The Bronx-Westchester Christmas Bird Count held SundayDecember 26 found a preliminary 110 species. Our species average is 116.
Highlights included Greater White-fronted Goose, 2 ClapperRails, Lesser-black-backed Gull, Red-headed Woodpecker, Chipping Sparrow,Boat-tailed Grackles, Orange-crownedWarbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, and 4 Pine Warblers. The Boat-tailedGrackles and the Black-throated Blue Warbler were new to the count and bringthe cumulative total of species to 234 to the 98 year count. High Counts included Ring-necked Duck, Great Blue Heron,Black-Vulture, Turkey Vulture, Bald Eagle and Fish Crow. American Kestrel had a41-year high. All time low counts included Common Goldeneye and AmericanTree Sparrow. American Wigeon had a 69-year low; Tufted Titmouse a 62-year low.Horned Grebe was missed for the first time since 1944. Other notable missesincluded Canvasback, American Coot and Red-breasted Nuthatch. The count is a little over 7,000 birds away from its 4 millionthbird. Michael Bochnik -- 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/[email protected]/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/ --
