Yesterday a group of intrepid birders braved the awful weather for the 119th Central Park Christmas Bird Count. 5,323 birds of 57 species were counted. See preliminary totals below. Count week birds thus far include Red-winged Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Purple Finch, House Finch, Ovenbird, Pied-billed Grebe, and Field Sparrow.
Other counts for the New Jersey Lower Hudson count circle took place at Governor's Island, Randall's Island, Riverside Park, Inwood Hill Park, Stuyvesant Town & Cove, East River & Corlear's Hook Parks, Bryant Park, Tompkins Square Park, Lower Manhattan, and throughout Hudson and Bergen County. The final results for Central Park and the entire NJLH circle will be available at nycaudubon.org <http://nycaudubon.org/>after count week ends! Canada Goose 366 Wood Duck 7 American Black Duck 1 Mallard 289 Northern Shoveler 84 Bufflehead 20 Hooded Merganser 10 Ruddy Duck 142 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Great Blue Heron 3 Cooper's Hawk 5 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 13 Merlin 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 American Coot 9 Ring-billed Gull 89 Herring Gull 104 Great Black-backed Gull 4 Rock Pigeon 635 Mourning Dove 67 Great Horned Owl 1 Barred Owl 1 Northern Saw-whet Owl 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 44 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 5 Downy Woodpecker 6 Northern Flicker 3 Blue Jay 265 American Crow 10 Common Raven 2 Black-capped Chickadee 9 Tufted Titmouse 247 Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 50 Brown Creeper 2 Carolina Wren 1 Winter Wren 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Hermit Thrush 11 American Robin 180 Gray Catbird 2 Northern Mockingbird 5 European Starling 167 Cedar Waxwing 2 Chipping Sparrow 1 Fox Sparrow 5 Dark-eyed Junco 33 White-throated Sparrow 1017 Song Sparrow 12 Swamp Sparrow 1 Eastern Towhee 5 Northern Cardinal 59 Common Grackle 861 American Goldfinch 17 House Sparrow 437 -- Kaitlyn Parkins Conservation Biologist New York City Audubon 71 West 23rd Street, Suite 1523 New York, NY 10010 212-691-7483 x309 <(212)%20691-7483> 646-666-8903 <(646)%20666-8903> (direct) www.nycaudubon.org -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
