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Mercer Island Christmas Bird Count 2003
Tally of 67 species

Red-throated Loon

 

Canvasback

386

Pacific Loon

 

Redhead

 

Common Loon

3

Ring-necked Duck

103

Yellow-billed Loon**

 

Tufted Duck

 

          (loon sp.)

 

Tufted Duck X Scaup

 

Pied-billed Grebe

 

Greater Scaup

 

Horned Grebe

5

Lesser Scaup

302

Red-necked Grebe

 

          (scaup sp)

 

Eared Grebe

 

Harlequin Duck

 

Western Grebe

22

Surf Scoter

 

Clark’s Grebe**

 

White-winged Scoter

 

Short-tailed Shearwater**

 

Black Scoter

 

Double-crested Cormorant

15

          (scoter sp)

 

Brandt’s Cormorant

 

Long-tailed Duck

 

Pelagic Cormorant

 

Bufflehead

96

          (cormorant sp)

 

Common Goldeneye

28

American Bittern

 

Barrow’s Goldeneye

 

Great Blue Heron

2

Hooded Merganser

8

Green Heron

 

Common Merganser

21

Black-crowned Night Heron**

 

Red-breasted Merganser

 

Greater White-fronted Geese

 

Ruddy duck

 

Canada Geese

58

Osprey

 

Mute Swan

 

Bald Eagle (adult)

14

Trumpeter Swan

 

Bald Eagle (imm)

2

Tundra Swan

 

Bald Eagle (unaged)

 

Wood Duck

4

Northern Harrier

 

Gadwall

76

Sharp-shinned Hawk

2

Eurasian Wigeon

 

Cooper’s Hawk

1

Eurasian x American Wigeon

 

Northern Goshawk

 

American Wigeon

87

          (accipiter sp)

 

Green-winged Teal

 

 Red-tailed Hawk

1

“Eurasian” Green-winged Teal

 

Rough-legged Hawk

 

American Black Duck

 

          (buteo sp)

 

Mallard

65

American Kestrel

 

Blue-winged Teal ***

 

Merlin

1

Cinnamon Teal ***

 

Peregrine Falcon

 

Northern Shoveler

 

          (falcon sp)

 

Northern Pintail

 

          (hawk sp)

 

Green-winged Teal

 

Ring-necked Pheasant

 

”Eurasian” Green-winged Teal

 

California Quail

 

Virginia Rail

 

Morning Dove

 

Sora

 

Monk Parakeet

 

American Coot

736

          (parrot sp)

 

Black-bellied Plover

 

Barn Owl

 

Semipalmated Plover

 

Western Screech Owl

 

Killdeer

4

Great Horned Owl

 

Black Oystercatcher

 

Snowy Owl

 

Greater Yellowlegs

 

Northern Pygmy Owl

 

Spotted Sandpiper

1

Barred Owl

 

Ruddy Turnstone

 

Long-eared Owl

 

Black Turnstone

 

Short-eared Owl

 

Surfbird

 

Northern Saw-whet Owl

 

Sanderling

 

          (owl sp)

 

Western Sandpiper

 

Anna’s Hummingbird

9

Least Sandpiper    

 

Rufus Hummingbird

 

Rock Sandpiper

 

          (hummingbird sp)

 

Dunlin

 

Belted Kingfisher

3

          (sandpiper sp)

 

Red-naped Sapsucker **

 

Long-billed Dowitcher

 

Red-breasted Sapsucker

1

          (dowitcher sp)

 

Red-n x Red-b Sapsucker

 

Common Snipe

 

Downy Woodpecker

7

Bonaparte’s Gull

 

Hairy Woodpecker

 

Heerman’s Gull

 

Northern Flicker (red)

27

Mew Gull

27

Northern Flicker (yellow)

 

Ring-billed Gull

17

Northern Flicker (r x y)

1

California Gull

 

Pileated Woodpecker

2

Herring gull

 

Northern Shrike

 

Thayer’s Gull

 

Hutton’s Vireo

 

Western Gull

 

Steller’s Jay

31

Western x Glaucous-winged Gull

7

Western Scrub Jay

 

Glaucous-winged Gull

27

Clark’s Nutcracker **

 

Glaucous Gull

 

Crow ( Amer or NW)

220

          (gull sp)

30

Common Raven

 

Common Murre

 

Horned Lark

 

Pigeon Guillemot

 

Barn Swallow **

 

Marbled Murrelet

 

Black Capped Chickadee

171

Ancient Murrelet

 

Mountain Chickadee

 

          (murrelet sp)

 

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

45

Cassin’s Auklet

 

Bushtit

227

Rhinoceros Auklet

 

Red-breasted Nuthatch

16

          (alcid sp)

 

Brown Creeper

9

Rock Dove

84

Rock Wren **

 

Band-tailed Pigeon

5

Bewick’s Wren

52

Winter Wren

20

Savannah Sparrow

 

Marsh Wren

 

Fox Sparrow

36

American Dipper

 

Song Sparrow

87

Golden-crowned Kinglet

115

Lincoln’s Sparrow

2

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

105

Swamp Sparrow **

 

Townsend’s Solitaire

 

White-crowned Sparrow

1

Hermit Thrush

 

Golden-crowned Sparrow

8

American Robin

447

Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)

76

Varied Thrush

2

Dark-eyed Junco (Slate color)

 

Northern Mockingbird

 

Lapland Longspur

 

European Starling

96

Snow Bunting

 

American Pipit

 

Red-winged Blackbird

 

Bohemian Waxwing