Feb 11th Duck walk Jamaica Bay to Rockaway

Leader Peter Dorosh

Highlights 15 duck species!

Photo by Tim Sequin

List compiled by Alana Whitman

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge--West Pond
Feb 11, 2023
9:12 AM
Traveling
2.64 miles
187 Minutes
All birds reported? Yes
Comments: Submitted from eBird for iOS, version 2.16.0 Build 2.16.14

170 Snow Goose -- Large numbers, counted with the Brooklyn Bird Club
259 Brant
142 Canada Goose
86 Northern Shoveler
59 Gadwall -- Large numbers, counted with the Brooklyn Bird Club
11 American Wigeon
2 Mallard
9 American Black Duck
2 Northern Pintail
8 Green-winged Teal -- Counted in singles and pairs
29 Greater Scaup
8 Bufflehead
1 Common Goldeneye
4 Hooded Merganser
1 Common Merganser -- Spotted with the Brooklyn Bird Club
2 Red-breasted Merganser
248 Ruddy Duck
28 American Coot
X Ring-billed Gull
X Herring Gull
6 Great Black-backed Gull
1 Red-throated Loon
1 Barn Owl
1 Black-capped Chickadee
1 Carolina Wren
5 Northern Mockingbird
5 House Sparrow
5 White-throated Sparrow
4 Song Sparrow
1 Red-winged Blackbird
16 Yellow-rumped Warbler

Number of Taxa: 31

Rockaway Beach--Rockaway Park (Beach 108th-125th St.)
Feb 11, 2023
1:22 PM
Traveling
0.99 miles
70 Minutes
All birds reported? Yes
Comments: Submitted from eBird for iOS, version 2.16.0 Build 2.16.14

2 Black Scoter
13 Bufflehead
2 Horned Grebe
33 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
8 Sanderling
14 Dunlin
2 Razorbill -- Spotted with Brooklyn Bird Club
50 Ring-billed Gull
1 Herring Gull
3 Great Black-backed Gull
30 Red-throated Loon
7 Common Loon
2 European Starling
2 House Sparrow

Number of Taxa: 14