Christmas Bird Count 2004 Summary

Thanks to all of you who volunteered your efforts for the National Audubon Society's 110th Christmas Bird Count at Lake Ray Hubbard.

Numbers were down from last year, with the exception of Red-winged Blackbirds. Sparrows seemed harder to find this season.

Total No. of Species = 115	Lake Ray Hubbard Christmas Count 2010 Final			Total number of Observers = 12
Common Loon	2	Bonaparte's Gull	186	Pine Warbler	22
Pied-billed Grebe	19	Forster's Tern	185	Common Yellowthroat	1
Horned Grebe	4	Rock Pigeon	319	Spotted Towhee	3
American White Pelican	83	Mourning Dove	188	Eastern Towhee	1
Double-crested Cormorant	3414	White-winged Dove	114	Chipping Sparrow	44
Neotropic Cormorant	14	Eurasian Collared-Dove	2	Field Sparrow	19
Great Blue Heron	28	Great Horned Owl	2	Vesper Sparrow	2
Great Egret	49	Barred Owl	2	Savannah Sparrow	26
Canada Goose	140	Belted Kingfisher	7	Le Conte's Sparrow	1
Cattle Egret	1	Red-bellied Woodpecker	25	Fox Sparrow	8
American Wigeon	126	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	10	Song Sparrow	39
Gadwall	132	Downy Woodpecker	11	Lincoln's Sparrow	5
Green-winged Teal	647	Northern Flicker	11	Swamp Sparrow	15
Mallard	176	Eastern Phoebe	13	White-throated Sparrow	60
Northern Pintail	43	Loggerhead Shrike	1	White-crowned Sparrow	6
Northern Shoveler	84	Blue-headed Vireo	1	Harris's Sparrow	1
Canvasback	30	Blue Jay	44	Dark-eyed Junco	82
Redhead	29	American Crow	80	Northern Cardinal	69
Ring-necked Duck	42	Carolina Chickadee	42	Red-Winged Blackbird	934
Lesser Scaup	65	Tufted Titmouse	50	Eastern Meadowlark	2
Bufflehead	6	White-breasted Nuthatch	1	Great-tailed Grackle	519
Ruddy Duck	62	Brown Creeper	9	Common Grackle	54
Greater Scaup	5	Carolina Wren	25	House Finch	12
Black Vulture	22	Bewick's Wren	2	American Goldfinch	36
Turkey Vulture	55	Winter Wren	5	House Sparrow	57
Osprey	2	Marsh Wren	2	House Wren	1
Northern Harrier	3	Golden-crowned Kinglet	34	Long-billed Dowitcher	5
Sharp-shinned Hawk	4	Ruby-crowned Kinglet	41	Greater Yellowlegs	19
Cooper's hawk	8	Eastern Bluebird	49	Least Sandpiper	179
Red-shouldered Hawk	4	Rusty Blackbird	69	Franklin's Gull	2
Red-tailed Hawk	8	Hermit thrush	10	Little Gull	1
American Kestrel	17	American Robin	122	Wood Duck (Dec 26)	2
Sora	1	Northern Mockingbird	50	Brown-headed Cowbird	2
American Coot	255	Brown Thrasher	8	Red-breasted Merganser	50
Killdeer	39	European Starling	2102	Hooded Merganser	20
Wilson's Snipe	186	American Pipet	20
Spotted Sandpiper	1	Cedar Waxwing	111	TOTAL SPECIES Count Day	115
Ring-billed Gull	4383	Orange-crowned Warbler	9	TOTAL COUNT Count Day	16603
Herring Gull	6	Yellow-rumped Warbler	176

Good sources on the Christmas Bird Count include the following URLs:

http://www.audubondallas.org/ Dallas Chapter of Audubon Society

http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/history.html main National Aububon Page with history of the CBC

http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/