Bedford Audubon Society

Peekskill Count
The 51st Annual Peekskill Christmas Bird Count was held on December 17, 2005. Thirty one birders participated under partly cloudy skies with temperatures ranging from the mid twenties to the upper thirties.

Snow Goose	2	Killdeer	1	Winter Wren	13
Canada Goose	3492	American Woodcock	1	Golden-crowned Kinglet	12
Mute Swan	78	Ring-billed Gull	845	Ruby-crowned Kinglet	1
Wood Duck	1	Herring Gull	90	Eastern Bluebird	31
Gadwall	16	Iceland Gull	1	Hermit Thrush	11
American Black Duck	170	Great Black-backed Gull	29	American Robin	216
Mallard	548	Rock Pigeon	348	Gray Catbird	21
Northern Pintail	1	Mourning Dove	132	Northern Mockingbird	82
American Green-winged Teal	5	Eastern Screech-Owl	4	Brown Thrasher	1
Canvasback	14	Great Horned Owl	4	European Starling	1847
Ring-necked Duck	16	Barred Owl	1	American Pipit	1
Greater Scaup	217	Belted Kingfisher	8	Cedar Waxwing	130
Bufflehead	178	Red-headed Woodpecker	1	Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler	1
Common Goldeneye	7	Red-bellied Woodpecker	65	Eastern Towhee	3
Hooded Merganser	82	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	2	American Tree Sparrow	161
Common Merganser	217	Downy Woodpecker	128	Field Sparrow	12
Ruddy Duck	1304	Hairy Woodpecker	13	Savannah Sparrow	9
Wild Turkey	10	Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker	25	Song Sparrow	166
Pied-billed Grebe	2	Pileated Woodpecker	7	Swamp Sparrow	6
Double-crested Cormorant	7	Blue Jay	350	White-throated Sparrow	467
Great Cormorant	33	American Crow	742	Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco	520
Great Blue Heron	3	Fish Crow	10	Snow Bunting	1
Black Vulture	33	Common Raven	1	Northern Cardinal	154
Turkey Vulture	48	Horned Lark	16	Red-winged Blackbird	48
Bald Eagle	29	Black-capped Chickadee	497	Eastern Meadowlark	1
Northern Harrier	4	Tufted Titmouse	275	Rusty Blackbird	1
Sharp-shinned Hawk	10	Red-breasted Nuthatch	1	Common Grackle	61
Cooper's Hawk	1	White-breasted Nuthatch	147	Purple Finch	4
Northern Goshawk	1	Brown Creeper	14	House Finch	78
Red-tailed Hawk	48	Carolina Wren	46	Common Redpoll	2
Peregrine Falcon	1	House Wren	1	American Goldfinch	240
American Coot	171			House Sparrow	429

Total Species: 95; Total Individuals: 15,284

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