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2006-2007 Christmas Bird Counts

Peekskill Count
The 52nd Annual Peekskill Christmas Bird Count was held on December 16, 2006. Thirty eight birders participated under partly cloudy skies with temperatures ranging from the mid thirties to 50.

Canada Goose 1610   Peregrine Falcon 1   Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5
Mute Swan 105 American Coot 312 Eastern Bluebird 77
Wood Duck 6 Ring-billed Gull 811 Hermit Thrush 8
Gadwall 29 Herring Gull 60 American Robin 76
American Black Duck 114 Great Black-backed Gull 13 Gray Catbird 2
Mallard 571 Rock Pigeon 211 Northern Mockingbird 66
Northern Shoveler 2 Mourning Dove 334 Brown Thrasher 3
Green-winged Teal 9 Eastern Screech-Owl 7 European Starling 1780
Ring-necked Duck 9 Great Horned Owl 3 American Pipit 2
Lesser Scaup 2 Barred Owl 3 Cedar Waxwing 17
Bufflehead 64 Short-eared Owl 1 Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler 1
Common Goldeneye 2 Belted Kingfisher 17 American Tree Sparrow 78
Hooded Merganser 124 Red-bellied Woodpecker 73 Field Sparrow 19
Common Merganser 141 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 Savannah Sparrow 4
Ruddy Duck 15 Downy Woodpecker 112 Fox Sparrow 6
Wild Turkey 22 Hairy Woodpecker 14 Song Sparrow 149
Common Loon 1 Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker 12 Swamp Sparrow 13
Pied-billed Grebe 3 Pileated Woodpecker 1 White-throated Sparrow 581
Double-crested Cormorant 8 Blue Jay 251 Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco 669
Great Cormorant 10 American Crow 548 Lapland Longspur 1
Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 12 Fish Crow 2 Northern Cardinal 151
Black Vulture 46 Common Raven 2 Red-winged Blackbird 35
Turkey Vulture 105 Black-capped Chickadee 370 Eastern Meadowlark 2
Bald Eagle 23 Tufted Titmouse 244 Rusty Blackbird 21
Northern Harrier 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 Common Grackle 300
Sharp-shinned Hawk 5 White-breasted Nuthatch 121 Brown-headed Cowbird 3
Cooper's Hawk 10 Brown Creeper 1 Purple Finch 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 3 Carolina Wren 81 House Finch 133
Red-tailed Hawk 91 Winter Wren 11 American Goldfinch 190
American Kestrel 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 13 House Sparrow 381

Total Species: 90; Total Individuals: 11,553

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