82nd Bronx-Westchester Christmas Bird Count
December 26, 2005
The Bronx-Westchester CBC has seen well
over 220 different species.
Summary of birds seen over its 80 plusyear history.
1999 Results
2000 Results
2001 Results
2002 Results
2003 Results
2004 Results
2005 Results are below
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The 82nd Bronx-Westchester Christmas Bird count held Monday, December 26 found 110 species and 39,630 birds.
The count was hampered by rain and fog for most of the morning; fortunately temperatures were in the mid 40's. Many bodies of fresh water remained mostly frozen.
Highlights included:
* Three American Oystercatchers off Edgewater Point, Mamaroneck, second count record.
* An unidentified swallow at Five Islands Park, New Rochelle.
* Two White-winged Scoters, three Red-necked Grebes off Rye
* Wilson's Snipe and fourteen Rusty Blackbirds in Van Cortlandt Park.
* Three Chipping Sparrows, two in the Botanical Gardens and one in Riverdale.
* And a count period Yellow-breasted Chat in Wave Hill which was closed for the count.
* Other count week birds included Turkey Vulture, Eastern Phoebe, and Horned Lark
In an example of how things have changed; Peregrine Falcons set a new high count of seven breaking the old mark of 6 in 1936. Merlins tied a high count with four and we squeaked by with one American Kestrel. Who would have thought that one day peregrines and merlins would outnumber kestrels on a count?
There was also a new high count for Hooded Merganser (310). Black-capped Chickadees were abundant and fell just short of a high count.
House Finches continue their decline. There were only 155 birds, a 26-year low. Their high count was 1615 set in 1991.
Thanks to all eighty-four participants. The complete compilation results are attached.
Due to Christmas Eve falling on Sunday, the next count will be on SATURDAY, December 23, 2006
Michael Bochnik
(914) 2379331
BochnikM@cs.com
Species |
Hudson Valley |
Yonkers |
West Bronx |
East Bronx |
Scarsdale |
Rye |
Total |
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1 |
Snow Goose (white form) |
2 |
2 |
||||||
2 |
Brant |
375 |
1 |
108 |
484 |
||||
3 |
Canada Goose |
137 |
260 |
1188 |
1434 |
1843 |
1182 |
6044 |
|
4 |
Mute Swan |
2 |
4 |
12 |
19 |
56 |
93 |
||
5 |
Wood Duck |
7 |
9 |
6 |
22 |
||||
6 |
Gadwall |
2 |
2 |
11 |
11 |
79 |
105 |
||
7 |
American Wigeon |
5 |
130 |
159 |
294 |
||||
8 |
American Black Duck |
8 |
9 |
33 |
422 |
238 |
376 |
1086 |
|
9 |
Mallard |
75 |
116 |
316 |
224 |
783 |
362 |
1876 |
|
Mallard hybrid |
1 |
2 |
7 |
3 |
13 |
||||
10 |
Northern Shoveler |
6 |
6 |
||||||
11 |
Northern Pintail |
1 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
||||
12 |
Green-winged Teal (Am.) |
12 |
12 |
||||||
13 |
Canvasback |
1 |
1 |
6 |
8 |
||||
14 |
Ring-necked Duck |
7 |
2 |
9 |
|||||
15 |
Greater Scaup |
2183 |
739 |
37 |
2959 |
||||
16 |
Lesser Scaup |
40 |
1 |
41 |
|||||
17 |
White-winged Scoter |
2 |
2 |
4 years in a row |
|||||
18 |
Long-tailed Duck |
4 |
58 |
62 |
|||||
19 |
Bufflehead |
357 |
119 |
274 |
750 |
||||
20 |
Common Goldeneye |
87 |
65 |
37 |
189 |
||||
21 |
Hooded Merganser |
8 |
24 |
23 |
6 |
64 |
185 |
310 |
New High Count (271 in 1999) |
22 |
Common Merganser |
60 |
2 |
62 |
|||||
23 |
Red-breasted Merganser |
48 |
60 |
177 |
285 |
||||
24 |
Ruddy Duck |
28 |
632 |
22 |
9 |
691 |
|||
25 |
Ring-necked Pheasant |
1 |
15 |
16 |
|||||
26 |
Wild Turkey |
2 |
3 |
1 |
29 |
8 |
43 |
||
27 |
Red-throated Loon |
2 |
8 |
10 |
|||||
28 |
Common Loon |
2 |
7 |
3 |
12 |
||||
29 |
Pied-billed Grebe |
1 |
2 |
3 |
|||||
30 |
Horned Grebe |
1 |
6 |
7 |
|||||
31 |
Red-necked Grebe |
3 |
3 |
Tied High Count (1986) |
|||||
32 |
Double-crested Cormorant |
1 |
15 |
4 |
CW |
20 |
|||
33 |
Great Cormorant |
2 |
3 |
16 |
21 |
35-year low |
|||
34 |
Great Blue Heron |
1 |
4 |
4 |
10 |
14 |
33 |
||
Turkey Vulture |
CW |
CW |
CW |
||||||
35 |
Northern Harrier |
2 |
2 |
4 |
|||||
36 |
Sharp-shinned Hawk |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
8 |
||
37 |
Cooper's Hawk |
4 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
11 |
|||
accipiter, sp. |
1 |
1 |
2 |
||||||
38 |
Red-tailed Hawk |
4 |
11 |
19 |
16 |
20 |
9 |
79 |
|
39 |
American Kestrel |
1 |
1 |
||||||
40 |
Merlin |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
Tied High Count (2002) |
||
41 |
Peregrine Falcon |
2 |
3 |
2 |
7 |
New High Count (6 in 1936) |
|||
42 |
Virginia Rail |
2 |
2 |
||||||
43 |
American Coot |
2 |
2 |
||||||
44 |
Killdeer |
6 |
1 |
1 |
8 |
||||
45 |
American Oystercatcher |
3 |
3 |
2nd time on Count |
|||||
46 |
Ruddy Turnstone |
1 |
6 |
7 |
|||||
47 |
Purple Sandpiper |
1 |
12 |
13 |
26 |
||||
48 |
Dunlin |
12 |
1 |
13 |
|||||
49 |
Wilson's Snipe |
1 |
1 |
||||||
50 |
American Woodcock |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||||
51 |
Bonaparte's Gull |
6 |
6 |
||||||
52 |
Ring-billed Gull |
199 |
1026 |
363 |
3467 |
542 |
383 |
5980 |
|
53 |
Herring Gull |
2 |
151 |
53 |
227 |
271 |
200 |
904 |
|
54 |
Great Black-backed Gull |
2 |
11 |
3 |
51 |
16 |
96 |
179 |
|
55 |
Rock Pigeon |
92 |
97 |
339 |
345 |
192 |
45 |
1110 |
|
56 |
Mourning Dove |
54 |
99 |
100 |
129 |
296 |
86 |
764 |
|
57 |
Monk Parakeet |
4 |
4 |
||||||
58 |
Eastern Screech-Owl |
2 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
9 |
|||
59 |
Great Horned Owl |
1 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
6 |
|||
60 |
Northern Saw-whet Owl |
2 |
2 |
||||||
61 |
Belted Kingfisher |
1 |
1 |
6 |
4 |
12 |
23-year low |
||
62 |
Red-bellied Woodpecker |
9 |
24 |
30 |
24 |
38 |
32 |
157 |
|
63 |
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
17-year low |
|||
64 |
Downy Woodpecker |
11 |
25 |
35 |
32 |
42 |
30 |
175 |
|
65 |
Hairy Woodpecker |
2 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
9 |
7 |
28 |
|
66 |
Northern (Yel.-sh.)Flicker |
1 |
1 |
5 |
5 |
4 |
16 |
||
67 |
Pileated Woodpecker |
1 |
1 |
||||||
Eastern Phoebe |
CW |
CW |
|||||||
68 |
Blue Jay |
40 |
72 |
313 |
164 |
189 |
120 |
898 |
|
69 |
American Crow |
36 |
21 |
54 |
63 |
707 |
50 |
931 |
|
70 |
Fish Crow |
32 |
30 |
1 |
63 |
||||
crow,sp |
2 |
2 |
|||||||
Horned Lark |
CW |
CW |
|||||||
72 |
swallow, sp |
1 |
1 |
||||||
71 |
Black-capped Chickadee |
60 |
197 |
270 |
241 |
281 |
174 |
1223 |
second highest count |
73 |
Tufted Titmouse |
60 |
62 |
199 |
43 |
134 |
68 |
566 |
|
74 |
Red-breasted Nuthatch |
1 |
11 |
5 |
CW |
17 |
|||
75 |
White-breasted Nuthatch |
22 |
23 |
56 |
44 |
52 |
24 |
221 |
|
76 |
Brown Creeper |
1 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
8 |
||
77 |
Carolina Wren |
8 |
2 |
9 |
19 |
21 |
29 |
88 |
|
78 |
Winter Wren |
1 |
2 |
1 |
6 |
3 |
13 |
||
79 |
Marsh Wren |
1 |
3 |
4 |
|||||
80 |
Golden-crowned Kinglet |
1 |
1 |
||||||
81 |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
2 |
1 |
3 |
|||||
82 |
Eastern Bluebird |
5 |
5 |
||||||
83 |
Hermit Thrush |
5 |
11 |
5 |
4 |
4 |
29 |
||
84 |
American Robin |
9 |
4 |
227 |
74 |
78 |
152 |
544 |
|
85 |
Gray Catbird |
2 |
4 |
3 |
5 |
4 |
9 |
27 |
|
86 |
Northern Mockingbird |
6 |
14 |
48 |
12 |
15 |
16 |
111 |
|
87 |
Brown Thrasher |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||||
88 |
European Starling |
380 |
271 |
818 |
377 |
526 |
347 |
2719 |
|
89 |
American Pipit |
1 |
1 |
||||||
90 |
Cedar Waxwing |
51 |
24 |
28 |
17 |
120 |
|||
91 |
Yellow-rumped Warbler |
1 |
1 |
||||||
Yellow-breasted Chat |
CW |
CW |
|||||||
92 |
Eastern Towhee |
1 |
3 |
7 |
8 |
10 |
3 |
32 |
|
93 |
American Tree Sparrow |
1 |
5 |
40 |
4 |
32 |
82 |
||
94 |
Chipping Sparrow |
3 |
3 |
||||||
95 |
Field Sparrow |
1 |
1 |
||||||
96 |
Savannah Sparrow |
1 |
1 |
||||||
97 |
Fox Sparrow |
7 |
1 |
12 |
13 |
7 |
7 |
47 |
|
98 |
Song Sparrow |
12 |
23 |
105 |
49 |
81 |
41 |
311 |
|
99 |
Swamp Sparrow |
2 |
4 |
8 |
1 |
5 |
20 |
||
100 |
White-throated Sparrow |
111 |
169 |
1126 |
346 |
370 |
261 |
2383 |
|
101 |
Dark-eyed (Slate col.) Junco |
140 |
180 |
716 |
27 |
202 |
66 |
1331 |
|
102 |
Northern Cardinal |
20 |
35 |
96 |
35 |
62 |
28 |
276 |
22-year low |
103 |
Red-winged Blackbird |
2 |
145 |
32 |
16 |
9 |
204 |
||
104 |
Rusty Blackbird |
14 |
4 |
18 |
|||||
105 |
Common Grackle |
5 |
2 |
198 |
2 |
6 |
2 |
215 |
|
106 |
Brown-headed Cowbird |
1 |
26 |
1 |
28 |
||||
blackbird, sp |
3 |
3 |
|||||||
107 |
Purple Finch |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||||
108 |
House Finch |
40 |
8 |
34 |
73 |
155 |
26-year low |
||
109 |
American Goldfinch |
19 |
16 |
107 |
62 |
59 |
69 |
332 |
|
110 |
House Sparrow |
94 |
68 |
735 |
143 |
259 |
176 |
1475 |
|
Hudson Valley |
Yonkers |
West Bronx |
East Bronx |
Scarsdale |
Rye |
||||
Number of Saves |
1 |
2 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
8 |
|||
Number of Species |
45 |
56 |
65 |
68 |
77 |
86 |
110 |
||
Totals |
1698 |
3159 |
7988 |
12034 |
8908 |
5843 |
39630 |
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Missed Species: Black-crowned Night-Heron, Turkey Vulture, Northern Goshawk, Eastern Meadowlark |
Summary
of birds seen over its 80 year history.
1999 Results
2000 Results
2001 Results
2002 Results
2003 Results
2004 Results
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to the counts home page
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