Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Essex, Essex, Massachusetts, US
Mar 31, 2018
Protocol: Historical
Comments:     BBC Trip to Plum Island, Salisbury and Vicinity, led by Ida Giriunas with 6 participants
51 species

Brant  60
Canada Goose  110
Blue-winged Teal  3
Northern Shoveler  14     Recorded by BBC trip
Gadwall  2
Eurasian Wigeon  1
American Wigeon  20
Mallard  6
American Black Duck  40
Northern Pintail  20
Green-winged Teal  100
Ring-necked Duck  20
Greater Scaup  2
Common Eider  30
White-winged Scoter  6
Long-tailed Duck  1
Bufflehead  20
Common Merganser  2
Red-breasted Merganser  6
Common Loon  1
Great Cormorant  2
Great Egret  6
Turkey Vulture  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Killdeer  2
Wilson’s Snipe  1
Willet  2     Recorded by BBC trip
Bonaparte’s Gull  2
Ring-billed Gull  X
Herring Gull  X
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  20
Mourning Dove  6
Snowy Owl  1
American Kestrel  1
Eastern Phoebe  1
American Crow  6
Tree Swallow  1
Black-capped Chickadee  2
Tufted Titmouse  2
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  15
American Tree Sparrow  2
Song Sparrow  20
Northern Cardinal  2
Red-winged Blackbird  2
Common Grackle  10
House Finch  4
American Goldfinch  2
House Sparrow  4

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S46094354

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