New York birders, When you actually do the paperwork the truth comes out! We tallied 91 species, NOT the previously reported 85 species.
Hudson, Hudson, New Jersey, US Dec 20, 2015 Protocol: Incidental 91 species (+1 other taxa) Brant 115 Canada Goose 1975 Mute Swan 44 Gadwall 291 American Wigeon 6 American Black Duck 162 Mallard 357 Northern Shoveler 39 Northern Pintail 118 Green-winged Teal 404 Canvasback 50 Ring-necked Duck 1 Greater Scaup 91 Lesser Scaup 25 Bufflehead 211 Hooded Merganser 55 Common Merganser 1 Red-breasted Merganser 31 Ruddy Duck 840 Ring-necked Pheasant 1 Wild Turkey 1 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Horned Grebe 4 Double-crested Cormorant 205 Great Cormorant 7 Great Blue Heron 23 Great Egret 5 Black-crowned Night-Heron 10 Northern Harrier 10 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 7 Bald Eagle 7 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 25 American Coot 95 Killdeer 34 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Dunlin 10 American Woodcock 1 Ring-billed Gull 1949 Herring Gull 1212 Great Black-backed Gull 173 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 531 Mourning Dove 176 Barn Owl 1 Great Horned Owl 3 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 14 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 61 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 3 American Kestrel 6 Merlin 2 Peregrine Falcon 3 Blue Jay 48 American Crow 29 crow sp. 4 Common Raven 4 Horned Lark 30 Black-capped Chickadee 9 Tufted Titmouse 10 White-breasted Nuthatch 6 Marsh Wren 1 Carolina Wren 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 12 Hermit Thrush 3 American Robin 84 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 55 European Starling 1813 American Pipit 2 Cedar Waxwing 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Palm Warbler (Yellow) 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler 36 American Tree Sparrow 83 Chipping Sparrow 3 Fox Sparrow 29 Dark-eyed Junco 160 White-crowned Sparrow 4 White-throated Sparrow 185 Savannah Sparrow 6 Song Sparrow 182 Swamp Sparrow 25 Northern Cardinal 59 Red-winged Blackbird 50 Common Grackle 17 Brown-headed Cowbird 380 House Finch 136 American Goldfinch 104 House Sparrow 416 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S26398718 Mike Britt Lower Hudson CBC Compiler (Jersey-side only) Bayonne, NJ -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
