Registrar: Mary Beth Kooper
Participants: 17
Weather: 78 – 82°F, gentle breeze, wind SE – NE
Bird Species: 51
We had a wonderful day of birding on Staten Island. Our leader, life-long Staten Islander Howie Fisher, started our day off at Conference House Park, where the highlight was a White-eyed Vireo. From there we went to nearby Joline Avenue Beach, where we had the days most spectacular birds; Caspian and Royal Terns and seven Brown Pelicans! Our next stop was to see the annually nesting Purple Martins which are always a treat to see. Our last stop as a full group was to Wolfe’s Pond Park, where we were hoping to see the Neotropic Cormorant that had been around recently, but we had no luck with that bird. A few participants made one last stop, at Oakwood Beach, and we were treated to seeing a Little Blue Heron and a Marsh Wren.
Species List
Bird Species
Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Mallard
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
American Oystercatcher
Killdeer
Laughing Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Black Skimmer
Caspian Tern
Common Tern
Royal Tern
Double-crested Cormorant
Brown Pelican
Black-crowned Night Heron
Little Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downey Woodpecker
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Purple Martin
Barn Swallow
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Carolina Wren
European Starling
Gray Catbird
American Robin
House Sparrow
American Goldfinch
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
See eBird trip report.
