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RESULTS OF 2022 CHRISTMAS COUNT NOW AVAILABLE!
Sixty-six species were seen on the Christmas Bird Count on December 17. Take a look below at the results and comparison to all previous counts.
| 2022 CBC – December 17, 2022 – Summary of 68 counts, 1954-2022 (no count in 1958) | |||||||
| Species | 2022 Count | Times Seen | Prev. High Count | Year(s) | Freq. | ||
| Snow Goose | 14 | 40 | 87 | 21% | |||
| Canada Goose | 1563 | 54 | 3,656 | 07 | 79% | ||
| Cackling Goose | 2 | 3 | 17, 20 | 3% | |||
| Trumpeter Swan | 7 | 14 | 40 | 19 | 21% | ||
| Tundra Swan | 21 | 35 | 88 | 31% | |||
| Wood Duck | 25 | 34 | 36 | 04, 20 | 50% | ||
| Gadwall | 2 | 28 | 61 | 95 | 41% | ||
| American Wigeon | 21 | 26 | 90 | 31% | |||
| Mallard | 393 | 64 | 10,216 | 80 | 94% | ||
| Blue-winged Teal | 6 | 5 | 11 | 9% | |||
| Cinnamon Teal | 3 | 7 | 93 | 4% | |||
| Northern Shoveler | 9 | 13 | 03 | 13% | |||
| Northern Pintail | 26 | 11 | 90 | 38% | |||
| Green-winged Teal | 10 | 31 | 23 | 20 | 46% | ||
| Canvasback | 5 | 10 | 06 | 7% | |||
| Redhead | 12 | 35 | 20 | 18% | |||
| Ring-necked Duck | 1 | 42 | 140 | 19 | 62% | ||
| Greater Scaup | 3 | 4 | 01 | 4% | |||
| Lesser Scaup | 15 | 10 | 20 | 22% | |||
| White-winged Scoter | 2 | 1 | 87, 17 | 3% | |||
| Long-tailed Duck | 1 | 4 | 03 | 1% | |||
| Bufflehead | 27 | 32 | 20 | 40% | |||
| Common Goldeneye | 140 | 66 | 377 | 20 | 97% | ||
| Barrow’s Goldeneye | 75 | 49 | 305 | 09 | 72% | ||
| Hooded Merganser | 19 | 9 | 91 | 28% | |||
| Common Merganser | 1 | 54 | 214 | 73 | 79% | ||
| Red-breasted Merganser | 4 | 12 | 99 | 6% | |||
| Ruddy Duck | 11 | 3 | 01 | 16% | |||
| Chukar | 1 | 1 | 98 | 1% | |||
| Gray Partridge | 4 | 49 | 137 | 78 | 72% | ||
| Ring-necked Pheasant | 3 | 35 | 60 | 62 | 51% | ||
| Ruffed Grouse | 1 | 6 | 86 | 1% | |||
| Dusky Grouse | 1 | 1 | 95 | 1% | |||
| Sharp-tailed Grouse | 13 | 12 | 81 | 19% | |||
| Wild Turkey | 11 | 4 | 9 | 22 | 6% | ||
| Common Loon | 8 | 7 | 91 | 12% | |||
| Pacific Loon | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0% | CW only | ||
| Pied-billed Grebe | 8 | 4 | 92 | 12% | |||
| Horned Grebe | 5 | 2 | 89 | 7% | |||
| Eared Grebe | 2 | 1 | 88,12 | 3% | |||
| Western Grebe | 1 | 14 | 5 | 12 | 21% | ||
| American White Pelican | 10 | 6 | 04 | 15% | |||
| Double-crested Cormorant | 1 | 1 | 04 | 1% | |||
| Great Blue Heron | 3 | 31 | 5 | 88 | 46% | ||
| Turkey Vulture | 1 | 1 | 66 | 1% | |||
| Bald Eagle | 17 | 60 | 36 | 94 | 88% | ||
| Northern Harrier | 4 | 60 | 28 | 13 | 88% | ||
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 7 | 40 | 7 | 03,22 | 59% | ||
| Cooper’s Hawk | 27 | 3 | 77,03 | 40% | |||
| Northern Goshawk | 19 | 4 | 83 | 28% | |||
| Red-tailed Hawk | 7 | 26 | 18 | 19 | 38% | ||
| Ferruginous Hawk | 1 | 1 | 76 | 1% | |||
| Rough-legged Hawk | 51 | 59 | 62 | 17 | 87% | ||
| Golden Eagle | 1 | 43 | 7 | 64 | 63% | ||
| American Kestrel | 3 | 21 | 4 | 17 | 31% | ||
| Merlin | 11 | 51 | 10 | 22 | 75% | ||
| Gyrfalcon | 9 | 2 | 90,93 | 13% | |||
| Peregrine Falcon | 8 | 2 | 70 | 12% | |||
| Prairie Falcon | 2 | 35 | 4 | 87 | 51% | ||
| American Coot | 1 | 39 | 588 | 10 | 57% | ||
| Sandhill Crane | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0% | CW only | ||
| Killdeer | 29 | 12 | 66 | 43% | |||
| Spotted Sandpiper | 1 | 1 | 97 | 1% | |||
| Wilson’s Snipe | 3 | 53 | 11 | 78 | 78% | ||
| Ring-billed Gull | 24 | 803 | 03 | 35% | |||
| California Gull | 11 | 57 | 01 | 16% | |||
| Herring Gull | 13 | 15 | 01 | 19% | |||
| Glaucous Gull | 1 | 1 | 97 | 1% | |||
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | 1 | 1 | 21 | 1% | |||
| Rock Pigeon | 998 | 49 | 1,306 | 05 | 72% | ||
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | 429 | 16 | 607 | 17 | 24% | ||
| Mourning Dove | 10 | 12 | 16 | 15% | |||
| Western Screech Owl | 1 | 1 | 69 | 1% | |||
| Great Horned Owl | 3 | 47 | 7 | 87 | 69% | ||
| Snowy Owl | 3 | 1 | 80,84,96 | 4% | |||
| Northern Pygmy Owl | 8 | 4 | 85 | 12% | |||
| Long Eared Owl | 1 | 1 | 80 | 1% | |||
| Short-eared Owl | 18 | 11 | 68 | 26% | |||
| Northern Saw-whet Owl | 1 | 1 | 86 | 1% | |||
| Belted Kingfisher | 4 | 38 | 6 | 88,12 | 56% | ||
| Downy Woodpecker | 10 | 63 | 18 | 00 | 93% | ||
| Hairy Woodpecker | 2 | 53 | 16 | 12 | 78% | ||
| American Three-toed Woodpecker | 2 | 1 | 12 | 3% | |||
| Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) | 83 | 65 | 112 | 21 | 96% | ||
| Yellow Shafted Flicker (race) | 1 | 6 | 2 | 05 | 9% | ||
| Pileated Woodpecker | 1 | 1 | 09 | 1% | |||
| Loggerhead Shrike | 2 | 1 | 65,83 | 3% | |||
| Northern Shrike | 4 | 59 | 17 | 19 | 87% | ||
| Gray Jay | 6 | 24 | 90 | 9% | |||
| Steller’s Jay | 10 | 4 | 81,86 | 15% | |||
| Blue Jay | 22 | 23 | 19 | 32% | |||
| Pinyon Jay | 4 | 30 | 156 | 60 | 44% | ||
| Clark’s Nutcracker | 22 | 61 | 220 | 91 | 90% | ||
| Black-billed Magpie | 222 | 68 | 453 | 77 | 100% | ||
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42 | 36 | 169 | 13 | 53% | ||
| Common Raven | 262 | 55 |
|
10 | 81% | ||
| Horned Lark | 47 | 50 | 5,329 | 72 | 74% | ||
| Black-capped Chickadee | 150 | 66 | 156 | 00 | 97% | ||
| Mountain Chickadee | 56 | 67 | 225 | 94 | 99% | ||
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | 12 | 63 | 273 | 94 | 93% | ||
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 9 | 51 | 22 | 97 | 75% | ||
| Pygmy Nuthatch | 26 | 33 | 45 | 14 | 49% | ||
| Brown Creeper | 1 | 22 | 7 | 81,04 | 32% | ||
| Canyon Wren | 3 | 1 | 95,01 | 4% | |||
| Winter Wren | 1 | 1 | 97 | 1% | |||
| Marsh Wren | 9 | 4 | 88 | 13% | |||
| American Dipper | 4 | 61 | 9 | 87 | 90% | ||
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | 5 | 6 | 85,01 | 7% | |||
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 1 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 1% | ||
| Western Bluebird | 5 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 4% | ||
| Mountain Bluebird | 2 | 1 | 97, 20 | 3% | |||
| Townsend’s Solitaire | 49 | 67 | 142 | 07 | 99% | ||
| American Robin | 134 | 52 | 227 | 05 | 76% | ||
| Varied Thrush | 2 | 1 | 81 | 3% | |||
| Northern Mockingbird | 1 | 1 | 87 | 1% | |||
| Brown Thrasher | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0% | CW only | ||
| European Starling | 358 | 64 | 722 | 18 | 94% | ||
| Bohemian Waxwing | 20 | 59 | 16,101 | 05 | 87% | ||
| Cedar Waxwing | 51 | 33 | 132 | 08 | 49% | ||
| Spotted Towhee | 1 | 1 | 11 | 1% | |||
| American Tree Sparrow | 59 | 68 | 145 | 86 | 100% | ||
| Song Sparrow | 8 | 62 | 44 | 66 | 91% | ||
| White-throated Sparrow | 3 | 1 | 87,91,11 | 4% | |||
| Harris’s Sparrow | 7 | 2 | 63,90, 21 | 10% | |||
| White-crowned Sparrow | 6 | 12 | 18 | 9% | |||
| Dark-eyed Junco | 61 | 51 | 147 | 21 | 75% | ||
| Lapland Longspur | 7 | 40 | 70 | 10% | |||
| Snow Bunting | 4 | 12 | 80 | 96 | 18% | ||
| Red-winged Blackbird | 1 | 37 | 161 | 65 | 54% | ||
| Western Meadowlark | 11 | 51 | 79 | 16% | |||
| Rusty Blackbird | 1 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 9% | ||
| Brewer’s Blackbird | 13 | 17 | 67 | 19% | |||
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 1 | 1 | 75 | 1% | |||
| Common Grackle | 3 | 1 | 11, 17 | 4% | |||
| Rosy Finch | 14 | 75 | 77 | 21% | |||
| Pine Grosbeak | 23 | 253 | 77 | 34% | |||
| Purple Finch | 1 | 1 | 95 | 1% | |||
| Cassin’s Finch | 29 | 100 | 64 | 43% | |||
| House Finch | 568 | 43 | 946 | 00 | 63% | ||
| Red Crossbill | 39 | 351 | 95 | 57% | |||
| White-winged Crossbill | 3 | 30 | 84 | 4% | |||
| Common Redpoll | 20 | 48 | 979 | 01 | 71% | ||
| Hoary Redpoll | 2 | 2 | 77,01 | 3% | |||
| Pine Siskin | 1 | 40 | 388 | 95 | 59% | ||
| American Goldfinch | 19 | 20 | 26 | 79 | 29% | ||
| Evening Grosbeak | 32 | 141 | 84 | 47% | |||
| House Sparrow | 1265 | 68 | 2,826 | 08 | 100% | ||
| TOTAL SPECIES | 66 | ||||||
| TOTAL BIRDS | 7,362 | ||||||
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