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Red-bellied woodpecker by Richard Davis
Red-bellied woodpecker by Richard Davis

On an unseasonably warm Saturday last December, five observers counted birds in Washington Square Park for the 2019 Christmas Bird Count (CBC). The CBC is a project of the Audubon Society and is organized in the five boroughs by NYC Audubon. We hope to make the CBC a regular annual event in the park. We walked the transect for 90 minutes and observed 10 species. Highlights included red-bellied woodpecker, peregrine falcon, house finch, and ring-billed gull. View the complete checklist on eBird.