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Appendix Five: Birds of Hermann Park: Compiled by the Houston Audubon Society
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Appendix Five Birds of Hermann Park Compiled by the Houston Audubon Society Date 2/14/2011 3/14/2011 4/11/2011 5/9/2011 7/11/2011 8/8/2011 9/12/2011 10/10/2011 Time, Weather 8:00 a.m., rainy 78 deg., overcast 85+ deg., sunny 83+ deg. 69–80 deg., cloudy, wet Number of Species 41 26 30 33 27 27 33 25 Species Black- bellied Whistling Duck 100+ 100+ A A A* 24 A 50 Wood Duck 3 2 Mallard 3 35 Ring-necked Duck 20 30 Lesser Scaup 1 Pied-billed Grebe 4 11 2 2 2 3 3 1 Neotropic Cormorant 2 6 10 Double-crested Cormorant 19 12 13 Great Blue Heron 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 Great Egret 4 1 2 5 3 3 Snowy Egret 1 1 4 1 1 4 3 Little Blue Heron 1 2 1 Green Heron 4 4 1 4 Black-crowned Night-Heron 3 2 2* 4 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 5 13 12* 13* 2 2 White-faced Ibis 3 Osprey 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 1 Cooper’s Hawk 1 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 1 1 ? 1 2 1 Crested Caracara 1 American Kestrel 1 American Coot 100+ 75+ 1 2 5 3 9 Killdeer 1 1 Ring-billed Gull 2 Laughing Gull 1 18 A 8 5 11 2 Rock Pigeonigeon 100+ A A A A A A Eurasian Collared-Dove 3 Mourning Dove 7 4 6 10 3 40 2 2 (continued) Appendix Five 225 Date 2/14/2011 3/14/2011 4/11/2011 5/9/2011 7/11/2011 8/8/2011 9/12/2011 10/10/2011 Species (continued) White-winged Dove 3 6 A 12 13 24 A A Chimney Swifts 15 2 14 Common Nighthawk 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 6 5 Downy Woodpecker 1 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 5 2 2 1 1 2 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Loggerhead Shrike 3 2 Eastern Phoebe 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 3 Blue Jay 13 5 13 C 12 10 A 8 American Crow 1 1 1 2 1 Purple Martin 20 30 25 Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow 20 4 1 Cave Swallow Barn Swallow 8 1 19 5 5 Carolina Chickadee 1 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 Brown Creeper 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 3 American Robin 4 2 12 4 4 2 1 Northern Mockingbird 3 5 13 6 10 25 5 (continued) [54.84.65.73] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 14:15 GMT) 226 Appendix Five Date 2/14/2011 3/14/2011 4/11/2011 5/9/2011 7/11/2011 8/8/2011 9/12/2011 10/10/2011 Species (continued) European Starling 13 6 A A 8 A A Pipit 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 7 1 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 23 2 1 Pine Warbler 6 1 3 2 Common Yellowthroat 1 Wilson’s Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 1 American Redstart 1 Northern Waterthrush 1 Swamp Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 1 1 3 4 3 1 Orchard Oriole 1 Bronzed Cowbird 3 Common Grackle 1 30 A Great-tailed Grackle 31 11 A A A* A* 10 20 Grackle species A Brown-headed Cowbird 2 House Sparrow 10 2 A A 1 24 A 24 DOMESTICS Moscovy Duck Mallards numerous Greylag Goose *Includes juveniles. Numerous juvenile Black- bellied Whistling Ducks and Great- tailed Grackles were found in July 2011. Eleven juvenile Yellow- crowned Night- Herons were found in August 2011. Note: “A” stands for abundant or too many to count. ...