The following Kings CBC 2012 list is the master list of 134 species seen on the Kings County Xmas count. For brevity the locations for IRR or Rare are not disclosed. Note "IRR" means Irregular , species seen less 8x the past 10 years (or seen 4-7 x the last decade) ; Rare is 3 or less the same time period.
Enjoy your holidays and we wish you a fortuitous New Year from the Brooklyn Birding Community. Regards Peter Dorosh Pres., BBC. Species Name Total Snow Goose 8 Brant 11091 Canada Goose 1408 Mute Swan 216 Wood Duck 3 Gadwall 68 American Wigeon 81 American Black Duck 738 Mallard 716 Northern Shoveler 264 Northern Pintail 1 Green-winged Teal 131 Canvasback 2 Greater Scaup 3592 Lesser Scaup 119 Surf Scoter 3 White-winged Scoter 5 Black Scoter 19 Scoter (sp.) 36 Long-tailed Duck 401 Bufflehead 1312 Common Goldeneye 23 Barrow's Goldeneye 1 RARE Hooded Merganser 46 Red-breasted Merganser 756 Ruddy Duck 150 Ring-necked Pheasant 3 Red-throated Loon 110 Common Loon 76 Pied-billed Grebe 14 Horned Grebe 157 Red-necked Grebe 1 Northern Gannet 135 American White Pelican 1 NEW Double-crested Cormorant 110 Great Cormorant 69 American Bittern 1 IRR Great Blue Heron 19 Black-crowned Night-Heron 3 Northern Harrier 15 Sharp-shinned Hawk 8 Cooper's Hawk 15 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 IRR Red-tailed Hawk 27 Rough-legged Hawk 2 IRR American Kestrel 10 Merlin 5 Peregrine Falcon 5 Clapper Rail 3 IRR American Coot 41 Black-bellied Plover 24 Semipalmated Plover 1 RARE Killdeer 14 American Oystercatcher 1 IRR Greater Yellowlegs 15 Sanderling 50 Purple Sandpiper 12 Dunlin 112 Wilson's Snipe 6 RARE American Woodcock 2 Bonaparte's Gull 139 Ring-billed Gull 4641 Herring Gull 7557 Great Black-backed Gull 266 Razorbill 37 IRR Rock Pigeon 595 Mourning Dove 173 Monk Parakeet 35 Northern Saw-whet Owl 2 IRR Belted Kingfisher 6 Red-bellied Woodpecker 38 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 25 Downy Woodpecker 68 Hairy Woodpecker 10 Northern Flicker 54 Blue Jay 151 American Crow 109 Fish Crow 2 IRR Horned Lark 63 Tree Swallow 113 IRR Cave Swallow 1 NEW Black-capped Chickadee 245 Tufted Titmouse 128 Red-breasted Nuthatch 25 White-breasted Nuthatch 50 Brown Creeper 3 Carolina Wren 22 Winter Wren 4 Golden-crowned Kinglet 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4 Eastern Bluebird 8 RARE Hermit Thrush 7 American Robin 118 Gray Catbird 7 Northern Mockingbird 116 Brown Thrasher 4 IRR European Starling 2114 American Pipit 2 Cedar Waxwing 29 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 IRR Nashville Warbler 1 RARE Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 NEW Yellow-rumped Warbler 223 Palm Warbler 4 Blackpoll Warbler 1 RARE Common Yellowthroat 2 IRR Eastern Towhee 3 American Tree Sparrow 87 Chipping Sparrow 2 Field Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 30 Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow 1 RARE Seaside Sparrow 2 RARE Fox Sparrow 35 Song Sparrow 321 Swamp Sparrow 46 White-throated Sparrow 387 White-crowned Sparrow 2 IRR Dark-eyed Junco 143 Lapland Longspur 1 IRR Snow Bunting 16 Northern Cardinal 212 Red-winged Blackbird 18 Eastern Meadowlark 10 Common Grackle 1 Boat-tailed Grackle 69 Brown-headed Cowbird 100 Purple Finch 2 IRR House Finch 165 Red Crossbill 2 RARE White-winged Crossbill 75 RARE Common Redpoll 2 RARE Pine Siskin 33 IRR American Goldfinch 103 House Sparrow 282 Total Species 134 -- 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/ --
