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- Welcome to Birdathon 2010!
| Audubon’s largest
annual fundraising event and bird watching competition is Birdathon.
Each year thousands of people participate in this event to raise funds
for education, environmental education and advocacy. A Birdathon works
by people counting birds and collecting pledges from sponsors based on
the number of species seen. This differs from the Christmas Bird Count
where every individual bird is counted. The data compiled is a great
indicator of the species distribution in our chapter territory that
encompasses Warren, Washington and Northern Saratoga Counties. All
donations will be for the support of Southern Adirondack Audubon. We
have been compiling the species lists for many years and it is
interesting to see the changes over time. The results will be placed
on our website. To participate with Southern Adirondack Audubon, all you have to do is choose a date during the period of May 13 - 16 and start counting. You can get together with friends and have a group birding day, or simply do a count from your home observing birds coming to your feeder or yard. Pledges usually take the form of a set amount of money for each species seen, but if you have no sponsors your participation is still welcome. Pick a date, time, location, friends, sponsors, and have fun compiling your species lists. If you observe rare or unusual species it is really helpful to identify their location (if you have a GPS that is even better). Each group can enter their species into the eBird database but all lists should be sent in. If you would like to sponsor a birder or join a group contact Linda White at 792-4446. Please send your species lists, location information, and pledge money to Linda at: 29 Peggy Ann Road, Queensbury, NY 12804 or e-mail at lindaandblake@roadrunner.com | |
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING
BIRDATHON 2009
14 Participants recorded 116
species!
Birders Melissa Brewer, Joan Robertson, Linda
Hoyt, Jason Goldsmith, Laurie LaFond, and Mona Bearor
raised a total of $767.35 through donations and pledges!
This report is from the compiler, Linda
White.
The week of May 21st
was the time frame for this year’s Birdathon. For this event each
species is counted. For the Christmas Bird Count each individual
bird is counted and recorded. There were 14 participants and they
came up with some amazing lists. This is what citizen science is
all about. I would like to thank each of them for their
contributions. The following are the individual birders and
some of their significant sightings.
Joan and Bob Stevens birded
the Wilton Wildlife Preserve. They had 38 species with the Northern
Parula being one of the most impressive.
Beth LaPan birded the Hartford and
Kingsbury areas and had 17 species.
The Fullers of South Glens Falls had
13 species.
Melissa Brewer and
Jessie Curtis birded the Chestertown area and had 46 species, with
Black-throated Green Warbler, Pine Siskin, Barred Owl, and Common Loon
as highlights.
Joan Robertson included birds seen
near her home, and together with Pat Fitzgerald and Linda White birded
the Saratoga Battlefield. Their most unusual species were:
Northern Harrier, Warbling Vireo, Blue-winged Warbler, and Worm-eating
Warbler.
Laurie LaFond had 55 species
including an American Bittern, Green Heron, Blue-headed Vireo and
Warbling Vireo.
Linda Hoyt birded the Brant Lake
area and other sections of the Adirondacks. She had 57 species,
including: Purple Finch, Wood Duck, Broad-winged Hawk, Barred
Owl, and Chestnut-sided, Yellow-rumped, Pine, and Black-and-White
Warblers.
Jason Goldsmith had 77 species with
the following significant species: Peregrine Falcon, Upland
Sandpiper, Whip-poor-will, Chimney Swift, Fish Crow, Brown Thrasher,
and Mourning Warbler.
Mona Bearor had a total of 97
species. Her list includes the following highlights:
Osprey, Peregrine Falcon, Spotted Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper,
Chimney Swift, Great Horned Owl, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Marsh Wren,
Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Fish Crow, Blackburnian
Warbler, and Prairie Warbler.
The 2009 Birdathon Species List
The following 116 species were
recorded on
the 2009 Birdathon
Species
denoted with an asterisk were observed this year for the first time on
a Birdathon day.
|
Common
Loon American
Bittern Broad-winged
Hawk Barred
Owl |
Least Flycatcher Olive-sided
Flycatcher Purple Finch
|
Pine Siskin Northern
Parula Yellow-rumped
Warbler Pine Warbler Black-and-White
Warbler |
The following 172 species have been recorded to-date on the SAAS Birdathons.
|
Common Loon Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron American Bittern Snow Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard American Black Duck Blue-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Hooded Merganser Turkey Vulture Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon Wild Turkey Ruffed Grouse Virginia Rail Semipalmated Plover Killdeer American Woodcock Wilson's Snipe Short-billed Dowitcher Upland Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Ring-billed Gull American Herring Gull Black Tern Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Black-billed Cuckoo Yellow-billed Cuckoo Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Common Nighthawk Whip-poor-will |
Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Alder Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-Pewee Eastern Phoebe Eastern Kingbird Great Crested Flycatcher Horned Lark Bank Swallow Tree Swallow Purple Martin Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow American Pipit Ruby-crowned Kinglet Cedar Waxwing Winter Wren House Wren Marsh Wren Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Eastern Bluebird Veery Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Common Raven European Starling House Sparrow Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo |
House Finch Common Redpoll Pine Siskin American Goldfinch Evening Grosbeak Blue-winged Warbler Golden-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Bunting Grasshopper Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole Orchard Oriole |