Christmas Bird Count (CBC)

Information

• Date: 1/3/2026
• Time: start at 7:00 AM and end at 6:30 PM
• Number of Observers: 22
• Foot effort: 9 hours and 5.50 miles
• Car effort: 34 hours and 148 miles
• Temperature: minimum 25 Fahrenheit and maximum 50 Fahrenheit
• Wind velocity: minimum 4 Miles/hour and maximum 12 Miles/Hour

Checklist

Pelican

• American White Pelican - 933

Cormorant

• Neotropic Cormorant - 1
• Double-crested Cormorant - 249

Heron

• Great Blue Heron (Blue form) - 83

Geese

• Greater White-fronted Goose - 587
• Snow Goose - 261
• Ross's Goose - 7
• Cackling Goose - 1151
• Canada Goose - 148

Ducks

• Wood Duck - 16
• Gadwall - 372
• American Wigeon - 63
• Mallard - 1446
• Blue-winged Teal - 31
• Northern Shoveler - 409
• Northern Pintail - 705
• Green-winged Teal - 1054
• Canvasback - 316, high count
• Redhead - 71
• Ring - necked Duck - 41
• Lesser Scaup - 6
• Bufflehead - 29
• Common Goldeneye - 8
• Ruddy Duck - 6508, high count

Mergansers

• Hooded Merganser - 12
• Common Merganser - 377
• Red-breasted Merganser - 108

Grebes

• Pied - billed Grebe - 9 

Eagles

• Bald Eagle - 26 

Hawks

• Northern Harrier - 37
• Sharp-shinned Hawk - 3
• Cooper's Hawk - 1
• Red-shouldered Hawk - 10
• Red-tailed Hawk - 63
• Red-tailed Hawk (Harlan's) - 1
• Red-tailed Hawk (Krider's) - 4
• Ferruginous Hawk - 2
• Buteo sp.-1

Falcons

• American Kestrel - 30
• Merlin - 3
• Prairie Falcon - 2

Pheasants, Turkey, Quail

• Northern Bobwhite - 27
• Ring - necked Pheasant - 2
• Wild Turkey - reported count week

Coot, Cranes

• American Coot - 55
• Sandhill Crane - 3820
• Whooping Crane - 8, flagged as unusual species

Sandpipers

• Dunlin - 3
• Least Sandpiper - 6

Rails

• Virginia Rail - 8, high count
• Sora - 1, flagged as unusual species

Gulls

• Bonaparte's Gull - 550, high count
• Ring-billed Gull - 1713
• Herring Gull - 20
• Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3, high count

Doves

• Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) - 16
• Eurasian Collared-Dove - 14
• Mourning Dove - 128

Roadrunner, Kingfisher

• Belted Kingfisher - 10
• Greater Roadrunner - 1

Owls

• Great Horned Owl - 6
• Barred Owl - 1
• Barn Owl - 2
• Eastern Screech-Owl - 1
• Short-eared Owl - 1

Woodpeckers, Sapsuckers

• Red-headed Woodpecker - 4
• Red-bellied Woodpecker - 36
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1
• Downy Woodpecker - 31
• Hairy Woodpecker - 4
• Pileated Woodpecker - 6

Flickers

• Northern Flicker - 74
• Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) - 4
• Northern Flicker (Red-shafter) - 4

Flycatchers

• Eastern Phoebe - 6, high count

Shrikes

• Loggerhead Shrike - 16

Jays, Crows

• Blue Jay - 18
• American Crow - 37

Larks

• Horned Lark - 3

Titmice

• Carolina Chickadee - 37
• Tufted Titmouse - 6
• Red-breasted Nuthatch - 3
• Brown Creeper - 4

Wrens

• House Wren - 2, high count
• Winter Wren - 6, high count
• Sedge Wren - 6
• Marsh Wren - 7
• Carolina Wren - 28, high count

Kinglets

• Golden-crowned Kinglet - 9
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 15

Thrushes 

• Eastern Bluebird - 148
• Mountain Bluebird - 14
• Townsend's Solitaire - 1
• Hermit Thrush - 2, high count
• American Robin - 278

Mimic Thrush Family

• Gray Catbird - count week, unusual species
• Brown Thrasher - 4
• Northern Mockingbird - 8

Longspurs and Snow Buntings

• Lapland Longspur - 18

Waxwing

• Cedar Waxwing - 393

Warblers

• Orange-crowned Warbler - 1, unusual species
• Common Yellowthroat - 22
• Yellow-rumped Warbler - 43

Starlings

• European Starling - 94

Cardinal, Towhee

• Spotted Towhee - 19
• Eastern Towhee - 3
• Northern Cardinal - 50

Sparrows

• American Tree Sparrow - 38
• Chipping Sparrow - 16
• Field Sparrow - 52
• Fox Sparrow - 5
• White-crowned Sparrow - 164
• Harris's Sparrow - 182
• White - throated Sparrow - 23
• Vesper Sparrow - 2
• Savannah Sparrow - 152
• Song Sparrow - 118
• Lincoln's Sparrow - 46
• Swamp Sparrow -14, high count

Junco

• Dark-eyed Junco - 507
• Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) - 29

Blackbirds

• Red-winged Blackbird - 2983
• Rusty Blackbird - 1, unusually low count
• Brewer's Blackbird - 257

Grackle

• Common Grackle - 100
• Great-tailed Grackle - 111

Cowbird

• Brown-headed Cowbird - 42

Meadowlarks 

• Western Meadowlark - 79
• Eastern Meadowlark - 244
• Western/Eastern Meadowlark - 172

Finches 

• House Finch - 15
• American Goldfinch - 8
• House Sparrow - 39