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Index of Subjects Hi Patricia, I can add Comm. Goldeneye to your Feb. '07 list. Lois Codling Patricia L. Chalmers wrote: > Hi there, > > I was interested to see Blake's report of the Nova Scotia Winter > List reaching 200 species. I confess that I'm always a little > ambivalent about winter listing, since finding lots of lingering > songbirds in early December seems to be the key to a big list. I feel > sorry for the "doomed birds", but am astonished by those which survive > thanks to the kindness of backyard bird-feeders. It is fascinating, > though, to see the range and variety of species which have turned up > here between the first of December and the end of February, and I > salute Blake for compiling these records for us - for eleven years! > > On the other hand, the diversity of bird species which are found > here, in even the coldest weather, impresses me too - as well as the > hardiness of the birders who seek them out. You have to get outdoors, > often in bitter weather, if you want to see a Snowy Owl or some other > winter specialty. And as we've seen this week, surprises turn up. So > the idea of a list of what's still around once winter has really set > in, such as the "Dead of Winter List" kept by Rob Parsons in Manitoba, > appeals to me as representative of winter in our province. For his > purposes, this is a February list. I was looking at the reports on > Manitobabirds at http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MANI.html the > other day, and at present the list stands at 46 species. I began to > compare it with what we might find, and of course many of the birds > are the same. We aren't going to get a Sharp-tailed Grouse or a > Black-billed Magpie, though a Varied Thrush would be possible. It was > amusing to see Harris's Sparrow on both lists. And WE have two other > typically western birds, a Yellow-headed Blackbird and a Western Tanager! > > I have compiled the following list of birds reported (via NatureNS > or the NS-RBA) so far in Nova Scotia this month, (plus a few I've seen > myself). Since I was comparing it to the Manitoba list, I followed > the same taxonomic order. I could see how things were going to shape > up as soon as I got to Bald Eagle, which is 8th on their list and 28th > on ours - we have so many ducks still, thanks to the seacoast and open > freshwater magnets like Sullivan's Pond. > > > Nova Scotia Depths of Winter List 2007 > > 1 .. Canada Goose > 2 .. Brant > 3 .. Green-winged Teal > 4 .. Black Duck > 5 .. Mallard > 6 .. Northern Shoveler > 7 .. Northern Pintail > 8 .. Gadwall > 9 .. American Wigeon > 10.. Eurasian Wigeon > 11.. Redhead > 12 ..Ring-necked Duck > 13 ..Lesser Scaup > 14.. Greater Scaup > 15.. Common Eider > 16.. Black Scoter > 17.. Surf Scoter > 18.. White-winged Scoter > 19.. Bufflehead > 20.. Barrow's Goldeneye > 21.. Hooded Merganser > 22.. Common Merganser > 23.. Red-breasted Merganser > 24.. Ring-necked Pheasant > 25.. Northern Fulmar > 26.. Great Cormorant > 27.. American Bittern > 28.. Bald Eagle > 29.. Northern Harrier > 30.. Sharp-shinnned Hawk > 31.. Cooper's Hawk > 32.. Red-tailed Hawk > 33.. Rough-legged Hawk > 34.. Merlin > 35.. Peregrine Falcon > 36.. American Coot > 37.. Black-bellied Plover > 38.. Killdeer > 39.. Red Knot > 40.. Sanderling > 41.. Purple Sandpiper > 42.. Dunlin > 43.. American Woodcock > 44.. Black-headed Gull > 45.. Ring-billed Gull > 46.. Herring Gull > 47.. Iceland Gull > 48.. Great Black-backed Gull > 49.. Dovekie > 50.. Common Murre > 51.. Thick-billed Murre > 52.. Razorbill > 53.. Black Guillemot > 54.. Rock Pigeon > 55.. Mourning Dove > 56.. Great Horned Owl > 57.. Snowy Owl > 58.. Barred Owl > 59.. Short-eared Owl > 60.. Belted Kingfisher > 61.. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker > 62.. Downy Woodpecker > 63.. Hairy Woodpecker > 64.. Northern Flicker > 65.. Gray Jay > 66.. Blue Jay > 67.. American Crow > 68.. Common Raven > 69.. Horned Lark > 70.. Black-capped Chickadee > 71.. Red-breasted Nuthatch > 72.. White-breasted Nuthatch > 73.. Brown Creeper > 74.. Golden-crowned Kinglet > 75.. Hermit Thrush > 76.. American Robin > 77.. Northern Mockingbird > 78.. European Starling > 79.. Pine Warbler > 80.. Western Tanager > 81.. American Tree Sparrow > 82.. Chipping Sparrow > 83.. Vesper Sparrow > 84.. Savannah Sparrow > 84a.."Ipswich" Savannah Sparrow > 85.. Song Sparrow > 86.. White-throated Sparrow > 87.. Harris's Sparrow > 88.. Dark-eyed Junco > 89.. Lapland Longspur > 90.. Northern Cardinal > 91.. Yellow-headed Blackbird > 92.. Common Grackle > 93.. Pine Siskin > 94.. American Goldfinch > 95.. Evening Grosbeak > 96.. House Sparrow > > This was much more work than I thought when I started it, in an > idle moment, but if others think it's interesting I'll update it > periodically. > > Cheers, > > Patricia L. Chalmers > Halifax > >
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