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Location Cuttyhunk Island
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Additional Details

People

Owner Ryan Schain

Other Participating eBirders

Effort

Protocol:  Traveling
  • Observers:  3
  • Distance:  2.5 mi

Checklist Comments

Totals

69
Species Observed
+1 other taxa, 1,033 individuals
7
Species with Photos

Observations

  1. Mallard

    Number observed:  2

  2. American Black Duck

    Number observed:  2

  3. Common Eider (Dresser's)

    Number observed:  1

  4. Surf Scoter

    Number observed:  2

  5. White-winged Scoter

    Number observed:  1

  6. Black Scoter

    Number observed:  1

  7. Mourning Dove

    Number observed:  7

  8. pigeon/dove sp.

    Number observed:  1

  9. Virginia Rail

    Number observed:  4

    Details

    - - *Careful count; birds heard and seen well in tiny freshwater marsh on the eastern side of the island; photos

  10. Purple Gallinule

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    - - ***Mega; Juvenile bird seen extremely well along the edge of the tiny freshwater marsh on the eastern end of the island; Mostly brownish with some white mottling around the throat and breast, a light purplish head shield, a bicolored faint red and yellow bill, bright red eye. Its wings were darker and the white undertail coverts were visible several times as it walked out into the open amidst the lilly pad; Observed for approximately 5 minutes at ten to fifteen feet, usually obstructed but still giving outstanding looks. It only once made a quick walk across a channel out into the open for a brief second; decent photos

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  11. Black-bellied Plover

    Number observed:  2

  12. Semipalmated Plover

    Number observed:  2

  13. Greater Yellowlegs

    Number observed:  9

  14. Laughing Gull

    Number observed:  12

  15. Ring-billed Gull

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    - - Cuttyhunk Harbor

  16. American Herring Gull

    Number observed:  20

  17. Great Black-backed Gull

    Number observed:  5

  18. Common Loon

    Number observed:  5

  19. Great Cormorant

    Number observed:  55

    Details

    **High careful count; on rocks in Cuttyhunk Harbor; photos

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  20. Double-crested Cormorant

    Number observed:  93

  21. Great Blue Heron

    Number observed:  2

  22. Cooper's Hawk

    Number observed:  2

  23. Northern Harrier

    Number observed:  1

  24. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

    Number observed:  1

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  25. Red-bellied Woodpecker

    Number observed:  4

  26. Downy Woodpecker

    Number observed:  2

  27. Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)

    Number observed:  6

  28. Peregrine Falcon

    Number observed:  1

  29. Eastern Phoebe

    Number observed:  3

  30. Blue-headed Vireo

    Number observed:  1

  31. Blue Jay

    Number observed:  46

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  32. American Crow

    Number observed:  6

  33. Black-capped Chickadee

    Number observed:  14

  34. Tufted Titmouse

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    - - Uncommon on Cuttyhunk

  35. Tree Swallow

    Number observed:  4

  36. Cliff Swallow

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    - - **Late; flyover near the freshwater marsh; short square-tailed swallow with an all dark throat; checked carefully for Cave Swallow

  37. Ruby-crowned Kinglet

    Number observed:  7

  38. Golden-crowned Kinglet

    Number observed:  22

    Details

    - - including 9 on the ground at the cemetery

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  39. Brown Creeper

    Number observed:  2

  40. Northern House Wren

    Number observed:  1

  41. Carolina Wren

    Number observed:  11

    Details

    - - throughout; singing

  42. European Starling

    Number observed:  90

  43. Gray Catbird

    Number observed:  41

    Details

    - - throughout, omnipresent

  44. Brown Thrasher

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    - - 1 along Tower Road, 1 at south end Audubon property

  45. Northern Mockingbird

    Number observed:  5

  46. American Robin

    Number observed:  11

  47. Cedar Waxwing

    Number observed:  31

  48. House Sparrow

    Number observed:  60

    Details

    - - scoured carefully for Dickcissel

  49. Chipping Sparrow

    Number observed:  22

  50. Field Sparrow

    Number observed:  2

  51. Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)

    Number observed:  24

  52. White-crowned Sparrow

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    - - immature bird along Tower Road with decent sparrow flock; photos

  53. White-throated Sparrow

    Number observed:  46

  54. Savannah Sparrow

    Number observed:  6

  55. Song Sparrow

    Number observed:  12

  56. Lincoln's Sparrow

    Number observed:  1

  57. Swamp Sparrow

    Number observed:  4

  58. Eastern Towhee

    Number observed:  49

    Details

    - - everywhere, one of the most common birds today

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  59. Red-winged Blackbird

    Number observed:  2

  60. Brown-headed Cowbird

    Number observed:  14

  61. Common Grackle

    Number observed:  18

  62. Orange-crowned Warbler

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    - - *FOY; in poplar grove on southern coast of island; photos

  63. Common Yellowthroat

    Number observed:  6

    Details

    - - Careful count

  64. Northern Parula

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    - - Poplar grove with OCWA

  65. Blackpoll Warbler

    Number observed:  4

    Details

    - - Surprisingly few

  66. Black-throated Blue Warbler

    Number observed:  2

    Details

    - - both female, opposite ends of island

  67. Pine Warbler

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    - - male in lone pine near marsh

  68. Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)

    Number observed:  205

    Details

    - - absolutely everywhere

  69. Black-throated Green Warbler

    Number observed:  2

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  70. Northern Cardinal

    Number observed:  5
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