Birds of Rockland County, Ny and the Hudson Highlands 1844 – 1976
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BIRDS OF ROCKLAND COUNTY, NY AND THE HUDSON HIGHLANDS 1844 – 1976 (With 1983 Addenda) by ROBERT F. DEED Nyack, New York 2010 Edition, Edited by Alan W. Wells Reproduced with permission by: Rockland Audubon Society, Inc. P.O. Box 404 New City, NY 10956 TABLE OF CONTENTS PHOTO CREDITS FOREWORD INTRODUCTION LOONS Loon, Common Loon, Red-throated GREBES Grebe, Red-necked Grebe, Horned Grebe, Pied-billed PELICANS, FRIGATEBIRDS, GANNETS, AND CORMORANTS Pelican, White Frigatebird, Magnificent Gannet, Northern Cormorant, Great Cormorant, Double-crested WADING BIRDS Heron, Great Blue Heron, Green Heron, Little Blue Egret, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Cattle Heron, Tricolored Night Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Yellow-crowned Bittern, Least Bittern, American Ibis, Glossy SWANS, GEESE, AND DUCKS Swan, Mute Swan, Tundra Goose, Canada Brant Goose, White-fronted Goose, Snow Mallard Duck, American Black Gadwall ii Pintail, Northern Teal, Green-winged Teal, Blue-winged Wigeon, European Wigeon, American Shoveler, Northern Duck, Wood Redhead Duck, Ring-necked Canvasback Scaup, Greater Scaup, Lesser Duck, Tufted Goldeneye, Common Goldeneye, Barrow's Bufflehead Duck, Long-tailed Eider, Common Scoter, White-winged Scoter, Surf Scoter, Black Duck, Ruddy Merganser, Hooded Merganser, Common Merganser, Red-breasted DIURNAL RAPTORS Vulture, Turkey Vulture, Black Kite, Swallow-tailed Goshawk, Northern Hawk, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper's Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk, Broad-winged Hawk, Swainson's Hawk, Rough-legged Eagle, Golden Eagle, Bald Harrier, Northern Osprey Gyrfalcon Falcon, Peregrine Merlin Kestrel, American UPLAND GAME BIRDS Grouse, Ruffed Bobwhite, Northern iii Pheasant, Ring-necked Partridge, Hungarian Turkey, Wild CRANES, RAILS, AND COOTS Crane, Sandhill Rail, King Rail, Clapper Rail, Virginia Sora Moorhen, Common Coot, Common SHOREBIRDS Plover, Piping Plover, Semipalmated Killdeer Plover, American Golden Plover, Black-bellied Stilt, Back-necked Turnstone, Ruddy Woodcock, American Snipe, Wilson's Sandpiper, Upland Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Solitary Willet Whimbrel Yellowlegs, Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Knot, Red Sandpiper, Purple Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, White-rumped Sandpiper, Least Dunlin Dowitcher, Short-billed Dowitcher, Long-billed Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Western Ruff Godwit, Hudsonian Sanderling Phalarope, Wilson's Phalarope, Northern GULLS, TERNS, AND SKIMMERS Gull, Glaucous Gull, Iceland iv Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Herring Gull, Ring-billed Gull, California Gull, Laughing Gull, Bonaparte's Kittiwake, Black-legged Tern, Forster's Tern, Common Tern, Roseate Tern, Sooty Tern, Least Tern, Royal Tern, Sandwich Tern, Caspian Tern, Black ALCIDS Murre, Thick-billed PIGEONS AND DOVES Pigeon, Rock Pigeon, Passenger Dove, Mourning PARROTS Parakeet, Monk Conure, Maroon-bellied CUCKOOS Cuckoo, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Black-billed BARN OWLS Owl, Barn OWLS Owl, Eastern Screech Owl, Great Horned Owl, Snowy Owl, Barred Owl, Long-eared Owl, Short-eared Owl, Saw-whet GOATSUCKERS AND SWIFTS Whip-Poor-Will Nighthawk, Common Swift, Chimney v HUMMINGBIRDS Hummingbird, Ruby-throated KINGFISHERS Kingfisher, Belted WOODPECKERS Flicker, Northern Woodpecker, Pileated Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Red-headed Sapsucker, Yellow-bellied Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Black-backed Woodpecker, Three-toed TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Kingbird, Eastern Kingbird, Western Flycatcher, Great Crested Phoebe, Eastern Flycatcher, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Acadian Flycatcher, Willow Flycatcher, Alder Flycatcher, Least Wood Pewee, Eastern Flycatcher, Olive-sided LARKS Lark, Horned SWALLOWS Swallow, Tree Swallow, Bank Swallow, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Barn Swallow, Cliff Martin, Purple JA YS, CROWS, AND ALLIES Jay, Blue Magpie, Black-billed Raven, Common Crow, American Crow, Fish CHICKADEES AND ALLIES vi Chickadee, Black-capped Chickadee, Boreal Titmouse, Tufted NUTHATCHES AND CREEPERS Nuthatch, White-breasted Nuthatch, Red-breasted Creeper, Brown WRENS Wren, House Wren, Winter Wren, Carolina Wren, Marsh Wren, Sedge MIMIC THRUSHES Mockingbird, Northerrn Catbird, Gray Thrasher, Brown THRUSHES Robin, American Thrush, Wood Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Swainson's Thrush, Gray-cheeked Veery Bluebird, Eastern GNATCATCHERS AND KINGLETS Gnatcatcher, Blue-gray Kinglet, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Ruby-crowned PIPITS Pipit, American WAXWINGS Waxwing, Bohemian Waxwing, Cedar SHRIKES Shrike, Northern Shrike, Loggerhead STARLINGS Starling, European VIREOS vii Vireo, White-eyed Vireo, Yellow-throated Vireo, Blue-headed Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Philadelphia Vireo, Warbling WOOD -WARBLERS Warbler, Black-and-White Warbler, Prothonotary Warbler, Swainson's Warbler, Worm-eating Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, Brewster's Warbler, Lawrence's Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler, Tennesssee Warbler, Nashville Parula, Northern Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Cerulean Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Bay-breasted Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Pine Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Palm Ovenbird Waterthrush, Northern Waterthrush, Louisiana Warbler, Kentucky Warbler, Connecticut Warbler, Mourning Yellowthroat, Common Chat, Yellow-breasted Warbler, Hooded Warbler, Wilson's Warbler, Canada Redstart, American ICTERIDS Bobolink viii Meadowlark, Eastern Meadowlark, Western Blackbird, Yellow-headed Blackbird, Red-winged Oriole, Orchard Oriole, Baltimore Blackbird, Rusty Grackle, Common Cowbird, Brown-headed TANAGERS, CARDINALS, AND ALLIES Tanager, Western Tanager, Scarlet Tanager, Summer Cardinal, Northern Grosbeak, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Black-headed Grosbeak, Blue Bunting, Indigo Dickcissel EMBERIZINE SPARROWS AND ALLIES Towhee, Eastern Sparrow, Savannah Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow, Henslow's Sparrow, Sharp-tailed Sparrow, Seaside Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, Lark Junco, Dark-eyed Sparrow, American Tree Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Field Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, Song Bunting, Snow Bunting, Lark FINCHES Grosbeak, Evening Grosbeak, Pine Finch, Purple Finch, House Redpoll, Common Siskin, Pine ix Goldfinch, American Crossbill, Red Crossbill, White-winged Goldfinch, European OLD WORLD SPARROWS Sparrow, House RECENT ADDITIONS ROCKLAND COUNTY MAP x PHOTO CREDITS Photographer Pages Baker, David 112, 160, 263 Brunner, Peggy 118 Cunningham, Tom 146 Deed, Louise xi, xiii Deed, Martha 510 Deed, Robert F. 229 Garber, Michael 216, 527 Hecht, Jack H. 121, 138, 169, 241 Kanon, Andreas 129, 161, 207, 268, 289, 316, 350, 441, 450, 470, 472 Kaufar, Nancy 113 Lampkin, John 462 Stoller, Sheila 234 Wells, Alan all others Wells, Della 122 xi FOREWORD TO 2010 EDITION BY MARTHA DEED Robert F. Deed, Florida, March 1986 Photo Credit: Louise Deed hen Bob Deed is known to someone Bob Deed’s love of nature and his close study of as “Dad,” it is not easy to move from birds and the environment appears to have been W family memories to a coherent transmitted to his children and grandchildren description of his development as a (with the help of Louise Deed, aka “Mom” and birder. Childhood memories tell only part of his for many years RAS’s Secretary and/or Publicity story – probably the part least known to chairperson). “Auduboners,” yet consistent with his most precise record-keeping methods and his Bob spent his working life as a writer, and technical writing. Always, he was a close through his writing it is possible to trace his observer of his natural surroundings. Always, serious interest in, and study of, birds at least as he enjoyed sharing what he saw with a variety of far back as 1927 when he was 14 years old and audiences, whether with his own children, fellow the publisher and editor of a neighborhood members of the Audubon Society, or in newspaper, The Dogtown Herald. The Dogtown technical, ornithological publications. Herald included an aviation section. “We include birds under the heading of aviation Each Spring, we waited to hear the first Whip- because what are they but fliers – aviators?” he Poor-Will, usually during supper. What fun to is quoted as saying in the New York Herald leave the table before we were finished eating Tribune Junior Magazine, October 9, 1927. one night a year to search South Mountain for this dowdy bird with its brilliant song. Lunar Even his earliest writings are laced with the eclipses would find us sitting in our pajamas well humor one finds many decades later in his beyond our bedtimes on the seawall at the foot stories for the Rockland Audubon Observer. of Clinton Avenue to observe the moon. Indeed, xii Notice: The rate of five cents per copy for this climatic and environmental changes. so-called paper [The Dogtown Herald] does not hold mostly. The paper will be delivered free to Bob Deed, along with his younger brothers all those who are the publisher’s friends. The Donald and Richard (two of his early converts to price is only to add needed dignity to this birdwatching), are acknowledged in production. (November 6, 1927) Cruickshank’s Birds Around New York City (American Museum of Natural History, 1942). Deed often credited his start in birding as a John Bull cites two of Deed’s writing in his Birds teenager to his Nyack High School biology of the New York Area (Harper and Row, 1964). teacher, Miss Vivian Krum. By his early Robert Arbib, Olin Pettingill, Jr., and