Date: 12/16/24 6:25 am From: Jason Luscier <luscier...> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Syracuse CBC Results
The Syracuse CBC occurred on Saturday, 14 December. Highlights included:
1. a MASSIVE number of American Robins (a count record),
2. Magnolia Warbler (a count first),
3. Palm Warbler,
4. Gray Catbirds (2),
5. Killdeer (2),
6. high counts of both Carolina and Winter Wrens,
7. noticeably absent: loons, Brown-headed Cowbird, Peregrine Falcon,
Merlin
*Species* *TOTAL*
Cackling Goose 3
Canada Goose 9131
Mute Swan 11
Tundra Swan 139
Gadwall 13
American Wigeon 1
American Black Duck 4
Mallard 493
Mallard (Domestic type) 2
Northern Shoveler 3
Northern Pintail 2
Redhead 742
Greater Scaup 77
Lesser Scaup 54
White-winged Scoter 1
Bufflehead 19
Common Goldeneye 21
Hooded Merganser 61
Common Merganser 1661
Red-breasted Merganser 30
Wild Turkey 111
Pied-billed Grebe 3
Horned Grebe 2
Red-necked Grebe 2
Double-crested Cormorant 48
Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 15
Turkey Vulture 45
Northern Harrier 6
Sharp-shinned Hawk 5
Cooper's Hawk 13
Sharp/Coops 1
Bald Eagle 20
Red-tailed Hawk 54
American Coot 80
Killdeer 2
Bonaparte's Gull 4
Ring-billed Gull 1166
Herring Gull 72
Great Black-backed Gull 13
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 1753
Mourning Dove 187
Eastern Screech-Owl 3
Great Horned Owl 7
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 98
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 16
Downy Woodpecker 143
Hairy Woodpecker 30
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 48
Pileated Woodpecker 24
American Kestrel 1
Merlin 1
Blue Jay 100
American Crow 2064
Fish Crow 8
Common Raven 14
Black-capped Chickadee 544
Tufted Titmouse 144
Red-breasted Nuthatch 8
White-breasted Nuthatch 145
Brown Creeper 6
Winter Wren 12
Marsh Wren 1
Carolina Wren 55
Golden-crowned Kinglet 28
Eastern Bluebird 52
Hermit Thrush 5
American Robin 29234
Gray Catbird 2
Northern Mockingbird 28
European Starling 4253
Cedar Waxwing 28
Snow Bunting 15
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
American Tree Sparrow 166
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 296
White-throated Sparrow 219
Song Sparrow 17
Eastern Towhee 1
Northern Cardinal 270
Red-winged Blackbird 21
Common Grackle 4
House Finch 131
Purple Finch 1
American Goldfinch 209
House Sparrow 461
Black Vulture 5
*Palm Warbler* *1*
*Magnolia Warbler* *1*
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