Nature Done Wright

    The Celery Farm team saw 60 species from the Pirie Platform  during Sunday's 12-hour birding and sitting marathon, including two new species for the event — Pectoral Sandpiper and Black Vulture. That brings the event's cumulative list to 111.

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1. Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus
2. Great Egret Ardea alba
3. Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias
4. Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
5. Black Vulture Coragyps atratus
6. Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura
7. Canada Goose Branta canadensis
8. Mute Swan Cygnus olor
9. Wood Duck Aix sponsa
10. Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
11. Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
12. American Wigeon Anas americana
13. Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata
14. Gadwall Anas strepera
15. American Black Duck Anas rubripes
16. Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
17. Osprey Pandion haliaetus
18. Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus
19. Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii
20. Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus
21. Broad-winged Hawk Buteo platypterus
22. Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis
23. American Kestrel Falco sparverius
24. Merlin Falco columbarius
25. Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
26. Pectoral Sandpiper Calidris melanotos
27. Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis
28. Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura
29. Chimney Swift Chaetura pelagica
30. Belted Kingfisher Ceryle alcyon
31. Red-bellied Woodpecker Melanerpes carolinus
32. Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescens
33. Hairy Woodpecker Picoides villosus
34. Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
35. Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe
36. Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata
37. American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos
38. Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor
39. Tufted Titmouse Baeolophus bicolor
40. Carolina Wren Thryothorus ludovicianus
41. Ruby-crowned Kinglet Regulus calendula
42. American Robin Turdus migratorius
43. Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis
44. European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
45. Yellow-rumped Warbler Dendroica coronata
46. Palm Warbler Dendroica palmarum
47. Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas
48. Eastern Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus
49. Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia
50. Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
51. Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
52. Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus
53. Rusty Blackbird Euphagus carolinus
54. Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula
55. Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater
56. House Finch Carpodacus mexicanus
57. Purple Finch Carpodacus purpureus
58. American Goldfinch Carduelis tristis
59. Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis
60. House Sparrow Passer domesticus