Birding

We go birding all day and end up with a bird list of 90 birds. That’s pretty good, but better birders go out for the same length of time here and see and identify more birds. Our friend Jon, for example; here is a recent bird list from him. Now bear in mind that he is a trained professional; a birding guide, but 159 birds in one day? That is amazing.

> Location: Corpus Christi, Nueces County, TX, US
> Observation date: 2/17/08
> Notes: Corpus Area- ALL DAY
> Number of species: 159
>
> Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 15
> Greater White-fronted Goose 120
> Snow Goose 90
> Ross's Goose 2
> Gadwall 20
> American Wigeon 12
> Mallard 1
> Mottled Duck 8
> Blue-winged Teal 35
> Northern Shoveler 40
> Northern Pintail 20
> Green-winged Teal 10
> Redhead 900
> Ring-necked Duck 25
> Lesser Scaup 5
> Bufflehead 5
> Common Goldeneye 1
> Hooded Merganser 9
> Red-breasted Merganser 2
> Ruddy Duck 6
> Common Loon 1
> Least Grebe 1
> Pied-billed Grebe 5
> Eared Grebe 6
> Northern Gannet 1
> American White Pelican 120
> Brown Pelican 45
> Neotropic Cormorant 12
> Double-crested Cormorant 75
> Anhinga 3
> Great Blue Heron 15
> Great Egret 12
> Snowy Egret 15
> Little Blue Heron 2
> Tricolored Heron 5
> Reddish Egret 8
> Cattle Egret 5
> Black-crowned Night-Heron 4
> Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1
> White Ibis 20
> White-faced Ibis 1
> Roseate Spoonbill 22
> Black Vulture 10
> Turkey Vulture 40
> Osprey 5
> Northern Harrier 4
> Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
> Cooper's Hawk 2
> Harris's Hawk 1
> Red-shouldered Hawk 3
> White-tailed Hawk 1
> Red-tailed Hawk 7
> Ferruginous Hawk 1
> Crested Caracara 4
> American Kestrel 12
> Peregrine Falcon 2
> Clapper Rail 3
> Sora 1
> Common Moorhen 1
> American Coot 225
> Sandhill Crane 27
> Black-bellied Plover 15
> Snowy Plover 2
> Semipalmated Plover 10
> Piping Plover 1
> Killdeer 15
> American Oystercatcher 2
> Black-necked Stilt 30
> American Avocet 35
> Spotted Sandpiper 1
> Greater Yellowlegs 12
> Willet 16
> Lesser Yellowlegs 2
> Long-billed Curlew 6
> Marbled Godwit 3
> Ruddy Turnstone 8
> Sanderling 35
> Western Sandpiper 100
> Least Sandpiper 75
> Dunlin 90
> Stilt Sandpiper 3
> Short-billed Dowitcher 25
> Long-billed Dowitcher 125
> Wilson's Snipe 1
> Laughing Gull 225
> Ring-billed Gull 25
> Herring Gull 8
> Gull-billed Tern 6
> Caspian Tern 25
> Forster's Tern 45
> Royal Tern 30
> Sandwich Tern 1
> Rock Pigeon 40
> Eurasian Collared-Dove 15
> White-winged Dove 35
> Mourning Dove 45
> Inca Dove 10
> Common Ground-Dove 25
> Greater Roadrunner 1
> Great Horned Owl 1
> Barred Owl 1
> Common Pauraque 7
> Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
> Belted Kingfisher 2
> Golden-fronted Woodpecker 14
> Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
> Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1
> Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
> Eastern Phoebe 20
> Vermilion Flycatcher 3
> Great Kiskadee 12
> Couch's Kingbird 7
> Loggerhead Shrike 5
> White-eyed Vireo 3
> Blue-headed Vireo 2
> Green Jay 7
> Horned Lark 9
> Purple Martin 5
> Cave Swallow 5
> Barn Swallow 1
> Black-crested Titmouse 2
> Carolina Wren 3
> House Wren 1
> Sedge Wren 1
> Marsh Wren 1
> Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5
> Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3
> Eastern Bluebird 10
> Clay-colored Robin 1
> Northern Mockingbird 15
> Long-billed Thrasher 3
> European Starling 25
> American Pipit 10
> Sprague's Pipit 3
> Orange-crowned Warbler 15
> Yellow-rumped Warbler 22
> Black-throated Green Warbler 1
> Pine Warbler 3
> Common Yellowthroat 5
> Wilson's Warbler 1
> Olive Sparrow 1
> Chipping Sparrow 65
> Field Sparrow 2
> Vesper Sparrow 6
> Lark Sparrow 25
> Savannah Sparrow 115
> Grasshopper Sparrow 1
> Le Conte's Sparrow 1
> Lincoln's Sparrow 12
> Swamp Sparrow 1
> Northern Cardinal 25
> Pyrrhuloxia 9
> Red-winged Blackbird 200
> Eastern Meadowlark 35
> Western Meadowlark 7
> Great-tailed Grackle 325
> Brown-headed Cowbird 10
> American Goldfinch 6
> House Sparrow 35
>
> This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

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