Results of Brooklyn Christmas Count - Manhattan to come and FULL MOON

FULL MOON tonight [ actually, at 10:28 tomorrow morning...]
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Brooklyn XMas Count Annual Report: 2013

Bold = All time high / low

Italic = 10-year high/low

Low count stats exclude miss years

Species	#
Snow Goose	130
Brant	15723
Cackling Goose	2	NEW FOR COUNT
Canada Goose	1607
Mute Swan	171
Wood Duck	10	IRR; ALL-TIME HIGH (by almost 4x)
Gadwall	126
American Wigeon	126
American Black Duck	732
Mallard	888	10-yr hi
Northern Shoveler	484
Northern Pintail	2
Green-winged Teal	98
Canvasback	2	All-time low (tie)
Greater Scaup	1778
Lesser Scaup	81
Surf Scoter	46
White-winged Scoter	19
Black Scoter	64
Scoter (sp.)	2
Long-tailed Duck	249
Bufflehead	621
Common Goldeneye	11
Hooded Merganser	109	All-time high
Red-breasted Merganser	571
Ruddy Duck	279
Ring-necked Pheasant	1	All-time low (tie)
Red-throated Loon	27
Common Loon	66
Pied-billed Grebe	5
Horned Grebe	99
Red-necked Grebe	1
Northern Gannet	208
Double-crested Cormorant	130
Great Cormorant	52
Great Blue Heron	12	10-year low
Northern Harrier	12	All-time low
Sharp-shinned Hawk	5
Cooper's Hawk	9	10-year low
Red-tailed Hawk	13	10-year low
American Kestrel	1	10-year low
Merlin	1	10-year low
Peregrine Falcon	3	10-year low
Clapper Rail	3	IRR
American Coot	46
Black-bellied Plover	20
Semipalmated Plover	1	RARE
Killdeer	17	10-year high
Greater Yellowlegs	7
Ruddy Turnstone	3	IRR
Sanderling	401
Purple Sandpiper	23
Dunlin	38
Wilson's Snipe	1	RARE
American Woodcock	1
Bonaparte's Gull	242
Ring-billed Gull	6797
Herring Gull	1616	All-time low
Great Black-backed Gull	150	All-time low
Rock Pigeon	704
Mourning Dove	150
Monk Parakeet	10	10-year low
Snowy Owl	15	IRR; ALL-TIME HIGH (by c. 4x)
Belted Kingfisher	1	10-year low
Red-headed Woodpecker	1	RARE
Red-bellied Woodpecker	33
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	22
Downy Woodpecker	30
Northern Flicker	8	All-time low
Blue Jay	62
American Crow	70	All-time low
Horned Lark	50
Tree Swallow	4	IRR
Black-capped Chickadee	4	All-time low
Tufted Titmouse	4	All-time low
White-breasted Nuthatch	5	10-year low
Brown Creeper	1	10-year low
Carolina Wren	34
Winter Wren	2
Hermit Thrush	11
American Robin	33	10-year low
Gray Catbird	5
Northern Mockingbird	32	10-year low
European Starling	924	All-time low
American Pipit	2	10-year low
Cedar Waxwing	3	10-year low
Orange-crowned Warbler	2	IRR
Nashville Warbler	1	RARE
Yellow-rumped Warbler	135	All-time low
Palm Warbler	1
Eastern Towhee	2	10-year low
American Tree Sparrow	59
Chipping Sparrow	4
Field Sparrow	6
Savannah Sparrow	36
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow	1	RARE
Sharp-tailed Sparrow (sp.)	1	RARE
Fox Sparrow	50	10-year high
Song Sparrow	247
Swamp Sparrow	86	10-year high
White-throated Sparrow	377
Dark-eyed Junco	207
Snow Bunting	251	10-year high
Northern Cardinal	153
Red-winged Blackbird	111
Eastern Meadowlark	1	10-year low
Rusty Blackbird	3	IRR
Common Grackle	2
Brown-headed Cowbird	356
House Finch	156
American Goldfinch	164
House Sparrow	418

Total:        110  species

             38,991  individuals