Christmas Bird Count
The annual 2008 Christmas Bird Count was held at the Baytown Nature Center on morning of December 20 & the afternoon of December 21st this year as part of the larger Houston Christmas Bird count. Counters this year were Dwayne Litteer, John Mason, Gerald and Salllie Sherman. The following bird count is the list of birds counted from the Baytown Nature Center and areas near the nature center. Total 78 bird species.
Gadwall 120
Green-winged Teal 6
Hooded Merganser 9
Red-breasted Merganser 4
Common Goldeneye 3
Mottled Duck 2
Northern Pintail 2
Northern Shoveler 6
American Coot 3
Roseate Spoonbill 11
White Ibis 13
Pied-billed Grebe 8
Brown Pelican 8
American White Pelican 6
Neotropic Cormorant 21
Double Crested Cormorant 12
Great Blue Heron 6
Great Egret 12
Snowy Egret 25
Reddish Egret 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 20
Turkey Vulture 2
Black vulture 2
Osprey 3
Peregrine Falcon 1
American Kestrel 1
Northern Harrier 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Bald Eagle 1
Killdeer 12
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Dunlin 8
Greater Yellowlegs 8
Lesser Yellowlegs 4
Least Sandpiper 40
Sanderling 8
Laughing Gull 75
Ring-billed Gull 55
American Herring Gull 5
Bonaparte's Gull 15
Forster's Tern 4
Royal Tern 5
Rock Pigeon 6
Mourning Dove 10
Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
White-winged Dove 25
Eastern Screech-Owl 1
Belted Kingfisher 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
Loggerhead Shrike 3
Blue Jay 2
Sedge Wren 10
Marsh Wren 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 22
Blue-gray Gnatcher 2
American Robin 100
Northern Mockingbird 5
European Starling 50
American Pipit 1
Pine Warbler 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 35
Swamp Sparrow 6
Lincoln's Sparrow 5
Chipping Sparrow 8
White-crowned Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 5
Savannah Sparrow 7
House Sparrow 12
Northern Cardinal 3
American Goldfinch 5
Eastern Bluebird 6
Red-winged Blackbird 100
Great-tailed Grackle 25
Sallie Sherman
Education Coordinator
Eddie V. Gray Wetlands Center
Baytown, Texas 77520
ph. 281-420-7140 fax 281-420-7142
sallie.sherman@baytown.org
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