The 103rd Syracuse Christmas Bird Count 17 December 2022
The World Cup of Syracuse birding (a.k.a., the Syracuse CBC) occurred yesterday, 17 December 2022. This year marks our city’s 103rd CBC!! In total we encountered 79 species – 5 more than our 30-year average of 74 species. Highlights included 2 Black Vultures (a first in our count’s history), 2 Chipping Sparrows, and 1 Gray Catbird. Snow Goose 1 Canada Goose 1281 Mute Swan 9 Tundra Swan 82 Wood Duck 3 Gadwall 5 American Black Duck 9 Mallard 557 Mallard (dom type) 2 Redhead 320 Lesser Scaup 5 White-winged Scoter 5 Bufflehead 10 Common Goldeneye 42 Hooded Merganser 36 Common Merganser 820 Red-breasted Merganser 10 Wild Turkey 59 Common Loon 1 Double-crested Cormorant 181 Great Blue Heron 6 Turkey Vulture 66 *Black Vulture 2* Northern Harrier 4 Sharp-shinned Hawk 8 Cooper’s Hawk 14 Bald Eagle 23 Red-tailed Hawk 61 Bonaparte’s Gull 2 Ring-billed Gull 979 Herring Gull 114 Great Black-backed Gull 13 Rock Pigeon (Feral) 2365 Mourning Dove 609 Eastern Screech-Owl 2 Belted Kingfisher 7 Red-bellied Woodpecker 84 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 Downy Woodpecker 130 Hairy Woodpecker 44 Northern Flicker (ys) 24 Pileated Woodpecker 14 American Kestrel 5 Merlin 6 Blue Jay 192 American Crow 8524 Fish Crow 3 Common Raven 8 Black-capped Chickadee 592 Tufted Titmouse 135 Red-breasted Nuthatch 23 White-breasted Nuthatch 152 Brown Creeper 7 Marsh Wren 1 Carolina Wren 31 Golden-crowned Kinglet 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Eastern Bluebird 37 Hermit Thrush 2 American Robin 505 *Gray Catbird 1* Northern Mockingbird 16 European Starling 5527 Cedar Waxwing 12 Snow Bunting 21 American Tree Sparrow 135 Dark-eyed Junco 216 White-throated Sparrow 51 Song Sparrow 11 Swamp Sparrow 3 *Chipping Sparrow 2* Northern Cardinal 343 Red-winged Blackbird 28 Common Grackle 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 28 House Finch 219 Purple Finch 3 American Goldfinch 266 House Sparrow 777 Merry Birding! *Jason Luscier* Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences Le Moyne College Syracuse, NY 13214 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
