Information about Christmas
Bird Counts, Mainly in the Upper Cumberland Region—Central Node
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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:
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- Summary of CBCs in UCR during 2019–2020 Season
- Summary of CBCs in UCR during 2018–2019 Season
- Summary of CBCs in UCR during 2017–2018 Season
- Summary of CBCs in UCR during 2016–2017 Season
- Summary of CBCs in UCR during 2015–2016 Season
- Summary of CBCs in UCR during 2014–2015 Season
- Summary of CBCs in UCR during 2013–2014 Season
- Summary of CBCs in UCR during 2012–2013 Season
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Summary of CBCs in UCR during 2011–2012 Season
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Summary of CBCs in UCR during
2010–2011 Season
- Summary
of CBCs in UCR during 2009–2010 Season
- Summary
of CBCs in UCR during 2008–2009 Season
- Summary
of CBCs in UCR during 2007–2008 Season
- Summary
of CBCs in UCR during 2006–2007 Season
- Summary
of CBCs in UCR during 2005–2006 Season
- Summary
of CBCs in UCR during 2004–2005 Season
- Summary
of CBCs in UCR during 2003–2004 Season
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- Barren River Lake CBC (Allen, Barren, and Warren Cos., KY), 2017-present
- Glasgow CBC (Barren Co., KY),
1936–2012, 2017–present
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Russell–Adair
Co. CBC (KY), 2006–present
- Somerset
CBC (Pulaski Co., KY), 1996–present
- Wayne
Co. CBC (KY), 2002–present
- Miscellaneous
UCR CBCs in Kentucky
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- Bledsoe Co. Christmas
BirdBlitz,
2008
- Clay Co.
CBC (TN), 1999–2012
- Cookeville
CBC (Putnam and White Cos., TN), 1957–2016
- Crossville
CBC (Cumberland Co., TN), 2006–present
- DeKalb
Co. CBC (TN), 2003–2015
- Fentress/Morgan Christmas
BirdBlitz, 2009
- Pickett Co. CBC (TN),
1978–2001 (intermittent)
- Warren Co.
CBC (TN), 1980–present (intermittent)
- White Co. CBC (TN),
2004–present
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- Cumulative
Species
List for All UCR CBCs
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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:
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- December 14—White, TN (xx species)
- December 15
- December 16
- December 17—Glasgow, KY (71 species)
- December 18
- December 19—Barren River Lake, KY (86 species)
- December 20
- December 21—Crossville, TN (78 species); Russell-Adair, KY (89 species)
- December 22
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29
- December 30
- December 31
- January 1—Somerset, KY (75 species)
- January 2
- January 3
- January 4—Wayne County, KY (79 species)
- January 5
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Here is the schedule of Christmas
Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the
2018–2019 (119th) CBC season in the
Upper Cumberland Region:
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- December 14
- December 15—White, TN (85 species)
- December 16
- December 17—Barren River Lake, KY (81 species)
- December 18—Glasgow, KY (61 species)
- December 19
- December 20
- December 21
- December 22—Crossville, TN (81 species)
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29—Russell-Adair, KY (91 species)
- December 30
- December 31
- January 1—Somerset, KY (77 species)
- January 2—Warren County, TN (68 species)
- January 3
- January 4
- January 5—Wayne County, KY (86 species)
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Here is the schedule of Christmas
Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the
2017–2018 (118th) CBC season in the
Upper Cumberland Region:
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- December 14
- December 15
- December 16
- December 18—Russell-Adair Co., KY (90 species);
- White County, TN (88 species)
- December 17
- December 18
- December 19
- December 20
- December 21—Barren River Lake, KY (92 species)
- December 22
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29
- December 30
- December 31
- January 1—Somerset, KY (80 species);
- Glasgow, KY (66 species)
- January 2
- January 3—Warren County, TN (85 species)
- January 4
- January 5—Wayne County, KY (87 species)
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Here is the schedule of Christmas
Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the
2016–2017 (117th) CBC season in the
Upper Cumberland Region:
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- December 14—Cookeville,
TN (89 species)
- December 15
- December 16—Russell-Adair, KY (88 species)
- December 17—White County, TN (82 species)
- December 18
- December 19
- December 20—Crossville, TN (92 species)
- December 21
- December 22
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29
- December 30—Warren County, TN (74 species)
- December 31—Somerset, KY (82 species)
- January 1
- January 2
- January 3
- January 4—Wayne County, KY (78 species)
- January 5
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Here is the schedule of Christmas
Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the
2015–2016 (116th) CBC season in the
Upper Cumberland Region:
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- December 14—Cookeville,
TN (87 species)
- December 15
- December 16—Russell-Adair, KY (79 species)
- December 17—DeKalb County, TN (87 species)
- December 18
- December 19
- December 20—White County, TN (83 species)
- December 21
- December 22—Crossville, TN (86 species)
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29
- December 30
- December 31
- January 1—Somerset, KY (79 species)
- January 2—Warren County, TN (74 species)
- January 3
- January 4—Wayne County, KY (77 species)
- January 5
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Here is the schedule of Christmas
Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the
2014–2015 (115th) CBC season in the
Upper Cumberland Region:
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- December 14—Cookeville,
TN (86 species)
- December 15
- December 16—Russell-Adair, KY (68 species)
- December 17
- December 18—Wayne County, KY (73 species);
- DeKalb County, TN (84 species)
- December 19
- December 20—White County, TN (83 species)
- December 21
- December 22
- December 23—Crossville, TN (82 species)
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29
- December 30
- December 31
- January 1—Somerset, KY (86 species)
- January 2
- January 3—Warren County, TN (73 species)
- January 4
- January 5
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Here is the schedule of Christmas
Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the
2013–2014 (114th) CBC season in the
Upper Cumberland Region:
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- December 14—Cookeville,
TN (84 species)
- December 15
- December 16—Russell-Adair,
KY (80 species)
- December 17—Wayne County,
KY (84 species)
- December 18
- December 19—DeKalb County,
TN (91 species)
- December 20
- December 21—White County,
TN (83 species)
- December 22
- December 23—Crossville, TN (88 species)
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29
- December 30
- December 31
- January 1—Somerset,
KY (88 species)
- January 2
- January 3—Warren
County, TN (87 species)
- January 4
- January 5
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Here is the schedule of Christmas
Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the
2012–2013
(113th) CBC season in the
Upper Cumberland Region:
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- December 14
- December 15—Cookeville,
TN (85 species)
- December 16
- December 17—Russell-Adair,
KY (73 species)
- December 18—White County, TN (84 species)
- December 19
- December 20—DeKalb
County, TN (85 species)
- December 21
- December 22—Crossville,
TN (89 species)
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29
- December 30—Glasgow,
KY (79 species)
- December 31
- January 1—Somerset,
KY (76 species)
- January 2
- January 3—Clay
County, TN (73 species)
- January 4—Warren
County, TN (76 species)
- January 5—Wayne
County, KY (86 species)
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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:
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- December 14—Russell-Adair,
KY (82 species)
- December 15—Clay
County, TN (83 species)
- December 16
- December 17—Cookeville,
TN (84 species)
- December 18
- December 19—White
County, TN (83 species)
- December 20
- December 21—Crossville,
TN (88 species)
- December 22
- December 23—DeKalb
County, TN (82 species)
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29
- December 30
- December 31—Somerset,
KY (78 species)
- January 1
- January 2—Glasgow,
KY (53 species)
- January 3
- January 4
- January 5—Wayne
County, KY (76 species)
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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:
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- December 14—Russell–Adair, KY (82 species)
- December 15
- December 16—Wayne
County, KY (77 species)
- December 17
- December 18—Cookeville, TN
(96 species)
- December 19
- December 20—DeKalb
County, TN
(82 species)
- December 21
- December 22
- December 23—Crossville, TN
(90 species)
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27
- December 28—White
County, TN
(87 species)
- December 29—Clay
County, TN
(74 species)
- December 30
- December 31—Glasgow,
KY
(80 species)
- January 1—Somerset,
KY
(75 species)
- January 2
- January 3
- January 4—Warren County, TN (74
species)
- January 5
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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:
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- December 14—Russell–Adair,
KY (77 species)
- December 15
- December 16—Clay County, TN
(85 species)
- December 17—Wayne County, KY
(83 species)
- December 18
- December 19—Cookeville, TN
(91 species)
- December 20
- December 21—White County, TN
(90 species)
- December 22
- December 23—Crossville, TN
(90 species)
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26—DeKalb County, TN
(79 species)
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29—Fentress/Morgan, TN (69 species) *
- December 30
- December 31
- January 1—Somerset, KY
(83 species)
- January 2
- January 3—Glasgow, KY
(77 species)
- January 4—Warren County, TN
(62 species)
- January 5
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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:
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- December 14
- December 15—Clay County, TN (74
species)
- December 16
- December 17—Crossville, TN (82
species);
- Russell–Adair, KY (70 species)
- December 18—Wayne County, KY (86
species)
- December 19
- December 20—Cookeville, TN (91
species)
- December 21
- December 22—White County, TN (86
species)
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27—DeKalb County, TN
(85 species)
- December 28
- December 29—Bledsoe County,
TN (77
species)*
- December 30—Glasgow, KY (56
species)
- December 31
- January 1—Somerset, KY (84
species)
- January 2
- January 3—Warren County, TN (78
species)
- January 4
- January 5
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Here is the schedule
of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the 2007–2008 (108th) CBC season in the
Upper Cumberland Region:
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- December 14—Russell–Adair, KY
(72 species)
- December 15—Cookeville, TN (88
species)
- December 16
- December 17
- December 18—Clay County, TN (85
species)
- December 19
- December 20—White County, TN (83
species)
- December 21
- December 22—Crossville, TN (92
species)
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27—DeKalb County, TN
(74 species)
- December 28
- December 29—Somerset, KY (77
species);
- Glasgow, KY (62 species)
- December 30
- December 31
- January 1
- January 2
- January 3—Wayne County, KY (77
species)
- January 4
- January 5—Warren County, TN (75
species)
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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):
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- December 14—Clay County, TN (83 species)
- December 15
- December 16—Cookeville, TN (83
species)
- December 17
- December 18
- December 19—Wayne County, KY (85
species)
- December 20
- December 21—White County, TN (83
species)
- December 22
- December 23—Crossville, TN (78 species)
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26—DeKalb County, TN
(75 species);
- Russell–Adair, KY (54 species)
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29—Glasgow, KY (50
species)
- December 30—Somerset, KY (78
species)
- December 31
- January 1
- January 2
- January 3
- January 4
- January 5—Warren County, TN (72
species)
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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):
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- December 14—Clay County, TN (82
species)
- December 15
- December 16
- December 17—Cookeville, TN (89
species)
- December 18
- December 19
- December 20—Wayne County, KY (86
species)
- December 21
- December 22—White County, TN (82
species)
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27—DeKalb County, TN
(83 species)
- December 28
- December 29
- December 30—Warren County, TN
(71 species)
- December 31—Somerset, KY (84
species);
- Glasgow, KY (57 species)
- January 1
- January 2
- January 3
- January 4
- January 5
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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):
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- December 14
- December 15
- December 16—Clay County, TN (80
species)
- December 17
- December 18—Cookeville, TN (83
species)
- December 19
- December 20
- December 21—White County, TN (89
species)
- December 22
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27—Wayne County, KY (83
species)
- December 28—DeKalb County, TN
(79
species)
- December 29
- December 30—Warren County, TN
(71 species)
- December 31—Glasgow, KY (70
species)
- January 1—Somerset, KY (79
species)
- January 2
- January 3
- January 4
- January 5
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Here is the schedule
of Christmas Bird Counts (CBCs) conducted during the 2003–2004 (104th) CBC season in the
Upper Cumberland Region:
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- December 14
- December 15
- December 16
- December 17—Wayne Co., KY (74
species)
- December 18—Clay Co., TN (86
species)
- December 19
- December 20—Cookeville, TN (89
species)
- December 21
- December 22
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27—Warren Co., TN (77
species);
- Glasgow, KY (53 species)
- December 28
- December 29
- December 30—DeKalb Co., TN (75
species)
- December 31
- January 1—Somerset, KY (82
species)
- January 2
- January 3
- January 4
- January 5
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*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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