As promised, here's a full list of the birds we saw on our Tuesday Birding Cruise, sponsored by the NJMC and BCAS. We had 38+ species in all, including some real beauts.
Full list follows, with pix of Laughing Gull (in Sawmill) and Caspian Terns (in the Anderson Creek Marsh).
Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:00 AM
Comments: This was a birding cruise sponsored by the NJ Meadowlands Commission and Bergen County Audubon Society
38 species
Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Black Duck
Mallard
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Red-tailed Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Common Raven
Clapper Rail
Common Gallinule
Semipalmated Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Spotted Sanpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Least Tern
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Barn Swallow
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Yellow Warbler
Red-winged Blackbird
House Sparrow