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

Revere Beach–Pink Apartments, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

Feb 10, 2026 9:56 AM – 11:55 AM

Protocol: Traveling

0.759 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC walk, pop-up for the Gullapalooza. Fewer Gulls today but we saw Glaucous aand Iceland and got eveone on them. I counted 21 people including 2 leaders at one point. May have been more.

Gull estimatation method: We estimated total of 3500 gulls on the beach and near beach waters. We estimated about 5% Ring-billed and 7% or 8% Greater Black-backed, and the rest American Herring. 

The other bird counts are direct counts or much more accurate estimates.

21 species

Canada Goose  6

Mallard  1

American Black Duck  2

Greater Scaup  3

Common Eider  200

Surf Scoter  3

White-winged Scoter  17

Black Scoter  6

Bufflehead  41

Common Goldeneye  1

Red-breasted Merganser  1

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  95

Sanderling  15

Ring-billed Gull  175    Estimate

American Herring Gull  3200    Estimate

Great Black-backed Gull  230    Estimate

Glaucous Gull  1    Pic

Iceland Gull  2    Pic of one

Common Loon  1

American Crow  8

House Sparrow  6

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S300359997

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