Big Day Summary

Last Saturday was World Migratory Bird Day. Created to raise awareness of the plight of bird species worldwide, it was also an opportunity to collect pledges, as well as, show off one's bird finding chops.



The Red-eyed Blearios team was composed of Chris Eliot, myself, Josh Malbin, Shane Blodgett, Mike Yuan and Heydi Lopes. Competing against several other teams in Kings County, we started our day at 4:30am at Floyd Bennett Field. Our first bird of the day was American Woodcock. We ended our day 16 hours and 134 species later. Our total was 87% of the 154 species recorded by all of the Brooklyn teams. The moneys raised in Brooklyn went to the organization Wildlife in Need of Rescue & Rehabilitation (WINORR). Below are a few pics from the day followed by our final tally of bird species. You can read a short piece on the Global Bird Day here.















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Date: Saturday, May 12, 2018
Locations: Calvert Vaux Park (Dreier-Offerman Park), Ceasar's Bay Bazaar, Floyd Bennett Field, Green-Wood Cemetery, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge--Terrapin Point (Brooklyn), Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge--West Pond, Plumb Beach, Prospect Park, Salt Marsh Nature Center at Marine Park, Shore Road Park
Species: 134

1) Snow Goose
2) Brant
3) Canada Goose
4) Mute Swan
5) Wood Duck
6) Gadwall
7) Mallard
8) American Black Duck
9) Lesser Scaup
10) Bufflehead
11) Red-breasted Merganser
12) Ruddy Duck
13) Common Loon
14) Double-crested Cormorant
15) Great Blue Heron
16) Great Egret
17) Snowy Egret
18) Little Blue Heron
19) Green Heron
20) Black-crowned Night-Heron
21) Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
22) Glossy Ibis
23) Osprey
24) Broad-winged Hawk
25) Red-tailed Hawk
26) Clapper Rail
27) American Coot
28) American Oystercatcher
29) Black-bellied Plover
30) Semipalmated Plover
31) Killdeer
32) Ruddy Turnstone
33) Red Knot
34) Dunlin
35) Least Sandpiper
36) Semipalmated Sandpiper
37) Short-billed Dowitcher
38) American Woodcock
39) Spotted Sandpiper
40) Solitary Sandpiper
41) Greater Yellowlegs
42) Willet
43) Lesser Yellowlegs
44) Laughing Gull
45) Ring-billed Gull
46) Herring Gull
47) Great Black-backer Gull
48) Least Tern
49) Common Tern
50) Forster's Tern
51) Black Skimmer
52) Rock Pigeon
53) Mourning Dove
54) Yellow-billed Cuckoo
55) Chimney Swift
56) Ruby-throated Hummingbird
57) Belted Kingfisher
58) Red-bellied Woodpecker
59) Downy Woodpecker
60) Hairy Woodpecker
61) Northern Flicker
62) Peregrine Falcon 63) Monk Parakeet
64) Eastern Wood-Pewee
65) Least Flycatcher
66) Eastern Phoebe
67) Great Crested Flycatcher
68) Eastern Kingbird
69) White-eyed Vireo
70) Blue-headed Vireo
71) Warbling Vireo
72) Red-eyed Vireo
73) Blue Jay
74) American Crow
75) Fish Crow
76) Northern Rough-winged Swallow
77) Tree Swallow
78) Barn Swallow
79) Black-capped Chickadee
80) Tufted Titmouse
81) House Wren
82) Carolina Wren
83) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
84) Ruby-crowned Kinglet
85) Veery
86) Swainson's Thrush
87) Wood Thrush
88) American Robin
89) Gray Catbird
90) Brown Thrasher
91) Northern Mockingbird
92) European Starling
93) Cedar Waxwing
94) Ovenbird
95) Northern Waterthrush
96) Black-and-white Warbler
97) Tennessee Warbler
98) Nashville Warbler
99) Common Yellowthroat
100) American Redstart
101) Cape May Warbler
102) Northern Parula
103) Magnolia Warbler
104) Bay-breasted Warbler
105) Blackburnian Warbler
106) Yellow Warbler
107) Chestnut-sided Warbler
108) Blackpoll Warbler
109) Black-throated Blue Warbler
110) Pine Warbler
111) Yellow-rumped Warbler
112) Prairie Warbler
113) Black-throated Green Warbler
114) Canada Warbler
115) Wilson's Warbler
116) Seaside Sparrow
117) Chipping Sparrow
118) Field Sparrow
119) White-throated Sparrow
120) Savannah Sparrow
121) Song Sparrow
122) Swamp Sparrow
123) Eastern Towhee
124) Northern Cardinal
125) Rose-breasted Grosbeak
126) Indigo Bunting
127) Baltimore Oriole
128) Red-winged Blackbird
129) Brown-headed Cowbird
130) Common Grackle
131) Boat-tailed Grackle
132) House Finch
133) American Goldfinch
134) House Sparrow