Eat, Drink, Be Merry and Be Counted

Cedar Waxwing eating fruit of "Winter King" Hawthorn (Crataegus viridis). Central Park Dec. 11, 2010

Photo by PETER POST

Here are the totals from the 111th Central Park Christmas Bird Count 12/19/10

59 species total for the day

[sent in by Lynne Hertzog

NYC Audubon volunteer.]

111th Central Park Christmas Bird Count
Canada Goose	214
Wood Duck	1
Black Duck	1
Mallard	493
Ring-necked Duck	1
Northern Shoveler	203
Bufflehead	7
Hooded Merganser	6
Ruddy Duck	98
Pied-billed Grebe	4
Great Blue Heron	1
Sharp-shinned Hawk	1
Cooper's Hawk	9
Red-tailed Hawk	11
Merlin*	2
Peregrine Falcon	1
American Coot	11
Ring-billed Gull	268
Herring Gull	483
Great Black-backed Gull	56
Rock Pigeon	426
Mourning Dove	65
Eastern Screech-Owl	1
Red-headed Woodpecker*	1
Red-bellied Woodpecker	38
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	20
Downy Woodpecker	21
Hairy Woodpecker	1
Northern Flicker	5
Blue Jay	136
American Crow	25
Black-capped Chickadee	54
Tufted Titmouse	126
Red-breasted Nuthatch	4
White-breasted Nuthatch	46
Brown Creeper	4
Carolina Wren	7
Winter Wren	1
Hermit Thrush	11
American Robin	171
Varied Thrush	1
Northern Mockingbird	6
Brown Thrasher	1
European Starling	350
Cedar Waxwing	57
Yellow-rumped Warbler*	1
Eastern Towhee	2
Fox Sparrow	1
Song Sparrow	10
White-throated Sparrow	724
White-crowned sparrow	1
Dark-eyed Junco	46
Northern Cardinal	71
Red-winged Blackbird	3
Rusty Blackbird	2
Common Grackle	779
House Finch	25
American Goldfinch	18
House Sparrow	1089
count week: Common Loon,
Orange-crowned Warbler,
Pine Siskin