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2024 Christmas Bird Count Results

The Christmas Bird Count for the area including Presqu'ile Provincial Park was held on December 15, 2024 under good weather conditions. The results were compiled by Andrea Kingsley..  Twenty-five field observers and three feeder observers found a total of 80 species and 12755 individuals. Species numbers are recorded below and can be found from the Audubon website: https://netapp.audubon.org/CBCObservation/CurrentYear/ResultsByCount.aspx

 

Canada Goose

2,844

Mute Swan

440

Trumpeter Swan

8

Tundra Swan

55

American Black Duck

137

Mallard

499

Northern Pintail

2

Redhead

150

Ring-necked Duck

10

Greater Scaup

644

Lesser Scaup

8

White-winged Scoter

66

Long-tailed Duck

1,592

Bufflehead

138

Common Goldeneye

647

Hooded Merganser

6

Common Merganser

52

Red-breasted Merganser

72

Ruffed Grouse

1

Wild Turkey

67

Common Loon

2

Horned Grebe

8

Northern Harrier

9

Sharp-shinned Hawk

2

Cooper's Hawk

6

Bald Eagle

15

Red-tailed Hawk

20

Rough-legged Hawk

1

American Coot

3

Killdeer

1

Dunlin

6

Purple Sandpiper

1

Bonaparte's Gull

14

Ring-billed Gull

157

Herring Gull

531

Glaucous Gull

1

Great Black-backed Gull

8

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)

309

Mourning Dove

576

Eastern Screech-Owl

3

Barred Owl

5

Belted Kingfisher

1

Red-bellied Woodpecker

29

Downy Woodpecker

45

Hairy Woodpecker

28

Northern Flicker

2

Pileated Woodpecker

10

American Kestrel

3

Merlin

3

Peregrine Falcon

1

Northern Shrike

3

Blue Jay

230

American Crow

151

Common Raven

26

Black-capped Chickadee

677

Red-breasted Nuthatch

27

White-breasted Nuthatch

98

Brown Creeper

9

Winter Wren

2

Carolina Wren

1

Golden-crowned Kinglet

49

Eastern Bluebird

23

Hermit Thrush

3

American Robin

119

European Starling

1,027

American Pipit

18

Cedar Waxwing

47

Snow Bunting

145

Common Yellowthroat

1

American Tree Sparrow

153

Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)

378