Sunday, December 16, 2012

The full Kings County Christmas Bird Count list

The following Kings CBC 2012 list is the master list of 134 species seen on the Dec 15th Kings County Xmas count. For brevity the locations for IRR or Rare are not disclosed. Note "IRR"  means Irregular , species seen less 8x the past 10 years (or seen 4-7 x the last decade) ; Rare is 3 or less the same time period. 

Enjoy your holidays and we wish you a fortuitous New Year from the Brooklyn Birding Community.
Regards
Peter Dorosh
Pres., BBC.

Species NameTotal 
Snow Goose 8
Brant11091
Canada Goose 1408
Mute Swan 216
Wood Duck 3
Gadwall 68
American Wigeon 81
American Black Duck 738
Mallard 716
Northern Shoveler 264
Northern Pintail 1
Green-winged Teal 131
Canvasback 2
Greater Scaup 3592
Lesser Scaup 119
Surf Scoter 3
White-winged Scoter 5
Black Scoter 19
Scoter (sp.) 36
Long-tailed Duck 401
Bufflehead 1312
Common Goldeneye 23
Barrow's Goldeneye 1RARE
Hooded Merganser 46
Red-breasted Merganser 756
Ruddy Duck 150
Ring-necked Pheasant 3
Red-throated Loon 110
Common Loon 76
Pied-billed Grebe 14
Horned Grebe 157
Red-necked Grebe 1
Northern Gannet 135
American White Pelican 1NEW
Double-crested Cormorant 110
Great Cormorant 69
American Bittern 1IRR
Great Blue Heron 19
Black-crowned Night-Heron 3
Northern Harrier 15
Sharp-shinned Hawk 8
Cooper's Hawk 15
Red-shouldered Hawk 2IRR
Red-tailed Hawk 27
Rough-legged Hawk 2IRR
American Kestrel 10
Merlin 5
Peregrine Falcon 5
Clapper Rail 3IRR
American Coot 41
Black-bellied Plover 24
Semipalmated Plover 1RARE
Killdeer 14
American Oystercatcher 1IRR
Greater Yellowlegs 15
Sanderling 50
Purple Sandpiper 12
Dunlin 112
Wilson's Snipe 6RARE
American Woodcock 2
Bonaparte's Gull 139
Ring-billed Gull 4641
Herring Gull 7557
Great Black-backed Gull 266
Razorbill 37IRR
Rock Pigeon 595
Mourning Dove 173
Monk Parakeet 35
Northern Saw-whet Owl 2IRR
Belted Kingfisher 6
Red-bellied Woodpecker 38
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 25
Downy Woodpecker 68
Hairy Woodpecker 10
Northern Flicker 54
Blue Jay 151
American Crow 109
Fish Crow 2IRR
Horned Lark 63
Tree Swallow 113IRR
Cave Swallow 1NEW
Black-capped Chickadee 245
Tufted Titmouse 128
Red-breasted Nuthatch 25
White-breasted Nuthatch 50
Brown Creeper 3
Carolina Wren 22
Winter Wren 4
Golden-crowned Kinglet 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4
Eastern Bluebird 8RARE
Hermit Thrush 7
American Robin 118
Gray Catbird 7
Northern Mockingbird 116
Brown Thrasher 4IRR
European Starling 2114
American Pipit 2
Cedar Waxwing 29
Orange-crowned Warbler 1IRR
Nashville Warbler 1RARE
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1NEW
Yellow-rumped Warbler 223
Palm Warbler 4
Blackpoll Warbler 1RARE
Common Yellowthroat 2IRR
Eastern Towhee 3
American Tree Sparrow 87
Chipping Sparrow 2
Field Sparrow 2
Savannah Sparrow 30
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow 1RARE
Seaside Sparrow 2RARE
Fox Sparrow 35
Song Sparrow 321
Swamp Sparrow 46
White-throated Sparrow 387
White-crowned Sparrow 2IRR
Dark-eyed Junco 143
Lapland Longspur 1IRR
Snow Bunting 16
Northern Cardinal 212
Red-winged Blackbird 18
Eastern Meadowlark 10
Common Grackle 1
Boat-tailed Grackle 69
Brown-headed Cowbird 100
Purple Finch 2IRR
House Finch 165
Red Crossbill 2RARE
White-winged Crossbill 75RARE
Common Redpoll 2RARE
Pine Siskin 33IRR
American Goldfinch 103
House Sparrow 282
Total Species134