site = Jamaica Bay
date = 3/16/08
Leader: P.Dorosh
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Great Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Snow Goose (200+ West Pond)
Canada Goose
Brant
Mute Swan
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler (West Pond)
Northern Pintail (West Pond)
Green-winged Teal (West Pond)
Canvasback (2 East Pond)
Redhead (Baisley Pond)
Ring-necked Duck (16 at Baisley Pond off Rockaway Blvd)
Greater Scaup (easily 50,000; 30,000 West Pond)
Lesser Scaup (in good numbers West Pond)
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Osprey (on nesting platform; Bench 4)
Peregrine Falcon (perched in tree;West Pond)
American Coot
American Oystercatcher
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Tree Swallow (~8)
Carolina Wren
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
American Tree Sparrow (West Pond path bench 7)
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
