Brooklyn Bird Count Official Results
Peter Dorosh just sent me the final tally for Saturday’s Brooklyn Bird Count. This includes all of Kings County as well as Breezy Point, Jacob Riis Park, Fort Tilden, and the West Pond of Jamaica Bay (which aren’t offically in Brooklyn but make for a more circular area):
122 Species Reported; 41,206 individuals
| Red-throated Loon | 42 |
| Common Loon | 35 |
| Pied-billed Grebe | 13 |
| Horned Grebe | 100 |
| Red-necked Grebe | 1 |
| Northern Gannet | 210 |
| Great Cormorant | 64 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 115 |
| Great Blue Heron | 22 |
| Great Egret | 2 |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | 4 |
| Mute Swan | 139 |
| Snow Goose | 653 |
| Brant | 6,810 |
| Canada Goose | 1,724 |
| Wood Duck | 1 |
| Green-winged Teal | 215 |
| American Black Duck | 563 |
| Mallard | 615 |
| Northern Pintail | 1 |
| Northern Shoveler | 770 |
| Gadwall | 102 |
| Eurasian Wigeon | 1 |
| American Wigeon | 127 |
| Canvasback | 15 |
| Redhead | 2 |
| Ring-necked Duck | 2 |
| Greater Scaup | 1,500 |
| Lesser Scaup | 85 |
| Long-tailed Duck | 91 |
| Black Scoter | 25 |
| Surf Scoter | 1 |
| White-winged Scoter | 1 |
| Scoter (sp.) | 40 |
| Common Goldeneye | 28 |
| Bufflehead | 1,036 |
| Hooded Merganser | 55 |
| Common Merganser | 1 |
| Red-breasted Merganser | 393 |
| Ruddy Duck | 1,000 |
| Northern Harrier | 15 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 2 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 9 |
| Northern Goshawk | 1 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 19 |
| Rough-legged Hawk | 1 |
| American Kestrel | 7 |
| Merlin | 7 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 7 |
| Falcon (sp.) | 1 |
| Ring-necked Pheasant | 4 |
| Clapper Rail | 6 |
| Virginia Rail | 1 |
| American Coot | 228 |
| Black-bellied Plover | 4 |
| American Oystercatcher | 4 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 4 |
| Ruddy Turnstone | 1 |
| Sanderling | 146 |
| Purple Sandpiper | 51 |
| Dunlin | 74 |
| American Woodcock | 6 |
| Bonaparte’s Gull | 70 |
| Ring-billed Gull | 5,568 |
| Herring Gull | 9,305 |
| Great Black-backed Gull | 1,126 |
| Rock Dove | 1,118 |
| Mourning Dove | 331 |
| Monk Parakeet | 35 |
| Barn Owl | 1 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 5 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 25 |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 8 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 58 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 3 |
| Northern Flicker | 13 |
| Horned Lark | 58 |
| Blue Jay | 62 |
| American Crow | 185 |
| Fish Crow | 4 |
| Black-capped Chickadee | 38 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 20 |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | 2 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 11 |
| Brown Creeper | 1 |
| Carolina Wren | 39 |
| House Wren | 1 |
| Winter Wren | 3 |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | 2 |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 7 |
| Hermit Thrush | 8 |
| American Robin | 48 |
| Gray Catbird | 5 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 76 |
| American Pipit | 9 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 8 |
| European Starling | 2,277 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | 258 |
| Pine Warbler | 1 |
| Palm Warbler | 4 |
| Yellow Warbler | 1 |
| Yellow-breasted Chat | 2 |
| Northern Cardinal | 161 |
| Eastern Towhee | 3 |
| American Tree Sparrow | 77 |
| Chipping Sparrow | 7 |
| Field Sparrow | 2 |
| Savannah Sparrow | 3 |
| Fox Sparrow | 13 |
| Song Sparrow | 237 |
| Swamp Sparrow | 11 |
| White-throated Sparrow | 433 |
| Dark-eyed Junco | 254 |
| Lapland Longspur | 1 |
| Snow Bunting | 76 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 142 |
| Eastern Meadowlark | 2 |
| Rusty Blackbird | 3 |
| Boat-tailed Grackle | 54 |
| Common Grackle | 1 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 1,111 |
| House Finch | 151 |
| American Goldfinch | 29 |
| House Sparrows | 437 |
