Information about Christmas Bird Counts, Mainly in the Upper Cumberland Region—Central Node

An Eastern Bluebird inspecting a nest box 20 November 2016 at a site within the Cookeville CBC circle about a month prior to the beginning of the 117th CBC season; photograph Stephen J. Stedman.

Christmas Bird Counts (CBC) represent the longest-running, citizen-science, fauna-monitoring project in the world today; furthermore, no other such project has brought so large a number of participants into its fold, literally many tens of thousands over the past century.  Begun Christmas Day 1900 by Frank Chapman and 26 other dedicated birders of the very late Nineteenth Century who collectively conducted 25 CBCs and counted 90 species of birds that day, this project is now tri-continental in scope with more than 2000 sites being included in its ever-increasing database. Many veterans of bird counts consider it to be the highlight of the birding year.

    For results of CBCs conducted during various CBC seasons or at various sites in the Upper Cumberland Region, click on one of the links below:

    To visit the tri-continental (North America, South America, and Antarctica) CBC website, click on this link:

    For a list of species that would benefit from written documentation on CBCs in Tennessee, click on the following link:

    A table displaying the all-time high counts for species recorded on Tennessee CBCs may be viewed by clicking on the following link:

    To see a table offering comparative data on total species recorded on CBCs in the UCR versus total species recorded on Great Backyard Bird Counts in the UCR beginning with the winter of 2003–2004, click on the following link:

    For a table itemizing the number of Christmas Bird Counts (CBC) conducted annually—and submitted to the tri-continental CBC database—in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama since the inception of the CBC in 1900, click on the following link:

    For a table presenting data on numbers of Loggerhead Shrikes recorded on CBCs in TN, MS, and AL (1992–2002), click on the following link:

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the 2019–2020 (120th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region:

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the 2018–2019 (119th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region:

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the 2017–2018 (118th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region: 

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the 2016–2017 (117th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region: 

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the 2015–2016 (116th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region: 

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the 2014–2015 (115th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region: 

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the 2013–2014 (114th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region: 

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the 2012–2013 (113th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region: 

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted or to be conducted during the 2011–2012 (112th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region: 

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted or to be conducted during the 2010–2011 (111th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region: 

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) and Christmas BirdBlitzes (CBBs*) conducted during the 2009–2010 (110th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region: 

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) and Christmas BirdBlitzes (CBBs*) conducted during the 2008–2009 (109th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region: 

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the 2007–2008 (108th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region: 

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the 2006–2007 (107th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region (with species totals): 

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the 2005–2006 (106th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region (with species totals): 

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the 2004–2005 (105th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region (with species totals): 

Here is the schedule of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the 2003–2004 (104th) CBC season in the Upper Cumberland Region: 

*A Christmas BirdBlitz (CBB) differs from a Christmas Bird Count (CBC) only in being a one-time event instead of an annual event.

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