Urban Big Day Birding

Mar 22, 2008 Toledo Naturalists message board posting

ventured out within the city limits of Toledo looking to break the urban birding big day total of 45 and guess what, we beat the record with a final count of 52 species. We origionally planned to startataround 6:30am but we were on a two hour delay and began at Cullen park at about 8:30am. Here is the list with locations:

Cullen Park
1. Canada Goose
2. Rock Dove
3. Ring Billed Gull
4. Herring Gull
5. Northern Flicker
6. American Robin
7. Tree Sparrow
8. Lesser Scaup
9. American Coot
10. Bufflehead
11. Redhead Duck
12. Mallard
13. Ruddy Duck
14. Bald Eagle
15. Red Winged Blackbird
16. Red Breasted Merganser
17. Northern Cardinal
18. Common Grackle
19. Canvasback

Manhattan Marsh
20. Mourning Dove
21. American Wigeon
22. Hodded Merganser
23. Great Blue Heron

Greenwood Park- Snow was too deep didn't stay long
24. Dark Eyed Junco
25. Blue Jay
26. Cooper's Hawk
27. Red Bellied Woodpecker

Woodlawn Cemetery
28. Wood Duck
29. Black Capped Chickadee
30. Downey Woodpecker
31. Hairy Woodpecker
32. Killdeer
33. White Breasted Nuthatch

Toledo Botanical Garden
34. Turkey Vulture
35. House Sparrow
36. Red Tailed Hawk
37. American Crow

Resurrection Cemetery
38. Song Sparrow

Swan Creek Metropark
39. Fox Sparrow
40. Red Breasted Nuthatch
41. American Goldfinch
42. Eastern Phoebe
43. Tufted Titmouse

At and around Mark and Sherry's house
44. Cedar Waxwing
45. House Finch

Deleware Park
46. Horned Grebe
47. pied Billed Grebe

Walbridge Park
48. Ring Necked Duck
49. Green Winged Teal

International Park
50. Double Crested Cormorant
51. Here's one for you Greg Egyptian Goose

52. European Starling

Here’s the list and where they were found.

1. Pied-billed Grebe (multiple locations)
2. Horned Grebe (Delaware Park)
3. Double Crested Cormorant (International Park)
4. Great Blue Heron (multiple locations)
5. Turkey Vulture (multiple locations)
6. Canada Goose (multiple locations)
7. Egyptian Goose (International Park)
8. Wood Duck (Woodlawn Cemetery)
9. American Wigeon (Manhattan Marsh)
10. Mallard (multiple locations)
11. Green-winged Teal (Walbridge Park)
12. Canvasback (Cullen Park)
13. Redhead (Cullen Park)
14. Ring-necked Duck (Walbridge Park)
15. Lesser Scaup (Cullen Park)
16. Bufflehead (Cullen Park)
17. Hooded Merganser (multiple locations)
18. Red-breasted Merganser (multiple locations)
19. Ruddy Duck (Cullen Park)
20. Bald Eagle (Cullen Park)
21. Cooper’s Hawk (Greenwood Park)
22. Red-tailed Hawk (multiple locations)
23. American Coot (multiple locations – Delaware Park)
24. Killdeer (multiple locations)
25. Ring-billed Gull (multiple locations)
26. Herring Gull (Cullen Park)
27. Rock Dove (multiple locations)
28. Mourning Dove (multiple locations)
29. Red-bellied Woodpecker (multiple locations)
30. Downy Woodpecker (multiple locations)
31. Hairy Woodpecker (Woodlawn Cemetery)
32. Northern Flicker (multiple locations)
33. Eastern Phoebe (Swan Creek Metropark)
34. Blue Jay (multiple locations)
35. American Crow (multiple locations)
36. Black-capped Chickadee (multiple locations)
37. Tufted Titmouse (Swan Creek Metropark)
38. Red-breasted Nuthatch (Swan Creek Metropark)
39. White-breasted Nuthatch (multiple locations)
40. American Robin (multiple locations)
41. European Starling (multiple locations)
42. Cedar Waxwing (South & Wenz)
43. American Tree Sparrow (multiple locations)
44. Fox Sparrow (Swan Creek Metropark)
45. Song Sparrow (multiple locations)
46. Dark-eyed Junco (multiple locations)
47. Northern Cardinal (multiple locations)
48. Red-winged Blackbird (multiple locations)
49. Common Grackle (multiple locations)
50. House Finch (Kitchener Drive)
51. American Goldfinch (Swan Creek Metropark)
52. House Sparrow (multiple locations)