Fwd: Brooklyn Bird Club Scavenger Hunt Results

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From: Michael Yuan <mjyuan@gmail.com>
Date: Monday, October 16, 2023
Subject: Brooklyn Bird Club Scavenger Hunt Results
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Thank you all for being part of the 1st ever Brooklyn Bird Club Bird Scavenger Hunt! What a terrific day! Hope you had as much doing it as I had planning it.
I appreciate everyone's flexibility for doing the hunt on Sunday instead of on a wet Saturday. Great to see some of you out there at Green-Wood, and great to hear teams scoured Prospect Park and Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge too.
I'm sure you want to know about the results, so I'll get to it.
Ten teams pursued 75 goals, which provided a potential 1900+ points per team.
Congratulations to Fuggedabirdit (Amanda Bielskas, Tara Craig, Heidi Ng, Michael Silber) for topping the table! They found 61, or 90% of the goals, for a total of 1,354 points. Considering all the orange and blue-colored birds really paid off! They win their choice of t-shirt from Bird Collective. Nice job!
2nd place goes to Count Gracula (Valerie Masten, Jeremy Nader, Radio Osickova, Crystal Thiele, Michele Truong), who completed 56 goals, totaling 1,088 points. Way to find the lifers and county birds! Enjoy your choice of Brooklyn Bird Club apparel!
Despite a valiant effort (Nice Connecticut Warbler find!) from I Know What You Did Last Summer Tanager (Erin Chapman, Emily Edmonds-Langham, Jim McNamee, Paul Sweet), they finished in 3rd, just 27 points short of Count Gracula, with 1,061 points from 54 goals completed. If only news about the Prospect Park Purple Gallinule came out in the morning!
Thanks to all for celebrating World Migratory Bird Day (just one day late) in style! Thank you to Tom S and Jer Thorp for your input and feedback on the goals, and thanks to Tina, Angie, and Janet for coordinating and donating prizes from Bird Collective and the Brooklyn Bird Club shop. 
Hope to see you in the hunt next year!
-Mike
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Goals:
Goal #GoalPoints
1Watch a bird chasing after food from a perch7
2Watch a bird feeding on main trunk of tree4
3See a bird missing some of its tail18
4See a bird tapping on a tree7
5See a bird feeding on the ground 6
6Get pooped on (by a bird)100
7Observe a bird in or interacting with a puddle16
8Observe a bird preening itself18
9Observe a bird with mud on its legs or bill16
10Observe a bird standing on one leg20
11See a perched accipiter5
12See a soaring buteo11
13See a soaring falco13
14Watch a bird carrying something8
15Watch a bird taking a bath22
16Watch birds mob a predator36
17See 4 or more species in a single tree28
18A non-birder asks you about what you're seeing30
19A person asks you if you've "seen the eagles"55
20Show a non-birder a bird and tell them a fact about it32
21Observe birds from a parking lot15
22Encounter another birding group or scavenger hunt team12
23Find a bird nest (empty ok)8
24See a bird perched or standing on a man-made object7
25See a bird whose name is metioned in a song32
26See a bird through a window15
27See a bird name in writing (not in a book or on a device)14
28See a bird with orange on it (earn points per species)4
29See a bird with blue on it (earn points per species)3
30See a bird with green on it (earn points per species)2
31See a bird with yellow on it (earn points per species)1
32Encounter a flock of the same species, totaling 10 or more13
33Encounter a flock of the same species, totaling 200 or more59
34Encounter a mixed flock of 4 or more species30
35See over 40 species on the day15
36See over 80 species on the day35
37See 1 exotic, non-native species not yet considered established in New York27
38See or hear 4 duck species40
39See 1 rail species30
40See or hear 6 shorebird species45
41See or hear 5 gull species50
42See 3 tern species25
43See 3 heron/egret species20
44See/hear 3 corvid species18
45See both kinglet species15
46See/hear 3 mimid species22
47See 3 catharus thrushes25
48See 5 emberizidae species27
49See or hear 5 setophaga warbler species40
50See a non-setophaga warbler12
51Hear a flying bird calling and identify it to species3
52Find a feather6
53Identify a feather15
54Identify a bird by song/call4
55Identify the bird's song or call that a mockingbird is mimicking11
56See a banded bird and read the code35
57Hear a bird named for what it does (earn points per species)9
58See a bird named for what it sounds like (earn points per species)8
59See a female duck7
60See a nocturnal bird35
61Bird in a birding location/hotspot you've never birded before (for anyone in the group)20
62See a bird that is flagged as rare in eBird18
63See a number of birds on one eBird checklist that is flagged for count11
64Submit 5 or more eBird checklists for the day20
65See a County bird (a bird a team member has never seen in the county they're currently in). Max 68
66See a first of season (FOS) bird, for anyone in the group. Max 64
67See a life bird, a bird a team member has never seen before, for anyone in the group. Max 612
68See the ABA Bird of the Year or last five years15
69See a bird that typically spends its winter in South America13
70See a bird that typically spends its winter in Central America/Mexico/Caribbean12
71Find a vagrant or out of range bird that isn't typically seen in NYC in October90
72Based on reports or info from other birders, see a vagrant/out of range rare bird30
73See the eagles! See a Bald Eagle20
74See the New York state bird75
75Take a picture or video of your team. Share with the Brooklyn Bird Club 40


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