Note: 19 species duck, 29 species waterfowl, EARED GREBE, AMERICAN AVOCET
Leading : Peter Dorosh
date = 2011/12/05
site = Coney Island Creek, Floyd Bennett Field, Ft Tilden/Riis beach, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
observers = 11 BBC members
59 species birds
Eared Grebe JBWR
American Avocet Coney Island Creek
Snow Goose ( including a “Blue Goose”)
Canada Goose
Brant
Common Loon
Red-throated Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Northern Gannet
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Mute Swan
Northern Shoveler
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Common Eider -Drake Floyd Bennett ; off archery road end
Black Scoter
Common Goldeneye
American Wigeon
Long-tailed Duck
Greater Scaup
Red-breasted Merganser
White-winged Scoter
Green-winged Teal
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Northern Pintail
Surf Scoter
Mallard
Red-tailed Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk GAPlaza
American Kestrel
American Coot
Sanderling
Great Black-backed Gull
Bonaparte's Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
American Crow
Horned Lark
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (late)
American Robin
Hermit Thrush
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
House Finch
Black-capped Chickadee