Monday, December 16, 2013

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