The Central Park CBC was held on Sunday, Dec. 16. The total number of species on our count this year was 56. (compared to 53 in 2011). We had a total of 5,721individual birds. (compared to 3,288 in 2011). These results are only for the count day and do not include count week.
The highlights were: Species # Wood Duck- 6 Gadwall- 13 Black Duck- 4 Mallard- 528 Northern Shoveler- 28 Bufflehead- 13 Hooded Merganser- 8 Ruddy Duck- 55 Pied-billed Grebe- 1 Double-crested Cormorant- 2 Great Blue Heron- 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk- 1 Cooper's Hawk- 3 Red-tailed Hawk- 11 American Coot- 9 Ring-billed Gull- 267 Herring Gull- 1168 Great Black-backed Gull- 51 Mourning Dove- 39 Red-bellied Woodpecker- 60 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker- 12 Downy Woodpecker- 29 Hairy Woodpecker- 3 Northern Flicker- 8 Blue Jay- 190 American Crow- 34 Black-capped Chickadee- 53 Tufted Titmouse- 389 White-breasted Nuthatch- 62 Brown Creeper- 3 Carolina Wren- 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet- 1 Hermit Thrush- 11 American Robin- 97 Gray Catbird- 1 Northern Mockingbird- 7 Cedar Waxwing- 34 Eastern Towhee- 3 Fox Sparrow- 3 Song Sparrow- 8 Swamp Sparrow- 1 White-throated Sparrow- 674 Dark-eyed Junco- 22 Northern Cardinal- 71 Common Grackle- 190 House Finch- 9 Pine Siskin- 3 American Goldfinch- 22 Unusual sightings were: Barred Owl- 1 Common Redpoll- 2 White-winged Crossbill- 4 Good Birding! Susan Susan B. Elbin, Ph.D. Director of Conservation and Science New York City Audubon 71 West 23rd St. New York, NY 10010 -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES 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://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
