Southwestern Mixed-Grass Prairie IBA Total Counts

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Thanks again to all our volunteers. Here are the final totals for the event

Species Jo, Betsy & Christian Gillian & Glennis Bonnie, Pat & Dave Christian Tim, Luc, Bill, Betty, Donna & Joan Garry & John Alex Total for species
Canada Goose 8 13 21
Gadwall 11 2 4 17
Mallard 8 1 37 9 6 20 81
Blue-winged Teal 10 1 2 3 16
Northern Shoveler 1 1 1 3
Northern Pintail 12 12
Green-winged Teal 8 4 13 2 27
Canvasback 6 6
Ring-necked Pheasant 1 1 2
Sharp-tailed Grouse 9 2 1 12
Pied-billed Grebe 1 2 3
Great Blue Heron 1 2 1 4
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 2 3
Turkey Vulture 3 1 4 8
Northern Harrier 1 1 1 1 2 6
Bald Eagle 1 1 2
Swainson’s Hawk 3 1 7 5 16
Red-tailed Hawk 6 8 8 5 8 6 41
Ferruginous Hawk 2 2
Sora 1 7 5 1 1 4 19
American Coot 4 4
Killdeer 84 19 28 8 15 25 179
Spotted Sandpiper 1 1
Greater Yellowlegs 4 4
Willet 7 2 1 10
Lesser Yellowlegs 20 1 6 27
Upland Sandpiper 49 27 20 21 20 25 162
Marbled Godwit 2 2
Wilson’s Snipe 8 15 20 6 23 24 96
Wilson’s Phalarope 2 3 8 8 21
Franklin’s Gull 10 4 1 1 16
Ring-billed Gull 1 2 2 5
Black Tern 6 11 8 9 3 27 64
Common Tern 1 1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 10 3 4 3 20 40
Mourning Dove 68 31 29 20 39 87 274
Black-billed Cuckoo 1 1
Great Horned Owl 2 2 4
Belted Kingfisher 1 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 1
Downy Woodpecker 1 1 2
Hairy Woodpecker 2 2
Northern Flicker 2 1 4 3 3 8 21
American Kestrel 2 1 2 5
Willow Flycatcher 1 1
Least Flycatcher 4 1 8 2 5 23 43
Eastern Phoebe 3 3
Say’s Phoebe 2 2
Western Kingbird 13 12 2 2 17 16 62
Eastern Kingbird 22 26 30 9 61 59 207
Loggerhead Shrike 2 1 1 4
Warbling Vireo 1 10 11
Black-billed Magpie 4 11 1 3 7 9 35
American Crow 1 2 10 2 4 4 23
Common Raven 1 1 3 11 16
Horned Lark 39 7 6 7 9 14 82
Purple Martin 7 7
Tree Swallow 15 30 4 1 50
Bank Swallow 20 2 22
Barn Swallow 68 5 32 4 5 49 23 186
Cliff Swallow 70 64 20 20 174
Black-capped Chickadee 1 1 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1 1
House Wren 3 1 1 9 15 29
Sedge Wren 11 4 20 12 17 46 110
Marsh Wren 2 1 6 7 12 28
American Robin 14 3 4 8 7 22 58
Gray Catbird 2 4 2 1 4 13
Brown Thrasher 1 3 2 1 5 1 13
European Starling 5 1 8 14
Sprague’s Pipit 14 3 2 26 1 10 2 58
Cedar Waxwing 2 2 4
Chestnut-collared Longspur 27 1 13 44 30 14 51 180
Common Yellowthroat 11 2 1 3 3 9 29
Yellow Warbler 3 5 13 21
Grasshopper Sparrow 11 2 27 22 21 2 85
Baird’s Sparrow 2 1 13 5 21
Le Conte’s Sparrow 5 2 4 5 29 45
Nelson’s Sparrow 1 2 6 9
Chipping Sparrow 1 1 4 4 10
Clay-colored Sparrow 38 11 30 9 27 40 155
Lark Sparrow 1 3 4
Vesper Sparrow 8 10 2 8 5 44 4 81
Savannah Sparrow 53 12 5 25 37 99 231
Song Sparrow 9 1 6 3 10 29
Dickcissel 1 1
Bobolink 31 13 3 14 12 5 78
Red-winged Blackbird 300 39 900 15 212 139 1605
Western Meadowlark 73 28 32 50 60 83 21 347
Yellow-headed Blackbird 6 21 2 12 41
Brewer’s Blackbird 200 3 30 30 17 88 368
Common Grackle 8 32 23 6 13 82
Brown-headed Cowbird 39 17 45 45 65 54 265
Orchard Oriole 6 2 3 13 24
Baltimore Oriole 6 1 1 8
blackbird sp. 10 295 305
American Goldfinch 4 18 8 4 13 27 74
House Sparrow 15 7 22
TOTAL NUMBER OF SPECIES 59 63 60 47 60 76 8 98
TOTAL NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS 1348 543 1496 484 954 1672 125 6622
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That clown, the Upland Sandpiper standing in the mist. Photo copyright Donna Martin