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Christmas Bird Counts
Baviácora, Sonora, Mexico

96 = 96th CBC, count date 23 December 1995
97 = 97th CBC, count date 1 January 1997
98 = 98th CBC, count date 1 January 1998
99 = 99th CBC, count date 27 December 1998
100 = 100th CBC, count date 18 December 1999
101 = 101st CBC, count date 5 January 2001
102 = 102nd CBC, count date 6 January 2002
103 = 103rd CBC, count date 4 January 2003
104 = 104th CBC, count date 20 December 2003
cw = seen count week (within 3 days before and after count date)

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 Grebes | Vultures to Coot | Plovers to Owls
Hummingbirds to Woodpeckers | Flycatchers to Vireos
Jays to Gnatcatchers | Thrushes to Tanagers
Sparrows | Grosbeaks to House Sparrow

Ducks to Grebes 96 97 98 99 100  101 102 103 104
Wood Duck 4     3          
Gadwall 14 25 6 31 9  21      
American Wigeon 25   45 4     5 24 2
Mallard 3 11 20 7 6  7 1 10 2
    "Mexican Duck"   19 10 9 67  37 10 75 89
Northern Pintail   3   2     2 1  
American Green-winged Teal 18 13 42 12     2 3  
Northern Shoveler 2                
Ring-necked Duck 9   2 2       4  
Elegant Quail 12 27 59 1 75  35 54 34 21
Gambel's Quail 10 7 14 21 28   6 3 22
Great Blue Heron 7 5 4 10 7  11 9 14 5
Great Egret 5 10 6 40 6  9 3 6 8
Snowy Egret   14 14 13    12      
Cattle Egret     13 2    6 1    
Green Heron 2 2   1 2  1 1 2  
Black-crowned Night-Heron     1   10 7   4  
Least Grebe 1           2    
Pied-billed Grebe            2      
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Vultures to Coot 96 97 98  99 100  101 102 103 104
Black Vulture 21 104 251 252 175  54 64 92 88
Turkey Vulture 13 30 65 204 83  100 21 43 96
White-tailed Kite       1 2   2    
Northern Harrier   3 3  5 1  4 1 2  
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2 3 7 5 1  7 1 2 2
Cooper's Hawk 4 4 5 6 5  9 7 4 4
Zone-tailed Hawk     1         1  
Red-tailed Hawk 7 5 15 13 12  8 7 14 12
Golden Eagle cw                
Crested Caracara       1 2     1 1
American Kestrel 17 12 14 18 15  10 17 13 17
Merlin 1 2 2 3 1  cw   1 1
Peregrine Falcon     1 2     1 1  
Prairie Falcon 1     1       1 1
Sora   1     1        
American Coot cw 1   1          
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Plovers to Owls 96 97 98 99 100  101 102 103 104
Killdeer 14 14 36 29 22  12 8 70 3
Greater Yellowlegs 6 2 3 1       1  
Solitary Sandpiper       26          
Spotted Sandpiper 9 9 14   11  8 9 11 9
Least Sandpiper 18   45 23 11  30   1  
Wilson's Snipe 8 6 12 12 8  9 5 10 9
    gull sp.       1          
Rock Pigeon 47 33 39 64 95  98 30 69 29
White-winged Dove 470 207 338 716 461 139 410 250 453
Mourning Dove 106 116 491 337 194  210 114 147 270
Inca Dove 7 21 47 107 13  18 12 23 6
Common Ground-Dove   11 10 3 23  26 12 22 7
Ruddy Ground-Dove     1            
White-tipped Dove 1 5 2 5    3 3   1
Greater Roadrunner 2 5 5 5 5   3 1  
Groove-billed Ani     1            
Western Screech-Owl 9 12 11 11 6  4 8 6 3
Whiskered Screech-Owl     1   2        
Great Horned Owl 3 6 8 6 1  6 1 2 1
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl     1 1          
Elf Owl         1       1
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Hummingbirds to Woodpeckers 96 97 98 99 100  101 102 103 104
Broad-billed Hummingbird   11 19 15 10  20 1 19 12
Violet-crowned Hummingbird 1 3 4 4    1 1 3 3
Anna's Hummingbird 1 8 25 4 6  1 3 10 8
Costa's Hummingbird 1 13 18 8 4  8 7 3 2
Rufous/Allen's Hummingbird       1          
Elegant Trogon 1       1  1      
Belted Kingfisher 7 1 5 5 2  4 1 2  
Green Kingfisher   2 6 1 3   1 7 3
Lewis' Woodpecker 15     1    1 7   2
Acorn Woodpecker 48 25 18 38 31  16 30 2 4
Gila Woodpecker 59 56 76 154 63  82 49 82 87
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker         1        
Red-naped Sapsucker 3 6 9 15 16  8 11 7 4
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 23 27 27 41 28  26 3 23 8
Arizona (Strickland's) Woodpecker   5 4 2 4  2 2    
Northern (Red-shafted) Flicker 16 20 17 9 18  22 7 15 5
Gilded Flicker 3 10 29 17 7  4 4 6 6
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Flycatchers to Vireos 96 97 98 99 100  101 102 103 104
N. Beardless-Tyrannulet       3     2 5 3
Greater Pewee   2   2    2      
Willow Flycatcher     1            
Hammond's Flycatcher 7 10 2 12 2  4 5 3 3
Dusky Flycatcher 7 5 1   3   3 8 7
   Hammond's/Dusky Flycatcher         2     1  
Gray Flycatcher 23 55 43 80 18  17 8 26 13
"Western Flycatcher"   1   1 2   1 7 1
Black Phoebe 47 38 35 52    27 6 35 29
Eastern Phoebe         1       1
Say's Phoebe 22 25 24 17 21  22 5 18 17
Vermilion Flycatcher 49 44 52 35 36  33 8 47 29
Ash-throated Flycatcher 5 3 1 3 4  2 1 7 2
Nutting's Flycatcher 6 3 7 23 1  4   9 9
Brown-crested Flycatcher 1     1          
Cassin's Kingbird 6 3 109 127 17  17 2 7 33
Thick-billed Kingbird     1 1 1  1 1    
Rose-throated Becard         1     1  
Loggerhead Shrike 16 9 26 13 21   14 9 5
Bell's Vireo 2     3       1 1
Gray Vireo               1  
Cassin's Vireo     3 1       7 4
Plumbeous Vireo 3   4 2 2     2 4
Hutton's Vireo 10 3 7 13 6     3 2
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Jays to Gnatcatchers 96 97 98 99 100  101 102 103 104
Steller's Jay                 2
Western Scrub-Jay                 2
Mexican Jay 72 18 21 56 16  38 15 11 6
American Crow           

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Chihuahuan Raven 97 5 97 1 5  16 6 5  
Common Raven 8 10 13 92 40  40 32 84 123
    raven sp.         5

 170

   60  
Bridled Titmouse 43 35 35 42 14  50 32 18 3
Verdin 28 47 92   47  45 7 65 35
Bushtit 6     15 26  19 15 1 8
White-breasted Nuthatch 2 6   2    11 4    
Cactus Wren 22 33 43 82 14  11 10 8 7
Rock Wren 14 5 20 14 4  5 4   3
Canyon Wren 3 3 8 6 2  6 2 4 3
Sinaloan Wren   1 2 2 1  4 1 11 3
Happy Wren   1 1 1 2   2   1
Bewick's Wren 18 11 25 29 12  13 4 16 5
House Wren 8 16 19 6 13  9 7 8 18
Marsh Wren 1 2 4   1  1   2 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 38 88 89 135 46  133 22 185 84
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 35 40 75 62 24  24 4 25 25
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 26 12 20 39 15  17 3 20 10
Black-capped Gnatcatcher   4 9 20 6  3 1 49 30
    gnatcatcher sp     2            
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Thrushes to Tanagers 96 97 98 99 100  101 102 103 104
Eastern Bluebird   5              
Western Bluebird           

 11

      
Townsend's Solitaire   1              
Hermit Thrush 2 5 8 10 6  3   8 1
American Robin   1   4 1  3      
Northern Mockingbird 3 20 16 11 17  3 2 15 33
Curve-billed Thrasher 5 23 43 48 9  26 5 11 13
Crissal Thrasher     1       2    
European Starling 40 22 5 1 59  4 3 6 34
American Pipit 2 15 14 13 1  5   4 3
Cedar Waxwing   12        12     11
Phainopepla 15 16 30 45 11  36 7 23 25
Orange-crowned Warbler 6 2 15 15 12  8 1 67 26
Nashville Warbler cw               1
Northern Parula               1  
Yellow-rumped Warbler (unspecified) 113 38 143            
    Yellow-rumped "Audubon's" Warbler       178 61

 56

 12 168 446
    Yellow-rumped "Myrtle" Warbler     1 2 1  1   2  
Black-throated Gray Warbler 7 5 3 9 9  11 6 26 21
Townsend's Warbler           

 2

   1  
Black-and-white Warbler                 1
American Redstart   1              
MacGillivray's Warbler 1 1         1   1
Common Yellowthroat 11 6 8 7 5   2 13 10
Wilson's Warbler     4 2 3  1 2 3  
Painted Redstart 12 11 9 18 10  12 8 2 3
Rufous-capped Warbler     4 5 2   2    
Hepatic Tanager 4 4 2 3 6  4 5 3 2
Summer Tanager   1   1 2  1 4   1
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Sparrows 96 97 98 99 100  101 102 103 104
Green-tailed Towhee 41 51 217 43 42  32 9 32 13
Spotted Towhee 1 2 3 1    7 3 1  
Canyon Towhee 10 52 196 297 54  57 2 80 26
Rufous-winged Sparrow 9 47 103 155 40  51 9 74 24
Rufous-crowned Sparrow   4 24 24 7  10 3 8 2
Five-striped Sparrow         2 6   1  
Cassin's Sparrow     1            
Chipping Sparrow 327 228 428 111 128  182 100 51 85
Clay-colored Sparrow     3 6 2   1    
Brewer's Sparrow   9 233 40 69  1   6 1
Black-chinned Sparrow 9 4 27 16 7  3 5 1 3
Vesper Sparrow 2 4 45 4 25  55 2 1 1
Lark Bunting     120            
Lark Sparrow 96 72 238 25 210  52   45 107
Black-throated Sparrow 8 25 43 19 2     3 2
Savannah Sparrow 1 6 4      54 1 8  
Grasshopper Sparrow 2   4           1
Song Sparrow 7 13 27 35 13  25 4 37 20
Lincoln's Sparrow 59 36 46 10 20  18 5 2 42
White-throated Sparrow         1     1 1
White-crowned Sparrow 115 164 550 422 342  157 42 244 294
Dark-eyed Junco:                  
    Dark-eyed "Oregon" Junco 32 4 10 19 2  45 1 1 1
    Dark-eyed "Gray-headed" Junco 38 18 32 31 2  15 9 1 3
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Grosbeaks to House Sparrow 96 97 98 99 100  101 102 103 104
Northern Cardinal 43 63 110 67 66  35 10 37 30
Pyrrhuloxia 36 22 68 53 47  55 32 37 43
Black-headed Grosbeak 5   7 10 5  10 10 4 6
Blue Grosbeak 1                
Lazuli Bunting   2 3 2 1  3 2 5 2
Varied Bunting   2 2      2 1 3  
Red-winged Blackbird 40 110 27 15 740  110 3 49 281
Eastern Meadowlark 55          95      
Western Meadowlark   50 50 25 40  75 100 53 70
Yellow-headed Blackbird 31     1 6  20   2 1
Brewer's Blackbird 50 30 612 202 27  300 310 5 414
Great-tailed Grackle 15 70 412 75 205  151 120 97 255
Bronzed Cowbird   1   2 1  100 42 42 12
Brown-headed Cowbird 10 112 2 7 75 14 10 76 3
Black-vented Oriole     1           2
Hooded Oriole 2   2 2 1 1     4
Streaked-backed Oriole 5 8 8 14 4 6 16 9 6
Bullock's Oriole       1          
Scott's Oriole 1   2       1   2
Cassin's Finch          

3

      
House Finch 35 61 157 97 93 66 8 39 118
Pine Siskin 8                
American Goldfinch     1     2      
Lesser Goldfinch 73 35 31 63 38 60 77 22 37
Lawrence's Goldfinch   12       22   3  
House Sparrow 36 45 145 178 55 81 43 78 195
 TOTAL SPECIES  122  129  142 149 131 138 124 137 125
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