[va-richmond-general] Update: 27th Annual James River Winter Count 17 January 2009

Here is an update on last Saturday's annual James River Winter Bird Count. With all sectors reporting, including a bit of after-brunch scouting, a total of 70 species were seen or heard in the various units of James River Park.
I have attached a PDF of a spreadsheet I cooked up with the totals and the counts broken down by sector. Here's the complete list: 

1.      Canada Goose    36
2.      Mute Swan       x
3.      Gadwall         x
4.      American Wigeon         x
5.      American Black Duck     x
6.      Mallard         13
7.      Green-winged Teal       1
8.      Ring-necked Duck        55
9.      Lesser Scaup    25
10.     Bufflehead      80
11.     Hooded Merganser        2
12.     Common Merganser        1
13.     Pied-billed Grebe       x
14.     Double-crested Cormorant        4
15.     Great Blue Heron        1
16.     Black Vulture   1
17.     Bald Eagle      0
18.     Sharp-shinned Hawk      1
19.     Cooper's Hawk   2
20.     Red-shouldered Hawk     1
21.     Red-tailed Hawk         0
22.     American Kestrel        1
23.     Killdeer        1
24.     Bonaparte's Gull        x
25.     Ring-billed Gull        13
26.     Herring Gull    1
27.     Great Black-backed Gull         x
28.     Rock Pigeon     x
29.     Mourning Dove   13
30.     Eastern Screech Owl     1
31.     Great Horned Owl        3
32.     Barred Owl      1
33.     Belted Kingfisher       2
34.     Red-bellied Woodpecker  5
35.     Yellow-bellied Sapsucker        4
36.     Downy Woodpecker        6
37.     Hairy Woodpecker        2
38.     Northern Flicker        5
39.     Pileated Woodpecker     4
40.     Eastern Phoebe  x
41.     Blue Jay        x
42.     American Crow   3
43.     Carolina Chickadee      6
44.     Tufted Titmouse         7
45.     White-breasted Nuthatch         4
46.     Brown Creeper   3
47.     Carolina Wren   8
48.     Winter Wren     2
49.     Golden-crowned Kinglet  4
50.     Ruby-crowned Kinglet    6
51.     Eastern Bluebird        4
52.     Hermit Thrush   2
53.     American Robin  200
54.     Gray Catbird    1
55.     Northern Mockingbird    2
56.     Brown Thrasher  1
57.     European Starling       x
58.     Cedar Waxwing   50
59.     Yellow-rumped Warbler   3
60.     Pine Warbler    1
61.     Chipping Sparrow        3
62.     Field Sparrow   1
63.     Song Sparrow    4
64.     Swamp Sparrow   x
65.     White-throated Sparrow  66
66.     Dark-eyed Junco         x
67.     Northern Cardinal       12
68.     Red-winged Blackbird    2
69.     House Finch     x
70.     American Goldfinch      x


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Lewis Barnett -- Chair, Dept. of Math & CS, U. of Richmond, VA 23173
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