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