Results of the Glasgow Christmas Bird Counts in Barren County, Kentucky, for CBC Seasons from 1936–1937 to 1942–1943 and from 1955–1956 to 1960–1961
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| American Tree Sparrows were recorded on 15 Glasgow CBCs during its 65-year history; photo David L. Roemer (14 February 2007 in Barren County). |
Results of Glasgow CBCs conducted the the 37th throug the 43rd CBCs and from the 56th through the 61st CBCs are presented below (Table 7). To view results of the Glasgow CBC from other decades, as presented in the Mid-Winter Bird Counts published in The Kentucky Warbler, click on the links below:
Note: Because the data collected during the history of the Glasgow CBC come from a circle 30 miles in diameter instead of the standard 15-mile diameter circle, comparison of the Glasgow CBC data to data from other Regional and continental CBCs is not recommended.
Table 7. Results of the Glasgow CBC from the 1936–1937 (37th) season through the 1942–1943 (43rd) season and from the 1955–1956 (56th) season to the 1960–1961 (61st) season..
| CBC Season | 1936– | 1937– | 1938– | 1939– | 1940– | 1941- | 1942– | 1955– | 1956– | 1957– | 1958– | 1959– | 1960– |
| 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | |
| Date | 23 Dec | 23 Dec | 20 Dec | 24 Dec | 25 Dec | 21 Dec | 27 Dec | 1 Jan | 30 Dec | 15 Dec | 28 Dec | 31 Dec | 26 Dec |
| Number Observers | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 5 | ? | 6 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 5 |
| Number Party Hours | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | 20 | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Total Species | 40 a | 38 | 36 | 39 | 34 b | 34 | 37 | 48 | 54 | 53 | 34c | 55 d | 53 |
| Compiler(s) | RS | RS | RS, PW | RS | RS | FEF | RS | RS | RS | RS | ? | RS | RS |
| Gr. White-fronted Goose | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Snow Goose | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Ross's Goose | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Canada Goose | -- | 40 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Mute Swan | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Tundra Swan | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Wood Duck | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | cw | -- |
| Gadwall | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| American Wigeon | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| American Black Duck | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | cw | -- |
| Mallard | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Blue-winged Teal | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Northern Shoveler | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Northern Pintail | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Green-winged Teal | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Canvasback | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Redhead | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Ring-necked Duck | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Greater Scaup | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Lesser Scaup | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Long-tailed Duck | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Bufflehead | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Common Goldeneye | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Hooded Merganser | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Common Merganser | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Red-breasted Merganser | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Ruddy Duck | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| CBC Season | 1936– | 1937– | 1938– | 1939– | 1940– | 1941- | 1942– | 1955– | 1956– | 1957– | 1958– | 1959– | 1960– |
| 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | |
| Northern Bobwhite | -- | 11 | 1 | 22 | 2 | 26 | -- | 1 | 2 | 6 | -- | 1 | 19 |
| Wild Turkey | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Common Loon | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Pied-billed Grebe | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Horned Grebe | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Double-crested Cormorant | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Great Blue Heron | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Green Heron | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Black Vulture | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | -- | -- | 6 | 16 | 5 | 1 | -- | 11 | 31 |
| Turkey Vulture | 6 | 2 | 12 | 8 | -- | 2 | 9 | 23 | 10 | 1 | -- | 15 | 29 |
| Northern Harrier | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | cw | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Cooper's Hawk | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Bald Eagle | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Adult | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Immature | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Unknown | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 4 | -- |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -- | 3 | -- | 3 | 4 | -- | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Rough-legged Hawk | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 2 | cw |
| Golden Eagle | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Adult | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Immature | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Unknown | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| American Coot | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Sandhill Crane | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Killdeer | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | cw | -- | -- | 6 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Least Sandpiper | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Dunlin | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Wilson's Snipe | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | cw | 1 |
| American Woodcock | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Franklin's Gull | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Bonaparte's Gull | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Ring-billed Gull | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Herring Gull | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| CBC Season | 1936– | 1937– | 1938– | 1939– | 1940– | 1941- | 1942– | 1955– | 1956– | 1957– | 1958– | 1959– | 1960– |
| 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | |
| Rock Pigeon | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Mourning Dove | 1 | 40 | -- | 8 | 1 | 87 | 2 | 174 | 289 | 134 | 4 | 86 | 104 |
| Eastern Screech-Owl | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Great Horned Owl | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | cw | -- |
| Barred Owl | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 2 | 2 | -- | 2 | cw |
| Short-eared Owl | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Rufous Hummingbird | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Belted Kingfisher | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 4 | 2 | -- | cw | 1 |
| Red-headed Woodpecker | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 4 | 2 | 5 | -- | 3 | -- |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 12 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 12 | 19 |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 5 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 17 | 9 | 18 | 29 | 22 | 12 | 32 | 17 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | -- | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Northern Flicker | 15 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 12 | 19 | 21 | 18 | 10 | 25 | 23 |
| Pileated Woodpecker | -- | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
| American Kestrel | 3 | -- | -- | 2 | -- | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | -- | 17 | 8 |
| Eastern Phoebe | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Loggerhead Shrike | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| CBC Season | 1936– | 1937– | 1938– | 1939– | 1940– | 1941- | 1942– | 1955– | 1956– | 1957– | 1958– | 1959– | 1960– |
| 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | |
| Blue Jay | 53 | 30 | 10 | 11 | 25 | 3 | 27 | 26 | 42 | 80 | 10 | 57 | 24 |
| American Crow | 247 | 941 | 213 | 589 | 1106 | 46 | 1138 | 167 | 185 | 134 | 30 | 146 | 93 |
| Horned Lark | 60 | 55 | 3 | 5 | -- | cw | 12 | 55 | 40 | 46 | -- | 3 | 10 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 39 | 56 | 49 | 38 | 48 | 16 | 31 | 30 | 46 | 48 | 21 | 88 | 40 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 35 | 60 | 55 | 42 | 24 | 28 | 21 | 50 | 49 | 52 | 22 | 65 | 18 |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | 1 | 2 | 2 | -- | 2 | cw |
| Brown Creeper | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | 2 | -- |
| Winter Wren | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | -- | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Bewick's Wren | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Carolina Wren | 7 | 21 | 16 | 17 | 15 | 9 | 17 | 36 | 58 | 49 | 13 | 22 | 8 |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | -- | -- | -- | 8 | 2 | -- | 2 | -- | 3 | 1 | -- | 2 | 12 |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Eastern Bluebird | 36 | 21 | 37 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 28 | 56 | 22 | -- | 54 | 1 |
| Hermit Thrush | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 3 | -- | 1 | 1 |
| American Robin | 96 | 14 | 25 | -- | 22 | -- | 58 | 97 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 14 | 103 |
| Gray Catbird | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Brown Thrasher | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Northern Mockingbird | 7 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 30 | 22 | 6 | 28 | 14 |
| European Starling | 216 | 28 | 247 | -- | 7 | cw | 43 | 62 | 403 | 1033 | 24 | 2192 | 1080 |
| American Pipit | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Cedar Waxwing | 88 | -- | -- | -- | 111 | 10 | 6 | 37 | 3 | 73 | -- | 4 | 37 |
| CBC Season | 1936– | 1937– | 1938– | 1939– | 1940– | 1941- | 1942– | 1955– | 1956– | 1957– | 1958– | 1959– | 1960– |
| 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | |
| Lapland Longspur | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Palm Warbler | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Pine Warbler | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | 9 | 27 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 16 | 1 | 7 | 12 |
| Henslow's Sparrow | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| American Tree Sparrow | 89 | 25 | 8 | 51 | 11 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 4 | -- | 3 | 3 |
| Chipping Sparrow | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Field Sparrow | 4 | -- | 8 | 21 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 38 | 5 | 2 | 43 | 12 |
| Fox Sparrow | -- | 10 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 22 | 4 |
| Dark-eyed Junco | 228 | 103 | 173 | 182 | 21 | 33 | 86 | 143 | 238 | 101 | 89 | 90 | 30 |
| White-crowned Sparrow | 1 | 16 | 38 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 98 | 30 | 4 | 34 | 12 |
| White-throated Sparrow | -- | 60 | 69 | 65 | 28 | 3 | 31 | 75 | 182 | 68 | 40 | 90 | 63 |
| Vesper Sparrow | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | cw |
| Savannah Sparrow | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | 1 | 3 |
| Song Sparrow | 50 | 49 | 64 | 29 | 40 | 4 | 29 | 46 | 47 | 67 | 33 | 87 | 37 |
| Swamp Sparrow | 22 | 6 | 27 | 7 | 5 | 3 | -- | 3 | 60 | 12 | -- | 13 | 4 |
| Eastern Towhee | 18 | 37 | 21 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 24 | 22 | 32 | 23 | 15 | 45 | 17 |
| Northern Cardinal | 24 | 49 | 39 | 41 | 59 | 40 | 30 | 47 | 176 | 86 | 73 | 72 | 103 |
| CBC Season | 1936– | 1937– | 1938– | 1939– | 1940– | 1941- | 1942– | 1955– | 1956– | 1957– | 1958– | 1959– | 1960– |
| 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | |
| Red-winged Blackbird | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | cw | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Eastern Meadowlark | -- | 42 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 8 | 13 | 112 | 25 | 51 | 98 | 8 |
| Rusty Blackbird | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Brewer's Blackbird | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Common Grackle | 19 | 5 | -- | -- | 6 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 28 | -- | 9 | 15 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 14 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | cw | -- | 6 | -- | 20 | 4 |
| House Finch | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Purple Finch | 5 | 39 | 14 | 13 | 23 | cw | 6 | 5 | 5 | 53 | 7 | 15 | 16 |
| Pine Siskin | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 |
| American Goldfinch | 51 | 29 | 34 | 46 | 6 | 17 | 14 | 107 | 194 | 67 | 12 | 71 | 19 |
| Evening Grosbeak | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| House Sparrow | -- | -- | 12 | 27 | 7 | cw | 26 | 93 | 103 | 71 | 35 | 60 | 53 |
| Total Individuals | 1478 | 1895 | 1244 | 1291 | 1574 | 431 | 1703 | 1371 | 2690 | 2492 | 550 | 3686 | 2099 |
| Total Species | 40 a | 38 | 36 | 39 | 34 b | 34 | 37 | 48 | 54 | 53 | 34c | 55 d | 53 |
| CBC Season | 1936– | 1937– | 1938– | 1939– | 1940– | 1941- | 1942– | 1955– | 1956– | 1957– | 1958– | 1959– | 1960– |
| 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 |
a Seven Rose-breasted Grosbeaks were also reported during the December 23, 1936, Glasgow CBC (KW 13 [1]: 2–6); see Palmer-Ball 2003.
b Two Glasgow CBCs were conducted during the 1940–1941 CBC season, one on December 22 and one on December 25 (KW 12 [1]: 4–7); only data from the second of these counts are presented in the table.
c One Grasshopper Sparrow was was reported during the December 28, 1958, Glasgow CBC (KW 35 [1]: 3–11).
d Fourteen Rose-breasted Grosbeaks were also reported during the December 31, 1959, Glasgow CBC (KW 36 [1]: 9–16); see Palmer-Ball 2003.
Russell Starr (RS) compiled the Glasgow CBC for many seasons within this period; Paul Wininger (PW) assisted Starr during one season; and F. Everett Frei (FEF) compiled one of the Glasgow CBCs listed above for the early 1940s.
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