FAYETTEVILLE CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT
December 20, 2015
Canada Goose 349
Wood Duck 1
Gadwall 50
Mallard 160
Blue-winged Teal 3
Northern Shoveler 2
Green-winged Teal 3
Ring-necked Duck 5
Lesser Scaup 25
Bufflehead 78
Common Goldeneye 4
Hooded Merganser 12
Pied-billed Grebe 15
D-crested Cormorant 15
Great Blue Heron 15
Black Vulture 106
Turkey Vulture 358
Bald Eagle 9 (mat=7, im 2)
Northern Harrier 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 3
Cooper's Hawk 11 (Acc. sp 3)
Red-shouldered Hawk 10
Red-t Hawk 66
American Kestrel 16
American Coot 52
Killdeer 38
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 3
Wilson’s Snipe 12
Ring-billed Gull 301
Rock Pigeon 508
Eu Collared-Dove 68
Mourning Dove 143
Greater Roadrunner (cw,1)
E Screech-Owl 1
Great Horned Owl 4
Belted Kingfisher 17
Red-headed Woodpecker 1
Red-bell Woodpecker 78
Yellow-bell Sapsucker 23
Downy Woodpecker 67
Hairy Woodpecker 8
Northern Flicker 74
Pileated Woodpecker 10
Eastern Phoebe 4
Loggerhead Shrike 1
Blue Jay 107
American Crow 219
Carolina Chickadee 149
Tufted Titmouse 89
White-breasted Nuthatch 11
Brown Creeper 5
Carolina Wren 82
Winter Wren 2
Sedge Wren 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet 16
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 21
Eastern Bluebird 129
Hermit Thrush 7
American Robin 1017
Gray Catbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 124
Brown Thrasher 6
European Starling 3068
American Pipit 33
Cedar Waxwing 197
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 33
Pine Warbler 4
Summer Tanager 1
Eastern Towhee 5
Chipping Sparrow 14
Field Sparrow 21
Savannah Sparrow 10
Fox Sparrow 5
Song Sparrow 116
Lincoln’s Sparrow 2
Swamp Sparrow 22
White-throated Sparrow 389
Harris's Sparrow 1
White-crowned Sparrow 61
Dark-eyed Junco 535
Northern Cardinal 279
Red-winged Blackbird 274
Eastern Meadowlark 80
Rusty Blackbird 200
Common Grackle 62
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Purple Finch 24
House Finch 93
American Goldfinch 140
House Sparrow 90
blackbird species 500
BIRDS: 10,887 birds; 91 species on count day, plus 1 additional count week. PEOPLE: 40 folks in the field, plus 5 at 3 feeders. JOAN REYNOLDS, Carol Sue Wooten, Kyle Allen Jones and Ben, Adam Schaffer, Kitty Sanders, ANDREA GREEN, Jacque Brown, David Oakley, KELLY MULHOLLAN, Donna Mulhollan, Mary Bess Mulhollan, Michael Cockram, JOANIE PATTERSON, Donald Ouellette, Jack Wingate, Alycyn Culbertson, Mike Slay, Bill Symes, Auriel Fournier, Marla Steele, Lea Crisp, MIKE MLODINOW, Neil Nodelman, Daniel Mason, Tim McGee, KIM SMITH, James Morgan, Jen Mortensen, Lynn Armstrong, ANDREW SCABOO, Carole Jones, Brandon Schmidt, DOUG JAMES, Elizabeth Adam, JOE NEAL, Richard Stauffacher, Barry Bennett. At feeders: Sara Caulk, Bob Caulk, Carol Traphagan, Jane Steinkraus, Don Steinkraus.
Here are a couple of way to get started learning about the birds in northwestern Arkansas:
1. First, get involved in the society's sponsored field trips (see Upcoming Events).
2. Arkansas Audubon Society publishes a handy annotated field list to the birds of Arkansas. This list includes birds from throughout the state, so it includes material not directly relevant to northwestern Arkansas; however, most of the material provides a good background on our birds in this part of the state. To access this field list, follow this link: Arkansas Audubon Field List 2009.pdf
3. A PDF version of Joe Neal's book "Birds in Northwestern Arkansas: an ecological perspective" is available here: Birds in northwestern Arkansas
4. How common is a bird in northwest Arkansas and Arkansas in general? Check out Mike
Mlodinow's frequency status designations.
a. Read an explanation of how Mike analyzed real bird data to come up with his
designations.
b. Check out Mike's excel spreadsheet with all of the data here.
A Scaboo, B Schmidt, L M-Rosenberger, C Monteiro, J Brown 1-17-2010
A group at Eagle Watch Nature Area
Irene & Richard at Centerton