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2005-2006 Christmas Bird Counts

Putnam Christmas Bird Count
Forty-one participants took part in the Putnam Christmas Bird Count, which was held on January 2, 2006 under cloudy skies with temperatures ranging from 30°-40°F.

Click for a map of the Putnam Bird Count Area

Snow Goose 8   Herring Gull 19   Hermit Thrush 13
Canada Goose 752 Great Black-backed Gull 10 American Robin 1066
Mute Swan 40 Rock Pigeon 214 Gray Catbird 20
Gadwall 1 Mourning Dove 379 Northern Mockingbird 18
American Black Duck 40 Eastern Screech-Owl 1 Brown Thrasher 1
Mallard 167 Great Horned Owl 5 European Starling 3745
Ring-necked Duck 177 Barred Owl 3 Cedar Waxwing 126
Bufflehead 11 Belted Kingfisher 8 Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler 2
Common Goldeneye 15 Red-bellied Woodpecker 92 Eastern Towhee 4
Hooded Merganser 73 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 7 American Tree Sparrow 186
Common Merganser 585 Downy Woodpecker 248 Field Sparrow 2
Ruddy Duck 64 Hairy Woodpecker 42 Song Sparrow 185
Ring-necked Pheasant 5 Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker 47 Swamp Sparrow 2
Wild Turkey 37 Pileated Woodpecker 24 White-throated Sparrow 728
Pied-billed Grebe 2 Blue Jay 616 Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco 1037
Great Blue Heron 2 American Crow 569 Snow Bunting 5
Black Vulture 3 Fish Crow 3 Northern Cardinal 334
Turkey Vulture 10 Common Raven 8 Red-winged Blackbird 104
Bald Eagle 9 Black-capped Chickadee 1222 Rusty Blackbird 44
Sharp-shinned Hawk 5 Tufted Titmouse 713 Common Grackle 492
Cooper's Hawk 5 Red-breasted Nuthatch 4 Brown-headed Cowbird 79
Red-shouldered Hawk 5 White-breasted Nuthatch 313 Purple Finch 7
Red-tailed Hawk 64 Brown Creeper 15 House Finch 222
American Kestrel 1 Carolina Wren 72 Pine Siskin 3
American Coot 9   Winter Wren 9   American Goldfinch 373
Ring-billed Gull 678   Golden-crowned Kinglet 3   House Sparrow 395
  Eastern Bluebird 89  

79 Species, 16,696 individuals.

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