Wednesday, May 16, 2012

May 12th IMBD "the Birdathon"

BBC Birdathon Saturday May 12th results


Results of the Brooklyn Bird Club team , submitted by Mike Yuan. See his note:

The unnamed Brooklyn Bird Club team of Bob Washburn, Donna Evans, Matthew Rymkiewicz (subbing for Dennis Hrehowsik) and Mike Yuan totaled 113 species for yesterday's Bird-a-Thon, birded in locations throughout Brooklyn and Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens.

Highlights of a great day: Tennessee, Cape May, Bay-Breasted Warblers, Solitary Sandpiper, and Lincoln's Sparrow at Prospect, Bobolinks at Dreier-Offerman, Bonaparte's Gull at Plum Beach, and a Black-Billed Cuckoo at the West Pond at Jamaica Bay.

Species List:

Brant

Canada Goose

Mute Swan

Wood Duck

Gadwall

American Black Duck

Mallard

Blue-winged Teal

Green-winged Teal

Bufflehead

Red-breasted Merganser

Ruddy Duck

Northern Gannet

Double-crested Cormorant

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Snowy Egret

Green Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Glossy Ibis

Osprey

Red-tailed Hawk

Semipalmated Plover

Killdeer

American Oystercatcher

Spotted Sandpiper

Solitary Sandpiper

Greater Yellowlegs

Willet

Lesser Yellowlegs

Least Sandpiper

Purple Sandpiper

American Woodcock

Bonaparte's Gull

Laughing Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Herring Gull

Great Black-backed Gull

Common Tern

Forster's Tern

Black Skimmer

Rock Pigeon

Mourning Dove

Black-billed Cuckoo

Chimney Swift

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Willow Flycatcher

Least Flycatcher

Great Crested Flycatcher

Eastern Kingbird

Yellow-throated Vireo

Warbling Vireo

Red-eyed Vireo

Blue Jay

American Crow

Fish Crow

Tree Swallow

Barn Swallow

Tufted Titmouse

Carolina Wren

House Wren

Veery

Swainson's Thrush

Wood Thrush

American Robin

Gray Catbird

Northern Mockingbird

Brown Thrasher

European Starling

Cedar Waxwing

Ovenbird

Northern Waterthrush

Black-and-white Warbler

Tennessee Warbler

Nashville Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

American Redstart

Cape May Warbler

Northern Parula

Magnolia Warbler

Bay-breasted Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Blackpoll Warbler

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler

Canada Warbler

Wilson's Warbler

Eastern Towhee

Chipping Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Lincoln's Sparrow

Swamp Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

Scarlet Tanager

Northern Cardinal

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Indigo Bunting

Bobolink

Red-winged Blackbird

Common Grackle

Boat-tailed Grackle

Brown-headed Cowbird

Orchard Oriole

Baltimore Oriole

American Goldfinch

House Sparrow

113 species

Posted by Kingsboider at 4:02 PM