Myself and Allen Bryan - representing the Widely Wandering Wrynecks -
participated in our first Kiptopeke Challenge. We had a good day out despite
the constant wind out of the ENE. Our official total was 107 species. We had
4 additional species that were not seen by both one of us. A few missed
species, but the highlights out-weighed those, in particular the hawk flight
that began shortly after dawn with Kestrels, Merlins, and Sharpies leading
the charge.
List is below
Arun Bose,
Richmond, VA
1. Canada Goose
2. Gadwall
3. American Wigeon
4. American Black Duck
5. Mallard
6. Blue-winged Teal
7. Northern Shoveler
8. Green-winged Teal
9. Black Scoter
10. Red-breasted Merganser
11. Pied-billed Grebe
12. Brown Pelican
13. Double-crested Cormorant
14. Great Blue Heron
15. Great Egret
16. Snowy Egret
17. Little Blue Heron
18. Tricolored Heron
19. Black-crowned Night-Heron
20. White Ibis
21. Black Vulture
22. Turkey Vulture
23. Osprey
24. Bald Eagle
25. Northern Harrier
26. Sharp-shinned Hawk
27. Cooper's Hawk
28. Broad-winged Hawk
29. Red-tailed Hawk
30. American Kestrel
31. Merlin
32. Peregrine Falcon
33. Clapper Rail
34. Black-bellied Plover
35. American Oystercatcher
36. Greater Yellowlegs
37. Lesser Yellowlegs
38. Solitary Sandpiper 1 sunset beach
39. Willet
40. Whimbrel 1 Chincoteague
41. Ruddy Turnstone
42. Sanderling
43. Least Sandpiper
44. Laughing Gull
45. Ring-billed Gull
46. Lesser Black-backed Gull ad. - Chincoteague
47. Herring Gull
48. Great Black-backed Gull
49. Caspian Tern
50. Royal Tern
51. Sandwich Tern
52. Forster's Tern
53. Black Skimmer
54. Rock Pigeon
55. Eurasian Collared Dove
56. Mourning Dove
57. [cuckoo sp.]
58. Eastern Screech Owl
59. Great Horned Owl
60. Belted Kingfisher
61. Red-bellied Woodpecker
62. Downy Woodpecker
63. Hairy Woodpecker
64. Northern Flicker
65. Eastern Wood-Pewee
66. Eastern Phoebe
67. Red-eyed Vireo
68. Blue Jay
69. American Crow
70. Horned Lark
71. Tree Swallow
72. Barn Swallow
73. Carolina Chickadee
74. Tufted Titmouse
75. Brown-headed Nuthatch
76. Carolina Wren
77. House Wren
78. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
79. Eastern Bluebird
80. Swainson's Thrush
81. American Robin
82. Gray Catbird
83. Northern Mockingbird
84. Brown Thrasher
85. European Starling
86. Cedar Waxwing
87. Northern Parula
88. [Cape May Warbler]
89. Yellow-rumped Warbler
90. Black-throated Green Warbler
91. Pine Warbler
92. Prairie Warbler
93. Palm Warbler
94. Black-and-White Warbler
95. American Redstart
96. Waterthrush sp.
97. Common Yellowthroat
98. [Eastern Towhee]
99. Chipping Sparrow
100. Savannah Sparrow
101. Swamp Sparrow
102. Northern Cardinal
103. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
104. Blue Grosbeak
105. Indigo Bunting
106. [Bobolink]
107. Red-winged Blackbird
108. Boat-tailed Grackle
109. Baltimore Oriole
110. House Finch
111. House Sparrow
=[not shared species]
Official Total = 107
