Marion County Audubon Society 2007 Christmas Bird Count Summary

Listed below is final copy (summary) of data for 2007 SWMC CBC. "Count Week" birds added two species - numbers do not change as "CW" birds are not added to the total to avoid duplication.

Some observations between 2006 and 2007:
Number of species was close - down from 111 to 105
Total individuals was way down - 12,047 to 9,621
Almost all the drop could be attributed to just one species - American Robin - which was down from 3196 to 535 a difference of -2661 !!!
In all, 54 species were lower while 50 were up in count.
Big increases - Black Vulture +144, Turkey Vulture +258, Killdeer +121, Mourning Dove +105, American Crow +293, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher +105, Yellow Rumped Warbler +425, American Goldfinch +300
Major decreases - Common Moorhen, American Coot, Blue Jay (from 234 to 45), Tree Swallow (141 to 1), Cedar Waxwing (280 to 1) Cardinal, Chipping Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird and Boat-tailed Grackle.

Thanks again for all your help and, Keep Looking UP!
Norm

LOONS and GREBES     TOTAL
1   Common Loon 2
2   Pied-billed Grebe 100
3   Horned Grebe 2
 
PELICANS, CORMORANTS
and ANHINGAS 		    TOTAL
4   American White Pelican 0
5   Anhinga 136
6   Double-crested Cormorant 90
 
WADING BIRDS     TOTAL
7   American Bittern 0
8   Least Bittern 0
9   Great Blue Heron 63
10   Great Egret 42
11   Snowy Egret 1
12   Reddish Egret 0
13   Little Blue Heron 31
14   Tricolored Heron 6
15   Cattle Egret 88
16   Green Heron 5
17   Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
18   Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 0
19   Glossy Ibis 0
20   White Ibis 87
21   Wood Stork 27
 
SWANS and GEESE     TOTAL
22   Canada Goose 0
23   Egyptian Goose (e) 0
 
DABBLING DUCKS     TOTAL
24   Fulvous Whistling-Duck 0
25   Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 0
26   Wood Duck 43
27   Muscovy Duck (e) 6
28   Mallard 0
29   Mottled Duck 0
30   Mallard x Mottled Hybrid 0
31   Gadwall 0
32   Northern Pintail 0
33   American Wigeon 0
34   Northern Shoveler 0
35   Blue-winged Teal 0
36   Green-winged Teal 0
 
SHOREBIRDS: PLOVERS
and SANDPIPERS		     TOTAL
37   Canvasback 0
38   Redhead 0
39   Lesser Scaup 0
40   Ring-necked Duck 10
41   White-winged Scoter 0
42   Bufflehead 0
43   Hooded Merganser 10
44   Red-breasted Merganser 0
45   Ruddy Duck 0
 
RAPTORS     TOTAL
46   Black Vulture 472
47   Turkey Vulture 840
48   Osprey 4
49   Sharp-shinned Hawk 0
50   Cooper's Hawk 1
51   Northern Harrier 3
52   Red-shouldered Hawk 34
53   Short-tailed Hawk (d) 0
54   Red-tailed Hawk (incl. Krider's) 22
55   Bald Eagle 5
56   American Kestrel 33
57   Merlin 0
58   Peregrine Falcon 0
 
GAME BIRDS     TOTAL
59   Wild Turkey 24
60   Northern Bobwhite 33
 
CRANES, RAILS and COOTS     TOTAL
61   King Rail 0
62   Virginia Rail 0
63   Sora 0
64   Common Moorhen 157
65   Purple Gallinule 0
66   American Coot 74
67   Limpkin 14
68   Whooping Crane (Re-introduction) 0
69   Sandhill Crane 82
 
SHOREBIRDS:
PLOVERS and SANDPIPERS 		    TOTAL
70   Killdeer 246
71   Greater Yellowlegs 1
72   Lesser Yellowlegs 0
73   Solitary Sandpiper 0
74   Sanderling 0
75   Least Sandpiper 0
76   Long-billed Dowitcher 0
77   Short-billed Dowitcher 0
78   Dowitcher sp. 0
79   Wilson's Snipe 5
80   American Woodcock 0
 
GULLS and TERNS     TOTAL
81   Bonaparte’s Gull 0
82   Laughing Gull 0
83   Ring-billed Gull 2
84   Herring Gull 9
85   Great Black-backed Gull 0
86   Caspian Tern 0
87   Royal Tern 0
88   Forster’s Tern 0
 
PIGEONS and DOVES     TOTAL
89   Rock Pigeon (e) 36
90   White-winged Dove 2
91   Mourning Dove 290
92   Common Ground-Dove 4
93   Eurasian Collared-Dove 9
 
OWLS     TOTAL
94   Barn Owl 0
95   Eastern Screech Owl cw
96   Great Horned Owl 6
97   Barred Owl 3
98   Burrowing Owl 0
 
HUMMINGBIRDS, KINGFISHERS     TOTAL
99   Ruby-throated Hummingbird (d) 0
100   Belted Kingfisher 40
 
WOODPECKERS     TOTAL
101   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 13
102   Red-headed Woodpecker 3
103   Red-bellied Woodpecker 118
104   Downy Woodpecker 47
105   Hairy Woodpecker 1
106   Northern Flicker 4
107   Pileated Woodpecker 24
 
TYRANT FLYCATCHERS     TOTAL
108   Eastern Phoebe 167
109   Great Crested Flycatcher (d) 0
110   Western Kingbird 0
 
SHRIKES and VIREOS     TOTAL
111   Loggerhead Shrike 18
112   White-eyed Vireo 30
113   Yellow-throated Vireo (d)
(distinguish from Pine Warbler) 		1
114   Blue-headed Vireo 15
 
JAYS and CROWS     TOTAL
115   Blue Jay 45
116   Florida Scrub-Jay 1
117   American Crow 689
118   Fish Crow 23
 
SWALLOWS     TOTAL
119   Barn Swallow (d) 0
120   Northern Rough-winged Swallow 0
121   Tree Swallow 1
 
CHICKADEES, NUTHATCHES
and ALLIES		     TOTAL
122   Carolina Chickadee 112
123   Tufted Titmouse 135
124   Brown-headed Nuthatch 0
 
WRENS, KINGLETS and GNATCATCHERS
     TOTAL
125   Marsh Wren 1
126   Sedge Wren 0
127   Carolina Wren 74
128   House Wren 8
129   Ruby-crowned Kinglet 176
130   Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 229
 
THRUSHES and THRASHERS
    TOTAL
131   Eastern Bluebird 279
132   Hermit Thrush 2
133   American Robin 535
134   Gray Catbird 24
135   Northern Mockingbird 70
136   Brown Thrasher 7
 
PIPITS, WAXWINGS and STARLINGS
     TOTAL
137   American Pipit 34
138   Cedar Waxwing 1
139   European Starling (e) 52
 
WOOD WARBLERS
     TOTAL
140   Tennessee warbler 0
141   Nashville Warbler (d) 0
142   Orange-crowned Warbler 2
143   Northern Parula 1
144   Yellow Warbler (d) 0
145   Yellow-rumped Warbler 800
147   Palm Warbler 701
148   Pine Warbler 278
149   Prairie Warbler 1
150   Blackpoll warbler 0
151   Yellow-throated Warbler 6
152   Black-and-white Warbler 15
153   American Redstart (d) (distinguish from Yellow-rumped) 0
154   Northern Waterthrush 0
155   Ovenbird 0
156   Common Yellowthroat 4
157   Yellow-breasted Chat (d) 0
 
TANAGERS, CARDINALS
and ALLIES
     TOTAL
158   Indigo Bunting 0
159   Painted Bunting 0
160   Northern Cardinal 143
 
SPARROWS and ALLIES
     TOTAL
161   Eastern Towhee 17
162   Chipping Sparrow 353
163   Field Sparrow 0
164   Vesper Sparrow 2
165   Lark Sparrow (d) 0
166   Grasshopper Sparrow 0
167   Henslow’s Sparrow 0
168   Le Conte’s Sparrow 0
169   Savannah Sparrow 4
170   Song Sparrow (d) 1
171   Lincoln’s Sparrow 0
172   Swamp Sparrow 0
173   Fox Sparrow 0
174   White-throated Sparrow cw
175   Dark-eyed Junco 0
 
ORIOLES and BLACKBIRDS
     TOTAL
176   Baltimore Oriole 2
177   Orchard Oriole 0
178   Eastern Meadowlark 57
179   Red-winged Blackbird 273
180   Rusty Blackbird (d) 3
181   Common Grackle 213
182   Boat-tailed Grackle 64
183   Brown-headed Cowbird 0
 
FINCHES and
OLD-WORLD SPARROWS 		    TOTAL
184   House Sparrow (e) 40
185   American Goldfinch 457
186   House Finch (e) 43
 
TOTAL INDIVIDUAL BIRDS     9,621
 
TOTAL SPECIES     105