Attached is the official tally from the 1 January 2014 Ithaca Christmas Bird Count. This version varies in a few details from the provisional numbers that Dave Nutter posted earlier; there were a number of additions, corrections, and adjustments for double-counting. We found 98 species during the day, and had two more species during count week. Also of note were two recognizable hybrids.
We had over 110 participants and found a total of 38,494 individual birds. We did not add any new species to the count, unlike the last few years, but we did manage new high tallies for eight species. Two of these were species only recently added to our list (Double-crested Cormorant, Bald Eagle), a few others are regulars who are experiencing local (and continental) population booms (Cooper's Hawk, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Common Raven, Dark-eyed Junco), and the other two were species that we occasionally get in very small numbers (Northern Saw-whet Owl, Winter Wren). Thanks to all who make this count such a success and a fun event. Kevin Snow Goose 41 Canada Goose 4105 Tundra Swan 119 Gadwall 12 American Black Duck 87 Mallard 2239 Mallard X Black Duck hybrid 1 Green-winged Teal 1 Canvasback 18 Redhead 6515 Ring-necked Duck 34 Greater Scaup 29 Lesser Scaup 162 Scaup sp. 550 White-winged Scoter 2 Long-tailed Duck 3 Bufflehead 4 Common Goldeneye 48 Hooded Merganser 41 Common Merganser 107 Red-breasted Merganser 2 Ruddy Duck 17 Ruffed Grouse 10 Wild Turkey 109 Common Loon 1 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Horned Grebe 6 Double-crested Cormorant 6 high count Great Blue Heron 4 Turkey Vulture 31 Bald Eagle 4 high count Northern Harrier 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk 8 Cooper's Hawk 20 high count Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 188 Rough-legged Hawk 3 American Kestrel 2 Merlin 2 Peregrine Falcon 1 American Coot 310 Ring-billed Gull 652 Herring Gull 1772 Iceland Gull 5 Glaucous Gull 2 Great Black-Backed Gull 137 Gull sp. 1 Nelson's Gull (Glaucous X Herring gull hybrid) Rock Pigeon 2355 high count Mourning Dove 1052 Eastern Screech-Owl 40 Great Horned Owl 12 Snowy Owl Count Week Barred Owl 3 Long-eared Owl 2 Northern Saw-whet Owl 4 high count Belted Kingfisher 8 Red-bellied Woodpecker 258 high count Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 4 Downy Woodpecker 416 Hairy Woodpecker 155 Northern (Y-Shaf.) Flicker 21 Pileated Woodpecker 57 Northern Shrike 3 Blue Jay 1280 American Crow 3387 Fish Crow 15 Common Raven 32 high count Horned Lark 1 Black-Capped Chickadee 2650 Tufted Titmouse 300 Red-breasted Nuthatch 34 White-breasted Nuthatch 350 Brown Creeper 15 Carolina Wren 77 Winter Wren 4 high count Golden-crowned Kinglet 46 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 124 Hermit Thrush 2 American Robin 104 Northern Mockingbird 15 European Starling 3265 Cedar Waxwing 437 Lapland Longspur 1 Snow Bunting 367 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Eastern Towhee 1 American Tree Sparrow 486 Field Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 57 Swamp Sparrow 8 White-throated Sparrow 166 White-crowned Sparrow Count Week Dark-eyed (S-Col.) Junco 1003 high count Northern Cardinal 475 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 Purple Finch 18 House Finch 324 Common Redpoll 2 Pine Siskin 4 American Goldfinch 983 House Sparrow 649 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
