LOWER KENT COUNTY, MARYLAND CHRISTMAS
BIRD COUNT
17 December 2007
| Red-throated Loon - 2
Common Loon - 12
Pied-billed Grebe - 1
Horned Grebe - 3
Double-crested Cormorant – 1
Great Blue Heron - 66
Black Vulture - 118
Turkey Vulture - 513
Greater White-fronted Goose - 1 (2nd in 25 years)
Snow Goose – 17,167
Ross’s Goose - 1 (3rd time in 25 years)
Cackling Goose - 4
Canada Goose – 44,481
Brant - 20 (3rd time in 25 years)
Mute Swan – 10
Trumpeter Swan - CW
Tundra Swan - 719
Wood Duck - 9
Gadwall - 5
American Wigeon - 1
American Black Duck - 153
Mallard - 3,718
Northern Shoveler - 29
Northern Pintail - 97
Green-winged Teal - 42
Canvasback - 2,353
Redhead - 2
Ring-necked Duck - 125
Greater Scaup - 1,485
Lesser Scaup – 12,073
scaup sp. – 2,689
Black Scoter - 2
Long-tailed Duck - 28
Bufflehead - 704
Common Goldeneye - 1,213
Hooded Merganser - 29
Common Merganser - 2
Red-breasted Merganser - 19
Ruddy Duck - 850
Bald Eagle - 103 (25-year high count)
Northern Harrier – 16
Sharp-shinned Hawk – 9
Cooper's Hawk – 6
Red-shouldered Hawk – 6
Red-tailed Hawk – 36
Golden Eagle – 1
American Kestrel – 8
Merlin – 1
Peregrine Falcon – 1 (5th time in 25
years)
Ring-necked Pheasant – 5
Wild Turkey – 21
King Rail – 1
Virginia Rail – 3
Killdeer – 32
Greater Yellowlegs – 3 (6th time in 25 years) American Woodcock – 3
Ring-billed Gull – 3,678
Herring Gull – 133
Great Black-backed Gull – 116
Dovekie – 1 (first count record)
Rock Pigeon – 37
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Mourning Dove – 365
Barn Owl – 1
Eastern Screech-Owl – 8
Great Horned Owl – 7
Belted Kingfisher – 12
Red-headed Woodpecker – 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker – 141
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker – 22
Downy Woodpecker – 53
Hairy Woodpecker – 18
Northern Flicker -182
Pileated Woodpecker – 5
Blue Jay – 466
American Crow – 138
Horned Lark – 175 (25-year high count)
Carolina Chickadee – 266
Tufted Titmouse – 152
Red-breasted Nuthatch – 28
White-breasted Nuthatch – 46
Brown-headed Nuthatch – 5 (2nd time in 25 years; high count)
Brown Creeper – 5
Carolina Wren – 184
House Wren – 1 (5th time in 25 years)
Winter Wren – 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet – 6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 14
Eastern Bluebird – 181
Hermit Thrush – 26
American Robin – 445 (25-year high count)
Gray Catbird – 6
Northern Mockingbird – 194
Brown Thrasher – 10
European Starling – 5,625
American Pipit – 123
Cedar Waxwing – 217
Yellow-rumped Warbler – 49
Eastern Towhee – 169 (25-year high count)
American Tree Sparrow – 3
Chipping Sparrow – 2
Field Sparrow – 37
Savannah Sparrow – 159 (25-year high count)
Fox Sparrow – 20
Song Sparrow – 432
Swamp Sparrow – 44
White-throated Sparrow – 1,927
White-crowned Sparrow – 48
Dark-eyed Junco – 1019
Snow Bunting – 43
Northern Cardinal – 670
Red-winged Blackbird – 8,548
Eastern Meadowlark – 45
Rusty Blackbird – 9
Common Grackle – 492
Brown-headed Cowbird – 12
Purple Finch – 8
House Finch – 121
Pine Siskin – 4
American Goldfinch – 482 (25-year high count)
House Sparrow – 151
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Total Species 118
Total Individuals 116,596
Bold type indicates unusual species or high count.
20 Observers in 9 Parties
Party Hours: 45.75 by Car; 41.25 on Foot; 87.0 Total
Party Miles: 344 by Car; 31 on Foot; 375
TotalOwling: 2 Hours; 11 Miles
Observers: Jim Cheever, Tad Eareckson, Walter Ellison, Rob Etgen, Jack Foehrenbach, Maren Gimpel, Jim Gruber, David Holmes, Alison Libshitz, Nancy Martin, Kathleen O’Connor, Jared Parks, Zach Parks, Meg Parry, Danny Poet, Joe Rodgers, Dan Small, Marcy Stutzman, Marcia Watson, Winger West
Marginal conditions (temperatures in the 40s; increasing wind; rain until early afternoon) produced an average species count, a few record species totals, and a somewhat low individual total.
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