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The Lake Erie Islands Christmas Bird Count was held this past Sunday,
December 20. This was the first year in a while that it was an
international count with counters on Pelee Island. Kelleys, South Bass and
Middle Bass Islands were covered. A total of 82 species were seen during
the count. Birds of note were all 1 white-winged, 1 surf, and 5 black
scoters, 5 long-tailed ducks, 7 killdeer, 1 dunlin, 1 purple sandpiper, 1
lesser black-backed gull, a count week long-eared owl, 5 northern saw-whet
owls, and 29 hermit thrushes. The purple sandpiper was on South Bass
Island. The owls were all on Kelleys Island. Also of interest were counts
of 3217 bufflehead and 3255 common goldeneye.
Species
Canada Goose 421
Tundra Swan 302
Gadwall 93
American Wigeon 2
American Black Duck 316
Mallard 1895
Northern Shoveler 1
Northern Pintail 5
Canvasback 77
Redhead 16
Ring-necked Duck 1
Greater Scaup 180
Lesser Scaup 839
Scaup spp. 1571
White-winged Scoter 1
Surf Scoter 1
Black Scoter 5
Long-tailed Duck 5
Bufflehead 3217
Common Goldeneye 3255
Hooded Merganser 9
Common Merganser 859
Red-breasted Merganser 7092
Merganser spp. 982
Ruddy Duck 1
Divers spp. 726
Ring-necked Pheasant 6
Wild Turkey 150
Common Loon 1
Horned Grebe 3
Double-crested Cormorant 5
Great Blue Heron 2
Bald Eagle 7
Sharp-shinned Hawk 3
Cooper's Hawk 3
Red-tailed Hawk 4
American Coot 1
Killdeer 7
Dunlin 1
Purple Sandpiper 1
Bonaparte's Gull 1617
Ring-billed Gull 1972
Herring Gull 2241
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 92
Gull spp. 483
Mourning Dove 12
Eastern Screech-Owl 13
Great Horned Owl 10
Long-eared Owl CW
Northern Saw-whet Owl 5
Belted Kingfisher 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 34
Downy Woodpecker 105
Northern Flicker 11
Blue Jay 57
American Crow 97
Horned Lark 12
Black-capped Chickadee 438
Red-breasted Nuthatch 5
White-breasted Nuthatch 27
Brown Creeper 22
Carolina Wren 14
Winter Wren 4
Golden-crowned Kinglet 14
Kinglet spp. 1
Eastern Bluebird 6
Hermit Thrush 29
American Robin 385
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 5884
Cedar Waxwing 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler 26
American Tree Sparrow 17
Song Sparrow 4
Swamp Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 40
White-crowned Sparrow 5
Sparrow spp. 78
Dark-eyed Junco 50
Lapland Longspur 1
Northern Cardinal 203
Red-winged Blackbird 41
Common Grackle 8
Brown-headed Cowbird 50
Purple Finch 2
House Finch 124
American Goldfinch 56
House Sparrow 629
37005
82 sp
John Pogacnik
4765 Lockwood Road
Perry, OH 44081
(440) 259-2751
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