{"id":1002871,"date":"2009-12-31T07:36:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T12:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1002871"},"modified":"2009-12-30T07:42:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T12:42:28","slug":"476-inca-dove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2009\/12\/31\/476-inca-dove\/","title":{"rendered":"#476 Inca Dove"},"content":{"rendered":"

For birders the most important part of the solstice season is not presents under the tree or turkey (at least not domestic turkey) but rather the bird counts that end one year and start the next and that have done so for 110 years now. The annual Christmas Bird Count takes place globally for a couple of weeks around Christmas. You can usually find one near pretty much any significant human habitation. This year I did the Brooklyn count on the Saturday before Christmas, the Central Park count on the Sunday before Christmas, and then flew to New Orleans for the New Orleans East count on the Saturday after Christmas (and also to visit family, I feel compelled to mention). It’s especially fun to do bird counts in areas you don’t know all that well, because you’re virtually guaranteed to find something interesting and new.<\/p>\n

On Saturday the interesting and new bird for me was an Inca Dove, or rather four of them I spotted in a Live Oak tree in a vacant lot along Hayne Boulevard across the street from Lake Pontchartrain. No photos I’m afraid. On bird counts I usually don’t bring a camera so I can concentrate on finding and counting the birds rather than on photographing them.
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Overall, we tallied about 90 or so species in our section of the count circle. That’s somewhat under the 101 we saw back in 2006<\/a>, but that year we also covered large chunks of Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge and a Mangrove Cuckoo found by another team. This year we just covered Lake Pontchartrain and the surrounding suburban areas, so we able to do a smaller area in more depth. <\/p>\n

I don’t have the final tally numbers yet, but the species list is roughly:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \tGadwall <\/li>\n
  2. \tMallard \t<\/li>\n
  3. \tBlue-winged Teal \t<\/li>\n
  4. \tRing-necked Duck \t<\/li>\n
  5. \tLesser Scaup \t<\/li>\n
  6. \tGreater Scaup (*)\t<\/li>\n
  7. \tBufflehead \t<\/li>\n
  8. \tCommon Goldeneye \t<\/li>\n
  9. \tHooded Merganser \t<\/li>\n
  10. \tRed-breasted Merganser \t<\/li>\n
  11. \tRuddy Duck \t<\/li>\n
  12. \tCommon Loon \t<\/li>\n
  13. \tPied-billed Grebe \t<\/li>\n
  14. \tHorned Grebe \t<\/li>\n
  15. \tAmerican White Pelican \t<\/li>\n
  16. \tBrown Pelican \t<\/li>\n
  17. \tDouble-crested Cormorant \t<\/li>\n
  18. \tAnhinga \t<\/li>\n
  19. \tGreat Blue Heron \t<\/li>\n
  20. \tGreat Egret \t<\/li>\n
  21. \tSnowy Egret \t<\/li>\n
  22. \tLittle Blue Heron \t<\/li>\n
  23. \tTricolored Heron \t<\/li>\n
  24. \tCattle Egret \t<\/li>\n
  25. \tBlack-crowned Night-Heron \t<\/li>\n
  26. \tWhite Ibis \t<\/li>\n
  27. \tTurkey Vulture \t<\/li>\n
  28. \tOsprey \t<\/li>\n
  29. \tRed-shouldered Hawk \t<\/li>\n
  30. \tRed-tailed Hawk \t<\/li>\n
  31. \tAmerican Kestrel \t<\/li>\n
  32. \tCommon Moorhen \t<\/li>\n
  33. \tAmerican Coot \t<\/li>\n
  34. \tBlack-bellied Plover \t<\/li>\n
  35. \tSemipalmated Plover \t<\/li>\n
  36. \tKilldeer \t<\/li>\n
  37. \tSanderling (*)\t<\/li>\n
  38. \tSpotted Sandpiper \t<\/li>\n
  39. Dunlin (*) \t<\/li>\n
  40. \tRuddy Turnstone \t<\/li>\n
  41. \tWilson’s Snipe \t<\/li>\n
  42. \tLaughing Gull \t<\/li>\n
  43. \tRing-billed Gull \t<\/li>\n
  44. \tHerring Gull \t<\/li>\n
  45. \tForster’s Tern \t<\/li>\n
  46. \tCaspian Tern (*) \t<\/li>\n
  47. \tRoyal Tern \t<\/li>\n
  48. \tBlack Skimmer \t<\/li>\n
  49. \tRock Pigeon \t<\/li>\n
  50. \tEurasian Collared-Dove \t<\/li>\n
  51. \tWhite-winged Dove \t<\/li>\n
  52. \tMourning Dove \t<\/li>\n
  53. \tInca Dove \t<\/li>\n
  54. \tMonk Parakeet \t<\/li>\n
  55. \tBelted Kingfisher \t<\/li>\n
  56. \tYellow-bellied Sapsucker \t<\/li>\n
  57. \tDowny Woodpecker \t<\/li>\n
  58. \tNorthern Flicker \t<\/li>\n
  59. \tEastern Phoebe \t<\/li>\n
  60. \tGreat Horned Owl (*)<\/li>\n
  61. \tLoggerhead Shrike \t<\/li>\n
  62. \tBell’s Vireo (*)<\/li>\n
  63. \tBlue-headed Vireo \t<\/li>\n
  64. \tBlue Jay \t<\/li>\n
  65. \tAmerican Crow \t<\/li>\n
  66. \tFish Crow \t<\/li>\n
  67. \tTree Swallow \t<\/li>\n
  68. \tCarolina Chickadee \t<\/li>\n
  69. \tCarolina Wren \t<\/li>\n
  70. \tHouse Wren \t<\/li>\n
  71. \tGolden-crowned Kinglet (*) \t<\/li>\n
  72. \tRuby-crowned Kinglet \t<\/li>\n
  73. \tBlue-gray Gnatcatcher \t<\/li>\n
  74. \tGray Catbird (*) \t<\/li>\n
  75. \tNorthern Mockingbird \t<\/li>\n
  76. \tEuropean Starling \t<\/li>\n
  77. \tAmerican Pipit \t<\/li>\n
  78. \tOrange-crowned Warbler \t<\/li>\n
  79. \tYellow-rumped Warbler \t<\/li>\n
  80. \tPine Warbler \t<\/li>\n
  81. \tPrairie Warbler (*)\t<\/li>\n
  82. \tSavannah Sparrow \t<\/li>\n
  83. \tSong Sparrow \t<\/li>\n
  84. \tSeaside Sparrow (*)\t<\/li>\n
  85. \tSwamp Sparrow \t<\/li>\n
  86. \tWhite-throated Sparrow \t<\/li>\n
  87. \tNorthern Cardinal \t<\/li>\n
  88. \tBoat-tailed Grackle \t<\/li>\n
  89. \tAmerican Goldfinch \t<\/li>\n
  90. \tHouse Finch (*) <\/li>\n
  91. \tHouse Sparrow \t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (If it’s starred I didn’t see it myself, but others in the group did.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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