Results of Fall Bird Counts and a Fall BirdBlitz Conducted in the Upper Cumberland Region during 2011
Data for 127 species of birds were obtained during efforts—including one Fall Bird Count (FBC) and two Fall BirdBlitzes (FBB)—to monitor the birdlife of the Region this fall. This total is below the collective totals achieved on Regional FBCs and FBBs conducted during 2005 (135), 2006 (139), 2007 (133), and well below the collective totals for 2008 (141), 2009 (141), and 2010 (142). In the table below all 127 species are listed with data from the various counts following the species' names.
The FBC conducted in White County, TN, was the 8th consecutively there; the FBBs in Wayne County, KY and in Bledsoe County, TN, were the first ever in those counties. To see a map of the Region highlighting counties where the FBC and the FBBs were conducted, click on the following link:
Loggerhead Shrike was tallied on two of the Regional counts this season, a modestly good sign for this decreasing species.
For greater detail about the results of the Fall Bird Count (FBC) in White County, Tennessee, and the Fall BirdBlitzes (FBB*) in Wayne County, Kentucky, and Bledsoe County, Tennessee or to return to the central node for FBCs or to the BirdPage, click on one of the following links:
Table 1. Results of Fall Bird Count and Fall BirdBlitzes Conducted in the Upper Cumberland Region during 2011.
|
County |
Wayne, KY | Bledsoe, TN | White, TN |
| Type of Count | FBB | FBB | FBC |
| Compiler | RMD | EKL | DAD |
| Date (Sep) | 28 | 24 | 17 |
| Number Field Observers | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| Number of Field Parties | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Party Hours | 30.5 | 41 | 53.75 |
| Party Miles | 276.5 | 395 | 416 |
| Owling Hours | 3.25 | 2.75 | 2.25 |
| Owling Miles | 23 | 27 | 20 |
| Yard/Feederwatching Hrs. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Start CDT | 0600 | 0515 | 0445 |
| End CDT | 1750 | 1800 | 1800 |
| Total Species | 104 | 103 | 108 |
| Canada Goose | 2 | 42 | 262 |
| Wood Duck | -- | 3 | 52 |
| American Black Duck | -- | -- | 1 |
| Mallard | 41 | -- | 27 |
| Blue-winged Teal | -- | -- | 33 |
| Green-winged Teal | -- | -- | 13 |
| Northern Bobwhite | 4 | 6 | 3 |
| Wild Turkey | 26 | 3 | 43 |
| Pied-billed Grebe | -- | -- | 6 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | -- | -- | 8 |
| Great Blue Heron | 10 | 8 | 21 |
| Great Egret | -- | -- | 1 |
| Green Heron | -- | 4 | 10 |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | -- | 1 | -- |
| Black Vulture | 23 | 20 | 88 |
| Turkey Vulture | 123 | 52 | 172 |
| Osprey | 2 | 1 | -- |
| Bald Eagle | 1 | -- | -- |
| Northern Harrier | 1 | -- | -- |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | -- | -- | 1 |
| Cooper's Hawk | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | 3 | 12 | 20 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 3 | 14 | 11 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 6 | 8 | 16 |
| American Kestrel | 21 | 9 | 29 |
| American Coot | 1 | -- | -- |
| Killdeer | 21 | 41 | 80 |
| Spotted Sandpiper | -- | -- | 2 |
| Common Tern | -- | -- | 1 |
| Rock Pigeon | 62 | 103 | 178 |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | 7 | 27 | 4 |
| Mourning Dove | 237 | 143 | 432 |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Barn Owl | 1 | -- | -- |
| Eastern Screech-Owl | 13 | 23 | 16 |
| Great Horned Owl | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| Barred Owl | 8 | 7 | -- |
| Chimney Swift | 10 | 7 | 34 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 5 | 6 | 29 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| Red-headed Woodpecker | 4 | 5 | 23 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 56 | 59 | 60 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 34 | 37 | 35 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 14 | 10 | 10 |
| Northern Flicker | 31 | 16 | 22 |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 25 | 32 | 34 |
| Olive-sided Flycatcher | -- | -- | 1 |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 20 | 21 | 51 |
| Empidonax sp. | 9 | 5 | 10 |
| Eastern Phoebe | 40 | 32 | 45 |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Eastern Kingbird | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Scissor-tailed Flycatcher | -- | 1 | -- |
| Loggerhead Shrike | -- | 1 | 3 |
| White-eyed Vireo | 18 | 17 | 29 |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | 9 | 9 | 11 |
| Blue-headed Vireo | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| Philadelphia Vireo | -- | 1 | -- |
| Red-eyed Vireo | 2 | 3 | 19 |
| Blue Jay | 284 | 277 | 314 |
| American Crow | 234 | 341 | 440 |
| Tree Swallow | 103 | -- | 55 |
| Bank Swallow | 2 | -- | -- |
| Barn Swallow | 3 | 6 | 7 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 137 | 124 | 113 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 119 | 104 | 103 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 63 | 61 | 53 |
| Carolina Wren | 111 | 95 | 116 |
| House Wren | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Marsh Wren | -- | -- | 1 |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Eastern Bluebird | 168 | 143 | 204 |
| Veery | -- | 3 | 1 |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | 2 | 12 | 5 |
| Swainson's Thrush | 44 | 62 | 28 |
| Wood Thrush | 6 | 7 | 5 |
| American Robin | 20 | 135 | 222 |
| Gray Catbird | 16 | 11 | 20 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 53 | 55 | 114 |
| Brown Thrasher | 18 | 15 | 16 |
| European Starling | 1481 | 1343 | 4978 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 10 | 10 | 122 |
| Ovenbird | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| Northern Waterthrush | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Golden-winged Warbler | 2 | 2 | -- |
| Black-and-white Warbler | 15 | 13 | 17 |
| Tennessee Warbler | 34 | 14 | 10 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 21 | 17 | 29 |
| Hooded Warbler | 11 | 6 | 6 |
| American Redstart | 12 | 23 | 29 |
| Northern Parula | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Magnolia Warbler | 38 | 29 | 37 |
| Bay-breasted Warbler | 3 | 1 | -- |
| Blackburnian Warbler | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Yellow Warbler | -- | -- | 2 |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | 9 | 4 | 11 |
| Palm Warbler | 7 | 11 | 8 |
| Pine Warbler | 12 | 7 | 23 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | 2 | -- | 1 |
| Yellow-throated Warbler | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Prairie Warbler | -- | 2 | 7 |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | 15 | 4 | 7 |
| Wilson's Warbler | -- | 1 | -- |
| Eastern Towhee | 36 | 24 | 34 |
| Chipping Sparrow | 166 | 177 | 105 |
| Field Sparrow | 51 | 31 | 27 |
| Savannah Sparrow | 2 | -- | -- |
| Song Sparrow | 25 | 34 | 38 |
| Swamp Sparrow | -- | 1 | -- |
| White-throated Sparrow | 1 | -- | -- |
| White-crowned Sparrow | 1 | -- | -- |
| Summer Tanager | 21 | 11 | 24 |
| Scarlet Tanager | 25 | 28 | 14 |
| Northern Cardinal | 131 | 143 | 101 |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 10 | 18 | 8 |
| Blue Grosbeak | 8 | 14 | 30 |
| Indigo Bunting | 35 | 49 | 68 |
| Bobolink | -- | -- | 1 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 3 | -- | 10 |
| Eastern Meadowlark | 81 | 74 | 41 |
| Common Grackle | 323 | 1 | 2 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 3 | 1 | -- |
| Baltimore Oriole | 1 | -- | 1 |
| House Finch | 33 | 32 | 9 |
| American Goldfinch | 26 | 25 | 81 |
| House Sparrow | 213 | 31 | 77 |
| Total Individuals | 5171 | 4466 | 9833 |
| Total Species | 104 | 103 | 108 |
County |
Wayne, KY | Bledsoe, TN | White, TN |
Key to compilers: RMD = Roseanna M. Denton; DAD = Douglas A. Downs; and EKL = Edmund K. LeGrand.
* A Fall BirdBlitz (FBB) differs from a Fall Bird Count (FBC) only in that the former is not an annually repeated count, while the latter is.
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