8/12/10 - Jamaica Bay W.R., Broad Channel, NY
Time: 9:15am to 2pm
Observers: Andrew Block and Binghamton group (Dan, Dave, and Rich)
many Double-crested Cormorants
1 AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
1 Great Blue Heron
6+ Great Egrets
8+ Snowy Egrets
3 Black-crowned Night-Herons
10+ Glossy Ibis
50+ Mute Swans
many Canada Geese
several American Black Ducks
many Mallards
20+ Blue-winged Teals
several Gadwalls
6+ American Wigeons
4 Ospreys
1 Peregrine Falcon
3 Clapper Rails
1 American Coot
30+ Black-bellied Plovers
thousands of Semiplamated Plovers
1 Killdeer
35+ American Oystercatchers
many of both yellowlegs
2 Spotted Sandpipers
1 HUDSONIAN GODWIT
13+ Ruddy Turnstones
1 RED KNOT
thousands of Semipalmated Sandpipers
many Least Sandpipers
1 White-rumped Sandpiper
15+ Stilt Sandpipers
hundreds of Short-billed Dowitchers
2 WILSON'S PHALAROPES
many of all 4 common gulls
several Common Terns
many Forster's Terns
6+ Least Terns
5+ Rock Pigeons
several Barn Swallows
4 American Crows
2 Marsh Wrens
2 Carolina Wrens
3 Gray Catbirds
9+ European Starlings
1 Yellow Warbler
1 Common Yellowthroat
3 Northern Waterthrushes
2 Eastern Towhees
1 Song Sparrow
8+ Red-winged Blackbirds
3+ Boat-tailed Grackles
Andrew
Andrew v. F. Block
Consulting Field Biologist & Eco-tour Leader
37 Tanglewylde Avenue
Bronxville, Westchester Co., New York 10708-3131
Phone: (914) 337-1229; Cell: (914) 886-5124; Fax: (914) 771-8036
"When the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another
heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again..." - William
Beebe, first Curator of Birds, Bronx Zoo
"Crikey! Have a look at that!" - Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter
"Just like the white winged dove sings a song, sounds like she's singing whoo,
baby...whoo...said whoo" - Stephanie L. Nicks, Edge of 17, Bella Donna
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