Padilla Bay Christmas Bird Count- Dec 2016
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- Last Updated: January 29, 2017
These data are the results of Skagit Audubon Society’s 39th Padilla Bay Christmas Bird Count. Thanks to all 60 participants. Bold represents unusual species (species recorded less than 20% of the time). “All-time” high counts for particular species are indicated with dark backgrounds.
| Red-throated Loon | 534 |
| Pacific Loon | 4 |
| Common Loon | 72 |
| Pied-billed Grebe | 17 |
| Horned Grebe | 186 |
| Red-necked Grebe | 47 |
| Eared Grebe | 1 |
| Western Grebe | 120 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 222 |
| Brandt's Cormorant | 27 |
| Pelagic Cormorant | 187 |
| cormorant (sp.) | 27 |
| Great Blue Heron | 159 |
| Tundra Swan | 108 |
| Trumpeter Swan | 1726 |
| Gr. White-fronted Goose | 8 |
| Snow Goose | 31995 |
| Ross’s Goose | 1 |
| Brant | 913 |
| Canada Goose | 412 |
| Amer. Green-winged Teal | 1547 |
| Mallard | 17450 |
| Northen Pintail | 7779 |
| Northern Shoveler | 18 |
| Gadwall | 14 |
| Eurasian Wigeon | 26 |
| American Wigeon | 15892 |
| Ringed-necked Duck | 167 |
| Greater Scaup | 333 |
| Lesser Scaup | 133 |
| scaup (sp.) | 56 |
| Harlequin Duck | 10 |
| Long-tailed Duck | 39 |
| Surf Scoter | 312 |
| White-winged Scoter | 127 |
| Common Goldeneye | 344 |
| ComxBarrow's Goldeneye | 1 |
| Bufflehead | 984 |
| Hooded Merganser | 52 |
| Common Merganser | 219 |
| Red-breasted Merganser | 376 |
| merganser (sp.) | 2 |
| Ruddy Duck | 232 |
| duck (sp.) | 154 |
| Bald Eagle | 264 |
| Northern Harrier | 19 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 5 |
| Cooper's Hawk | 4 |
| accipiter (sp.) | 2 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 83 |
| Rough-legged Hawk | 15 |
| buteo (sp.) | 1 |
| American Kestrel | 5 |
| Merlin | 3 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 6 |
| Prairie Falcon | 1 |
| falcon (sp.) | 1 |
| Ring-necked Pheasant | 3 |
| California Quail | 31 |
| Virginia Rail | 5 |
| American Coot | 67 |
| Killdeer | 18 |
| Black Oystercatcher | 151 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 4 |
| Black Turnstone | 115 |
| Sanderling | 5 |
| Least Sandpiper | 37 |
| Dunlin | 10141 |
| sandpiper (sp.) | 73 |
| Wilson's Snipe | 12 |
| Mew Gull | 402 |
| Ring-billed Gull | 99 |
| California Gull | 3 |
| Herring Gull | 1 |
| Thayer's Gull | 4 |
| Western Gull | 1 |
| W. x Glauc.-winged Gull | 158 |
| Glaucous-winged Gull | 1162 |
| gull (sp.) | 379 |
| Common Murre | 233 |
| Pigeon Guillemot | 123 |
| Marbled Murrelet | 26 |
| Ancient Murrelet | 20 |
| Rock Pigeon | 391 |
| Eurasian Collared Dove | 106 |
| Mourning Dove | 144 |
| Barn Owl | 3 |
| Great Horned Owl | 17 |
| Short-eared Owl | 1 |
| Northern Saw-whet Owl | 3 |
| Anna's Hummingbird | 54 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 27 |
| Red-breasted Sapsucker | 11 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 17 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 33 |
| Northern Flicker | 93 |
| N. ‘Red-shafted’ Flicker | 32 |
| N. ‘Yellow-shafted’ Flicker | 2 |
| Yellow x Red-sh. Flicker | 1 |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 4 |
| Steller's Jay | 16 |
| American/NW Crow | 811 |
| Common Raven | 127 |
| Black-capped Chickadee | 224 |
| Mountain Chickadee | 1 |
| Chestnut-bked Chickadee | 363 |
| Bushtit | 65 |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | 130 |
| Brown Creeper | 33 |
| Bewick's Wren | 39 |
| Pacific Wren | 220 |
| Marsh Wren | 8 |
| G-crowned Kinglet | 671 |
| R-crowned Kinglet | 67 |
| Townsend’s Solitaire | 2 |
| Hermit Thrush | 4 |
| American Robin | 1304 |
| Varied Thrush | 156 |
| American Pipit | 65 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 2 |
| Northern Shrike | 1 |
| European Starling | 3345 |
| Hutton’s Vireo | 2 |
| Orange-crowned Warbler | 1 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | 1 |
| Townsend’s Warbler | 1 |
| Spotted Towhee | 232 |
| Savannah Sparrow | 24 |
| Fox Sparrow | 84 |
| Song Sparrow | 337 |
| Lincoln's Sparrow | 4 |
| Golden-crowned Sparrow | 263 |
| White-crowned Sparrow | 130 |
| Harris’s Sparrow | 1 |
| Dark-eyed ‘Oregon’ Junco | 1635 |
| D-e ‘Slate-colored’ Junco | 1 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 822 |
| Western Meadowlark | 29 |
| Brewer's Blackbird | 545 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 30 |
| Purple Finch | 4 |
| House Finch | 265 |
| Red Crossbill | 52 |
| Pine Siskin | 803 |
| American Goldfinch | 25 |
| House Sparrow | 354 |
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Total species observed |
130 |
| Total # of individual birds | 111,287 |
| # of parties | 21-23 |
| # of field observers | 60 |
| Total party-hours | 138.50 |