CMBO's First Quadrennial Leap Day "Century" Run

Below is a report from Karl Lukens on CMBO's First Quadrennial Leap Day Century Run. Were they able to actually record 100 species on Leap Day? You'll have to read on to find out!


"The full day CMBO Leap Day Century Run started at the Cape May Point State
Park where we found 80 SNOW Buntings. Then we proceeded to bird the Point
jetties, concrete ship, Lily Lake, Stevens Rd at the Beanery, Ferry Terminal,
Villas WMA, Reeds Beach, Jakes Landing, Beaver Dam Rd. Nummy Island, N.
Wildwood, Sunset Lake, Two Mile Unit, Two Mile Landing, and SeaGrove Ave. We
ended at dusk with exactly 100 birds including Barnacle Goose, 2 Red-headed
Woodpeckers, 2 Bald Eagles, Peregrine Falcon and the many other "goodies"
listed below."


Location: Cape May County, NJ, US
Observation date: 2/29/08
Notes: CMBO Leap Day Run
Number of species: 100

Snow Goose 300
Brant 100
Barnacle Goose 1
Canada Goose 200
Mute Swan 4
Gadwall 6
American Wigeon 25
American Black Duck 50
Mallard 30
Northern Shoveler 8
Northern Pintail 1
Green-winged Teal 12
Redhead 3
Ring-necked Duck 24
Greater Scaup 25
Surf Scoter 1
Black Scoter 1
Long-tailed Duck 25
Bufflehead 50
Hooded Merganser 12
Red-breasted Merganser 30
Ruddy Duck 12
Red-throated Loon 6
Common Loon 4
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Horned Grebe 2
Northern Gannet 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Cormorant 3
Great Blue Heron 2
Black Vulture 4
Turkey Vulture 10
Bald Eagle 2
Northern Harrier 8
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 5
American Kestrel 2
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
American Coot 10
Black-bellied Plover 15
Killdeer 4
American Oystercatcher 9
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Ruddy Turnstone 15
Sanderling 30
Purple Sandpiper 20
Dunlin 500
Wilson's Snipe 1
American Woodcock 1
Bonaparte's Gull 15
Ring-billed Gull X
Herring Gull X
Great Black-backed Gull X
Forster's Tern 3
Rock Pigeon 100
Mourning Dove 30
Belted Kingfisher 2
Red-headed Woodpecker 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 5
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2
Downy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 5
Blue Jay 10
American Crow X
Horned Lark 5
Carolina Chickadee 10
Tufted Titmouse 10
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 5
Winter Wren 1
Eastern Bluebird 10
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 30
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling X
Cedar Waxwing 10>
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 50
Eastern Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 12
Field Sparrow 5
Savannah Sparrow 1
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 2
White-throated Sparrow 10
Dark-eyed Junco 5
Snow Bunting 80
Northern Cardinal 5
Red-winged Blackbird X
Rusty Blackbird 50
Common Grackle 150
Brown-headed Cowbird 10
Purple Finch 6
House Finch 15
American Goldfinch 5
House Sparrow X

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)