For anyone interested in these types of things, here are the summary species lists of the Friday and Saturday travels ahead of the blitz (where we will provide a separate list)
| Species Name | 08-Jul | 09-Jul |
| Species Count | Species Count | |
| Canada Goose | 102 | 10 |
| Gadwall | 10 | 5 |
| Mallard | 115 | 44 |
| Blue-winged Teal | 45 | 3 |
| Northern Shoveler | 23 | 5 |
| Northern Pintail | 6 | — |
| Green-winged Teal | 6 | 9 |
| Canvasback | 6 | — |
| Ruddy Duck | 52 | 8 |
| Ring-necked Pheasant | — | 1 |
| Gray Partridge | 2 | — |
| Sharp-tailed Grouse | — | 3 |
| Wild Turkey | 9 | — |
| Pied-billed Grebe | 6 | 1 |
| Red-necked Grebe | 2 | — |
| Eared Grebe | 16 | — |
| Double-crested Cormorant | — | 25 |
| American White Pelican | 10 | — |
| American Bittern | — | 1 |
| Great Blue Heron | 8 | 1 |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | 2 | — |
| White-faced Ibis | 15 | — |
| Turkey Vulture | 12 | 8 |
| Northern Harrier | 2 | 1 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 1 | — |
| Bald Eagle | 2 | 2 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 1 | — |
| Swainson’s Hawk | 2 | 9 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 8 | 8 |
| Sora | 2 | 1 |
| American Coot | 50 | 25 |
| American Avocet | 7 | — |
| Killdeer | 16 | 8 |
| Spotted Sandpiper | 1 | — |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 9 | 2 |
| Willet | 12 | 13 |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | 8 | — |
| Upland Sandpiper | 16 | 41 |
| Marbled Godwit | 1 | — |
| Wilson’s Snipe | 6 | 15 |
| Wilson’s Phalarope | 7 | 4 |
| Franklin’s Gull | 85 | 24 |
| Ring-billed Gull | 2 | 1 |
| Black Tern | 22 | 42 |
| Forster’s Tern | 1 | — |
| Mourning Dove | 20 | 83 |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | 2 | — |
| Great Horned Owl | 2 | 1 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 1 | 1 |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 3 | — |
| Downy Woodpecker | 2 | 1 |
| Northern Flicker | 5 | 9 |
| American Kestrel | 4 | 5 |
| Merlin | 1 | 1 |
| Willow Flycatcher | — | 1 |
| Least Flycatcher | 14 | 1 |
| Eastern Phoebe | — | 2 |
| Say’s Phoebe | — | 5 |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 1 | — |
| Western Kingbird | 13 | 27 |
| Eastern Kingbird | 22 | 45 |
| Loggerhead Shrike | 1 | — |
| Warbling Vireo | 11 | 2 |
| Red-eyed Vireo | 3 | — |
| Blue Jay | 5 | — |
| Black-billed Magpie | 12 | 23 |
| American Crow | 23 | 7 |
| Common Raven | 2 | 6 |
| Horned Lark | — | 12 |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | — | 10 |
| Purple Martin | 36 | 49 |
| Tree Swallow | 46 | 37 |
| Bank Swallow | 50 | — |
| Barn Swallow | 38 | 38 |
| Cliff Swallow | 55 | 40 |
| Black-capped Chickadee | 1 | — |
| House Wren | 4 | 8 |
| Sedge Wren | 2 | 24 |
| Marsh Wren | — | 1 |
| Eastern Bluebird | 7 | 1 |
| American Robin | 34 | 37 |
| Gray Catbird | 5 | 17 |
| Brown Thrasher | 2 | 4 |
| European Starling | 34 | — |
| Sprague’s Pipit | — | 4 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 17 | 20 |
| Chestnut-collared Longspur | 2 | 8 |
| Ovenbird | 1 | — |
| Common Yellowthroat | 8 | 7 |
| Yellow Warbler | 3 | 5 |
| Grasshopper Sparrow | — | 2 |
| Baird’s Sparrow | — | 4 |
| Le Conte’s Sparrow | 2 | 10 |
| Nelson’s Sparrow | — | 1 |
| Chipping Sparrow | 3 | 2 |
| Clay-colored Sparrow | 17 | 7 |
| Field Sparrow | 1 | — |
| Lark Sparrow | 7 | 10 |
| Vesper Sparrow | 14 | 26 |
| Savannah Sparrow | 28 | 53 |
| Song Sparrow | 11 | 5 |
| Swamp Sparrow | — | 2 |
| Eastern Towhee | 1 | — |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 1 | 1 |
| Indigo Bunting | 1 | — |
| Dickcissel | — | 1 |
| Bobolink | — | 16 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 70 | 55 |
| Western Meadowlark | 29 | 66 |
| Yellow-headed Blackbird | 30 | 25 |
| Brewer’s Blackbird | 33 | 45 |
| Common Grackle | 2 | — |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 20 | 31 |
| Orchard Oriole | 2 | 9 |
| Baltimore Oriole | 7 | 5 |
| American Goldfinch | 48 | 26 |
| House Sparrow | 26 | 12 |
| TOTAL NUMBER SPECIES | 100 | 87 |
| TOTAL NUMBER INDIVIDUALS | 1553 | 1276 |
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