Results of Miscellaneous Upper Cumberland Region Christmas Season Bird Counts Conducted in Kentucky

 

Results of the CBCs presented here were obtained from the Mid-Winter Bird Counts published in The Kentucky Warbler.

 

Table 1. Key

Code Initials Compiler Site
1 RLB Robert L. Baldock Summer Shade, Metcalfe Co.
2 BDW Ben & Dan Wesley Science Hill, Pulaski Co.
3 CG Charles Guthrie Burkesville, Cumberland Co.
4 JBE Jackie B. Elmore, Sr. Somerset, Pulaski Co.

 

Table 2. Miscellaneous UCR CBC data in Kentucky.

CBC Site 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4
CBC Season 1936– 1939– 1964– 1965– 1979– 1980– 1982– 1983– 1985– 1989–
1937 1940 1965 1966 1980 1981 1983 1984 1986 1990
   
Date (Dec/Jan) 25 25 29 22 16 4 18 31 1 3
Number Observers ? 2 2 2 2 3 6 3 3 3
Number Party Hours ? 3.5 10 10.5 11 12 23.5 17 9 10
Compiler RLB BDW CG CG JBE JBE JBE JBE JBE JBE
Total Species 30 a 18 41 37 50 b 53 59 52 47 42
   
Canada Goose 25 103
Wood Duck cw
Gadwall 1 10 5 1 1
American Wigeon 4
Northern Pintail 1 1
Mallard 30 10 476 25 45 50 54
American Black Duck 4 234 cw 12 5
Green-winged Teal 1 2
Canvasback 1 cw
Redhead 1
Ring-necked Duck 1 50 1 cw cw
Lesser Scaup 3 2
Bufflehead 2
American Goldeneye 2 1
Hooded Merganser cw 10 cw 8
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Ruddy Duck 1
Northern Bobwhite 6 4 8 14 8
   
CBC Site 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4
CBC Season 1936– 1939– 1964– 1965– 1979– 1980– 1982– 1983– 1985– 1989–
1937 1940 1965 1966 1980 1981 1983 1984 1986 1990
   
Pied-billed Grebe 2 2 7 3 2
Horned Grebe cw
Rock Pigeon 320 152 134 16 200 3
Mourning Dove 20 114 21 57 20 79 120 14 41
American Coot 44 19 cw
Killdeer 2 1 2 35 1 9
Wilson's Snipe 3
Ring-billed Gull 5 1 cw
Herring Gull cw cw cw
Common Loon 1
Double-crested Cormorant 2 cw
Great Blue Heron 1 1 1 cw cw 3 2
Black Vulture 1 26
Turkey Vulture 5 16 2 1 cw cw
Northern Harrier 1 1 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 1 1 2
Cooper's Hawk cw 1
Red-shoulder. Hawk 1 1 1 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2 4 3 4 4 5 3 2
Rough-legged Hawk 1
   
CBC Site 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4
CBC Season 1936– 1939– 1964– 1965– 1979– 1980– 1982– 1983– 1985– 1989–
1937 1940 1965 1966 1980 1981 1983 1984 1986 1990
   
Eastern Screech-Owl 2 3 cw
Great Horned Owl 3 2 2 cw
Barred Owl cw
Belted Kingfisher 2 6 3 2 2
Red-headed Woodpecker 6 cw 2 1 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 7 16 12 1 4 3 4 3 3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 5 2
Downy Woodpecker 4 1 10 5 3 5 11 11 2 5
Hairy Woodpecker 1 1 2
Northern Flicker 3 8 5 1 1 9 1 5 3
Pileated Woodpecker 2 4 2 cw 1 3 5
American Kestrel 1 9 10 19 10 19 21 5 6
Eastern Phoebe 1
Loggerhead Shrike 2
Blue Jay 5 2 5 41 36 4 23 13 9 28
American Crow 27 15 81 14 333 35 116 88 17 9
Carolina Chickadee 11 9 16 32 18 17 35 42 11 11
Tufted Titmouse 18 15 22 8 8 8 20 11 14 13
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 4 1 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 5 2 1 2 4 8 5 2 2
Brown Creeper 3 1 3 2
Winter Wren 1 1 3 3 1
Carolina Wren 3 6 13 11 1 4 13 12 4 7
Bewick's Wren 1 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 7 2 15 18 4 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4
   
CBC Site 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4
CBC Season 1936– 1939– 1964– 1965– 1979– 1980– 1982– 1983– 1985– 1989–
1937 1940 1965 1966 1980 1981 1983 1984 1986 1990
   
Eastern Bluebird 3 22 17 8 12 6 4 10
Hermit Thrush 2 5
American Robin 32 13 51 30 1 12
Northern Mockingbird 2 4 9 8 23 9 16 15 7 3
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 50 137 5 1500000 600000 707 50460 52000 3022
Cedar Waxwing cw 3 38 15
House Sparrow 25 62 15 220 40 67 36 10 20
American Pipit 2
Evening Grosbeak 3
House Finch 4 94 42 72 50 165
Purple Finch 9 7 25 5
American Goldfinch 3 5 31 72 81 32 39 7 29
Eastern Towhee 2 6 1 1 6 5 1
American Tree Sparrow 12 2 1 2
   
CBC Site 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4
CBC Season 1936– 1939– 1964– 1965– 1979– 1980– 1982– 1983– 1985– 1989–
1937 1940 1965 1966 1980 1981 1983 1984 1986 1990
   
Field Sparrow 5 cw 2 8 12 50 50 47
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 18 10 18 3 24 29 27 20 8
Swamp Sparrow 3 17 1 2 3 1
White-throated Sparrow 14 9 13 6 48 25 16 2
White-crowned Sparrow 12 4 12 2 19 23
Dark-eyed Junco 43 80 33 51 16 89 10 152 35 9
Eastern Meadowlark 100 31 14 28 27 72 16 2 cw
Baltimore Oriole 1
Red-winged Blackbird 3000 70000 1 3000 5000
Rusty Blackbird 2000 5000 20 1000 1000
Brown-headed Cowbird 2000 50000 52 3000 2000
Common Grackle 6 1500000 775000 1116 150000 100000 2001
Yellow-rumped Warbler 4 4 14 2 1 12 4 21
Northern Cardinal 5 11 59 42 8 28 33 64 13 11
   
Total Individuals 284 312 853 447 3000999 1501568 2944 208513 160636 5641
Total Species 30 a 18 41 37 50 b 53 59 52 47 42
   
CBC Site 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4
CBC Season 1936– 1939– 1964– 1965– 1979– 1980– 1982– 1983– 1985– 1989–
1937 1940 1965 1966 1980 1981 1983 1984 1986 1990

   a One Broad-winged Hawk was also reported on the December 25, 1936, Summer Shade CBC (KW 13 [1]: 3).

    b The 17 Swamp Sparrows on this list may actually have been 17 Song Sparrows, not listed but more likely to have been present in that density (KW  56 [1]: 3–13).

 

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