FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Reelfoot Lake CBC final results/totals

["Mark Allen Greene" <magreene@xxxxxxxx>]

Here are the final results from the 2003 Reelfoot Lake Christmas Bird Count 
that was held on Saturday, December 20, 2003.
 
Species totals:
 
Greater White-fronted Goose - 2109
Snow Goose - 947 (815 Snows and 132 Blues)
Ross's Goose - 3
Canada Goose - 1066
Wood Duck - 38
Gadwall - 108
American Wigeon - 19
American Black Duck - 3
Mallard - 14,234
Northern Shoveler - 24
Northern Pintail - 6
Green-winged Teal - 35
Canvasback - 17
Redhead - 8
Ring-necked Duck - 120
Greater Scaup - 16
Lesser Scaup - 5283
Bufflehead - 57
Common Goldeneye - 1
Hooded Merganser - 68
Red-breasted Merganser - 3
Ruddy Duck - 4705
Wild Turkey - 1
Common Loon - 9
Pied-billed Grebe - 48
Horned Grebe - 30
American White Pelican - 1
Double-crested Cormorant - 5
Great Blue Heron - 59
Black Vulture - 6
Turkey Vulture - 1
Bald Eagle - 63 (45 adults, 18 immatures)
Northern Harrier - 15
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 4
Cooper's Hawk - 2
Red-shouldered Hawk - 9
Red-tailed Hawk - 57
American Kestrel - 25
American Coot - 16
Killdeer - 995
Least Sandpiper - 26
Wilson's Snipe - 67
American Woodcock - 2
Bonaparte's Gull - 377
Ring-billed Gull - 22,248
Herring Gull - 38
Rock Pigeon - 19
Eurasian Collared-Dove - 1
Mourning Dove - 360
Eastern Screech-Owl - 3
Great Horned Owl - 6
Barred Owl - 15
Short-eared Owl - 3
Belted Kingfisher - 5
Red-headed Woodpecker - 36
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 91
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 20
Downy Woodpecker - 65
Hairy Woodpecker - 9
Northern Flicker - 89
Pileated Woodpecker - 29
Eastern Phoebe - 4
Vermillion Flycatcher - 1
Loggerhead Shrike - 15
Blue Jay - 123
American Crow - 168
Fish Crow - 1
Horned Lark - 770
Carolina Chickadee - 100
Tufted Titmouse - 73
White-breasted Nuthatch - 22
Brown Creeper - 26
Carolina Wren - 95
Winter Wren - 31
Sedge Wren - 1
Marsh Wren - 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet - 44
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 54
Eastern Bluebird - 47
Hermit Thrush - 34
American Robin - 100,336
Northern Mockingbird - 30
Brown Thrasher - 26
European Starling - 11,890
American Pipit - 129
Cedar Waxwing - 84
Orange-crowned Warbler - 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2
Pine Warbler - 1
Northern Waterthrush - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 3
Eastern Towhee - 13
American Tree Sparrow - 8
Chipping Sparrow - 5
Field Sparrow - 451
Savannah Sparrow - 37
Fox Sparrow - 41
Song Sparrow - 161
Lincoln's Sparrow - 1
Swamp Sparrow - 202
White-throated Sparrow - 254
White-crowned Sparrow - 72
Dark-eyed Junco - 205
Lapland Longspur - 361
Northern Cardinal - 214
Red-winged Blackbird - 10,542
Eastern Meadowlark - 115
Western Meadowlark - 4
Rusty Blackbird - 211
Brewer's Blackbird - 1
Common Grackle - 395
Brown-headed Cowbird - 223
House Finch - 4
American Goldfinch - 54
House Sparrow - 129 
 
Total species - 115
Total individuals - 187,309
 
Count statistics:
 
Count date: December 20, 2003
Time - 5:15 AM - 5:30 pm
Temperature: 23 - 46 F
AM Weather - Partly cloudy
PM Weather - Mostly Sunny
No precipitation
 
Party Totals -
14 observers in 6 parties in AM
11 observers in 5 parties in PM
 
Total Party Hours - 58.5
Hours by Car - 38
Hours on foot - 20.5
 
Total Part Miles - 401.5
Miles by Car - 390.5
Miles on Foot - 11
 
Owling - 
Total Hours Owling - 3
Total Miles Owling - 14.5 (13 by car, 1 on foot)
 
Birders were: Jay Desgrosellier, Jerry Drewry, Bob Foehring, Mark Greene, Joe 
Guinn, Ken Leggett, Don Manning, Nancy Moore, John Noel, Joe Stone, Sabin 
Thompson, Mike Todd, Melinda Welton, and Jeff Wilson.
 
Notes:
 
Fourteen birders counted 115 species which was 1 below our all-time record of 
116 which we tied last year. 
 
Highlights:
 
Vermillion Flycatcher - still hanging around at the Airpark, a first for the 
Reelfoot CBC!
Northern Waterthrush - 4th Reelfoot CBC record, the first since 1980.
Common Yellowthroat - 3 were seen in 3 different locations!
 
Other highlights included:
 
Ross's Geese (3), Greater Scaup (22 total species of waterfowl), Common Loon 
(9, highest count ever for Reelfoot CBC), American White Pelican, Least 
Sandpiper, American Woodcock, Eurasian Collared-Dove, Short-eared Owl, Fish 
Crow, Sedge Wren, Marsh Wren, American Pipit, Orange-crowned Warbler (at 2 
different locations), Pine Warbler (4 total species of warblers), American Tree 
Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow, Lapland Longspur, Western 
Meadowlark (a total of 4 birds were seen at 2 different locations), and 
Brewer's Blackbird.
 
Species seen in very impressive numbers included 20,000+ Ring-billed Gulls 
(10,000+ seen in 3 different roosts on the lake and 10,000 seen near the prison 
farm) and 100,000 American Robins coming to a roost at dusk near Tiptonville.
 
Misses were Northern Bobwhite, Red-breasted Nuthatch, LeConte's Sparrow (no 
habitat), Purple Finch, and Pine Siskin.
 
Mark Greene
Count Compiler
194 Mt. Orange Road
Trenton, TN 38382
magreene@xxxxxxxx
 

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