Results of Spring Bird Counts Conducted in the Upper Cumberland Region of Kentucky and Tennessee—April and May 2007
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| A female Yellow-bellied Sapsucker photographed at Cane Creek Park, Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee during Nature Fest 21 April 2007; photo DJ Stanley. |
During the six Regional Spring Bird Counts (SBC) and Spring BirdBlitzes conducted this spring, 158 species of birds were detected, more than half of the all-time species total for the Region and exactly the same number of species as was detected on counts during spring 2006. These six counts constitute the best spring counting effort ever in the Region, and they provide assurance that the species reported on them are maintaining a presence in the Region, some as permanent residents, some as summer residents, some as late-departing winter residents, and some as transients. We also obtain a fairly good indication of the approximate population level of many species from the data consequent to spring counts, and, because we can compare numbers counted for each species from year to year at some sites where SBCs have been ongoing for a number of years, we can also obtain a rough idea about the population trends for the more common species found Regionally.
To go to the BirdPage, to the SBC Central Node, or to complete SBC results for one of the sites below, click on one of the following links:
To see a map (Figure 1) depicting the location of counties in which a SBC or SBB was conducted, click on the link below:
| County | Smith, TN | Cumber- land, TN |
Cumber- land, KY |
Pulaski, KY | Putnam, TN | White, TN |
| Date (April/May) | 28 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 19 |
| Number Field Observers * | 7 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 4 |
| Number Field Parties | 3 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 2 |
| Number Feederwatchers | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Start CDT/EDT | 0430 | 0430 | 0444 | 0550 | 0350 | 0415 |
| End CDT/EDT | 1830 | 1930 | 1906 | 2000 | 2000 | 2015 |
| Hours on Foot | 1.75 | 7 | 6.5 | 18.5 | 12.25 | 2.5 |
| Hours by Car | 33.5 | 34.25 | 26.5 | 38 | 64.5 | 23 |
| Total Party Hours | 35.25 | 41.25 | 33 | 56.5 | 76.75 | 25.5 |
| Miles on Foot | 1 | 8 | 4 | 7.5 | 12 | 2 |
| Miles by Car | 282 | 321 | 261.5 | 328 | 595 | 316 |
| Total Party Miles | 283 | 329 | 265.5 | 335.5 | 607 | 318 |
| Owling Hours | 1.5 | 2 | 0.5 | 3 | 4.25 | 1 |
| Owling Miles | 18 | 13 | 5 | 30 | 71 | 25 |
| Feeder-watching Hours | 3.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5.75 | 0 |
| Low Temperature (F) | 49 | 55 | 64 | 64 | 62 | 39 |
| High Temperature (F) | 76 | 86 | 68 | 88 | 87 | 75 |
| Wind Speed (mph) | 0-15 | 0-7.5 | 0-5 | 0-5 | 0-7.5 | 0-5 |
| Sky AM | Overcast | Clear | Over- cast |
Fog; mostly cloudy | Fog; partly cloudy | Clear |
| Sky PM | Mostly clear | Clear | Partly cloudy | Mostly sunny | Mostly sunny | Clear |
| Precipitation AM | Light rain | None | Hard rain | None | None | None |
| Precipitation PM | None | None | None | None | None |
None |
| Compiler * | SJS | JEM | SJS | RMD | SJS | DAD |
| Total Species | 120 | 128 | 113 | 131 | 137 | 113 |
| County | Smith, TN | Cumber- land, TN |
Cumber- land, KY |
Pulaski, KY | Putnam, TN | White, TN |
| Canada Goose | 21 | 49 | 6 | 24 | 140 | 102 |
| Wood Duck | -- | 15 | -- | 14 | 28 | 23 |
| Mallard | 2 | 11 | 2 | 25 | 20 | 12 |
| Blue-winged Teal | 7 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Redhead | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Hooded Merganser | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| merganser sp. | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Northern Bobwhite | 4 | 27 | 12 | 11 | 17 | 12 |
| Wild Turkey | 22 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 6 |
| Common Loon | -- | 5 | 1 | -- | 1 | -- |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 25 | -- | 1 | -- | 2 | -- |
| Great Blue Heron | 23 | 5 | 5 | 14 | 23 | 8 |
| Great Egret | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Cattle Egret | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Green Heron | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 7 |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Black Vulture | 40 | -- | 2 | 16 | 22 | 10 |
| Turkey Vulture | 93 | 30 | 54 | 71 | 85 | 64 |
| Osprey | 4 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | 2 | 1 |
| Cooper's Hawk | 2 | -- | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Accipiter sp. | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 1 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 16 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 6 |
| Buteo sp. | -- | -- | -- | ---- | 1 | 2 |
| County | Smith, TN | Cumber- land, TN |
Cumber- land, KY |
Pulaski, KY | Putnam, TN | White, TN |
| American Coot | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Semipalmated Plover | -- | -- | -- | 40 | -- | 1 |
| Killdeer | 29 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 57 | 27 |
| Spotted Sandpiper | -- | 4 | 3 | 13 | 5 | 9 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 9 | 23 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 1 | -- | -- | 6 | -- | -- |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | 1 | -- | -- | 11 | -- | 1 |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | -- | -- | -- | 10 | -- | 2 |
| Western Sandpiper | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Least Sandpiper | -- | 109 | 1 | 6 | ||
| Peep sp. | -- | 5 | -- | -- | 2 | -- |
| Dunlin | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | -- | -- | -- | 21 | -- | -- |
| American Woodcock | -- | 2 | -- | 1 | 1 | -- |
| Rock Pigeon | 25 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 29 | 32 |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | 1 |
| Mourning Dove | 130 | 59 | 127 | 119 | 358 | 109 |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 1 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 9 | 1 |
| Barn Owl | -- | 2 | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Eastern Screech-Owl | 5 | 2 | -- | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Great Horned Owl | 2 | 1 | -- | -- | 3 | 3 |
| Barred Owl | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| Common Nighthawk | -- | 2 | -- | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| Chuck-will's-widow | -- | 6 | -- | 8 | 5 | 2 |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 2 |
| County | Smith, TN | Cumber- land, TN |
Cumber- land, KY |
Pulaski, KY | Putnam, TN | White, TN |
| Chimney Swift | 36 | 8 | 39 | 13 | 128 | 35 |
| Ruby-thr. Hummingbird | 20 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 51 | 7 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 |
| Red-headed Woodpecker | 7 | 26 | -- | 9 | 12 | 4 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 32 | 43 | 27 | 35 | 72 | 24 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 19 | 14 | 6 | 11 | 46 | 9 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 10 | -- |
| Northern Flicker | 17 | 10 | 5 | 21 | 26 | 5 |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 19 | 12 | 11 | 22 | 38 | 7 |
| American Kestrel | 6 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 10 |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 1 | 20 | 36 | 47 | 99 | 31 |
| Acadian Flycatcher | 1 | 4 | 15 | 19 | 67 | 20 |
| Willow Flycatcher | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- |
| Eastern Phoebe | 62 | 22 | 47 | 28 | 99 | 30 |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 17 | 21 | 17 | 26 | 51 | 18 |
| Eastern Kingbird | 77 | 19 | 24 | 43 | 94 | 35 |
| Loggerhead Shrike | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| White-eyed Vireo | 197 | 32 | 125 | 49 | 250 | 40 |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | 19 | 21 | 14 | 11 | 32 | 15 |
| Blue-headed Vireo | -- | 11 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Warbling Vireo | 1 | 1 | -- | 1 | 2 | -- |
| Red-eyed Vireo | 105 | 183 | 93 | 114 | 625 | 142 |
| Blue Jay | 102 | 85 | 33 | 69 | 269 | 31 |
| American Crow | 166 | 101 | 110 | 74 | 355 | 121 |
| County | Smith, TN | Cumber- land, TN |
Cumber- land, KY |
Pulaski, KY | Putnam, TN | White, TN |
| Horned Lark | 2 | 3 | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Purple Martin | 116 | 44 | 66 | 58 | 104 | 113 |
| Tree Swallow | 26 | 27 | 10 | 11 | 32 | 8 |
| N. Rough-winged Swallow | 36 | 34 | 12 | 24 | 71 | 23 |
| Bank Swallow | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- |
| Cliff Swallow | 192 | -- | 52 | 16 | 38 | 26 |
| Barn Swallow | 138 | 100 | 89 | 157 | 243 | 177 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 90 | 79 | 44 | 54 | 158 | 20 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 93 | 138 | 50 | 76 | 221 | 36 |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 14 | 25 | 11 | 14 | 45 | 14 |
| Brown-headed Nuthatch | -- | -- | -- | -- | 7 | -- |
| House Wren | -- | 24 | 1 | 4 | 43 | 10 |
| Carolina Wren | 142 | 76 | 115 | 59 | 282 | 70 |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 144 | 70 | 102 | 73 | 192 | 50 |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -- |
| Eastern Bluebird | 122 | 56 | 62 | 44 | 258 | 130 |
| Veery | -- | 1 | -- | 3 | 2 | -- |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- |
| Swainson's Thrush | 2 | -- | 2 | 9 | 18 | -- |
| Wood Thrush | 45 | 92 | 63 | 88 | 125 | 23 |
| American Robin | 148 | 132 | 73 | 265 | 462 | 78 |
| Gray Catbird | 10 | 10 | 7 | 20 | 28 | 2 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 117 | 43 | 53 | 52 | 204 | 99 |
| Brown Thrasher | 32 | 27 | 16 | 24 | 82 | 23 |
| European Starling | 364 | 156 | 178 | 298 | 1079 | 330 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 17 | 2 | 1 | 52 | 37 | 47 |
| County | Smith, TN | Cumber- land, TN |
Cumber- land, KY |
Pulaski, KY | Putnam, TN | White, TN |
| Ovenbird | 4 | 90 | 15 | 38 | 167 | 8 |
| Worm-eating Warbler | -- | 16 | 11 | 14 | 19 | 7 |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | 7 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 4 |
| Northern Waterthrush | 3 | 2 | 1 | -- | 1 | -- |
| Blue-winged Warbler | 27 | -- | 6 | 13 | 28 | 1 |
| Black-and-white Warbler | 2 | 49 | 17 | 24 | 45 | 9 |
| Prothonotary Warbler | -- | -- | 1 | 10 | 1 | -- |
| Tennessee Warbler | 4 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | -- |
| Nashville Warbler | 1 | 2 | 1 | -- | 1 | -- |
| Connecticut Warbler | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Mourning Warbler | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Kentucky Warbler | 30 | 22 | 30 | 16 | 70 | 15 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 172 | 67 | 182 | 101 | 256 | 50 |
| Hooded Warbler | 20 | 103 | 22 | 60 | 75 | 28 |
| American Redstart | 1 | 14 | 3 | 11 | 47 | 1 |
| Cape May Warbler | 2 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | -- |
| Cerulean Warbler | 2 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 34 | -- |
| Northern Parula | 42 | 15 | 19 | 23 | 84 | 21 |
| Magnolia Warbler | -- | 1 | 2 | 13 | 8 | -- |
| Bay-breasted Warbler | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Blackburnian Warbler | -- | -- | 4 | -- | 5 | -- |
| Yellow Warbler | 25 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 28 | 1 |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | -- | 17 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| Blackpoll Warbler | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 1 |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Palm Warbler | 6 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 1 | -- |
| Pine Warbler | 2 | 16 | 2 | 19 | 35 | 13 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | 31 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 1 |
| Yellow-throated Warbler | 14 | 37 | 13 | 14 | 35 | 18 |
| Prairie Warbler | 174 | 19 | 95 | 43 | 72 | 16 |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | 2 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 1 |
| Canada Warbler | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Yellow-breasted Chat | 50 | 21 | 64 | 39 | 111 | 28 |
| County | Smith, TN | Cumber- land, TN |
Cumber- land, KY |
Pulaski, KY | Putnam, TN | White, TN |
| Eastern Towhee | 223 | 89 | 82 | 70 | 248 | 37 |
| Chipping Sparrow | 63 | 70 | 53 | 64 | 187 | 70 |
| Field Sparrow | 231 | 94 | 111 | 65 | 194 | 80 |
| Savannah Sparrow | 5 | 22 | -- | 3 | 2 | -- |
| Grasshopper Sparrow | 1 | 5 | -- | 18 | 5 | 3 |
| Henslow's Sparrow | -- | 8 | -- | -- | 2 | 4 |
| Song Sparrow | 44 | 176 | 65 | 94 | 207 | 118 |
| Lincoln's Sparrow | 1 | 1 | -- | 3 | -- | -- |
| Swamp Sparrow | 5 | 9 | -- | 2 | -- | -- |
| White-throated Sparrow |
38 |
5 |
5 | 1 | 4 | -- |
| White-crowned Sparrow | 6 | 10 | 5 | 3 | -- | -- |
| Summer Tanager | 34 | 4 | 44 | 25 | 83 | 20 |
| Scarlet Tanager | 15 | 65 | 21 | 12 | 40 | 16 |
| Northern Cardinal | 294 | 124 | 221 | 187 | 652 | 126 |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 9 | 43 | 14 | 5 | 28 | -- |
| Blue Grosbeak | 9 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 34 | 13 |
| Indigo Bunting | 129 | 137 | 317 | 206 | 694 | 142 |
| Dickcissel | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | 2 |
| Bobolink | 3 | 16 | -- | 1 | 1 | -- |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 234 | 181 | 113 | 166 | 484 | 206 |
| Eastern Meadowlark | 157 | 73 | 74 | 81 | 278 | 146 |
| Common Grackle | 221 | 71 | 60 | 186 | 256 | 85 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 129 | 78 | 92 | 102 | 243 | 31 |
| Orchard Oriole | 66 | 15 | 28 | 14 | 66 | 12 |
| Baltimore Oriole | 14 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
| House Finch | 9 | 26 | 5 | 7 | 76 | 24 |
| American Goldfinch | 215 | 85 | 67 | 82 | 237 | 45 |
| House Sparrow | 51 | 24 | 15 | 25 | 209 | 61 |
| Total Individuals | 6090 | 4104 | 3854 | 4544 | 12417 | 3799 |
| Total Species | 120 | 128 | 113 | 131 | 137 | 113 |
| County | Smith, TN | Cumber- land, TN |
Cumber- land, KY |
Pulaski, KY | Putnam, TN | White, TN |
* Observers on the Smith County, TN, Spring BirdBlitz:
| Douglas A. Downs |
| Janie C. Finch |
| Kathy Harville |
| Bettie Hubbard |
| Michael P. O'Rourke |
| Tom Saya |
| Barbara H. Stedman |
| Stephen J. Stedman, compiler |
| Winston A. Walden |
* Observers on the Cumberland Co., TN, Spring Bird Count:
| Nan Evans Beesley |
| Chester Bush |
| Margie Buxbaum |
| Anita F. Mast |
| Joseph E. Mast, compiler |
| Kirk Miles |
| Michael P. O'Rourke |
| Tom Saya |
| Stephen J. Stedman |
| Winston A. Walden |
* Observers on the Putnam County, TN, Spring Bird Count:
| Bettie Doyle |
| Douglas A. Downs |
| Ginger K. Ensor |
| Janie C. Finch |
| Judy C. Fuson |
| Michael J. Hawkins |
| Nancy S. Layzer |
| Joseph E. Mast |
| Michael P. O'Rourke |
| John C. Owens |
| Susan E. Pirolo |
| Michele Ramsey |
| Barbara H. Stedman |
| Stephen J. Stedman, compiler |
| Catherine E. Walden |
| Winston A. Walden |
| Patricia Westerfield |
| Carol D. Williams |
* Observers on the White County, TN, Spring Bird Count:
| Douglas A. Downs, compiler |
| Michael P. O'Rourke |
| Stephen J. Stedman |
| Winston A. Walden |
* Observers on the Cumberland Co., KY, Spring BirdBlitz:
| Roseanna M. Denton |
| C. Gay Hodges |
| Arlene M. Morton |
| Barbara H. Stedman |
| Stephen J. Stedman, compiler |
* Observers on the Pulaski County, KY, Spring Bird Count:
| Jean Brickell |
| Rhonda Bryant |
| Granville Cox |
| Thelma Cox |
| Roseanna M. Denton, compiler |
| C. Gay Hodges |
| Scott Marsh |
| Arlene Morton |
| Connie S. Neeley |
| Wendell Neeley |
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