[NatureNS] Depths of Winter List of Birds

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Hi Pat;

Are Candace Malcolm's Orioles and Dickcissel still
doing well?  Leszek and I were there at the very end
of January or the very beginning of February and saw
two of her Orioles - alive and well...

Cheers;
Suzanne



--- Lois Codling <loiscodling@hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote:

> 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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