Christmas Bird Count (CBC)

Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge's CBC
January 4, 2025 Results

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Information

  • Date: 1/4/2025
  • Time: start at 7:00 AM and end at 6:00 PM
  • Number of Observers: 15
  • Foot effort: 4.50 hours and 7.80 miles
  • Car effort: 41.50 hours and 173. 50 miles
  • Temperature: minimum 33 Fahrenheit and maximum 44 Fahrenheit
  • Wind velocity: minimum 5 Miles/hour and maximum 15 Miles/Hour

Checklist

Pelican

  • American White Pelican - 197

Cormorant

  • Double-crested Cormorant - 62

Heron

  • Great Blue Heron (Blue form) - 11

Geese

  • Greater White-fronted Goose - 130
  • Snow Goose - 790
  • Cackling Goose - 1018
  • Canada Goose - 952

Ducks

  • Wood Duck - 2
  • Gadwall - 103
  • American Wigeon - 277
  • Mallard - 417
  • Northern Shoveler - 321
  • Northern Pintail - 291
  • Green-winged Teal (American) - 163
  • Canvasback - 8
  • Redhead - 2
  • Ring - necked Duck - 1
  • Lesser Scaup - 6
  • Long-tailed Duck - 1
  • Bufflehead - 24
  • Common Goldeneye - 4
  • Ruddy Duck - 500

Mergansers

  • Hooded Merganser - 34
  • Common Merganser - 168

Eagles

  • Golden Eagle - 1
  • Bald Eagle - 28 

Hawks

  • Northern Harrier - 56
  • Sharp-shinned Hawk - 2
  • Cooper's Hawk - 2
  • Red-shouldered Hawk - 12
  • Red-tailed Hawk - 117
  • Red-tailed Hawk (Harlan's) - 12
  • Red-tailed Hawk (Krider's) - 2
  • Rough-legged Hawk - 3
  • Ferruginous Hawk - 7

Falcons

  • American Kestrel - 34
  • Merlin - 7
  • Prairie Falcon - 1

Pheasants, Turkey, Quail

  • Northern Bobwhite - 105
  • Ring - necked Pheasant - 1
  • Wild Turkey - 58

Coot, Cranes

  • American Coot - 13
  • Sandhill Crane - 1729

Plover

  • Killdeer - 2

Sandpipers

  • American Avocet - 1
  • Greater Yellowlegs - 3

Rails

  • Virginia Rail - 1

Gulls

  • Bonaparte's Gull - 40
  • Ring-billed Gull - 862
  • Herring Gull - 1

Doves

  • Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) - 9
  • Eurasian Collared-Dove - 69
  • Mourning Dove - 26

Roadrunner, Kingfisher

  • Belted Kingfisher - 5

Owls

  • Great Horned Owl - 2
  • Barred Owl - 3
  • Short-eared Owl - 3

Woodpeckers, Sapsuckers

  • Red-bellied Woodpecker - 46
  • Downy Woodpecker - 26
  • Hairy Woodpecker - 8 
  • Pileated Woodpecker - 6

Flickers

  • Northern Flicker - 216
  • Northern Flicker (Red-shafter) - 4

Flycatchers

  • Eastern Phoebe - 3

Shrikes

  • Loggerhead Shrike - 13

Jays, Crows

  • Blue Jay - 29
  • American Crow - 60

Larks

  • Horned Lark - 10

Titmice

  • Carolina Chickadee - 53
  • Tufted Titmouse - 4
  • White-breasted Nuthatch - 2
  • Brown Creeper - 3

Wrens

  • Winter Wren - 2
  • Marsh Wren - 1
  • Carolina Wren - 19
  • Bewick's Wren - 1

Kinglets

  • Golden-crowned Kinglet - 14
  • Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 2

Thrushes 

  • Eastern Bluebird - 75
  • Townsend's Solitaire - 1
  • American Robin - 220
  • Northern Mockingbird - 6

Waxwing

  • Cedar Waxwing - 80

Warblers

  • Common Yellowthroat - 1
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler - 5

Starlings

  • Eastern Starling - 141

Cardinal, Towhee

  • Spotted Towhee - 4
  • Northern Cardinal - 157

Sparrows

  • American Tree Sparrow - 38
  • Field Sparrow - 20
  • Fox Sparrow - 7
  • White-crowned Sparrow - 159
  • Harris's Sparrow - 127
  • White - throated Sparrow - 2
  • Savannah Sparrow - 16
  • Song Sparrow - 32

Junco

  • Dark-eyed Junco - 440
  • Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon) - 3

Blackbirds

  • Red-winged Blackbird - 3046
  • Brewer's Blackbird - 167
  • blackbird sp. 63

Grackle

  • Common Grackle - 531
  • Great-tailed Grackle - 463

Cowbird

  • Brown-headed Cowbird - 612

Meadowlarks 

  • Western Meadowlark - 175
  • Eastern Meadowlark - 94
  • Western/Eastern Meadowlark - 18

Finches 

  • American Goldfinch - 25
  • House Sparrow - 59

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