NORTH SHORE AUDUBON SOCIETY

SERVING THE WESTERN NORTH SHORE OF LONG ISLAND, N.Y.

Our mission is: to promote, protect and preserve the environment and the birds that inhabit it through education, advocacy and leadership.



NORTHERN NASSAU CHRISTMAS COUNT RESULTS
December 17, 2011

TOTAL SPECIES: 111
TOTAL INDIVIDUALS: 39,125

Red-throated Loon 59   Killdeer 22   Pine Warbler 1
Common Loon 42   Ruddy Turnstone 3   Northern Cardinal 257
Pied-billed Grebe 3   Sanderling 45   Painted Bunting 1
Horned Grebe 44   Purple Sandpiper 4   Eastern Towhee 17
Red-necked Grebe 5   Bonaparte's Gull 17   American Tree Sparrow 5
Northern Gannet 18   Ring-billed Gull 1645   Chipping Sparrow 16
Great Cormorant 2   Herring Gull 1714   Field Sparrow 16
Double-crested Cormorant 23   Lesser Black-backed Gull 1   Savannah Sparrow 2
Great Blue Heron 34   Great Blackibacked Gull 144   Fox Sparrow 38
Great Egret 10   Razorbill 5   Song Sparrow 242
Mute Swan 118   Rock Pigeon 533   Lincoln's Sparrow 1
Greater White-fronted Goose 1   Mourning Dove 533   Swamp nSparrow 6
Snow Goose 45   Eastern Screech-Owl 18   White-throated Sparrow 872
Brant 1349   Great Horned Owl 15   Dark-eyed Junco 349
Canada Goose 10689   Belted Kingfisher 23   Snow Bunting 39
Wood Duck 6   Red-bellied Woodpecker 161   Red-winged Blackbird 77
Green-winged Teal 28   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 19   Rusty Blackbird 13
American Black Duck 1223   Downy Woodpecker 108   Common Grackle 6
Mallard 1430   Hairy Woodpecker 23   Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Northern Pintail 14   Northern Flicker 15   Purple Finch 1
Northern Shoveler 7   Blue Jay 437   House Finch 219
Gadwall 263   American Crow 244   American Goldfinch 275
American Wigeon 208   Fish Crow 2   House Sparrow 313
Canvasback 10   Common Raven 2      
Ring-necked Duck 10   Black-capped Chickadee 249      
Greater Scaup 7465   Tufted Titmouse 114      
King Eider 1   Red-breasted Nuthatch 3      
Long-tailed Duck 1347   White-breasted cNuthatch 94      
Black Scoter 3   Brown Creeper 4      
Surf Scoter 71   Carolina Wren 55      
White-winged Scoter 390   House Wren 2      
Common Goldeneye 116   Winter Wren 18      
Bufflehead 828   Golden-crowned Kinglet 17      
Hooded Merganser 186   Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5      
Red-breasted Merganser 328   Eastern Bluebird 8      
Ruddy Duck 7   Hermit Thrush 8      
Turkey Vulture 7   American Robin 427      
Bald Eagle 1   Gray Catbird 3      
Sharp-shinned Hawk 8   Northern Mockingbird 74      
Cooper's Hawk 13   Brown Thrasher 1      
Red-tailed Hawk 57   Cedar Waxwibg 30      
Peregrine Falcon 1   European Starling 3115      
Virginia Rail 1   Orange-crowned Warbler 1      
American Coot     Yellow-rumped Warbler 2      

SEEN IN COUNT WEEK BUT NOT ON COUNT DAY:
Cackling Goose, Lesser Scaup, Merlin, Vesper Sparrow