4/12/08 "Forever Wild " Queens Preserves

Leader : Peter Dorosh
observers = 10 observers

Locations: Alley Pond Park (and APEC), Idlewild Park Preserve, Arverne Preserve @Rockaway;Floyd Bennett Field

Pied-billed Grebe

Common Loon (flyover Alley Pond ballfield)
Northern Gannet (Arverne)
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron (flyover flock of 7 Floyd Bennett)
Great Egret (flyover flock of 8 Alley Pond Park, in fog)
Snowy Egret (Idlewild)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (~7 Floyd Bennett)
Canada Goose
Brant (easily 1500
Mute Swan
Wood Duck (Alley Pond)
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Shoveler (Oakland Lake)
Green-winged Teal (APEC,Idlewild)
White-winged Scoter (Arverne)
Bufflehead (Jamaica Bay)
Red-breasted Merganser (Jamaica Bay)
Ruddy Duck               

Long-tailed Duck(Arverne)

American Coot

Sharp-shinned Hawk (APEC)
Red-shouldered Hawk (Idlewild Preserve)
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel

Merlin

Peregrine Falcon
Piping Plover (several at Arverne)
Killdeer (APEC)
American Oystercatcher
Greater Yellowlegs(APEC)
Dunlin
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Great-horned Owl (2 adults plus owlet)
Belted Kingfisher (Idlewild;APEC)
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Tufted Titmouse

Black-capped Chickadee
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren (heard often, not seen)
Marsh Wren (heard by all, seen ;Idlewild)
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Tree Swallow ( APEC)

Barn Swallow( Floyd Bennett)
Hermit Thrush
American Robin

Ring-Necked Pheasant (heard; Idlewild)
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Pine Warbler (at least 7;Alley Pond)
Palm Warbler (Common ; Alley Pond)
Eastern Towhee (heard, not seen)
American Tree Sparrow (Alley Pond)
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow (4)
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow

 

83 species