Thursday, December 23, 2010

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