The Savannah, TN CBC was conducted on Wednesday, December 28. !6 participants
in 8 parties tallied 109 species, 16,019 individuals. Highlights included 46
American White Pelicans, 1 Virginia Rail (at its usual spot at Walker Branch
wetland), 78-273 Sandhill Cranes (flocks were seen by 4 different parties, all
within 15 minutes of each other. It was hard to tell whether it was the same
flock, moving around fairly rapidly, or different flocks. 78 was the highest
actual count by one party and will be the number reported as the count total.
Err on the conservative side, I guess.), 1 Forster's Tern, 1 Short-eared Owl
(feeding over a grassy field edge during pre-dawn owling), 4 Merlins, 2 House
Wrens, 3 Lapland Longspurs, 3 Orange-crowned Warblers, 1 Palm Warbler, 38
Vesper Sparrows, 31 Purple Finches and 1 Pine Siskin. We set new record high
counts with 14 species and tied two others. We had no record low counts, but
then, we used to conduct this count with only 3-4 people in 2-3 parties. Field
and White-throated Sparrows and Juncos were in low numbers, compared to recent
8-party coverage counts. Here's our totals:
Snow Goose
6
Canada Goose
229
Wood Duck
11
Gadwall
133
American Black Duck
2
Mallard
52
Northern Shoveler
130
Green-winged Teal
14
Canvasback
143
Redhead
6
Ring-necked Duck
598
Greater Scaup
2
Lesser Scaup
119
Bufflehead
82
Common Goldeneye
99
Hooded Merganser
4
Ruddy Duck
15
duck sp.
16
Northern Bobwhite
1
Wild Turkey
152
Common Loon
46
Pied-billed Grebe
191
Horned Grebe
141
American White Pelican
46
Double-crested Cormorant
22
Great Blue Heron
56
Black Vulture
119
Turkey Vulture
239
Northern Harrier
12
Sharp-shinned Hawk
4
Cooper's Hawk
3
Bald Eagle (adult)
8
Bald Eagle (immature)
9
Total Bald Eagle
17
Red-shouldered Hawk
30
Red-tailed Hawk
39
Virginia Rail
1
American Coot
1240
Sandhill Crane
273
Killdeer
347
Wilson's Snipe
9
American Woodcock
4
Bonaparte's Gull
436
Ring-billed Gull
655
Herring Gull
1
Forster's Tern
1
Rock Pigeon
57
Eurasian Collared Dove
49
Mourning Dove
297
Eastern Screech-Owl
7
Great Horned Owl
7
Barred Owl
8
Short-eared Owl
1
Belted Kingfisher
13
Red-headed Woodpecker
28
Red-bellied Woodpecker
94
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
26
Downy Woodpecker
41
Hairy Woodpecker
13
Northern Flicker
74
Pileated Woodpecker
26
American Kestrel
22
Merlin
4
Eastern Phoebe
26
Blue Jay
121
American Crow
612
Horned Lark
48
Carolina Chickadee
139
Tufted Titmouse
143
White-breasted Nuthatch
34
Brown-headed Nuthatch
29
Brown Creeper
12
House Wren
2
Winter Wren
11
Carolina Wren
140
Golden-crowned Kinglet
120
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
71
Eastern Bluebird
213
Hermit Thrush
55
American Robin
1758
Brown Thrasher
14
Northern Mockingbird
78
European Starling
1088
American Pipit
29
Cedar Waxwing
369
Lapland Longspur
3
Orange-crowned Warbler
3
Palm Warbler
1
Pine Warbler
58
Yellow-rumped Warbler
762
Chipping Sparrow
229
Field Sparrow
131
Fox Sparrow
29
Dark-eyed Junco
245
White-crowned Sparrow
5
White-throated Sparrow
233
Vesper Sparrow
38
Savannah Sparrow
209
Song Sparrow
138
Swamp Sparrow
261
Eastern Towhee
58
Northern Cardinal
288
Red-winged Blackbird
225
Eastern Meadowlark
201
Rusty Blackbird
77
Common Grackle
806
Brown-headed Cowbird
87
blackbird sp.
24
House Finch
55
Purple Finch
31
Pine Siskin
1
American Goldfinch
161
House Sparrow
35
Damien Simbeck
Killen, AL
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