Thanks to the participants of the VNHS Field Trip today and especially to Daniel Donnecke for tabulating this detailed bird census list.
For the boat crossing between Pearson College and Race Rocks, Daniel and the group on the boat made the following observation:
2 Great Blue Heron
110 Double crested cormorant
2 pelagic cormorants
160 rhinoceros auklets
45 common murre
3 pigeon guillemot
25 Heermann’s Gulls
8 Glaucous winged gull
20 California Gull
30 Gull sp.
4 Oystercatcher
4 Harlequin duck
1 common Goldeneye
4 mallard
1 red-throathed loon
56 greater white fronted geese (single flock crossing the strait)
20 band tailed pigeons
2 coopers hawk
400 turkey Vultures (attempting to cross the Strait but turned around)
American Pipit–Anthus rubescens photograph by Daniel Donnecke
At Race Rocks Daniel made the following census notes which he entered on eBird : 23 species (plus 2 other taxa) total:
4 |
Greater White-fronted Goose |
|---|---|
11 |
Canada Goose |
2 |
Harlequin Duck |
17 |
Surf Scoter-(-east-bound) |
42 |
Brandt’s Cormorant |
8 |
Double-crested Cormorant |
18 |
Pelagic Cormorant |
25 |
cormorant sp. |
10 |
Turkey Vulture- (-distant, ketteling) |
16 |
Black Turnstone |
2 |
Dunlin |
1 |
Western Sandpiper |
1 |
Short-billed Dowitcher |
2 |
Common Murre-(-low number, most alcids closer to Vancouver Island) |
1 |
Rhinoceros Auklet-(-low number, most alcids closer to Vancouver Island) |
41 |
Heermann’s Gull |
1 |
Western Gull |
110 |
California Gull |
1 |
Herring Gull |
25 |
Thayer’s Gull |
36 |
Glaucous-winged Gull |
85 |
gull sp. |
8 |
|
6 |
Savannah Sparrow |
1 |
Song Sparrow |
For other images of the species above see the Race Rocks Taxonomy