Here is the final list of species observed on the Dec. 29, 2017 Martha’s Vineyard Christmas Bird Count. There were 23,222 individuals observed comprising 120 species on Count Day, plus four recognizable subspecies or hybrids, and eight other species were observed during Count Week (CW), which is three days before and after Count Day. Thank you to Luanne Johnson for taking the time to compile and vet all these data.
Snow goose (white morph) 12, snow goose (dark morph) 5, Ross’s Goose 1, brant 49, Canada goose 2,503, mute swan 54, gadwall 65, Eurasian wigeon 1, American wigeon 61, American black duck 1,157, Mallard 1,107, mallard and muscovy duck hybrids 2, northern shoveler 1, northern pintail 12, green-winged teal 87, Eurasian (common) teal 2.
Ring-necked duck 7, greater scaup 925, lesser scaup 88, king eider 1, common eider 1,333, harlequin duck 30, surf scoter 157, white-winged scoter 492, black scoter 86, long-tailed duck 5, bufflehead 1,190, common goldeneye 633, hooded merganser 233, common merganser 9, red-breasted merganser 466, ruddy duck 40.
Northern bobwhite 12, wild turkey 246, red-throated loon 31, pacific loon 1, common loon 133, pied-billed grebe 1, horned grebe 26, red-necked grebe 3, northern gannet 5, double-crested cormorant 10, great cormorant 57, great blue heron 22, black-crowned night heron 11, turkey vulture 9, northern harrier 7, sharp-shinned hawk 3, Cooper’s hawk 7, small accipiter sp. 1, bald eagle 3, red-tailed hawk 37, merlin 2, peregrine falcon 4.
Black-bellied plover 16, killdeer 4, greater yellowlegs 2, lesser yellowlegs CW, sanderling 279, dunlin 80, purple sandpiper 21, Wilson’s snipe 15, thick-billed murre 1, razorbill 11, black guillemot CW, Bonaparte’s gull 18, ring-billed gull 185, herring gull 1,171, Iceland gull CW, great black-backed gull 134, Forster’s tern CW.
Rock pigeon 92, mourning dove 289, barn owl 5, eastern screech-owl 32, great horned owl 1, snowy owl 10, northern saw-whet owl 6, belted kingfisher 16, red-bellied woodpecker 81, yellow-bellied sapsucker 5, downy woodpecker 135, hairy woodpecker 20, northern flicker 72, eastern phoebe 1, blue jay 585, American crow 889, fish crow 16, crow sp. 121, horned lark CW.
Tree swallow 11, black-capped chickadee 1499, tufted titmouse 205, white-breasted nuthatch 118, brown creeper 3, winter wren 11, Carolina wren 52, golden-crowned kinglet 29, ruby-crowned kinglet 1, eastern bluebird 81, hermit thrush 52, American robin 1,637, gray catbird 36, brown thrasher 2, northern mockingbird 28, European starling 1002, cedar waxwing 293, ovenbird 1.
Ppine warbler 2, yellow-rumped warbler 337, yellow-breasted chat CW, American tree sparrow 2, chipping sparrow 19, clay-colored sparrow 1, field sparrow 8, fox sparrow 5, dark-eyed junco 284, white-crowned sparrow 1, white-throated sparrow 278, savannah sparrow 4, ‘Ipswich’ sparrow 5, song sparrow 256, swamp sparrow 18, eastern towhee 30, sparrow species 8, snow bunting 18, northern cardinal 329, red-winged blackbird 3, eastern meadowlark 3, rusty blackbird CW, common grackle 2, Baltimore oriole CW, house finch 242, American goldfinch 288 house sparrow 260.
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