This year’s Martha’s Vineyard Christmas Bird Count was held on Jan. 3. Ninety-three people participated in the count, with 55 individuals divided into 13 to 15-person field teams, and 38 people watching their bird feeders.

A total of 82,794 individuals and 129 species were recorded: 119 species and two subspecies on count day, and 10 other species in count week (the three days preceeding and following count day). The final results are listed below.

Species Number Counted

Snow goose (white morph) 9

Snow goose (dark morph) 1

Brant 157

Canada goose 3,000

Mute swan 131

Wood duck cp

Gadwall 16

American wigeon 66

American black duck 1,487

Mallard 1,290

Northern pintail 5

Green-winged teal 14

Redhead cp

Ring-necked duck 83

Greater scaup 420

Lesser scaup 2

Scaup species 15

Common eider 52,000

Harlequin duck 53

Surf scoter 230

White-winged scoter 218

Black scoter 62

Scoter species 2

Long-tailed duck 91

Bufflehead 3,530

Common goldeneye 640

Barrow’s goldeneye cp

Hooded merganser 277

Common merganser 19

Red-breasted merganser 1,046

Ruddy duck 39

Ring-necked pheasant 2

Wild turkey 38

Red-throated loon 15

Common loon 157

Pied-billed grebe 1

Horned grebe 69

Red-necked grebe 1

Northern gannet 64

Double-crested cormorant 7

Great cormorant 19

Cormorant species 1

Great blue heron 31

Black-crowned night heron 3

Northern harrier 17

Sharp-shinned hawk 11

Cooper’s hawk 13

Small accipiter 1

Red-tailed hawk 55

Rough-legged hawk 2

Turkey vulture 32

American kestrel cp

Merlin 5

Peregrine falcon 1

American coot 3

Black-bellied plover 91

Greater yellowlegs cp

Ruddy turnstone cp

Sanderling 300

Purple sandpiper 10

Dunlin 138

American woodcock 2

Black-headed gull cp

Bonaparte’s gull 41

Ring-billed gull 300

Herring gull 1,750

Great black-backed gull 400

Black-legged kittiwake 51

Razorbill 560

Alcid species 125

Rock pigeon 158

Mourning dove 400

Barn owl 3

Eastern screech-owl 12

Great horned owl 3

Snowy owl 2

Northern saw-whet owl 1

Belted kingfisher 19

Red-bellied woodpecker 87

Yellow-bellied sapsucker 1

Downy woodpecker 162

Hairy woodpecker 21

Northern flicker 102

Eastern phoebe cp

northern shrike 1

blue jay 522

American crow 1,013

horned lark 60

tree swallow 6

black-capped chickadee 1,670

tufted titmouse 97

red-breasted nuthatch 41

white-breasted nuthatch 129

brown creeper 4

Carolina wren 174

winter wren 9

golden-crowned kinglet 51

ruby-crowned kinglet 2

eastern bluebird 169

hermit thrush 42

American robin 2,222

gray catbird 43

northern mockingbird 90

brown thrasher 3

European starling 2,150

American pipit 10

cedar waxwing 67

yellow-rumped warbler 426

pine warbler 5

palm warbler 1

yellow-breasted chat 5

eastern towhee 16

American tree sparrow 10

chipping sparrow 5

field sparrow 26

vesper sparrow 1

savannah sparrow 112

Ipswich sparrow 3

fox sparrow 10

song sparrow 447

swamp sparrow 22

white-throated sparrow 453

dark-eyed junco 360

lapland longspur 3

snow bunting 39

northern cardinal 468

red-winged blackbird 83

eastern meadowlark 3

common grackle cp

purple finch 6

house finch 372

white-winged crossbill cp

common redpoll 3

pine siskin 23

American goldfinch 405

house sparrow 722

Total birds 82,794

Robert Culbert is the compiler for the Christmas Bird Count and an ecological consultant living in Vineyard Haven.