Audubon Winter Waterfowl Count 2022

Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula

Draft tallies include:

• 8 Counties

• 75 Participants

• 59 Species identified from water fowl count specific list

• Many additional species identified and reported via eBird

• Over half of the sectors used eBird for sites visited

44,660 birds counted to include:

• 21,970 Canada Geese

• 6,581 Ring-billed Gulls

• 3,213 Ruddy Ducks

• 2,414 Buffleheads

• 2,304 Gull sp. - Wind, waves, white caps, and limit of optics were factors

• 1,186 Mallards

• Great to find and hard to find species

  • 1 - Snow Goose

  • 1 - Clapper Rail

  • 1 - Black-crowned Night Heron

  • 2 - Barnacle Geese

  • 2 - Bonaparte Gulls

  • 4 - Wilson’s Snipe

  • 5 - American Wigeon

  • 5 - Northern Gannet

  • 6 - Long-tailed Ducks

  • 6 - Laughing Gull

  The major missing bird - we did not find any Brown Pelicans

content shared by Jeff Wright
Compiler for the 2022 NNK & MP Winter Waterfowl Count

Snow Goose (Dark Morph) among a flock of Canada Geese in Northumberland County — photo by Betsy Washington