The Nansemond River Christmas Bird Count was held on Sunday - January 5,
2003. It is centered in Suffolk, VA & encompasses portions of Portsmouth,
Chesapeake, Suffolk, & Isle of Wight County. This year we had 11
participants counting in 7 parties. I want to thank each and every counter
for their help. We had an excellent count - 134 species!
Highlights (just a short list) include: New Species (Snowy Egret &
Clay-colored Sparrow), Unusual Species (Common Moorhen, Black-and-White
Warbler, Baltimore Oriole), numerous high counts (noted below), & MANY
sometimes-hard-to-find-and-missed-on-previous-counts birds found by the hard
work of the parties in the field.
Les Willis, Compiler
Suffolk, Virginia
134 Species
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Northern Gannet
Brown Pelican
Great Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant (Record High Count of 6,424)
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
SNOWY EGRET (New to Count)
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Tundra Swan
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Green-winged Teal
American Black Duck
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Canvasback
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Black Scoter
Surf Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Northern Goshawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon (Record High Count of 4)
Northern Bobwhite
Clapper Rail
Virginia Rail
COMMON MOORHEN
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
American Woodcock
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull (High Count of 44,834)
Herring Gull (17,943)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Record High Count of 37)
Great Black-backed Gull
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Barn Owl
Eastern Screech-Owl
Great Horned Owl
Short-eared Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker (Record High Count of 14)
Eastern Phoebe
Horned Lark
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Carolina Wren
House Wren
Winter Wren
Sedge Wren
Marsh Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eastern Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Pine Warbler
Palm Warbler
BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER
Common Yellowthroat
Northern Cardinal
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
CLAY-COLORED SPARROW (New to Count)
Field Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Seaside Sparrow
Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Rusty Blackbird
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle (Record High Count of 71)
BALTIMORE ORIOLE
Brown-headed Cowbird
blackbird sp.
House Finch
Purple Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
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