Natural History of the South Eastern Avalon

Renews to St. Vincents's

Jeff Harrison, Trepassey and Montreal

Cape Race Christmas Bird Count
1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2014 2017
Snow Goose 1
Canada Goose 1
Wood Duck cw
Eurasian Wigeon 1
American Wigeon 1
American Black Duck 6 8 2 12 8 9 1 2 3 1 11 4 2 15 10 1 10 12 16 26 25 9 10
Mallard 1
Green-winged Teal 4 1 2 1 4 2
Ring-necked Duck 1 3
Greater Scaup 1 2 1 17 1 9 5 9 9 1 3 14 3 2 17 10 2 57 6 5 12 12 4
King Eider 1 1 2 3 1 13 1 10 6 12 1 1 7 2 2 1 2 2 3 1 5 2 2 1 1
Common Eider 2792 1746 4864 288 1761 2597 812 169 835 751 957 1226 2803 916 1576 184 539 240 378 688 570 285 459 664 884 1905 1668 661 489 4865 1374 783 288 1601
Harlequin Duck 3 4 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 4 1 1 2 4 21 11 5 5 7 1 4 3
Surf Scoter 4 3 3 2 1 11 1 4 1 2 1 1 2 11 1 5 6 1 3 4 10 16
White-winged Scoter 1 12 4 14 1 1 2 2 5 1 13 25 4 6 1 97 126 37 76 202 82 45 406 6 189 51 117 125 63 81 83 86 5 162
Black Scoter 2 4 35 3 16 41 15 5 5 12 38 4 3 3 31 2 1 13 8 1 17 23 3 4 6 6 1 6 4 1 15
Long-tailed Duck 387 359 380 241 494 544 432 519 437 607 312 606 958 598 321 279 390 272 310 484 527 529 794 519 704 1295 439 540 804 801 494 730 707 174 310
Bufflehead 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 7 2
Common Goldeneye 25 13 7 9 1 1 5 4 1 12 1 1 4 23 16 24 16 3 1 3 18
Hooded Merganser 1
Common Merganser 1 2 1 6 2 5 2 1 1 1
Red-breasted Merganser 54 56 63 50 34 33 44 68 35 91 73 46 78 18 90 75 26 8 30 39 48 39 71 41 55 52 41 52 74 49 53 49 18 63
Ruffed Grouse 4 2 1 1
Willow Ptarmigan 1 45 14 1 3 2 6 3 7 2 2 1 4 3 2 cw cw 5 cw 1 3 6
Horned Grebe 1 1 2 3 2 3 1 6
Red-necked Grebe 2 1 1 5 1 4 4 8 3 3 8 9 7 5 1 14 2 13 6 3 2 1 24 39 3
Mourning Dove 3 1 1 2 1 2 9
Northern Lapwing cw
Black-bellied Plover 1 1 1
Killdeer 1 1 1 3 1 49 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Ruddy Turnstone 2 8 2 1 5 2 4 2 6 6 15 5 10 4 3 2
Sanderling 1 1 1 1 4 2 2 10 2 2 3
White-rumped Sandpiper 2 2 1 1 1 9
Purple Sandpiper 1 28 88 20 35 251 252 127 15 309 164 158 68 72 64 223 129 150 182 125 22 74 91 14 369 196 201 207 414 179 85 111 111 40 210
Dunlin cw 2
Wilson's Snipe 1 cw 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 cw 1
Pomarine Jaeger 1
Dovekie 6 12 7 3 101 240 411 28 19 1464 116 285 232 1446 477 1880 28 121 51 26 2789 201 151 155 227 441 127 102 220 2 22 355 332 5 17
Common Murre 1 1 1 3 3 1 6 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 6 1 1 2 1 1
Thick-billed Murre 1 4 2 1 6 6 1 7 43 8 12 11 17 23 397 7 43 14 1 15 3 8 39 5 29 2 30 1 6 4 23 2 2
Razorbill 1 4 5 3 2 1 1 1 1 3 16 3 1 2 1 4 14 14 8
Black Guillemot 41 40 72 44 14 133 262 264 164 538 202 108 308 336 253 173 97 257 267 108 243 136 234 307 284 678 237 160 102 99 89 138 11 102
Atlantic Puffin 2 1 6 1 1 5 1 2 1 1 cw 2 1
Black-headed Gull 2 2 1 1 2 1 3 2 3 2 1
Ring-billed Gull 1
Herring Gull 103 76 56 97 39 44 105 86 202 101 59 102 398 151 188 127 63 124 110 203 203 82 160 65 128 231 134 88 218 58 105 98 114 31 42
Iceland Gull 91 68 28 108 21 131 21 58 90 22 41 79 136 155 116 100 74 88 370 654 219 268 304 40 92 531 278 166 77 235 165 283 99 22 56
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 1 2 1
Glaucous Gull 2 7 11 1 14 8 2 8 10 6 36 48 16 65 23 54 23 10 43 20 28 33 7 10 21 10 19 58 21 3 17 17 5 5
Great Black-backed Gull 33 90 77 32 11 266 573 16 360 34 11 398 166 289 84 38 208 48 85 776 187 182 372 80 90 174 102 29 134 138 15 45 479 156 53
Black-legged Kittiwake 2 1 1 2 3 6 1 1 275 1 3 6 14 35 171 5 33 52 44 93 28 34 20 12 26 11 7 2 3 2389 9 24
Ivory Gull 1
Forster's Tern 1
Red-throated Loon 1 5 3 2 1 1 1 2 1 4 2 3 2 1 5 4 2 1 4 2 1
Common Loon 6 6 4 4 22 12 3 7 5 32 9 12 5 31 10 18 9 18 32 8 21 17 22 23 19 60 24 40 41 44 35 22 8 43
Greater Shearwater 1
Northern Gannet 3 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1 1
Great Cormorant 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 15 1 2 2 2 4 1 5 1
Great Egret 2
Bald Eagle 2 3 2 2 1 2 7 3 18 4 7 8 7 6 2 3 8 2 11 5 14 5 2 6 2 14 3 4
Northern Harrier 1 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 1 1
Northern Goshawk 1 1 1 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1 2
Rough-legged Hawk 1 1 1 1
Golden Eagle 1
Great Horned Owl 1 3 1
Snowy Owl 2 5 16 39 12 1 1 8 20 3 1 10 1 5 1 2 5
Short-eared Owl cw 1 1 1
Belted Kingfisher 1 1 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1 2 1 1 1
Black-backed Woodpecker 1 2 1 1
Northern Flicker 1 2 3 1 2 1 2
American Kestrel 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1
Merlin 1 1
Gyrfalcon 1 1
Peregrine Falcon 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
Northern Shrike 1 1 2 1 1 5 2 1 2 2
Gray Jay 2 1 3 3 10 5 6 3 3 3 3 6 2 5 4
Blue Jay 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
American Crow 27 27 13 66 28 16 10 12 16 17 22 20 29 11 8 20 7 30 28 29 23 26 31 28 6 28 19 15 30 29 46 20 50 22 38
Common Raven 13 4 22 20 15 12 33 28 14 29 22 37 13 14 20 33 5 12 28 12 13 7 14 11 20 15 38 14 35 11 27 24 18 11 15
Horned Lark 1 1 5 5 2 1 2 1 1
Black-capped Chickadee 1 2 3 1 1 1 12 22 1 1 4 1 3 7 19 1 14 7 2 7 16 2
Boreal Chickadee 13 2 19 8 6 2 11 52 14 20 13 21 13 1 9 15 21 23 22 3 28 4 22 70 14 13 2 8 29 8 4 4 16 10 4
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 3 10 1 2
Brown Creeper 2 3 2 1 1 1 1
Wiinter Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 10 3 7 7 12 20 36 2 2 4 3 15 14 13 26 8 3 4 24 16 17 24 4 13 15 18 41 26 15 4 13 8 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
American Robin 77 14 62 155 3 36 29 1 1 11 2 8 9 4 cw 9 2 1
European Starling 149 52 7 13 23 93 3 108 41 6 61 68 286 9 25 50 37 160 101 103 61 230 70 479 154 4
Bohemian Waxwing 18 152 190 17
House Sparrow 1 3 3 11 1 42 42 41
American Pipit 5 2 4 4 2 15 1 3 1 1 14 5 9 4 36 10 20 9 3 16 57 2 70 3 30 7 3
Pine Grosbeak 19 6 13 4 15 32 15 30 28 19 3 1 8 17 7 5 1 3 2 3 7 1 13 5 9 cw cw 7
Purple Finch 1 1 7 1 3 2 5
Red Crossbill 26 17 14 3 2 1
White-winged Crossbill 7 221 57 1 18 73 1 23 17 77 88 20 23
Common Redpoll 60 159 3 5 10 1 4 30 26 51 165 350 196 169 56 40
Hoary Redpoll 1 1 1
Pine Siskin 2 1 33 2 111
American Goldfinch 12 3 2 10 9 2 18 67 20 72 46 1
Evening Grosbeak 1 135 2 40 4 1 10
Lapland Longspur 1 1 1 1 3 2 1
Snow Bunting 95 190 12 80 30 72 101 67 16 29 117 36 259 74 14 4 21 136 89 61 33 7 19 30 56 70 108 34 109 37 30 53 4 140
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 1 1
Pine Warbler 1
Palm Warbler 1 1
Northern Yellowthroat 1 1
Eastern Towhee 1
American Tree Sparrow 1 2 1 1
Lark Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 1 1 1 1 1 2 5 1 1 2 2 1 2 10 5 1 5 2 2
Grasshopper Sparrow 1 1
Fox Sparrow 1 1 1 2
Song Sparrow 2 1 1 7 3 1 4 2 9 5
Lincoln's Sparrow 2 1 2 4 1 1
Swamp Sparrow 1 1 1 2
White-throated Sparrow 1 3 1 1 8 6 1 1 2
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 15 17 8 2 1 7 1 12 4 42 3 12 63 1 253 144 67 137 64 38 191 134 90 76 172 109 7 109 63 190 326 27
Dickcissel 1
Eastern Meadowlark 1
Common Grackle 1
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