Results of Spring Bird Counts Conducted in the Upper Cumberland Region of Kentucky and Tennessee—April and May 2005
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| Female Blue Grosbeak in DeKalb Co., TN, April 2005; photo Carol D. Williams. |
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| County | Van Buren, TN | White, TN | Putnam, TN | Pulaski, KY |
| Date (April/May) | 30 | 7 | 14 | 14 |
| Number Field Observers * | 4 | 6 | 16 | 8 |
| Number Field Parties | 2 | 3 | 8–9 | 5 |
| Number Feederwatchers | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Start CDT/EDT | 0500 | 0330 | 0345 | 0600 |
| End CDT/EDT | 1900 | 1930 | 1945 | 2100 |
| Hours on Foot | 7.5 | 6.5 | 23.25 | 15.25 |
| Hours by Car | 16 | 29 | 64 | 29.25 |
| Total Party Hours | 23.5 | 35.5 | 87.25 | 44.5 |
| Miles on Foot | 6.25 | 4 | 14.25 | 5.5 |
| Miles by Car | 209 | 309 | 571 | 355 |
| Total Party Miles | 215.25 | 313 | 585.25 | 360.5 |
| Owling Hours | 1 | 2.5 | 4 | 0.75 |
| Owling Miles | 12 | 40 | 66 | 12.25 |
| Feeder-watching Hours | 0 | 0 | 2.5 | 1 |
| Low Temperature (F) | 55 | 45 | 59 | 58 |
| High Temperature (F) | 60 | 78 | 81 | 82 |
| Wind Direction | Var. | ? | W | ? |
| Wind Speed (mph) | 0–15 | 0–10 | 0–25 | 0–30 |
| Sky AM | Cloudy | Clear | Mostly Clear | Partly Cloudy |
| Sky PM | Cloudy | Partly Cloudy | Mostly Cloudy | Mostly Cloudy |
| Precipitation AM | Drizzle | None | None | None |
| Precipitation PM | Drizzle | None | Heavy Rain (1.5 hrs.) | Rain 1500 EDT–dark |
| Compiler * | SJS | DAD | SJS | CGH |
| Total Species | 114 | 134 | 127 | 107 |
| County | Van Buren, TN | White, TN | Putnam, TN | Pulaski, KY |
| Brant | -- | 1 | -- | 1 |
| Canada Goose | 12 | 145 | 131 | 39 |
| Wood Duck | 7 | 25 | 22 | 13 |
| Mallard | -- | 9 | 14 | 38 |
| Blue-winged Teal | 5 | 2 | -- | -- |
| Hooded Merganser | -- | 2 | -- | -- |
| Northern Bobwhite | -- | 16 | 15 | 17 |
| Ruffed Grouse | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Wild Turkey | 11 | 9 | 14 | 7 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | -- | -- | 2 | 3 |
| Great Blue Heron | 5 | 13 | 15 | 14 |
| Great Egret | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Green Heron | 3 | 10 | 6 | -- |
| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Black Vulture | 4 | 24 | 27 | 13 |
| Turkey Vulture | 80 | 60 | 111 | 64 |
| Osprey | 1 | 2 | 1 | -- |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 1 | 2 | 1 | -- |
| Cooper's Hawk | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Accipiter sp. | -- | -- | 2 | -- |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | -- | 14 | 10 | 1 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 3 | 15 | 16 | 5 |
| County | Van Buren, TN | White, TN | Putnam, TN | Pulaski, KY |
| Sora | 2 | 2 | -- | -- |
| American Coot | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Semipalmated Plover | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Killdeer | 4 | 60 | 73 | 18 |
| Spotted Sandpiper | 6 | 9 | 10 | 2 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 13 | 19 | 3 | 2 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | -- | 11 | -- | -- |
| Least Sandpiper | -- | 4 | 8 | 11 |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | 1 | 1 | -- | -- |
| Stilt Sandpiper | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Dowitcher sp. | -- | -- | 2 | -- |
| American Woodcock | -- | 3 | 2 | -- |
| Rock Pigeon | 15 | 54 | 48 | 7 |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | -- | 4 | 1 | -- |
| Mourning Dove | 38 | 143 | 363 | 118 |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | -- | 1 | 14 | 6 |
| Barn Owl | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Eastern Screech-Owl | -- | 1 | 2 | -- |
| Barred Owl | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Common Nighthawk | -- | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Chuck-will's-widow | -- | 2 | 12 | 3 |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will | 1 | -- | 7 | 1 |
| County | Van Buren, TN | White, TN | Putnam, TN | Pulaski, KY |
| Chimney Swift | 235 | 51 | 193 | 194 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 1 | 4 | 8 | 6 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 1 | 6 | 8 | 1 |
| Red-headed Woodpecker | -- | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 9 | 42 | 85 | 13 |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Downy Woodpecker | 9 | 10 | 27 | 5 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| Northern Flicker | 2 | 13 | 30 | 9 |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 19 | 21 | 33 | 8 |
| American Kestrel | 5 | 12 | 16 | 2 |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 6 | 33 | 82 | 16 |
| Acadian Flycatcher | -- | 7 | 65 | 1 |
| Empidonax sp. | -- | -- | 2 | -- |
| Eastern Phoebe | 12 | 47 | 86 | 37 |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 26 | 24 | 54 | 21 |
| Eastern Kingbird | 11 | 118 | 91 | 33 |
| Loggerhead Shrike | -- | 1 | 2 | -- |
| White-eyed Vireo | 13 | 72 | 96 | 31 |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | 23 | 13 | 32 | 11 |
| Blue-headed Vireo | 8 | 4 | 12 | 5 |
| Warbling Vireo | -- | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Red-eyed Vireo | 81 | 213 | 483 | 69 |
| County | Van Buren, TN | White, TN | Putnam, TN | Pulaski, KY |
| Blue Jay | 36 | 242 | 197 | 66 |
| American Crow | 72 | 155 | 314 | 54 |
| Horned Lark | -- | 1 | 2 | -- |
| Purple Martin | 27 | 131 | 107 | 10 |
| Tree Swallow | 75 | 24 | 34 | 20 |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 8 | 36 | 63 | 29 |
| Bank Swallow | 8 | -- | 1 | 6 |
| Cliff Swallow | 12 | 3 | 16 | 2 |
| Barn Swallow | 176 | 289 | 285 | 113 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 45 | 55 | 109 | 49 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 49 | 102 | 160 | 42 |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 15 | 14 | 26 | 12 |
| Brown-headed Nuthatch | -- | -- | 4 | -- |
| House Wren | 2 | 37 | 65 | 10 |
| Sedge Wren | 1 | 1 | -- | -- |
| Carolina Wren | 30 | 123 | 288 | 40 |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 44 | 48 | 132 | 50 |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 10 | -- | -- | -- |
| Eastern Bluebird | 27 | 192 | 265 | 80 |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | 3 | -- | 1 | -- |
| Swainson's Thrush | 1 | 3 | 12 | 1 |
| Hermit Thrush | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Wood Thrush | 15 | 38 | 118 | 32 |
| American Robin | 45 | 198 | 455 | 277 |
| Gray Catbird | 3 | 9 | 19 | 10 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 9 | 125 | 146 | 37 |
| Brown Thrasher | 3 | 45 | 73 | 13 |
| European Starling | 35 | 400 | 1189 | 291 |
| Cedar Waxwing | -- | 1 | 118 | -- |
| County | Van Buren, TN | White, TN | Putnam, TN | Pulaski, KY |
| Ovenbird | 25 | 33 | 149 | 26 |
| Worm-eating Warbler | 1 | 10 | 35 | 24 |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | 2 | 6 | 21 | 8 |
| Northern Waterthrush | -- | 5 | -- | -- |
| Golden-winged Warbler | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Blue-winged Warbler | 1 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
| Black-and-white Warbler | 31 | 30 | 47 | 21 |
| Prothonotary Warbler | -- | 2 | -- | 2 |
| Tennessee Warbler | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Nashville Warbler | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Kentucky Warbler | 4 | 14 | 87 | 10 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 17 | 169 | 237 | 62 |
| Hooded Warbler | 33 | 17 | 131 | 72 |
| American Redstart | -- | 1 | 19 | 3 |
| Cape May Warbler | -- | 3 | 1 | -- |
| Cerulean Warbler | -- | 1 | 35 | 1 |
| Northern Parula | 4 | 16 | 28 | 14 |
| Magnolia Warbler | 1 | -- | 1 | -- |
| Bay-breasted Warbler | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Blackburnian Warbler | 4 | -- | -- | 2 |
| Yellow Warbler | 2 | 22 | 23 | 4 |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | 3 | 3 | 2 | -- |
| Blackpoll Warbler | 7 | 5 | 3 | -- |
| Palm Warbler | 7 | 2 | 1 | -- |
| Pine Warbler | 28 | 8 | 18 | 5 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | 32 | 4 | 1 | -- |
| Yellow-throated Warbler | 26 | 18 | 29 | 4 |
| Prairie Warbler | 19 | 30 | 37 | 34 |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | 25 | 3 | 12 | 22 |
| Yellow-breasted Chat | 13 | 44 | 100 | 30 |
| County | Van Buren, TN | White, TN | Putnam, TN | Pulaski, KY |
| Eastern Towhee | 16 | 97 | 190 | 39 |
| Chipping Sparrow | 60 | 167 | 270 | 56 |
| Field Sparrow | 10 | 149 | 174 | 28 |
| Savannah Sparrow | 1 | 1 | 1 | -- |
| Grasshopper Sparrow | -- | 9 | 6 | 1 |
| Song Sparrow | 19 | 206 | 304 | 43 |
| Lincoln's Sparrow | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Swamp Sparrow | 1 | 8 | -- | -- |
| White-throated Sparrow | 5 | 5 | -- | -- |
| White-crowned Sparrow | -- | 3 | -- | -- |
| Summer Tanager | 7 | 70 | 71 | 15 |
| Scarlet Tanager | 18 | 46 | 57 | 10 |
| Northern Cardinal | 44 | 234 | 494 | 138 |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
| Blue Grosbeak | 5 | 86 | 26 | 9 |
| Indigo Bunting | 26 | 346 | 600 | 81 |
| Dickcissel | -- | -- | 3 | -- |
| Bobolink | 3 | 5 | 3 | -- |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 45 | 316 | 668 | 121 |
| Eastern Meadowlark | 27 | 251 | 273 | 81 |
| Common Grackle | 19 | 231 | 176 | 144 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 8 | 104 | 272 | 54 |
| Orchard Oriole | 3 | 81 | 51 | 4 |
| Baltimore Oriole | 2 | 11 | 3 | 5 |
| House Finch | 4 | 14 | 49 | 19 |
| American Goldfinch | 36 | 93 | 125 | 53 |
| House Sparrow | 12 | 109 | 153 | 71 |
| Total Individuals | 2094 | 6755 | 11569 | 3425 |
| Total Species | 114 | 134 | 127 | 107 |
| County | Van Buren, TN | White, TN | Putnam, TN | Pulaski, KY |
* Observers on the Van Buren Co., TN, Spring BirdBlitz:
| Douglas A. Downs |
| Edmund K. LeGrand |
| Michael P. O'Rourke |
| Stephen J. Stedman, compiler |
* Observers on the White County, TN, Spring Bird Count:
| Douglas A. Downs, compiler |
| Joseph E. Mast |
| Michael P. O'Rourke |
| Thomas Saya |
| Barbara H. Stedman |
| Stephen J. Stedman |
* Observers on the Putnam County, TN, Spring Bird Count:
| Kris Bolin |
| Daniel L. Combs |
| Douglas A. Downs |
| Bettie Doyle |
| Ginger K. Ensor |
| Judy C. Fuson |
| Michael J. Hawkins |
| Nancy S. Layzer |
| Joseph E. Mast |
| Kenneth L. Morgan |
| Michael P. O'Rourke |
| Richard W. Simmers, Jr. |
| Barbara H. Stedman |
| Stephen J. Stedman, compiler |
| Catherine E. Walden |
| Winston A. Walden |
| Carol D. Williams |
* Observers on the Pulaski County, KY, Spring Bird Count:
| Judy Brant |
| Jo Ann Digby |
| Jennifer Dutton |
| C. Gay Hodges, compiler |
| Susan Huffman |
| Laura Kamperman |
| Rhonda Bryant |
| Scott Marsh |
| Laura Obiso |
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