The preliminary results -subject to count week and numbers edition
review-- for Brooklyn 12/17 Kings County Christmas Bird Census is as follows:
132 species were recorded, our second highest species total ever , tying
the 1997 Kings County CBC with this year's three historical first time
species with RED-NECKED PHALAROPE at North Shore Brooklyn Heights , BLACK AND
WHITE WARBLER at Prospect Park, & BARROWS GOLDENEYE at Jamaica Bay Refuge.
Those species qualified as 'rare' ( including the above species, based on
10 year totals and data ) are as follows : EARED GREBE, AMERICAN BITTERN,
GREEN HERON,TURKEY VULTURE, WILSON'S SNIPE,GLAUCOUS GULL, GREAT HORNED
OWL,LONG-EARED OWL, NORTHERN SHRIKE, PINE WARBLER, SALTMARSH SHARP-TAILED
SPARROW,SEASIDE SPARROW & BALTIMORE ORIOLE.
Count week rarities were AMERICAN REDSTART ,MARBLED GODWIT, AMERICAN
OYSTERCATCHER (all seen Friday 12/16 ).
The overall species list is attached showing only the species until
further review regarding individual numbers
We here in Brooklyn wish all Happy Holidays and good luck in your
forthcoming CBC's in the NYC Metro area.
Peter Dorosh,Pres
Brooklyn Bird Club
Species Snow Goose Brant Canada Goose Mute Swan Wood Duck
Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Greater Scaup Lesser
Scaup Surf Scoter White-winged Scoter Black Scoter Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Barrow's Goldeneye Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Ring-necked Pheasant Red-throated Loon
Common
Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe Eared Grebe
Northern Gannet Double-crested Cormorant Great Cormorant American
Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Black-crowned
Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine
Falcon American Coot Black-bellied Plover Killdeer American Oystercatcher
Greater Yellowlegs Marbled Godwit Sanderling Purple Sandpiper Dunlin
Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Red Phalarope Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull
Great
Black-backed Gull Razorbill Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Monk Parakeet
Barn Owl Great Horned Owl Snowy Owl Long-eared Owl Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy
Woodpecker Northern Flicker Northern Shrike Blue Jay American Crow
Horned Lark Tree Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse
Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren
Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Hermit Thrush
American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European
Starling American Pipit Cedar Waxwing Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler Pine Warbler Palm Warbler Black-and-white Warbler
American
Redstart Common Yellowthroat Yellow-breasted Chat Eastern Towhee
American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow Seaside Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Snow Bunting
Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Rusty
Blackbird
Common Grackle Boat-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore
Oriole House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow
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