Ottawa NWR Monthly
Bird Census

January 1, 2012

Fulvous Whistling Duck

Greater White-fronted Goose

Snow Goose

15 (5 blue phase, 10 white phase)

Ross's Goose

Cackling Goose

Canada Goose

2,294

Mute Swan

11

Trumpeter Swan

44 (yellow neckbands "3AO" & "9AO")

Tundra Swan

1674

Wood Duck

2

Gadwall

57

Eurasian Wigeon

American Wigeon

2

American Black Duck

57

Mallard

1476

Blue-winged Teal

Cinnamon Teal

Northern Shoveler

30

Northern Pintail

3

Green-winged Teal

Canvasback

Redhead

8

Ring-necked Duck

Greater Scaup

1

Lesser Scaup

King Eider

Harlequin duck

Surf Scoter

White-winged Scoter

Black Scoter

Long-tailed Duck

Bufflehead

2

Common Goldeneye

1

Hooded Merganser

4

Common Merganser

1,023

Red-breasted Merganser

1

Ruddy Duck

1

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Ring-necked Pheasant

Northern Bobwhite

Common Loon

Pied-billed Grebe

Horned Grebe

Red-necked Grebe

Eared Grebe

Western Grebe

American White Pelican

Double-crested Cormorant

1

American Bittern

Least Bittern

Great Blue Heron

20

Great Egret

Snowy Egret

Little Blue Heron

Tri-colored Heron

Cattle Egret

Green Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

Glossy Ibis

White-faced Ibis

Black Vulture

Turkey Vulture

Osprey

Bald Eagle

9 (4 adult, 5 immature)

Northern Harrier

2

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Cooper's Hawk

1

Northern Goshawk

Red-shouldered Hawk

Broad-winged Hawk

Swainson's Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

5

Rough-legged Hawk

Golden Eagle

American Kestrel

Merlin

Gyrfalcon

Peregrine Falcon

1 (immature)

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King Rail

Virginia Rail

Sora

Common Moorhen

American Coot

42

Sandhill Crane

Black-bellied Plover

American Golden-Plover

Snowy Plover

Semipalmated Plover

Piping Plover

Killdeer

Black-necked Stilt

Amercian Avocet

Spotted Sandpiper

Solitary Sandpiper

Greater Yellowlegs

Willet

Lesser Yellowlegs

Upland Sandpiper

Whimbrel

Hudsonian Godwit

Marbled Godwit

Ruddy Turnstone

Red Knot

Sanderling

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Western Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

White-rumped Sandpiper

Baird's Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper

Dunlin

Curlew Sandpiper

Stilt Sandpiper

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Ruff

Short-billed Dowitcher

Long-billed Dowitcher

Wilson's Snipe

American Woodcock

Wilson's Phalarope

Red-necked Phalarope

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Franklin's Gull

Little Gull

Black-headed Gull

Bonaparte's Gull

106

Ring-billed Gull

1,491

Herring Gull

86

Iceland Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Glaucous Gull

Great Black-backed Gull

Black-legged Kittiwake

Caspian Tern

Black Tern

Common Tern

Forster's Tern

Pomarine Jaeger

Long-tailed Jaeger

Rock Pigeon

Mourning Dove

43

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Black-billed Cuckoo

Barn Owl

Eastern Screech Owl

1

Great Horned Owl

1

Snowy Owl

Long-eared Owl

Short-eared Owl

Northern Saw-whet Owl

Common Nighthawk

Whip-poor-will

Chimney Swift

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

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Belted Kingfisher

1

Red-headed Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

6

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Downy Woodpecker

14

Hairy Woodpecker

3

Northern Flicker

1

Pileated Woodpecker

Olive-sided Flycatcher

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

Acadian Flycatcher

Alder Flycatcher

Willow Flycatcher

Least Flycatcher

Eastern Phoebe

Vermilion Flycatcher

Great Crested Flycatcher

Western Kingbird

Eastern Kingbird

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher

Loggerhead Shrike

Northern Shrike

White-eyed Vireo

Yellow-throated Vireo

Blue-headed Vireo

Warbling Vireo

Philadelphia Vireo

Red-eyed Vireo

Blue Jay

14

American Crow

Horned Lark

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Purple Martin

Tree Swallow

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Bank Swallow

Cliff Swallow

Barn Swallow

Black-capped Chickadee

19

Tufted Titmouse

7

Red-breasted Nuthatch

White-breasted Nuthatch

15

Brown Creeper

13

Carolina Wren

1

House Wren

Winter Wren

1

Sedge Wren

Marsh Wren

Golden-crowned Kinglet

2

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Eastern Bluebird

Veery

Gray-cheeked Thrush

Swainson's Thrush

Hermit Thrush

Wood Thrush

American Robin

2

Gray Catbird

Northern Mockingbird

Brown Thrasher

European Starling

274

American Pipit

Cedar Waxwing

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Blue-winged Warbler

Golden-winged Warbler

Tennessee Warbler

Orange-crowned Warbler

Nashville Warbler

Northern Parula

Yellow Warbler

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Magnolia Warbler

Cape May Warbler

Black-throated Blue Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Yellow-throated Warbler

Pine Warbler

Kirtland's Warbler

Prairie Warbler

Palm Warbler

Bay-breasted Warbler

Blackpoll Warbler

Cerulean Warbler

Black-and-white Warbler

American Redstart

Prothonotary Warbler

Worm-eating Warbler

Swainson's Warbler

Ovenbird

Northern Waterthrush

Louisiana Waterthrush

Kentucky Warbler

Connecticut Warbler

Mourning Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Hooded Warbler

Wilson's Warbler

Canada Warbler

Yellow-breasted Chat

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Summer Tanager

Scarlet Tanager

Spotted Towhee

Eastern Towhee

American Tree Sparrow

148

Chipping Sparrow

Clay-colored Sparrow

Field Sparrow

Vesper Sparrow

Lark Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow

Grasshopper Sparrow

Henslow's Sparrow

LeConte's Sparrow

Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow

Fox Sparrow

Song Sparrow

4

Lincoln's Sparrow

Swamp Sparrow

1

White-throated Sparrow

4

Harris's Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

4

Lapland Longspur

Smith's Longspur

Snow Bunting

Northern Cardinal

22

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Blue Grosbeak

Indigo Bunting

Dickcissel

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Bobolink

Red-winged Blackbird

5

Eastern Meadowlark

Western Meadowlark

Yellow-headed Blackbird

Rusty Blackbird

Brewer's Blackbird

Common Grackle

1

Brown-headed Cowbird

Orchard Oriole

Baltimore Oriole

Purple Finch

House Finch

White-winged Crossbill

Common Redpoll

Pine Siskin

American Goldfinch

29

Evening Grosbeak

House Sparrow

59

Empidonax (sp)

Swallow (sp)

Total Species

59

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