CBC 2017, Results are in!

By Cindy Dunbar

Thank you to all who participated in this year’s Christmas Bird Count (CBC). A special thanks to Carolyn Vance for her ongoing support and guidance. What a wonderful year we had as you can see by the count below.  See you next year.

Date: December 16, 2017
Observers: 38
Total Miles: 95
Total Hours: 99
Species: 186
Total Count: 22,761
In brief, the areas we covered: cities of Long Beach, Buena Park, Cypress, Seal Beach and Los Alamitos military bases.

 

Red-throated Loon – 1 Hooded Merganser – 1
 Common Loon – 5 Red-breasted Merganser – 17
Pied-billed Grebe – 28 Ruddy Duck – 135
Horned Grebe – 2 Turkey Vulture – 27
Eared Grebe – 20 Osprey – 14
Western Grebe – 182 White-tailed Kite – 4
Clark’s Grebe – 1 Northern Harrier – 5
White Pelican – 70 Sharp-shinned Hawk – 3
Brown Pelican – 28 Cooper’s Hawk – 13
Double-crested Cormorant – 147 Red-shouldered Hawk – 2
Brant’s Cormorant – 6 Red-tailed Hawk – 70
Great Blue Heron – 41 Ferruginous Hawk – 5
Great Egret – 33 American Kestrel – 36
Snowy Egret – 98 Merlin – 5
Green Heron – 4 Peregrine Falcon – 3
Black-crowned Night Heron – 42 California Quail – 2
Ross’s Goose – 4 Ridgway’s Light-footed Rail – 2
Snow Goose – 11 American Coot – 1,373
Cackling Goose – 6 Black-bellied Plover – 383
Canada Goose – 3,638 Pacific Golden-Plover – 1
Brant – 2 Semi-palmated Plover – 237
Green-winged Teal – 46 Killdeer – 254
Mallard – 681 Black Oystercatcher – 2
Northern Pintail – 72 Black-necked Stilt – 81
Blue-winged Teal – 49 Avocet – 29
Cinnamon Teal – 25 Greater Yellowlegs – 13
Northern Shoveler – 62 Willet – 291
Gadwall – 10 Spotted Sandpiper – 6
American Wigeon – 683 Whimbrel – 6
Canvasback – 4 Long-billed Curlew – 76
Ring-necked Duck – 5 Marbled Godwit – 72
Lesser Scaup – 54 Ruddy Turnstone – 8
Surf Scoter – 84 Red Knot – 1
Bufflehead – 53 Western Sandpiper – 2,714
Least Sandpiper – 520 Marsh Wren – 3
Western/Least (Peeps) – 600 Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 121
Dunlin – 12 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 38
Short-billed Dowitcher – 24 Western Bluebird – 51
Long-billed Dowitcher – 10 Hermit Thrush – 31
Dowitcher sp. – 90 American Robin – 24
Wilson’s Snipe – 2 Northern Mockingbird – 81
Bonaparte’s Gull – 1 American Pipit – 311
Heerman’s Gull – 22 Cedar Waxwing – 161
Ring-billed Gull – 473 Loggerhead Shrike – 2
California Gull – 209 European Starling – 661
Herring Gull – 5 Hutton’s Vireo – 20
Western Gull – 233 Orange-crowned Warbler – 38
Glaucous-winged Gull – 2 Yellow Warbler – 75
Gull sp. – 579 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle’s) – 3
Caspian Tern – 4 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon’s) – 574
Royal Tern – 168 Black-throated Gray Warbler – 1
Foster’s Tern – 2 Townsend’s Warbler – 37
Rock Pigeon – 811 Common Yellowthroat – 51
Mourning Dove – 433 Wilson’s Warbler – 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove – 54 Spotted Towhee – 2
Mitred Parakeet – 128 California Towhee – 42
White-throated Swift – 36 Chipping Sparrow – 35
Anna’s Hummingbird – 94 Savannah Sparrow – 230
Allen’s Hummingbird – 159 Belding’s Savannah Sparrow – 59
Hummingbird sp. – 40 Fox Sparrow – 1
Belted Kingfisher – 13 Song Sparrow – 17
Nuttall’s Woodpecker – 22 Lincoln Sparrow – 24
Downy Woodpecker – 7 White-crowned Sparrow – 546
Northern Flicker – 36 Dark-eyed Junco – 14
Black Phoebe – 186 Red-winged Blackbird – 46
Say’s Phoebe – 62 Western Meadowlark – 196
Cassin’s Kingbird – 58 Brewer’s Blackbird – 95
Horned Lark – 122 Great-tailed Grackle – 63
CA Scrub Jay – 30 Brown-headed Cowbird – 133
American Crow – 343 House Finch – 323
Common Raven – 30 Lesser Goldfinch – 135
Bushtit – 461 American Goldfinch – 20
Bewick’s Wren – 5 House Sparrow – 76
House Wren – 14 Scaly-breasted Munia – 62
WRITE-IN’s
Domestic Muscovy – 23 Barn Swallow – 2
Swan Goose – 3 Lark Sparrow – 4
Barn Owl – 1 Phainopepla – 1
White-faced Ibis – 8 Cinnamon Blue-winged Teal Hybrid – 1
Vermillian Flycatcher – 7 Yellow-chevroned Parakeet – 3
Swallow sp. – 2 Greater White-fronted Goose – 12
Domestic Goose – 1 Reddish Egret – 2
Wrentit – 3 Burrowing Owl – 3
California Gnatchatcher – 8 Prairie Falcon – 1
Domestic Mallard – 12 Vesper Sparrow – 1
Pacific Slope Flycatcher – 2 Large-billed Savannah Sparrow – 2
Tropical Kingbird – 1 Green-tailed Towhee – 1
Virginia Rail – 2 Red Bishop – 1
Sora – 1 Tricolored Heron – 1
Tree Swallow – 2 White-crowned Sparrow (Gambel’s) – 36
Northern Rough-winged Swallow – 6 Graylag Goose (Domestic) – 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet – 3 Duck sp. Hybrid – 10
Cassin’s Vireo – 1 Black and White Warbler – 1
Palm Warbler – 1

 

Detailed list of areas covered in the count:

Alamitos Bay
Marine Stadium
Ralph Dills Park
Hollydale Park
La Mirada Regional & Creek Parks
Ralph B. Clark Park
El Dorado Park
San Gabriel River and Park
Seal Beach NWR
Los Cerritos Wetlands
Marketplace Marsh
Zedler Marsh
Hellman Lowlands
Rancho Los Cerritos
DeForest Park
Dominguez Gap
Scherer Park
Oak Knoll Park
Willow Park
Forest Lawn
Wardlow Park
Colorado Lagoon
Mother’s Beach
Joint Forces Training Base and Navy Golf Course
Willow Springs Park

(Post photo credit ©Cindy Crawford, location Hellman Lowlands)

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