Rev Ray Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 This year I will be participating again in the World Series of Birding with the Hackensack Riverkeeper to raise funds for the organization tomorrow on 5/9. If you like my old road reports and live tweeting, why not throw a few bucks our way. If doing a per bird pledge, note we've done around 120-127 birds in recent years. Our organization's page: http://www.hackensackriverkeeper.org/ About the series: http://www.worldseriesofbirding.org/wsb/default.asp Daily Show bit with Steve Carrel about the event from 2000: http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/cxiky4/the-world-series-of-birding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ray Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 Rough day in the Hackensack River watershed. It seemed like a slow migration day. Seemed like a lot of times we were scraping by picking up only a couple birds at various stops. We ended up with 115 birds between 4am and when we stopped around 9pm. It's about 9 below my lowest score since joining the team, but it seemed like even the top teams came in 10 under from last year. I'll try to put up a list soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ray Posted May 11, 2016 Author Share Posted May 11, 2016 Time to bump this: This Saturday, I will once again be part of the Hackensack Riverkeeper's team doing the World Series of Birding as part of a fundraiser for the organization. If you've got a few bucks and want to support the environment in NJ (and will Christy as the governor, it needs all the help it can), feel free to donate, either a straight donation or a per bird. We usually put up about 120 species so just keep that in mind. http://www.hackensackriverkeeper.org/ for details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ray Posted May 16, 2016 Author Share Posted May 16, 2016 A pretty good day for the Hackensack Rivercreepers. Our 3 person team put up 123 birds in between sunrise to sunset. 1 Brant 2 Canada Goose 3 Mute Swan 4 Wood Duck 5 Gadwall 6 American Black Duck 7 Mallard 8 Northern Pintail 9 Canvasback 10 Ruddy Duck 11 Wild Turkey 12 Double-crested Cormorant 13 Great Blue Heron 14 Great Egret 15 Snowy Egret 16 Green Heron 17 Black-crowned Night-Heron 18 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 19 Black Vulture 20 Turkey Vulture 21 Osprey 22 Cooper's Hawk 23 Bald Eagle 24 Red-tailed Hawk 25 Clapper Rail 26 Common Gallinule 27 American Oystercatcher 28 Semipalmated Plover 29 Killdeer 30 Spotted Sandpiper 31 Solitary Sandpiper 32 Greater Yellowlegs 33 Lesser Yellowlegs 34 Dunlin 35 Least Sandpiper 36 Semipalmated Sandpiper 37 Short-billed Dowitcher 38 Laughing Gull 39 Ring-billed Gull 40 Herring Gull 41 Great Black-backed Gull 42 Least Tern 43 Common Tern 44 Forster's Tern 45 Rock Pigeon 46 Mourning Dove 47 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 48 Barn Owl 49 Great Horned Owl 50 Common Nighthawk 51 Chimney Swift 52 Belted Kingfisher 53 Red-bellied Woodpecker 54 Downy Woodpecker 55 Northern Flicker 56 Peregrine Falcon 57 Monk Parakeet 58 Eastern Wood-Pewee 59 Eastern Phoebe 60 Great Crested Flycatcher 61 Eastern Kingbird 62 Yellow-throated Vireo 63 Warbling Vireo 64 Blue Jay 65 American Crow 66 Fish Crow 67 Tree Swallow 68 Barn Swallow 69 Cliff Swallow 70 Black-capped Chickadee 71 Tufted Titmouse 72 White-breasted Nuthatch 73 House Wren 74 Marsh Wren 75 Carolina Wren 76 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 77 Veery 78 Swainson's Thrush 79 Wood Thrush 80 American Robin 81 Gray Catbird 82 Brown Thrasher 83 Northern Mockingbird 84 European Starling 85 Cedar Waxwing 86 Ovenbird 87 Worm-eating Warbler 88 Northern Waterthrush 89 Black-and-white Warbler 90 Tennessee Warbler 91 Nashville Warbler 92 Common Yellowthroat 93 American Redstart 94 Northern Parula 95 Magnolia Warbler 96 Blackburnian Warbler 97 Yellow Warbler 98 Chestnut-sided Warbler 99 Blackpoll Warbler 100 Black-throated Blue Warbler 101 Pine Warbler 102 Yellow-rumped Warbler 103 Black-throated Green Warbler 104 Canada Warbler 105 Wilson's Warbler 106 Chipping Sparrow 107 Savannah Sparrow 108 Song Sparrow 109 Swamp Sparrow 110 Scarlet Tanager 111 Northern Cardinal 112 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 113 Indigo Bunting 114 Red-winged Blackbird 115 Common Grackle 116 Boat-tailed Grackle 117 Brown-headed Cowbird 118 Orchard Oriole 119 Baltimore Oriole 120 House Finch 121 American Goldfinch 122 House Sparrow 123 Blue-winged teal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grilledcheese Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 I think birding is cool as hell. Would you be so kind as to clue me in to something? Do you have to make a visual confirmation on a species, or can you mark one down by call alone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ray Posted May 21, 2016 Author Share Posted May 21, 2016 For the series, you can count call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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