[TN-Bird] Elizabethton spring count
- From: "Richard Knight" <rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "tn-bird" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 11:57:23 -0400
The 69th consecutive Elizabethton spring count was held on Saturday,
28 April 2012. Thirty-five observers in 7 parties found 157 species. This
is above the average of 146 spp. recorded over the last 30 years. The
all-time high was 161 spp. in 2005.
28 species of warblers were reported. Warblers breeding locally occurred
in good numbers, but purely transient species were scarce.
The list:
Canada Goose - 259
Wood Duck - 28
Mallard - 103
Blue-wg. Teal - 48
Ring-nk. Duck - 2
Bufflehead - 1
Red-br. Merganser - 2
N. Bobwhite - 2
Ruffed Grouse - 8
Wild Turkey - 40
Com. Loon - 14
Pied-billed Grebe - 7
Horned Grebe - 3
Dbl-cr. Cormorant - 18
Great Blue Heron - 20
Green Heron - 9
Yellow-cr. Night-Heron - 2
Black Vulture - 35
Turkey Vulture - 173
Osprey - 13
Bald Eagle - 4
N. Harrier - 1
Sharp-sh. Hawk - 2
Cooper's Hawk - 6
Red-shld. Hawk - 2
Broad-wg. Hawk - 20
Red-tailed Hawk - 26
Am. Kestrel - 6
Sora - 2
Am. Coot - 1
Killdeer - 37
Spotted Sandpiper - 22
Solitary Sandpiper - 34
Gr. Yellowlegs - 1
Lsr. Yellowlegs - 14
Least Sandpiper - 4
Pectoral Sandpiper - 2
Wilson's Snipe - 2
Am. Woodcock - 3
Ring-billed Gull - 4
Forster's Tern - 8
Rock Pigeon - 148
Eur. Collared-Dove - 4
Mourning Dove - 202
E. Screech-Owl - 6
Gr. Horned Owl - 2
Barred Owl - 8
N. Saw-whet Owl - 3
Chuck-will's-widow - 5
E. Whip-poor-will - 44
Chimney Swift - 180
Ruby-thr. Hummingbird - 20
Belted Kingfisher - 12
Red-headed Woodpecker - 5
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 55
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3
Downy Woodpecker - 29
Hairy Woodpecker - 16
N. Flicker - 28
Pileated Woodpecker - 44
E. Wood-Pewee - 3
Acadian Flycatcher - 6
Least Flycatcher - 8
E. Phoebe - 84
Gr. Crested Flycatcher - 7
E. Kingbird - 70
Loggerhead Shrike - 3
White-eyed Vireo - 11
Yellow-thr. Vireo - 4
Blue-hd. Vireo - 114
Warbling Vireo - 3
Red-eyed Vireo - 220
Blue Jay - 185
Am. Crow - 264
Com. Raven - 9
Horned Lark - 1
Purple Martin - 76
Tree Swallow - 217
N. Rough-wg. Swallow - 116
Cliff Swallow - 867
Barn Swallow - 254
Carolina Chickadee - 130
Tufted Titmouse - 104
Red-br. Nuthatch - 18
White-br. Nuthatch - 21
Brown Creeper - 4
Carolina Wren - 121
House Wren - 70
Winter Wren - 13
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 77
Golden-cr. Kinglet - 10
Ruby-cr. Kinglet - 6
E. Bluebird - 209
Veery - 2
Hermit Thrush - 4
Wood Thrush - 112
Am. Robin - 1146
Gray Catbird - 23
N. Mockingbird - 199
Brown Thrasher - 58
Eur. Starling - 836
Cedar Waxwing - 108
Ovenbird - 206
Worm-eating Warbler - 24
La. Waterthrush - 17
Golden-wg. Warbler - 7
Black-and-white Warbler - 100
Prothonotary Warbler - 1
Swainson's Warbler - 7
Tennessee Warbler - 1
Nashville Warbler - 1
Kentucky Warbler - 2
Com. Yellowthroat - 33
Hooded Warbler - 233
Am. Redstart - 9
Cape May Warbler - 2
N. Parula - 31
Bay-br. Warbler - 1
Blackburnian Warbler - 26
Yellow Warbler - 19
Chestnut-sd. Warbler - 53
Black-thr. Blue Warbler - 114
Palm Warbler - 2
Pine Warbler - 9
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 28
Yellow-thr. Warbler - 34
Prairie Warbler - 6
Black-thr. Green Warbler - 110
Canada Warbler - 59
Yellow-br. Chat - 7
E. Towhee - 184
Chipping Sparrow - 96
Field Sparrow - 77
Savannah Sparrow - 12
Grasshopper Sparrow - 3
Song Sparrow - 241
Swamp Sparrow - 1
White-thr. Sparrow - 22
White-crn. Sparrow - 13
Dark-eyed Junco - 117
Scarlet Tanager - 68
N. Cardinal - 187
Rose-br. Grosbeak - 24
Blue Grosbeak - 1
Indigo Bunting - 89
Bobolink - 4
Red-wg. Blackbird - 535
E. Meadowlark - 205
Com. Grackle - 319
Brown-hd. Cowbird - 83
Orchard Oriole - 30
Baltimore Oriole - 11
House Finch - 52
Red Crossbill - 2
Pine Siskin - 21
Am. Goldfinch - 226
House Sparrow - 139
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157 species
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Rick Knight
Johnson City, TN
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