36 people participated in the Montezuma Christmas Bird Count on Saturday, December 19. 78 species and 48,817 individuals were counted. New high counts were established for Trumpeter Swan, Red-tailed Hawk, Eastern Screech-Owl, Short-eared Owl, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Eastern Bluebird, and Northern Mockingbird. Two new species were added to the cumulative list Common Loon and Peregrine Falcon. The complete list is below. Thanks to the participants, my co-compiler, Carol Stokes-Cawley, and her minions, for providing the chili, the Montezuma Audubon Center for hosting, and Friends of the Montezuma Wetlands Complex for covering participant fees.
Jane Graves, Co-Compiler Snow Goose - 15 Cackling Goose - 1 Canada Goose - 37,609 Trumpeter Swan 57 Tundra Swan 100 Wood Duck 1 Gadwall - 5 American Black Duck - 232 Mallard - 337 Redhead - 1 Ring-necked Duck 6 Hooded Merganser - 22 Common Merganser 59 Ring-necked Pheasant 1 Ruffed Grouse - 1 Wild Turkey 121 Common Loon 1 Great Blue Heron - 15 Bald Eagle 20 Northern Harrier - 14 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 6 Cooper's Hawk - 6 Red-tailed Hawk - 164 Rough-legged Hawk - 7 2 American Kestrel - 4 Peregrine Falcon 2 American Coot CW Sandhill Crane - 1 Ring-billed Gull - 174 Herring Gull - 240 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Gull sp. - 20 Rock Dove 772 Mourning Dove 532 Eastern Screech-Owl - 35 Great Horned Owl - 13 Barred Owl 1 Long-eared Owl 1 Short-eared Owl - 13 Belted Kingfisher 5 Red-bellied Woodpecker 87 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 155 Hairy Woodpecker 43 Northern Flicker - 33 Pileated Woodpecker 13 Northern Shrike - 4 Blue Jay - 262 American Crow 1294 Horned Lark - 138 Black-capped Chickadee - 419 Tufted Titmouse - 86 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 White-breasted Nuthatch - 120 Brown Creeper 11 Carolina Wren - 2 Winter Wren - 4 Golden-crowned Kinglet 17 Eastern Bluebird - 82 American Robin 647 Gray Catbird - 1 Northern Mockingbird - 5 European Starling - 1740 Cedar Waxwing 303 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 4 American Tree Sparrow 593 Song Sparrow 7 Swamp Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 73 White-crowned Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Junco 436 Snow Bunting 239 Northern Cardinal - 236 Red-winged Blackbird 96 Common Grackle - 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 227 House Finch 149 American Goldfinch - 230 House Sparrow - 437 -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
