Monday, December 22, 2014

Dec 20th KINGS COUNT Christmas Bird Count region breakdown

Prospect Park Clay colored Sparrow at Maryland Monument , photo by Jennifer Kepler
Brooklyn XMas Count Annual Report: 2014
Bold = All time high / low
Italic = 10-year high/low

IRR-Irregular  less 7 x over last ten years
Low count stats exclude miss years

Species Total:                  123
Count Total #:                  42,247
Species
#
Snow Goose
11
Brant
12252
Canada Goose
1819
Mute Swan
58
10-yr low
Gadwall
93
Eurasian Wigeon
2
IRR
American Wigeon
106
American Black Duck
1006
10-yr hi
Mallard
1011
10-yr hi
Northern Shoveler
458
Northern Pintail
6
Green-winged Teal
82
10-yr low
Greater Scaup
3810
Lesser Scaup
165
Common Eider
12
IRR
Surf Scoter
16
White-winged Scoter
22
Black Scoter
574
Scoter (sp.)
590
Long-tailed Duck
376
Bufflehead
1231
Common Goldeneye
3
All-time low
Hooded Merganser
76
Common Merganser
4
IRR
Red-breasted Merganser
2328
All-time hi
Ruddy Duck
382
Ring-necked Pheasant
1
Red-throated Loon
137
All-time hi
Common Loon
53
Pied-billed Grebe
9
Horned Grebe
182
Red-necked Grebe
7
Northern Gannet
24
Double-crested Cormorant
76
10-yr low
Great Cormorant
106
Great Blue Heron
17
Black-crowned Night-Heron
2
Northern Harrier
15
Sharp-shinned Hawk
9
Cooper's Hawk
16
Red-shouldered Hawk
2
IRR
Red-tailed Hawk
24
Rough-legged Hawk
1
IRR
American Kestrel
7
Merlin
5
Peregrine Falcon
7
Clapper Rail
2
IRR
American Coot
51
Black-bellied Plover
44
Killdeer
22
10-yr hi
Greater Yellowlegs
1
10-yr low
Sanderling
195
Purple Sandpiper
18
Dunlin
66
Wilson's Snipe
1
IRR
American Woodcock
1
Bonaparte's Gull
cw
Ring-billed Gull
5415
Herring Gull
1901
Lesser Black-backed Gull
cw
IRR
Great Black-backed Gull
288
Rock Pigeon
1079
Mourning Dove
341
Monk Parakeet
24
Barn Owl
1
IRR
Great Horned Owl
2
RARE
Snowy Owl
5
IRR
Short-eared Owl
1
IRR
Northern Saw-whet Owl
2
RARE
Belted Kingfisher
2
Red-bellied Woodpecker
33
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
15
Downy Woodpecker
87
10-yr hi
Hairy Woodpecker
12
All-time hi
Northern Flicker
102
10-yr hi
Eastern Phoebe
2
RARE
Cassin's Kingbird
cw
RARE
Blue Jay
199
American Crow
113
Fish Crow
87
IRR
Common Raven
1
RARE
Horned Lark
66
Tree Swallow
6
IRR
Black-capped Chickadee
178
Tufted Titmouse
33
Red-breasted Nuthatch
10
White-breasted Nuthatch
44
Brown Creeper
2
Carolina Wren
31
Winter Wren
4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
8
Hermit Thrush
21
American Robin
172
Gray Catbird
3
10-yr low
Northern Mockingbird
76
European Starling
1380
American Pipit
3
Cedar Waxwing
3
10-yr low
Orange-crowned Warbler
1
IRR
Yellow-rumped Warbler
220
Palm Warbler
1
Common Yellowthroat
1
IRR
Eastern Towhee
4
American Tree Sparrow
128
Chipping Sparrow
8
Clay-colored Sparrow
1
RARE
Field Sparrow
15
10-yr hi
Vesper Sparrow
1
RARE
Savannah Sparrow
34
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
2
RARE
Seaside Sparrow
1
IRR
Fox Sparrow
28
Song Sparrow
416
Swamp Sparrow
51
White-throated Sparrow
603
White-crowned Sparrow
1
IRR
Dark-eyed Junco
203
Northern Cardinal
198
Red-winged Blackbird
67
Eastern Meadowlark
5
Rusty Blackbird
cw
IRR
Common Grackle
cw
Boat-tailed Grackle
4
Brown-headed Cowbird
5
10-yr low
Purple Finch
2
RARE
House Finch
205
Pine Siskin
7
IRR
American Goldfinch
153
House Sparrow
536