[NatureNS] Depths of Winter List of Birds/ Mid-month update

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:51:42 -0400
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Hi,

This would tie in very nicely with Cornell's Great Backyard Bird
Count(http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc) - v.easy to participate, and
might add some birds to the NSDOW list.

Richard

On 2/14/07, Patricia L. Chalmers <Patricia.Chalmers@ukings.ns.ca> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>         I agree with Wayne Neilly that this listing business is a particular form
> of madness.  It began with my simple curiosity about what species of birds
> are to be found here in February.   However, I am sure if I were a good
> biologist I could work this up into an exercise in determining the
> distribution and species-richness of birds under rigorous winter climatic
> conditions ...
>
>         Thank you to those who have contributed sightings and updates to NatureNS
> or the NS-RBA, or sent them to me privately.  Here is a consolidated list
> of species reportedly seen so far this month in Nova Scotia.
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Patricia L. Chalmers
>         Halifax
>
> Nova Scotia Depths of Winter List 2007
>
> 1 ... Canada Goose
> 2 ... Brant
> 3 ... Wood Duck
> 4 ... Green-winged Teal
> 5 ... Black Duck
> 6 ... Mallard
> 7 ... Northern Shoveler
> 8 ... Northern Pintail
> 9 ... Gadwall
> 10... American Wigeon
> 11... Eurasian Wigeon
> 12... Redhead
> 13... Ring-necked Duck
> 14... Lesser Scaup
> 15... Greater Scaup
> 16... Tufted Duck
> 17... Common Eider
> 18... Harlequin Duck
> 19... Black Scoter
> 20... Surf Scoter
> 21... White-winged Scoter
> 22... Long-tailed Duck
> 23... Bufflehead
> 24... Common Goldeneye
> 25... Barrow's Goldeneye
> 26... Hooded Merganser
> 27... Common Merganser
> 28... Red-breasted Merganser
> 29... Grey Partridge
> 30... Ring-necked Pheasant
> 31... Ruffed Grouse
> 32... Red-throated Loon
> 33... Common Loon
> 34... Horned Grebe
> 35... Red-necked Grebe
> 36... Northern Fulmar
> 37... Northern Gannet
> 38... Great Cormorant
> 39... Double-crested Cormorant
> 40... American Bittern
> 41... Bald Eagle
> 42... Northern Harrier
> 43... Sharp-shinned Hawk
> 44... Cooper's Hawk
> 45... Northern Goshawk
> 46... Red-tailed Hawk
> 47... Rough-legged Hawk
> 48... Merlin
> 49... Gyrfalcon
> 50... Peregrine Falcon
> 51... American Coot
> 52... Sandhill Crane
> 53... Black-bellied Plover
> 54... Semi-palmated Sandpiper
> 55... Killdeer
> 56... Ruddy Turnstone
> 57... Red Knot
> 58... Sanderling
> 59... Purple Sandpiper
> 60... Dunlin
> 61... American Woodcock
> 62... Bonaparte's Gull
> 63... Black-headed Gull
> 64... Ring-billed Gull
> 65... Herring Gull
> 66... Iceland Gull
> 67... Glaucous Gull
> 68... Great Black-backed Gull
> 69... Black-legged Kittiwake
> 70... Dovekie
> 71... Common Murre
> 72... Thick-billed Murre
> 73... Razorbill
> 74... Black Guillemot
> 75... Rock Pigeon
> 76... Mourning Dove
> 77... Great Horned Owl
> 78... Snowy Owl
> 79... Barred Owl
> 80... Short-eared Owl
> 81... Saw-whet Owl
> 82... Belted Kingfisher
> 83... Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
> 84... Downy Woodpecker
> 85... Hairy Woodpecker
> 86... Black-backed Woodpecker
> 87... Northern Flicker
> 88... Pileated Woodpecker
> 89... Gray Jay
> 90... Blue Jay
> 91... American Crow
> 92... Common Raven
> 93... Horned Lark
> 94... Black-capped Chickadee
> 95... Boreal Chickadee
> 96... Red-breasted Nuthatch
> 97... White-breasted Nuthatch
> 98... Brown Creeper
> 99... Winter Wren
> 100.. Golden-crowned Kinglet
> 101.. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
> 102.. Hermit Thrush
> 103.. American Robin
> 104.. Gray Catbird
> 105.. Northern Mockingbird
> 106.. Brown Thrasher
> 107.. European Starling
> 108.. Bohemian Waxwing
> 109.. Cedar Waxwing
> 110.. Yellow-rumped Warbler
> 111.. Pine Warbler
> 112.. Western Tanager
> 113.. Eastern Towhee
> 114.. American Tree Sparrow
> 115.. Chipping Sparrow
> 116.. Clay-coloured Sparrow
> 117.. Field Sparrow
> 118.. Vesper Sparrow
> 119.. Lark Sparrow
> 120.. Savannah Sparrow
> 120a."Ipswich" Savannah Sparrow
> 121.. Song Sparrow
> 122.. Lincoln's Sparrow
> 123.. Swamp Sparrow
> 124.. White-throated Sparrow
> 125.. Harris's Sparrow
> 126.. Dark-eyed Junco
> 127.. Lapland Longspur
> 128.. Snow Bunting
> 129.. Northern Cardinal
> 130.. Dickcissel
> 131.. Red-winged Blackbird
> 132.. Yellow-headed Blackbird
> 133.. Common Grackle
> 134.. Pine Grosbeak
> 135.. Purple Finch
> 136.. Pine Siskin
> 137.. American Goldfinch
> 138.. Evening Grosbeak
> 139.. House Sparrow
>
>


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