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Christmas Bird Counts
Álamos, Sonora, Mexico

Compiled by David McKay, Álamos, Sonora

99 = 99th CBC, 22 December 1998
100 = 100th CBC, actual count date 22 December 1999
101 = 101st CBC, actual count date 19 December 2000 (incomplete)
103 = 103rd CBC, actual count date 14 December 2002
104 = 104th CBC, actual count date 21 December 2002
105 = 105th CBC, actual count date 28 December 2002
cw = seen count week (within 3 days before and after count date)

This count has been conducted intermittently since the 88th CBC.
Results of earlier counts, as well as more detailed results from the counts summarized below,
are accessible beginning at the Christmas Bird Count Home Page.

Scroll down through the list or jump to a section in the menu below:

Ducks to Vultures | Diurnal Birds of Prey | Chachalaca to Doves
Parrots to Swifts | Hummingbirds to Woodcreepers | Flycatchers
Becards to Creeper | Wrens to Phainopepla | Warblers
Tanagers to Sparrows | Grosbeaks to House Sparrow

Ducks to Vultures  99  100 101 103 104 105
American Wigeon   69   3    
"Mexican" Mallard         8  
Mallard X Mexican Duck       6    
Cinnamon Teal   11        
Northern Shoveler   15        
Northern Pintail     7 15      
Green-winged Teal

 

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Ring-necked Duck 1          
West Mexican Chachalaca   2  5  7    12  45
Elegant Quail   43  82 7 41 46  68
Montezuma Quail         9  5
American White Pelican           32
Neotropic Cormorant    3    cw 30 7
Bare-throated Tiger-Heron   7  14 4 1 3 1
Great Blue Heron  7  17 6 4 5 2
Great Egret   5  11 1 2   4
Snowy Egret 3 1        
Little Blue Heron           2
Green Heron     7 2   1 2
Black Vulture   150  398 159 153 359 534
Turkey Vulture   95  257 120 73 256 243

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Diurnal Birds of Prey  99  100 101 103 104 105
Osprey   1   cw    
White-tailed Kite   cw   cw    
Northern Harrier       1    
Sharp-shinned Hawk   6  4 2 2 4 2
Cooper's Hawk   2  2 2 3 4 1
Crane Hawk   cw   1 3 cw
Gray Hawk   3  5 2 3   6
Common Black-Hawk   9  12 3 2 7 2
Great Black-Hawk 1 1     1  
Short-tailed Hawk         1 1
Zone-tailed Hawk 1 6   1 1 2
Red-tailed Hawk   5  11 5 8 5 14
Golden Eagle   1        
Crested Caracara   7 28  17 4 9 8
American Kestrel   17  33 24 5 11 23
Merlin   1   2 1  
Prairie Falcon 1       1 2

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Chachalaca to Doves  99  100 101 103 104 105
American Coot   3        
Killdeer   29  21 6   2 4
Greater Yellowlegs 15 11     1 2
Spotted Sandpiper 19 44   4 4 7
Common Snipe     15 1      
Rock Pigeon   10  21 29 26 37 38
Red-billed Pigeon   5  83 89 8 52 64
White-winged Dove   256  339 148 88 650 179
Mourning Dove   9  10 42 9 19 57
Inca Dove   30  188 40 65 153 59
Common Ground-Dove   48  123 66 6 233 10
Ruddy Ground-Dove   8  12 1   2 2
White-tipped Dove   6  22 24 5 11 12

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Parrots to Swifts  99  100 101 103 104 105
Mexican Parrotlet   50  100 30 36 28 27
White-fronted Parrot   151  14 43 4 59 5
Squirrel Cuckoo 2       1 4
Greater Roadrunner       cw   cw
Lesser Roadrunner   cw        
Groove-billed Ani   cw     15  
Western Screech-Owl   18 9 5 1 1 1
Vermiculated Screech-Owl   1        
Great Horned Owl 1       1  
Northern Pygmy-Owl     1 2      
Colima Pygmy-Owl     2 1   2  
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl   12  10 18 1 3 3
Mottled Owl 1 1     1 2
Common Pauraque         1  
Buff-collared Nightjar   1  1 1   2  
Vaux's Swift           3
White-throated Swift   67       2

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Hummingbirds to Woodcreepers  99  100 101 103 104 105
Broad-billed Hummingbird   28  36 87 20 28 15
White-eared Hummingbird     2 13   2 1
Berylline Hummingbird 3 1        
Violet-crowned Hummingbird   24  12 25 8 11 4
Plain-capped Starthroat   9  16 12 5 6  
Black-chinned Hummingbird         1  
Anna's Hummingbird     4 4      
Costa's Hummingbird   1  2 3 cw    
Rufous Hummingbird         2  
Rufous/Allen's hummingbird   1        
Elegant Trogon   2  8 13 2 12 15
Russet-crowned Motmot     1 1 2 1  
Belted Kingfisher   9  18 6 5 12 5
Green Kingfisher   10  20 3 7 15 8
Acorn Woodpecker   2  7 18   2 1
Gila Woodpecker   59  78 86 40 52 46
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker    1        
Red-naped Sapsucker   3  5 3 2 6  
Ladder-backed Woodpecker   15  19 18 5 19 16
Hairy Woodpecker         2  
Gray-crowned Woodpecker 2 3        
Northern (Red-shafted) Flicker        1 1 1
Gilded Flicker   1  9 5 3 3  
Lineated Woodpecker       1    
White-striped Woodcreeper   6  10 21   2 4

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Flycatchers  99  100 101 103 104 105
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet     11 10 2 7 2
Tufted Flycatcher   27  39 5 14 11 2
Greater Pewee   11  9 3 2 3 6
Least Flycatcher         2  
Hammond's Flycatcher   15  3 3 1 5 1
Gray Flycatcher   14  20 6 9 7 5
Dusky Flycatcher   5  15 4 4 6 6
Pine Flycatcher     1 1   2  
Pacific-slope Flycatcher   27  3 20 3 25 5
Cordilleran Flycatcher     3 4   12 3
"Western" Flycatcher   23        
Buff-breasted Flycatcher     4 1 cw    
Black Phoebe   49  54 37 2 30 15
Say's Phoebe 2 4        
Vermilion Flycatcher   17  28 15 5 6 8
Dusky-capped Flycatcher   113  32 36 10 28 14
Ash-throated Flycatcher   2  8 6 6 2 4
Nutting's Flycatcher   38  53 53 29 82 14
Brown-crested Flycatcher   12  2 1 1 2  
Great Kiskadee   3     3 1
Social Flycatcher   2  15 10 10 16 13
Tropical Kingbird           1
Cassin's Kingbird   101  47 145 24 96 10
Thick-billed Kingbird   9  2 12 1 7  

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Becards to Creeper  99  100 101 103 104 105
Rose-throated Becard 2     1 2 2
Masked Tityra           1
Loggerhead Shrike 2 6   1 1  
Bell's Vireo 5 6   1 2 1
Plumbeous Vireo 9 2   4 7 2
Cassin's Vireo 7 15   3 3 2
Hutton's Vireo           1
Warbling Vireo 6 34   20 9 5
Yellow-green Vireo 1       2  
Black-throated Magpie-Jay 99 141   67 64 66
Purplish-backed Jay 14 5   16 201 11
Sinaloa Crow 18 60   1 8 52
Common Raven 24 37   7 19 15
Tree Swallow 1          
Mangrove Swallow 4          
N. Rough-winged Swallow         6 24
     swallow sp.   112        
[Mountain] Chickadee   2        
Bridled Titmouse 12 45     5 6
Verdin    3   8 2  
Brown Creeper   3        

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Wrens to Phainopepla  99  100 101  103 104 105
Spotted Wren         3  
Rock Wren 7 47   5 1  
Canyon Wren 10 12   11 28 17
Sinaloa Wren 10 14   6 12 2
Happy Wren 6 7   4 14 7
Bewick's Wren 1     1 1 2
House Wren 5 39   14 26 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 264 17   7 49 14
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 22 39   52 60 43
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 1          
Black-capped Gnatcatcher 30 36   12 5 7
Brown-backed Solitaire 2 11     12 5
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush   cw     1  
Hermit Thrush 8 13   2 17 1
White-throated Robin   2       4
Rufous-backed Robin 21 39   2 39 10
Gray Catbird   cw        
Northern Mockingbird 27 54   12 10 13
Curve-billed Thrasher 11 8   12 5 10
Blue Mockingbird 5 12   2 9 2
American Pipit   1        
Gray Silky-Flycatcher           3
Phainopepla   4        

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Warblers  99  100 101 103 104 105
Olive Warbler 2 1        
Orange-crowned Warbler 85 42   49 87 36
Nashville Warbler 4 1   4 3 2
Virginia's Warbler 1          
Lucy's Warbler         1  
Northern Parula       1    
Crescent-chested Warbler   1        
Yellow Warbler   cw        
Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler   53   12   70
Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler       1    
Yellow-rumped (form?) Warbler 120 131     156  
Magnolia Warbler 1          
Black-throated Gray Warbler 206 32   1 27 40
Townsend's Warbler 25 3     10 14
Hermit Warbler 7 2        
Black-and-white Warbler         1  
Northern Waterthrush 1          
Louisiana Waterthrush   5   1   cw
MacGillivray's Warbler 3 10   8 17 3
Common Yellowthroat 4 8   3 3  
Wilson's Warbler 14 31   19 55 10
Painted Redstart 13 11     6 2
Slate-throated Redstart   cw   2 1  
Rufous-capped Warbler   8     9 22
Yellow-breasted Chat 1 cw        

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Tanagers to Sparrows  99  100 101 103 104 105
Hepatic Tanager 15 5   6 4 1
Summer Tanager   3     1 5
Western Tanager 11 4   5 7 1
Flame-colored Tanager 1         1
Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrow   4        
Green-tailed Towhee 22 30   40 18 1
Canyon Towhee 7 1   cw   cw
Rufous-winged Sparrow 2 2   3    
Rufous-crowned Sparrow         4  
Cassin's Sparrow   1        
Five-striped Sparrow   1   4 2  
Chipping Sparrow 60 164   50 22 65
Clay-colored Sparrow   2     6 1
Brewer's Sparrow   10