[birding] Airlie-Albany CBC results

[Joel Geier]

Hi folks,

Here are results from Sunday's Airlie-Albany CBC, which was organized by
Paul Adamus. 32 volunteers came up with a total of 115 species. Weather
was mixed, with intermittent showers early in the day that allowed for
fairly good birding, but steady rain in the later part of the afternoon.
Rain before dawn and after sunset meant owling was mostly futile.

Provisional tallies are listed below, with some of the more notable
species highlighted.

Happy birding,
Joel
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Pied-billed Grebe               34
Double-crested Cormorant        60
Great Blue Heron                47
GREEN HERON                      1
Great Egret                     20
Tundra Swan                     96
Trumpeter Swan                  43
Canada Goose                  3558
Cackling Goose               24867
Canada/Cackling Goose        10764
WHITE GOOSE sp. (Snow/Ross's?)   1
Wood Duck                       21
Green-winged Teal             2187 (one at Ankeny was nailed by a
                                    Peregrine Falcon)
CINNAMON TEAL                    1 
Mallard                        712
Northern Pintail              1899
Northern Shoveler              124
Gadwall                         32
Eurasian Wigeon                 11
American Wigeon                562
CANVASBACK                       2
REDHEAD                          1
Ring-necked Duck               175
Lesser Scaup                    29
Bufflehead                      93
Hooded Merganser                39
Common Merganser                25
Ruddy Duck                     238
TURKEY VULTURE                  cw
Bald Eagle                       7 (5 ad, 2 imm)
GOLDEN EAGLE                     1
White-tailed Kite                3
Northern Harrier                44
Sharp-shinned Hawk              10
Cooper's Hawk                    7
Red-shouldered Hawk              5
Red-tailed Hawk                183
HARLAN'S RED-TAILED HAWK         1 at NW edge of circle
Rough-legged Hawk               11
American Kestrel               117
MERLIN                           1
PRAIRIE FALCON                   1
Peregrine Falcon                 5
Ring-necked Pheasant             1
Wild Turkey                     86
California Quail               105
American Coot                  127
Killdeer                       286 low count?
Dunlin                         178
Wilson’s Snipe                  11 mostly scattered singles
Mew Gull                        14
Ring-billed Gull                65
Glaucous-winged Gull             1
Gull sp.                         1 surprisingly few large gulls
Rock Pigeon                    275
Mourning Dove                  387
EURASIAN COLLARED DOVE          41 numbers keep growing
Western Screech-Owl              1
Great Horned Owl                12
Anna's Hummingbird              15
Belted Kingfisher               13
Acorn Woodpecker                30
Red-breasted Sapsucker           8
RED-NAPED SAPSUCKER(?)           1 in E.E. Wilson, still trying for a
                                   photo to rule out hybrid.
Downy Woodpecker                44
Hairy Woodpecker                13
Northern Flicker               283
Pileated Woodpecker              6
BLACK PHOEBE                     3 separate sectors near Willamette R. 
BARN SWALLOW                     1 Ankeny NWR
Horned Lark                      3 low count?
Steller's Jay                  102
W. Scrub Jay                   487
Gray Jay                        cw
American Crow                  536
Common Raven                    65
Black-capped Chickadee         784
Chestnut-backed Chickadee      116
Bushtit                        205
Red-breasted Nuthatch           48
White-breasted Nuthatch         26
Brown Creeper                   52
Bewick's Wren                  205
Winter Wren                     77
Marsh Wren                       3
Golden-crowned Kinglet         384
Ruby-crowned Kinglet           101
Western Bluebird               176
American Robin                2140
Varied Thrush                    4 low count?
WRENTIT                         25 numbers increasing yearly; this used
                                   to be a hard one to find.
American Pipit                 158
Cedar Waxwing                    8
NORTHERN SHRIKE                  3
European Starling             8171
Hutton's Vireo                   8
Yellow-rumped Warbler          292
Townsend's Warbler               6
Spotted Towhee                 528
Savannah Sparrow                17
CHIPPING SPARROW                 2 NW part of circle
Fox Sparrow (Sooty/undiff)     251
FOX SPARROW (gray-headed form)   2
Song Sparrow                   974
Lincoln's Sparrow               81 good numbers
SWAMP SPARROW                    1 North Luckiamute Coop. Mgmt Area
Golden-crowned Sparrow         545
White-crowned Sparrow          201
White-throated Sparrow          17
Oregon Junco                  1967
SLATE-COLORED JUNCO              1
Red-winged Blackbird           662
Western Meadowlark              32
Brewer's Blackbird            1027
Brown-headed Cowbird            27
EVENING GROSBEAK                37
RED CROSSBILL                   18
Purple Finch                    66
House Finch                    362
Pine Siskin                     52
Lesser Goldfinch                43
American Goldfinch              88
House Sparrow                  200

--
Joel Geier
Camp Adair area north of Corvallis