Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Fall Roundup - 9/15/2012

The 58th annual Fall Roundup was held on September 15th. The weather was unsettled with showers in the AM hours then clearing with NW winds in the afternoon. The Fall Roundup covers all coastal areas from Quincy to Plymouth and some interior locations, mostly but not limited to Halifax, Middleboro, Lakeville, & the Bridgewaters. The tally uses the Christmas Bird Count style of counting all species and individuals of each species. An impressive 171 species were tallied. Full list:

Canada Goose  954
Mute Swan  83
Wood Duck  163
American Black Duck  70
Mallard  656
Blu-winged Teal  57
Green-winged Teal  6
Ring-necked Duck  3
Common Eider  70
Surf Scoter  36
White-winged Scoter  16
Wild Turkey  48
Common Loon  7
Pied-billed Grebe  15
Northern Gannet  16
Double-crested Cormorant  5038
Great Cormorant 2
American Bittern  1 - Scituate section
Great Blue Heron  74
Great Egret  93
Snowy Egret  135
Green Heron  1
Black-crowned Night heron  16
Turkey Vulture  22
Osprey  9
Bald Eagle  3
Northern Harrier  8
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Cooper's Hawk  14
Red-shouldered Hawk  14
Broad-winged Hawk  3
Red-tailed Hawk  35
American Kestrel  4
Merlin  2
Peregrine Falcon  3
Virginia Rail  1
Black-bellied Plover  535
American Golden Plover  4
Semipalmated Plover  698
Piping Plover  4
Killdeer  66
American Oystercatcher  16
Greater Yellowlegs  155
Willet  1
Lesser Yellowlegs  13
Solitary Sandpiper  2
Whimbrel  12
Ruddy Turnstone  40
Sanderling  1265
Semipalmated Sandpiper  558
Least Sandpiper  43
White-rumped Sandpiper  11
Pectoral Sandpiper  3
Dunlin  14
Curlew Sandpiper  1 - *possible; Nantasket Beach in Hull
Short-billed Dowitcher  13
Wilson's Snipe  3
American Woodcock  7
Laughing Gull  705
Bonaparte's Gull  19
Ring-billed Gull  1271
Herring Gull  2248
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1 - Plymouth section
Great Black-backed Gull  511
Caspian Tern  1 - Quincy
Roseate Tern  1
Common Tern  3070
Forster's Tern  41
Black Skimmer  1 - Plymouth Beach
Rock Pigeon  305
Mourning Dove  267
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1
Eastern Screech Owl  34
Great Horned Owl  16
Barred Owl  9
Chimney Swift  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  7
Belted Kingfisher  27
Red-bellied Woodpecker  31
Downy Woodpecker  80
Hairy Woodpecker  13
Northern Flicker  61
Eastern Wood-Pewee  3
Empid sp.  3
Eastern Pheobe  48
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Eastern Kingbird  3
Blue-headed Vireo  1
Warbling Vireo  2
Philadelphia Vireo  2
Red-eyed Vireo  24
Blue Jay  293
American Crow  173
Fish Crow  71
Horned Lark  1
Tree Swallow 11280
Bank Swallow  48
Cliff Swallow  4
Barn Swallow  43
Black-capped Chickadee  330
Tufted Titmouse  144
Red-breasted Nuthatch  29
White-breasted Nuthatch  77
Brown Creeper  1
Carolina Wren  85
House Wren  15
Winter Wren  1 - Quincy section
Marsh Wren  4
Golden-crowned Kinglet  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1
Eastern Bluebird  16
Swainson's Thrush  2
Hermit Thrush  1
Wood Thrush  1
American Robin  1604
Gray Catbird  273
Northern Mockingbird  43
Brown Thrasher  3
European Starling  1231
American Pipit  6
Cedar Waxwing  65
Blue-winged Warbler  1
Nashville Warbler  7
Northern Parula  8
Yellow Warbler  4
Magnolia Warbler  3
Black-throated Blue Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler  0
Black-throated Green Warbler  8
Pine Warbler  40
Prairie Warbler  4
Palm Warbler 12
Blackpoll Warbler  23
Black & White Warbler  9
American Redstart  23
Ovenbird  3
Northern Waterthrush  1
Common Yellowthroat  64
Wilson's Warbler  6
Canada Warbler  1
Yellow-breasted Chat  1 - Scituate section
Scarlet Tanager  8
Eastern Towhee  24
Chipping Sparrow  216
Clay-colored Sparrow  5 - Scituate section 4;  Duxbury section 1
Field Sparrow  2
Savannah Sparrow  122
Salt Marsh Sparrow  3
Song Sparrow 295
Lincoln's Sparrow  5
Swamp Sparrow  42
White-throated Sparrow 1
White-crowned Sparrow  1
Dark-eyed Junco  1 - Lakeville
Northern Cardinal  151
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  4
Blue Grosbeak  1 - Interior section
Indigo Bunting  16
Dickcissel  1 - Hingham section
Bobolink  133
Red-winged Blackbird  466
Rusty Blackbird  1 - Scituate section
Common Grackle  1399
Brown-headed Cowbird  22
Baltimore Oriole  4
Purple Finch  3
House Finch  94
Pine Siskin 1 - Interior section
American Goldfinch  213
House Sparrow  169

Total species: 171

Vin Zollo













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