{"id":1005360,"date":"2018-01-01T10:54:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T15:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1005360"},"modified":"2018-01-01T10:54:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T15:54:34","slug":"2017-the-year-in-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2018\/01\/01\/2017-the-year-in-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 The Year in Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>eBird tells me I saw a moderate 287 species last year. There are probably a few here and there I didn&#8217;t report. 169 of those were in Kings County. I didn&#8217;t travel to any new locations this year, so I only managed four life birds (and three if you don&#8217;t count the invasive Pin-tailed Whydah) but they were all really good ones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hammond&#8217;s Flycatcher\t\tCentral Park&#8211;The Ramble \tUS-NY \t02 Dec 2017<\/li>\n<li>Corn Crake\t\tCedar Beach, general area \tUS-NY \t08 Nov 2017<\/li>\n<li>Parakeet Auklet\t\tLand&#8217;s End&#8211;seawatch \tUS-CA \t25 Jul 2017<\/li>\n<li>Pin-tailed Whydah\t\tCanyon Park \tUS-CA \t17 Jun 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Locally I added  four birds to my New York list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hammond&#8217;s Flycatcher\t\tCentral Park&#8211;The Ramble \tUS-NY \t02 Dec 2017<\/li>\n<li>Corn Crake\t\tCedar Beach, general area \tUS-NY \t08 Nov 2017<\/li>\n<li>Northern Goshawk\t\tProspect Park \tUS-NY \t28 Mar 2017<\/li>\n<li>Iceland Gull\t\tProspect Park \tUS-NY \t11 Feb 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Five birds to my California list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Parakeet Auklet\t\tLand&#8217;s End&#8211;seawatch \tUS-CA \t25 Jul 2017<\/li>\n<li>Horned Lark\t\tBolsa Chica&#8211;walkbridge\/inner bay \tUS-CA \t19 Jun 2017<\/li>\n<li>White-eyed Vireo\t\tTalbert Nature Preserve \tUS-CA \t19 Jun 2017<\/li>\n<li>Japanese White-eye\t\tCanyon Park \tUS-CA \t17 Jun 2017<\/li>\n<li>Lincoln&#8217;s Sparrow\t\tCharleston Slough\/Coast Casey Forebay \tUS-CA \t18 Mar 2017<\/li>\n<li>Pin-tailed Whydah\t\tCanyon Park \tUS-CA \t17 Jun 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Four of these were in Orange County, bringing that total to 247.<\/p>\n<p>Three birds to my New Jersey list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tundra Swan\t\tEdwin B. Forsythe NWR&#8211;Southwest Pool \tUS-NJ \t10 Nov 2017<\/li>\n<li>Bald Eagle\t\tEdwin B. Forsythe NWR&#8211;Southwest Pool \tUS-NJ \t10 Nov 2017<\/li>\n<li>Bonaparte&#8217;s Gull\t\tEdwin B. Forsythe NWR&#8211;Southwest Pool \tUS-NJ \t10 Nov 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I added one bird, Sedge Wren, to my Louisiana list.<\/p>\n<p>For Kings County I added five for a total of 271:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Common Gallinule\t\tProspect Park \tUS-NY \t17 Nov 2017<\/li>\n<li>Swainson&#8217;s Warbler\t\tProspect Park \tUS-NY \t24 May 2017<\/li>\n<li>Short-billed Dowitcher\t\tPlumb Beach \tUS-NY \t05 Aug 2017<\/li>\n<li>Northern Goshawk\t\tProspect Park \tUS-NY \t28 Mar 2017<\/li>\n<li>Iceland Gull\t\tProspect Park \tUS-NY \t11 Feb 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If I hadn&#8217;t gotten sick for the Christmas count I could have picked up another 1 or 2 for Kings.<\/p>\n<p>I also added two species in Queens, seven in Santa Clara, 15 in Nassau, another 15 in New York County, and 9 in San Francisco. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eBird tells me I saw a moderate 287 species last year. There are probably a few here and there I didn&#8217;t report. 169 of those were in Kings County. I didn&#8217;t travel to any new locations this year, so I only managed four life birds (and three if you don&#8217;t count the invasive Pin-tailed Whydah) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005360"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005364,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005360\/revisions\/1005364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}