps
Pin-tailed Wydah	Vidua macroura
Red-rumped Parrot	Psephotus haematonotus
Red-winged Blackbird	Agelaius phoeniceus
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	Regulus calendula
Salmon-crested Cockatoo	Cacatua moluccensis
Scarlet Macaw	Ara macao
Snowy Egret	Egretta thula
Star Finch	Neochmia ruficauda
White Cockatoo	Cacatua alba
White-bellied Parrot	Pionites leucogaster
White-crowned Parrot	Pionus senilis
Yellow-crowned Amazon	Amazona ochrocephala
Boxelder	Acer negundo
Common Mugwart	Artemesia vulgaris
Creeping Primrose Willow	Ludwigia repens
Goldenrod	Solidago altissima
Pickerel Weed	Pontederia sp.
Purple Loosestrife	Lythrum salicaria
Spatterdock	Nuphar advena
Swamp Milkweed	Asclepias incarnata
Tickseed Sunflower	Bidens aristoa
Wild Rice	Zizania sp.
Northern Brown Snake	Storeria dekayi
Northern Red-bellied Turtle	Pseudemys rubriventris
Red-eared Slider	Trachemys scripta
Snapping Turtle	Chelydra serpentina

Chinese Crawfish

Cambaridae sp.