Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Nov 2, 2024 9:00 AM – 1:02 PM

Protocol: Traveling

6.239 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Trip- Parker River NWR – Leader Nick Paulson – 6 Participants, cold start with a little wind, cloudy with very few random sprinkles. Quieter for passerines, but plenty of ducks.

71 species

Brant  12

Canada Goose  14

Mute Swan  4

Blue-winged Teal  2

Northern Shoveler  3

Gadwall  80

American Wigeon  50

Mallard  20

American Black Duck  250

Northern Pintail  100

Green-winged Teal (American)  100

Common Eider (Dresser’s)  3

Surf Scoter  2

White-winged Scoter  20

Black Scoter  600

Long-tailed Duck  14

Bufflehead  7

Hooded Merganser  24

Red-breasted Merganser  22

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  8

Mourning Dove  3

Black-bellied Plover  11

Semipalmated Plover  9

Long-billed Dowitcher  1

Greater Yellowlegs  40

Dunlin  100

Pectoral Sandpiper  1

Bonaparte’s Gull  7

Ring-billed Gull  10

American Herring Gull  40

Great Black-backed Gull  15

Pied-billed Grebe  2

Horned Grebe  3

Red-throated Loon  2

Common Loon  22

Northern Gannet  30

Double-crested Cormorant  60

Great Egret  2

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  2

Northern Harrier  1

Bald Eagle  4

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Peregrine Falcon (North American)  1

Red-eyed Vireo  1    Late, Hellcat area. Green back, light below, gray cap with black edge, black eyeline, long bill with vireo hook at end.

Blue Jay  10

American Crow  3

Black-capped Chickadee  16

Golden-crowned Kinglet  1

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1

Red-breasted Nuthatch  3

Marsh Wren  1

European Starling  1

Northern Mockingbird  2

Hermit Thrush (faxoni/crymophilus)  1

American Robin  9

House Sparrow  4

House Finch  3

American Goldfinch  4

Chipping Sparrow  1

Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  7

White-throated Sparrow  16

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  3

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  12

Swamp Sparrow  3

Eastern Towhee  2

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  1

Blackpoll Warbler  1

Palm Warbler  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  12

Northern Cardinal  4

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S201274364

Scholarship Report

The BBC’s first scholarship winner, Aidan Pavao, recently returned from the Hog Island summer camp and sent along a brief report. Check out the scholarship page for more information about the program and how to contribute

Tips for inspiring Young Birders

The Brookline Bird Club has a long history of its experienced birder members encouraging and supporting rising young birders, and, for decades, has been scheduling trips targeted to children and families. But how do you

ANNUAL REPORT 2014

2014 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician During 2014, the Brookline Bird Club listed 301 species of birds on 218 reported trips.. A total of 259trips were scheduled, sixteen trips were

ANNUAL REPORT 2009

2009 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2009, the Brookline Bird Club listed 305 species of birds on 194 reported trips, just one species less than last year. A

Scholarship Report

The BBC’s first scholarship winner, Aidan Pavao, recently returned from the Hog Island summer camp and sent along a brief report. Check out the scholarship page for more information about the program and how to contribute

Tips for inspiring Young Birders

The Brookline Bird Club has a long history of its experienced birder members encouraging and supporting rising young birders, and, for decades, has been scheduling trips targeted to children and families. But how do you

ANNUAL REPORT 2014

2014 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician During 2014, the Brookline Bird Club listed 301 species of birds on 218 reported trips.. A total of 259trips were scheduled, sixteen trips were

ANNUAL REPORT 2009

2009 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2009, the Brookline Bird Club listed 305 species of birds on 194 reported trips, just one species less than last year. A

Scholarship Report

The BBC’s first scholarship winner, Aidan Pavao, recently returned from the Hog Island summer camp and sent along a brief report. Check out the scholarship page for more information about the program and how to contribute

Tips for inspiring Young Birders

The Brookline Bird Club has a long history of its experienced birder members encouraging and supporting rising young birders, and, for decades, has been scheduling trips targeted to children and families. But how do you

ANNUAL REPORT 2014

2014 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician During 2014, the Brookline Bird Club listed 301 species of birds on 218 reported trips.. A total of 259trips were scheduled, sixteen trips were

ANNUAL REPORT 2009

2009 STATISTICAL AND YEAR END REPORT By Robert H. Stymeist, Statistician   During 2009, the Brookline Bird Club listed 305 species of birds on 194 reported trips, just one species less than last year. A

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