Seawatch, 17 November 2015

Today was THE seawatch day of the 2015 season! Migration Count Coordinator, Tom Reed knew it was going be special within the first hour when the birds came streaming by. The flight kept up throughout the day and kept the counter and visitors up in Avalon very busy/entertained with over 68,000 birds seen all day! Red-throated Loons had a phenomenal day with loose flocks going by a couple hundred at a time, more than doubling our season total. Scoters also had a strong flight with 48,180 all day across the three species.
Counter: Tom Reed
Total for the day: 68,209
Total birds for the season: 609,650

	11/17	Season Totals
ABDU - American Black Duck	343	1,115
AMOY - American Oystercatcher	4	498
AMWI - American Wigeon	72	272
BLSC - Black Scoter	23,489	60,747
BOGU - Bonaparte's Gull	2	1,286
BRAN - Brant	290	3,491
BUFF - Bufflehead	28	1,023
CAGO - Canada Goose	1	65
COLO - Common Loon	165	1,550
UNDU - Duck species	37	1,706
DCCO - Double-crested Cormorant	3,601	183,386
DWSC-SP - Surf/Black (Dark-winged) Scoter Species	8,148	48,314
FOTE - Forster's Tern	21	16,908
GADW - Gadwall	13	82
GBBG - Great Black-backed Gull	16	993
GBHE - Great Blue Heron	2	248
GLSC - Greater/Lesser Scaup	29	1,043
GRSC - Greater Scaup	58	477
GWTE - Green-winged Teal	226	7,655
HERG - Herring Gull	48	5,014
HOME - Hooded Merganser	8	35
LAGU - Laughing Gull	128	34,122
LBBG - Lesser Black-backed Gull	1	43
LESC - Lesser Scaup	20	698
LTDU - Long-tailed Duck	19	166
MALL - Mallard	3	76
NOGA - Northern Gannet	346	64,706
NOPI - Northern Pintail	20	1,117
NSHO - Northern Shoveler	9	85
RBGU - Ring-billed Gull	1,464	4,573
RBME - Red-breasted Merganser	127	441
REDH - Redhead	7	103
ROYT - Royal Tern	2	2,319
RTLO - Red-throated Loon	12,912	24,542
SCOTER-SP - Scoter Species	9,993	30,260
SNGO - Snow Goose	7	8
SUSC - Surf Scoter	6,512	88,602
WWSC - White-winged Scoter	38	196