Leading and reporting, Sandy Paci
Hi Peter,
It was a great trip with a large group of fun, skilled and eager birders. Through cooperation and team effort we had 58 total species with 16 shorebirds.
Best,
Sandy
Brooklyn Bird Club – Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Saturday August 4, 2012
Sandy Paci with 16+ members and non-members: Lenore Swenson, Tom Preston, Rusty Harold, Bob Washburn, Dennis Hrehowsik, Mike Yuan, Matthew Rymkiewicz, Donna Evans, Bobbi Manion, Phil Hoff, Bambi Friedman, Ania G, Mike and Kim Wylie, Robert and Laurie Petrillo, Paige, and (briefly) Janet Zinn and Alan Baratz
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Pied Billed Grebe
Double Crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black Crowned Night Heron
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
Glossy Ibis
Mute Swan
Canada Goose
Mallard
Am. Black Duck
Osprey
Black Bellied Plover
Semi-Palmated Plover
American Oystercatcher
American Avocet (SLAM DUNK!)
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper (1 half hidden in reeds, south end)
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot (2 picked out of a crowd, thanks to Mike)
Dunlin
Pectoral Sandpiper (1, north island, thanks to Lenore)
White-Rumped Sandpiper (1, south end, thanks to Matthew)
Semi-Palmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper (many)
Short Billed Dowitcher (100s)
Laughing Gull
Ring Billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black Backed Gull
Gull Billed Tern (several)
Common Tern
Forster’s Tern
Least Tern
Rock Dove
Downy Woodpecker
Fish Crow
American Crow
Barn Swallow
Tree Swallow
Carolina Wren
Grey Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Eastern Towhee
Song Sparrow
Red-Winged Blackbird
Boat-Tailed Grackle
Brown-Headed Cowbird
House Sparrow
American Goldfinch
