2016 Desbarats Christmas Bird Count Results
34 participants counted over 1500 birds!
Download the results here.
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Ring-necked Duck - 2*
Ring-necked Pheasant - 2 Ruffed Grouse - 3 Sharp-tailed Grouse - 2 Wild Turkey - 63 Bald Eagle - 7 Red-tailed Hawk - 2 Rough-legged Hawk - 1 Rock Pigeon - 24 Mourning Dove - 70 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 6 Hairy Woodpecker - 17 Pileated Woodpecker - 4 Northern Shrike - cw Blue Jay - 91 American Crow - 118 Common Raven - 175 Black-capped Chickadee - 311 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 16 White-breasted Nuthatch - 8 Brown Creeper - 1 European Starling - 150 Bohemian Waxwing - 4 Snow Bunting - 34 American Tree Sparrow - 12 Dark-eyed Junco - 1 Pine Grosbeak - 159 Northern Cardinal - 3 Purple Finch - 8 Common Redpoll - 33 Pine Siskin - 10 American Goldfinch - 188 Evening Grosbeak - 4 House Sparrow - 1 *rare for the time of the year |
Field Observers - 25
Feeder Watchers - 9 Total Participants - 34 Hours Spent Observing - 55hrs 50min Distance Covered - 356km Total Species on Count Day - 34 Additional Count Week Species - 1 Total Species - 35 Total Birds - 1532 The Desbarats Christmas Bird Count made it onto the front page of the Island Clippings! Read about the experiences that Beth and Andrew Kwon, owners of the Clippings, had during their participation in the bird count.
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Bohemian Waxwing, photographed by Barry Lyons, during the 2016 Desbarats Christmas Bird Count in Hilton Beach
Field observers look for birds in the old gravel pit on the Kensington Conservancy's Archibald Homestead
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