Toledo hit triple digits again on its 89th CBC held on December 20. Thirty-nine participants in twelve groups scrounged up a total of 101 species with 25 species of waterfowl (and there were additional count week species) composing almost a quarter of the list. The total number of individual birds counted was a rather astounding 156,738, the highest ever for the Toledo count. Highlights and species with huge totals for the day included Snow goose (46, Maumee Bay SP and Cedar Point NWR), Tundra swan (1,418), Lesser scaup (60,655!, new CBC high count record), Surf scoter (4, Maumee Bay SP), Bufflehead (214, new high count), Turkey vulture (1), Sandhill crane (186, almost all in the shallows of the Maumee River in Rossford, new high count), Killdeer (6), Dunlin (1, Cedar Point NWR), Merlin (2), Ruby-crowned kinglet (1), Gray catbird (1), European starling (26,876), Eastern meadowlark (2), Red-winged blackbird (13,052), Rusty blackbird (278), Common grackle (3,394), Brown-headed cowbird (17,115, new high count), Purple finch (1), Common redpoll (20, Cedar Point NWR), and Pine siskin (168).

Three good count week species were also seen - Greater white-fronted geese (28 on 12/22 over Mallard Club Marsh), Cackling geese (6 on 12/17 on the Little Sisters of the Poor campus across from Pearson Metropark), and Glaucous gull ( 1 on 12/17 at the Ottawa River Interpretive Trail).


Matt



Matt Anderson
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