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2013 Pierre CBC results
Count Day December 14, 2013

Canada Goose

55,310

Cackling Goose

6,140

American Black Duck

4

Mallard

5,200

Northern Pintail

1

Gadwall

6

Wood Duck

10

Green-winged Teal

4

Lesser Scaup

11

Greater Scaup

15

Redhead

12

Ring-necked Duck

1

Common Goldeneye

27

Hooded Merganser

9

Common Merganser

174

Red-breasted Merganser

2

Northern Goshawk

1

Sharp-shinned Hawk

5

Northern Harrier

4

Cooper's Hawk

3

Red-tailed Hawk

26

Ferruginous Hawk

3

Rough-legged Hawk

26

Golden Eagle

7

Bald Eagle

51

Prairie Falcon

2

Merlin

3

American Kestrel

6

Greater Prairie Chicken

66

Sharp-tailed Grouse

12

Ring-necked Pheasant

102

Killdeer

1

Wild Turkey

89

American Coot

5

Herring Gull

22

Iceland Gull

1

California Gull

1

Ring-billed Gull

15

Rock Pigeon

220

Mourning Dove

3

Eurasian Collared Dove

656

Great Horned Owl

11

Eastern Screech-owl

14

Belted Kingfisher

1

Northern Flicker

38

Red-bellied Woodpecker

12

Hairy Woodpecker

9

Downy Woodpecker

16

Horned Lark

468

Black-billed Magpie

2

Blue Jay

69

Black-capped Chickadee

22

Red-breasted Nuthatch

1

White-breasted Nuthatch

9

Townsend's Solitaire

4

American Robin

894

Cedar Waxwing

171

Northern Shrike

8

European Starling

443

House Sparrow

307

Northern Cardinal

12

House Finch

51

American Goldfinch

77

Brown-headed Cowbird

10

Western Meadowlark

13

Rusty Blackbird

10

Red-winged Blackbird

272

Dark-eyed Junco

215

American Tree Sparrow

431

Harris's Sparrow

3

Snow Bunting

3

Lapland Longspur

133

71 Species Count Day

71,985

Brown Creeper

CW

      Hours
      foot                                                    20
      vehicle                                              67
      feeders                                             14
      owling                                               7                         

      Miles       
      foot                                                    24
      vehicle                                              667

      WEATHER
      Temp  Hi 21F  Lo 3F
      Wind- Light and variable most of day, NW 5-10 from noon to about 2 PM.
      Sky-  Overcast most of day, clearing from 2-3 PM, then cloudy again.
      Still water frozen, moving water open 

      Participants (in no particular order):  Richard and Sharon McEntaffer, Jerry Graves, Ricky Olson, Scott Stolz, Dave Krueger, Chuck and Myrtle Backlund,
      Kenny Miller, Glen Moravek, Carrol Hanten, Marvene and Rex  Riis, Ruben Mares,  Dannette Jarzab, Dave Ode, Wally Larsen, Charles Sisk, Silka Kempema,
      Casey Heimerl, Dan Svingen, Eileen Dowd Stukel, Doug Backlund (Count Coordinator).

       Highlights: Highest counts ever for Eastern Screech-Owl at 14 (old 7);
Blue Jay 69 (old 15); American Tree Sparrow 421 (old 390); Eurasian Collared Dove 656 (old 350);
       second CBC record for Killdeer; first CBC record for Iceland Gull.

 

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