Audubon Greenwich’s bird count this past weekend included 130 species including a few surprises.
“Two people saw the common merganser,” said Tom Burke, a longtime birder who coordinated this year’s count. “It’s a neat one. We have had almost every duck you could expect, and that was the one that was missing, so it was good to see .. and it’s the first time we ever recorded the boat-tailed grackle ... It’s a southern marsh bird that’s been colonizing the coast in Connecticut and New York recently.”
Audubon sent out about 50 people to 17 different territories within Greenwich, Stamford and Westchester County, N.Y., for the 44th annual Summer Bird Count.
Within 24 hours, bird-watchers logged everything they saw.-read more
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