Thursday, December 21, 2023

Report Kings County Christmas Bird count December 16th

 Thanks to compiler Mike Yuan

Happy Holidays!

Total 136 species

IRR=Irregular 7x last ten years

RARE= 3X last ten years

cw=count week,3 days before and after count day Dec 16th

Brooklyn Xmas Count Annual Report: 2023

Total 

Species Seen

Snow Goose 1801

Brant 11606

Cackling Goose 4 RARE

Canada Goose 4025

Mute Swan 51

Wood Duck 9

Northern Shoveler 305

Gadwall 169

American Wigeon 188

Mallard 405

American Black Duck 766

Northern Pintail 16

Green-winged Teal 110

Redhead 5 RARE

Ring-necked Duck 28 IRR

Greater Scaup 1089

Lesser Scaup 288

Common Eider 15 IRR

Surf Scoter 70

White-winged Scoter 28

Black Scoter 1229

Scoter (sp.) 714

Long-tailed Duck 371

Bufflehead 1863

Common Goldeneye 33

Hooded Merganser 61

Red-breasted Merganser 1390

Ruddy Duck 1088

Wild Turkey 1 RARE

Ring-necked Pheasant 1 IRR

Pied-billed Grebe 7

Horned Grebe 137

Rock Pigeon 1971

Mourning Dove 490

Clapper Rail 2 IRR

Virginia Rail 2 RARE

American Coot 32

American Oystercatcher 35 IRR

Black-bellied Plover 17

Killdeer 8

Ruddy Turnstone 15 IRR

Sanderling 50

Dunlin 121

Purple Sandpiper 33

Long-billed Dowitcher 5 RARE

American Woodcock 6

  Total 

Species Seen

Wilson's Snipe cw IRR

Lesser Yellowlegs 1 RARE

Greater Yellowlegs 4

Razorbill 9 RARE

Bonaparte's Gull 911 IRR

Laughing Gull 1 IRR

Ring-billed Gull 4658

Herring Gull 3263

Iceland Gull cw IRR

Lesser Black-backed Gull 3 IRR

Great Black-backed Gull 352

Red-throated Loon 299

Common Loon 194

Northern Gannet 345

Great Cormorant 32

Double-crested Cormorant 281

Great Blue Heron 40

Great Egret 1 RARE

Black-crowned Night-Heron 10 IRR

Turkey Vulture 4 IRR

Bald Eagle 5 IRR

Northern Harrier 15

Sharp-shinned Hawk 9

Cooper's Hawk 31

Red-shouldered Hawk 2 IRR

Red-tailed Hawk 34

Barn Owl 2 IRR

Great Horned Owl 2

Short-eared Owl 1 RARE

Belted Kingfisher 9

Red-bellied Woodpecker 48

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 23

Downy Woodpecker 62

Hairy Woodpecker 2

Northern Flicker 67

American Kestrel 21

Merlin 5

Peregrine Falcon 18

Monk Parakeet 49

Ash-throated Flycatcher 3 RARE

Blue Jay 96

American Crow 165

Fish Crow 683

Common Raven 11

Horned Lark 71

Black-capped Chickadee 13

Tufted Titmouse cw

Tree Swallow 22 IRR

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 27

  Total 

Species Seen

Golden-crowned Kinglet 32

Cedar Waxwing 169

Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 IRR

White-breasted Nuthatch 2

Brown Creeper 5

Carolina Wren 81

House Wren 1 RARE

Winter Wren 15

Marsh Wren 1 IRR

Gray Catbird 43

Brown Thrasher 2 IRR

Northern Mockingbird 188

European Starling 1676

Hermit Thrush 21

American Robin 508

House Sparrow 1162

American Pipit 9

House Finch 248

Purple Finch 1 IRR

European Goldfinch 2 RARE

Pine Siskin 1 IRR

American Goldfinch 138

Snow Bunting 41

Lark Sparrow 1 RARE

Chipping Sparrow 12

Field Sparrow 4

Fox Sparrow 12

American Tree Sparrow 14

Dark-eyed Junco 107

White-throated Sparrow 736

Saltmarsh Sparrow cw RARE

Savannah Sparrow 29

Song Sparrow 294

Lincoln's Sparrow cw RARE

Swamp Sparrow 61

Eastern Towhee 7

Eastern Meadowlark 14 IRR

Red-winged Blackbird 93

Brown-headed Cowbird cw

Common Grackle 11

Boat-tailed Grackle 932 IRR

Orange-crowned Warbler 16

Common Yellowthroat 5 IRR

Palm Warbler 3

Pine Warbler 1 IRR

Yellow-rumped Warbler 678

Black-throated Green Warbler 1 RARE

Northern Cardinal 209

  Total 

Species Seen

Species Count: 136

Number Seen: 49,437

NOTE:  "cw" = Count Week only