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Backyard Winter Bird Survey |
Tabular Results for 1987-1998 |
| Please note that the data presented here includes total individuals of each species reported each year. The number of participants (shown in the last row) should be taken into consideration when interpreting these results. Please read the summary of the data (1967-1997), where Consulting Ornithologist Pam Hunt describes this effect in more detail. |
| Species | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 | 1990 | 1989 | 1988 | 1987 |
| Cormorant sp. | 1 | |||||||||||
| Great Blue Heron | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Mute Swan | 9 | 4 | 3 | |||||||||
| Canada Goose | 167 | 40 | 100 | 21 | 16 | 1 | 5 | 224 | 3 | 65 | ||
| Muscovy Duck-introduced | 1 | |||||||||||
| Wood Duck | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| American Black Duck | 36 | 424 | 178 | 6 | 33 | 4 | 10 | 24 | 40 | 34 | ||
| Mallard | 243 | 887 | 570 | 265 | 225 | 237 | 168 | 406 | 394 | 331 | ||
| Common Goldeneye | 13 | 5 | 22 | 3 | 5 | |||||||
| Bufflehead | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Hooded Merganser | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Common Merganser | 30 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | ||||||
| Red-breasted Merganser | 5 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| Merganser sp. | 20 | |||||||||||
| Duck sp. | 30 | 26 | 50 | 75 | 106 | |||||||
| Turkey Vulture | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Bald Eagle | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Northern Harrier | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 10 | 24 | 21 | 21 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 16 |
| Cooper's Hawk | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | |
| Northern Goshawk | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 8 | |
| Accipiter sp. | 1 | |||||||||||
| Red-shouldered Hawk | 4 | |||||||||||
| Red-tailed Hawk | 17 | 18 | 11 | 8 | 16 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 2 |
| American Kestrel | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Hawk sp. | 3 | 12 | 8 | 21 | 16 | 6 | ||||||
| Gray Partridge-introduced | 7 | |||||||||||
| Ring-necked Pheasant | 8 | 21 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 19 | 7 | 21 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 33 |
| Spruce Grouse | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Ruffed Grouse | 29 | 60 | 33 | 17 | 14 | 10 | 25 | 28 | 28 | 17 | 24 | 12 |
| Wild Turkey | 286 | 324 | 130 | 96 | 116 | 73 | 77 | 66 | 59 | 19 | 8 | 19 |
| Northern Bobwhite | 1 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| American Woodcock | 1 | |||||||||||
| Ring-billed Gull | 1 | 18 | 29 | |||||||||
| Herring Gull | 142 | 337 | 124 | 135 | 18 | 35 | 221 | 102 | ||||
| Great Black-backed Gull | 137 | 234 | 11 | 118 | 24 | 35 | 157 | 2 | 18 | 1 | ||
| Gull sp. | 206 | 450 | 375 | 233 | 263 | 129 | 404 | 278 | 561 | 180 | 73 | 268 |
| Rock Dove | 519 | 1092 | 572 | 715 | 797 | 874 | 1010 | 785 | 642 | 739 | 205 | 136 |
| Mourning Dove | 4644 | 7884 | 5274 | 6483 | 6618 | 7685 | 7866 | 5687 | 5290 | 7420 | 6473 | 5965 |
| Eastern Screech-Owl | 1 | |||||||||||
| Great Horned Owl | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Snowy Owl | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Barred Owl | 8 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | ||
| Northern Saw-whet Owl | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Owl sp. | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Belted Kingfisher | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||
| Red-headed Woodpecker | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 14 | 21 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Downy Woodpecker | 1247 | 1664 | 1109 | 1280 | 1499 | 1267 | 1223 | 1080 | 1107 | 1299 | 1003 | 1058 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 838 | 1117 | 806 | 737 | 990 | 782 | 794 | 654 | 683 | 757 | 631 | 721 |
| Northern Flicker | 11 | 19 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 34 | 58 | 28 | 21 | 43 | 18 | 34 | 30 | 10 | 11 | 16 | 7 |
| Woodpecker sp. | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Horned Lark | 33 | |||||||||||
| Gray Jay | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Blue Jay | 5082 | 9775 | 3251 | 5318 | 6442 | 4048 | 4572 | 3904 | 4893 | 5166 | 3148 | 7546 |
| American Crow | 1730 | 3036 | 1534 | 2211 | 2103 | 1715 | 1775 | 1706 | 1482 | 1670 | 500 | 460 |
| Common Raven | 55 | 92 | 44 | 63 | 34 | 44 | 48 | 36 | 40 | 32 | 9 | 15 |
| Black-capped Chickadee | 6851 | 9218 | 5784 | 6381 | 9636 | 7222 | 6976 | 6444 | 7265 | 8247 | 7478 | 8306 |
| Boreal Chickadee | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tufted Titmouse | 1838 | 2673 | 1433 | 2171 | 2523 | 1809 | 1816 | 1529 | 1374 | 1560 | 1608 | 1905 |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | 1016 | 853 | 789 | 705 | 2362 | 792 | 651 | 751 | 588 | 528 | 243 | 402 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 1361 | 1836 | 1130 | 1315 | 1988 | 1457 | 1520 | 1324 | 1376 | 1512 | 1315 | 1273 |
| Nuthatch sp. | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||
| Brown Creeper | 60 | 118 | 121 | 93 | 159 | 165 | 146 | 119 | 98 | 126 | 78 | 127 |
| Carolina Wren | 7 | 12 | 3 | 11 | 20 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Winter Wren | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | 3 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 21 | ||||
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 5 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Eastern Bluebird | 14 | 6 | 4 | 32 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| Hermit Thrush | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| American Robin | 184 | 490 | 11 | 72 | 28 | 72 | 35 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 4 |
| Varied Thrush | 1 | |||||||||||
| Gray Catbird | 1 | |||||||||||
| Northern Mockingbird | 43 | 82 | 59 | 77 | 113 | 110 | 105 | 102 | 137 | 127 | 163 | 149 |
| Brown Thrasher | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Bohemian Waxwing | 95 | 8 | 49 | 42 | 41 | 30 | ||||||
| Cedar Waxwing | 223 | 226 | 215 | 147 | 331 | 297 | 369 | 105 | 75 | 73 | 48 | 111 |
| Waxwing sp. | 2 | |||||||||||
| Northern Shrike | 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 4 | |||
| European Starling | 2504 | 3283 | 3050 | 2693 | 2098 | 3136 | 2861 | 1734 | 1750 | 1993 | 1042 | 759 |
| Orange-crowned Warbler | 1 | |||||||||||
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Ovenbird | 1 | |||||||||||
| Northern Cardinal | 820 | 1423 | 601 | 1136 | 1380 | 1146 | 981 | 730 | 745 | 927 | 883 | 950 |
| Male | 456 | 762 | 334 | 631 | 754 | 583 | 531 | 404 | 415 | 499 | 433 | 549 |
| Female | 364 | 661 | 267 | 500 | 625 | 563 | 450 | 326 | 330 | 427 | 348 | 401 |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 3 | |||||||||||
| Rufous-sided Towhee | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| American Tree Sparrow | 939 | 1710 | 916 | 1308 | 1406 | 1126 | 1187 | 653 | 1101 | 1004 | 1484 | 1718 |
| Chipping Sparrow | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 11 | |||
| Field Sparrow | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | |||||||
| Fox Sparrow | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 12 | ||
| Song Sparrow | 18 | 46 | 8 | 36 | 44 | 45 | 57 | 20 | 55 | 28 | 401 | 359 |
| Swamp Sparrow | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
| White-throated Sparrow | 105 | 199 | 57 | 177 | 136 | 218 | 190 | 125 | 248 | 231 | ||
| White-crowned Sparrow | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Sparrow sp. | 19 | 25 | 56 | 52 | 64 | 13 | 76 | 18 | ||||
| Dark-eyed Junco | 1956 | 6382 | 1015 | 7723 | 2379 | 2371 | 3312 | 1130 | 2696 | 3638 | 2267 | 1976 |
| Dark-eyed J.-Oregon subsp | 1 | |||||||||||
| Snow Bunting | 85 | 217 | 144 | 114 | 135 | 65 | 133 | 177 | 29 | 51 | 60 | 63 |
| Blackbird sp. | 97 | |||||||||||
| Red-winged Blackbird | 21 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 24 | 27 | 7 | 21 | |||
| Rusty Blackbird | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Common Grackle | 9 | 34 | 2 | 19 | 17 | 34 | 53 | 108 | 422 | 563 | 777 | 1049 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 1 | 19 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 105 | 13 | 42 | 10 | 41 | 65 | |
| Northern Oriole | 1 | |||||||||||
| Pine Grosbeak | 319 | 15 | 158 | 93 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 75 | ||||
| Purple Finch | 455 | 1534 | 336 | 924 | 1063 | 1884 | 1667 | 471 | 688 | 936 | 1625 | 1521 |
| House Finch | 988 | 1338 | 670 | 1724 | 1747 | 2347 | 1630 | 786 | 1146 | 1332 | 1230 | 1358 |
| House Finch - orange var. | 1 | |||||||||||
| Finch sp. | 7 | 8 | 12 | 74 | 40 | 29 | ||||||
| Red Crossbill | 9 | 1 | ||||||||||
| White-winged Crossbill | 97 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 6 | |||||||
| Common Redpoll | 4497 | 16 | 2907 | 16 | 5668 | 4 | 40 | 12 | 83 | 262 | 5207 | |
| Hoary Redpoll | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Pine Siskin | 188 | 332 | 280 | 280 | 566 | 211 | 6034 | 215 | 5570 | 408 | 7561 | 4554 |
| American Goldfinch | 2918 | 8679 | 3269 | 10138 | 3756 | 3508 | 8679 | 1398 | 4038 | 3274 | 2870 | 2546 |
| Evening Grosbeak | 1008 | 1261 | 1393 | 1342 | 2345 | 3508 | 6968 | 2035 | 4023 | 3984 | 5452 | 6124 |
| House Sparrow | 1166 | 2385 | 1224 | 2071 | 2043 | 1822 | 2067 | 1825 | 2166 | 2122 | 415 | 366 |
| Total Confirmed Species | 74 | 75 | 61 | 59 | 61 | 59 | 62 | 61 | 63 | 64 | 57 | 70 |
| Total # of Watchers | 1000 | 1649 | 894 | 1114 | 1186 | 943 | 973 | 847 | 868 | 982 | 992 | 950 |