Christmas Bird Count 2004 Summary

Thanks to all of you who volunteered your efforts for the National Audubon Society's 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 = 106	Lake Ray Hubbard Christmas Count 2009 Draft			Total number of Observers = 12
Common Loon	1	Bonaparte's Gull	196	Pine Warbler	2
Pied-billed Grebe	24	Forster's Tern	87	Common Yellowthroat	3
Horned Grebe	2	Rock Pigeon	380	Spotted Towhee	2
American White Pelican	154	Mourning Dove	347	Eastern Towhee	1
Double-crested Cormorant	1602	White-winged Dove	106	Chipping Sparrow	27
Neotropic Cormorant	32	Eurasian Collared-Dove	104	Field Sparrow	9
Great Blue Heron	31	Inca Dove	5	Vesper Sparrow	1
Great Egret	5	Barred Owl	1	Savannah Sparrow	15
Canada Goose	60	Belted Kingfisher	1	Le Conte's Sparrow	3
Wood Duck	3	Red-bellied Woodpecker	34	Fox Sparrow	17
American Wigeon	326	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	15	Song Sparrow	64
Gadwall	289	Downy Woodpecker	28	Lincoln's Sparrow	3
Green-winged Teal	10	Northern Flicker	26	Swamp Sparrow	29
Mallard	132	Eastern Phoebe	17	White-throated Sparrow	102
Northern Pintail	14	Loggerhead Shrike	7	White-crowned Sparrow	32
Northern Shoveler	138	Blue-headed Vireo	5	Harris's Sparrow	33
Canvasback	58	Blue Jay	103	Dark-eyed Junco	113
Redhead	146	American Crow	111	Northern Cardinal	105
Ring-necked Duck	46	Carolina Chickadee	97	Red-Winged Blackbird	361709
Lesser Scaup	103	Tufted Titmouse	50	Eastern Meadowlark	71
Bufflehead	5	White-breasted Nuthatch	3	Western Meadowlark	2
Ruddy Duck	68	Brown Creeper	9	Great-tailed Grackle	337
Black Vulture	22	Carolina Wren	37	Common Grackle	3114
Turkey Vulture	52	Bewick's Wren	2	Brown-headed Cowbird	93
Osprey	1	Winter Wren	7	House Finch	16
Northern Harrier	8	Marsh Wren	3	American Goldfinch	68
Sharp-shinned Hawk	9	Golden-crowned Kinglet	13	House Sparrow	74
Cooper's hawk	5	Ruby-crowned Kinglet	73	House Wren	2
Red-shouldered Hawk	7	Eastern Bluebird	49	buteo sp.	1
Red-tailed Hawk	91	Rusty Blackbird	1	Meadowlark sp.	32
American Kestrel	36	Hermit thrush	13
Merlin	1	American Robin	310
Virginia Rail	5	Northern Mockingbird	90
American Coot	228	Brown Thrasher	11	TOTAL SPECIES	106
Killdeer	60	European Starling	627	TOTAL COUNT	374833
Wilson's Snipe	1	American Pipet	110
Least Sandpiper	103	Cedar Waxwing	341
Ring-billed Gull	7740	Orange-crowned Warbler	13
Herring Gull	13	Yellow-rumped Warbler	318

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/