Bird Walk for All People - Thursday, July 19th, 2012

The Bird Walk for All People enjoyed a variety of birds including birds that are migrating. Highlights include many Killdeer, shorebirds such as Spotted, Solitary, Pectoral, and Semipalmated Sandpipers, Semipalmated and Piping Plover, both Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, and Short-billed Dowitchers. Leaders: Chuck & MJ Slugg, Chris Marks, and Warren Cairo.
64 species

Canada Goose  35
Mute Swan  14
Mallard  30
Great Blue Heron  10
Great Egret  32
Snowy Egret  3
Black-crowned Night-Heron  3
Glossy Ibis  18
Turkey Vulture  4
Osprey  2
Semipalmated Plover  6
Piping Plover  1
Killdeer  22
American Oystercatcher  6
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Solitary Sandpiper  2
Greater Yellowlegs  3
Lesser Yellowlegs  20
Sanderling  1
Semipalmated Sandpiper  4
Least Sandpiper  36
Pectoral Sandpiper  2
Short-billed Dowitcher  35
Laughing Gull  20
Ring-billed Gull  2
Herring Gull  6
Lesser Black-backed Gull  1
Great Black-backed Gull  12
Least Tern  40
Common Tern  10
Forster's Tern  25
Royal Tern  5
Black Skimmer  2
Rock Pigeon  8
Mourning Dove  6
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1     heard
Northern Flicker  1
Great Crested Flycatcher  2     heard
Eastern Kingbird  30     Found in groups of 5-6 throughout State Park, family
groups still feeding fledglings
American Crow  6
Fish Crow  5
Purple Martin  70
Tree Swallow  2
Barn Swallow  8
Carolina Chickadee  6
Tufted Titmouse  1
Carolina Wren  4
House Wren  2
American Robin  25
Gray Catbird  3
Northern Mockingbird  5
European Starling  10
Cedar Waxwing  12     heard
Common Yellowthroat  6
Song Sparrow  1
Northern Cardinal  8
Indigo Bunting  2     heard
Red-winged Blackbird  18
Common Grackle  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  6
Baltimore Oriole  3
House Finch  3     heard
House Sparrow  6

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org/content/nj)