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Connecticut Birding
Big January 2006
Frank Mantlik has compiled the results everyone submitted for January,
both individual totals and cumulative checklist. Thank you Frank, and thank you to all
who participated. Some impressive numbers, and an impressive list.
NAME - NUMBER OF SPECIES
(38 submitters)
Mardi Dickinson - 139
James Restivo - 137
Janet Mehmel - 131
Meredith Sampson - 129
Annette Cunniffe - 127
Frank Mantlik - 122
John Ogren - 120
Luke Tiller - 120
Jamie Meyers - 119
Tom Fiore - 118
Kristine Wallstrom - 118
Penny Solum - 118
Sara Zagorski - 117
Betty Zuraw - 117
Jay Kaplan - 111
Neil Currie - 110
Shaun Martin - 110
Randy Domina - 107
Charlie Barnard - 105 |
Paul Cashman - 104
Fred Norton - 104
Greg Hanisek - 103
Renee Baade - 102
Larry Flynn - 100
E.J. Raynor - 100
Ray Belding - 99
Tim Antanaitis - 98
Robert Dixon - 98
Ed Reneson - 98
Denise Jernigan - 95
Anders Ogren - 94
Bill Banks - 93
Kris Johnson - 92
Adrian Nichols - 92
Beth Nichols - 92
Bill Asteriades - 90
Natasha Domina - 90
Rick Macsuga - 90
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Connecticut “Big January” 2006 - Cumulative Species
List as Reported by Participants
Birds listed in taxonomic order of the COA Checklist (March 2002).
Lists submitted are on the honor system, and are here unjudged and unedited.
| 1. Red-throated Loon
2. Common Loon
3. Pied-billed Grebe
4. Horned Grebe
5. Red-necked Grebe
6. Great Cormorant
7. Double-crested Cormorant
8. American Bittern
9. Great Blue Heron
10. Snowy Egret
11. Black-crowned Night-Heron
12. Black Vulture
13. Turkey Vulture
14. Greater White-fronted Goose
15. Snow Goose
16. Canada Goose
17. Brant
18. Mute Swan
19. Wood Duck
20. Gadwall
21. Eurasian Wigeon
22. American Wigeon
23. American Black Duck
24. Mallard
25. Northern Pintail
26. Green-winged Teal
27. Canvasback
28. Redhead
29. Ring-necked Duck
30. Greater Scaup
31. Lesser Scaup
32. Common Eider
33. Black Scoter
34. Surf Scoter
35. White-winged Scoter
36. Long-tailed Duck
37. Bufflehead
38. Common Goldeneye
39. Barrow’s Goldeneye
40. Hooded Merganser
41. Common Merganser
42. Red-breasted Merganser
43. Ruddy Duck
44. Bald Eagle
45. Northern Harrier
46. Sharp-shinned Hawk
47. Cooper's Hawk
48. Northern Goshawk
49. Red-shouldered Hawk
50. Broad-winged Hawk (MD)
51. Red-tailed Hawk
52. Rough-legged Hawk
53. American Kestrel
54. Merlin
55. Peregrine Falcon
56. Ring-necked Pheasant
57. Ruffed Grouse (TF, KW)
58. Wild Turkey
59. Clapper Rail
60. Virginia Rail (JR)
61. American Coot
62. Black-bellied Plover
63. Killdeer
64. Greater Yellowlegs
65. Ruddy Turnstone
66. Sanderling
67. Purple Sandpiper
68. Dunlin
69. Wilson's Snipe
70. American Woodcock
71. Bonaparte’s Gull
72. Ring-billed Gull
73. Herring Gull
74. Iceland Gull
75. Lesser Black-backed Gull
76. Great Black-backed Gull
77. Thick-billed Murre (RBe)
78. Razorbill |
79. Rock Pigeon
80. Mourning Dove
81. Monk Parakeet
82. Eastern Screech Owl
83. Great Horned Owl
84. Snowy Owl
85. Barred Owl
86. Long-eared Owl
87. Short-eared Owl
88. Northern Saw-whet Owl
89. Belted Kingfisher
90. Red-bellied Woodpecker
91. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
92. Downy Woodpecker
93. Hairy Woodpecker
94. Northern Flicker
95. Pileated Woodpecker
96. Eastern Phoebe
97. Blue Jay
98. American Crow
99. Fish Crow
100. Common Raven
101. Horned Lark
102. Black-capped Chickadee
103. Tufted Titmouse
104. Red-breasted Nuthatch
105. White-breasted Nuthatch
106. Brown Creeper
107. Carolina Wren
108. Winter Wren
109. Marsh Wren
110. Golden-crowned Kinglet
111. Ruby-crowned Kinglet (PC)
112. Eastern Bluebird
113. Townsend’s Solitaire
114. Hermit Thrush
115. American Robin
116. Gray Catbird
117. Northern Mockingbird
118. Brown Thrasher
119. European Starling
120. American Pipit
121. Cedar Waxwing
122. Yellow-rumped Warbler
123. Yellow-throated Warbler
124. Palm Warbler (FN, JO)
125. Spotted Towhee
126. Eastern Towhee
127. American Tree Sparrow
128. Chipping Sparrow
129. Field Sparrow
130. Vesper Sparrow (TF, KW)
131. Savannah Sparrow
132. Grasshopper Sparrow
133. Seaside Sparrow (JR)
134. Fox Sparrow
135. Song Sparrow
136. Swamp Sparrow
137. White-throated Sparrow
138. White-crowned Sparrow
139. Dark-eyed Junco
140. Lapland Longspur
141. Snow Bunting
142. Northern Cardinal
143. Red-winged Blackbird
144. Eastern Meadowlark
145. Rusty Blackbird
146. Common Grackle
147. Boat-tailed Grackle
148. Brown-headed Cowbird
149. Baltimore Oriole
150. Purple Finch
151. House Finch
152. White-winged Crossbill
153. Common Redpoll
154. Pine Siskin
155. American Goldfinch
156. House Sparrow
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In addition, the following species were reported in January by other birders to the
electronic daily CT
Bird Report (thanks to Fred Norton for researching this):
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Cackling Goose
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Spotted Sandpiper (1/21 Branford - R. English, via F. McBride)
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Black-headed Gull
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Glaucous Gull
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Pine Warbler
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Dickcissel
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Evening Grosbeak
Frank W. Mantlik, compiler - 11 Feb. 2006