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Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory

Christmas Bird Counts
San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico

compiled by Terry Brownell, Coralles, NM

98 = 98th CBC, count date 29 December 1997
99 = 99th CBC, count date 27 December 1998
100 = 100th CBC, count date 26 December 1999
102 = 102nd CBC, count date 30 December 2001
103 = 103rd CBC, count date 31 December 2002
104 = 104th CBC, count date 30 December 2003
105 = 105th CBC, count date 1 January 2005
cw = seen count week (within 3 days before and after count date)

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 Quail | Loons to Ibises | Vultures to Coot
Shorebirds | Gulls to Doves | Cuckoos to Flycatchers
Shrike to Thrushes | Thrashers to Tanagers | Sparrows to Seedeater
Grosbeaks to House Sparrow

Ducks to Quail  98 99 100 102 103 104 105
Greater White-fronted Goose   3          
Brant 14   2   57    
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck             42
Gadwall   3          
American Wigeon 19 50 93 102 97 73 80
Mexican Duck 2            
Blue-winged Teal   5 7       16
Cinnamon Teal 3   3 2      
Northern Shoveler 20 27 17 20 12 4 33
Northern Pintail 61 67 169 134 17 91 27
American Green-winged Teal 10   8        
Canvasback   1 3 1      
Redhead   2 6        
Ring-necked Duck 1            
Greater Scaup   16       22  
Lesser Scaup 45 2 54 63 18 3 49
Surf Scoter 1            
White-winged Scoter 2            
Bufflehead 109 80 39 58 37 21 33
Common Goldeneye   1          
Red-breasted Merganser 48 169 56 103 37 21 51
Ruddy Duck 8 14 52 42 42 16 21
Gambel's Quail   1 18 8   8  

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Loons to Ibises  98 99 100 102 103 104 105
Pacific Loon 110 3 14 4 25   2
Common Loon 8 6 19 16 35 1 4
Least Grebe 3 11 10 2 4 2 1
Pied-billed Grebe 2   4        
Horned Grebe       1 2    
Eared Grebe 76 314 6 189 52 16 14
Western Grebe 11 12 22 56 1    
Clark's Grebe 2 3 16 4 1    
Blue-footed Booby 9 201 309 200 450 136 23
Brown Booby 10 2 102 25 250 11 10
American White Pelican       4 20 89 12
Brown Pelican 1565 455 1200 3500 1556 1145 375
Double-crested Cormorant 101 16 134 1500 62 350 55
Magnificent Frigatebird 2 20 20 76 32 15 16
Great Blue Heron 13 31 19 21 23 6 17
Great Egret 3 17 24 35 11 29 19
Snowy Egret 28 105 99 123 34 34 54
Little Blue Heron 5 12 9 15 26 19 15
Tricolored Heron 5 3 3 2 3 3 4
Reddish Egret 10 16 14 12 7 5 4
Cattle Egret 5 15 26 110 125 15 11
Green Heron 3 2 2   2   1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 7 36 17 26 26 4 9
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 13 18 28 39 28 8 12
White Ibis 8 78 11 46 15 13 16
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Vultures to Coot  98 99 100 102 103 104 105
Black Vulture 44 47 201 80 44 8 4
Turkey Vulture 42 67 203 102 111 8 15
Osprey 9 13 2 4 3 5 6
White-tailed Kite     3        
Northern Harrier 1 2 1   1 1 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk     1        
Cooper's Hawk 1   1        
Harris's Hawk 3 11 6 2 2 1 1
Red-tailed Hawk 3 6 6 5 2 4 4
Golden Eagle              
Crested Caracara             1
American Kestrel 7 13 13 7 4 13 5
Peregrine Falcon   1 1        
Clapper Rail     2        
Virginia Rail 1 2 1 2 1 1  
Sora 2 6 1        
Common Moorhen 6 5 22 2   3 2
American Coot 18 41 38 3 17 15 37
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Shorebirds  98 99 100 102 103 104 105
Black-bellied Plover 34 84 20 51 20 41 45
Snowy Plover 28 8 24 5 10 3  
Wilson's Plover 9 8 4   121 8  
Semipalmated Plover 1 50 31 25 201 19  
Killdeer 3 1 4 2 2 6 5
American Oystercatcher 3 19 4 13 6 8 16
Black-necked Stilt 15 105 10 42 32 1011 11
American Avocet 7 427 3 7 12 530 4
Greater Yellowlegs 3 1 1 2 1 3 3
Lesser Yellowlegs 3 1 5 1 2 2 1
Solitary Sandpiper   30          
Willet 22 64 55 653 262 53 73
Spotted Sandpiper 4 8 11 11 8 4 6
Whimbrel 10 19 11 6 5 2 4
Long-billed Curlew 3 17 9 8 11 2 5
Marbled Godwit 30 156 9 44 104 78 105
Ruddy Turnstone              
Sanderling 9           5
Western Sandpiper 38 2158 183 621 253 19 58
Least Sandpiper 2 504 18 25 206 19 39
White-rumped Sandpiper     2   6    
Baird's Sandpiper 5            
Dunlin     5        
Stilt Sandpiper   3         1
Short-billed Dowitcher     3   51   79
Long-billed Dowitcher   42 6   13 55 176
Wilson's Snipe             1
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Gulls to Doves  98 99 100 102 103 104 105
Laughing Gull 44 3 1 21 21 1 4
Bonaparte's Gull 2 3   2 1    
Heermann's Gull 500 90 501 905 501 159 436
Mew Gull 2   2 1 1    
Ring-billed Gull 485 755 750 885 293 261 275
California Gull 36 4 2 2 3 6 9
Herring Gull   1          
Thayer's Gull     2        
Yellow-footed Gull 23 60 121 150 269 6 163
Western Gull 1 1 1 5 5 5 3
Gull-billed Tern 2       1    
Caspian Tern 54 46 86 66 20 55 24
Royal Tern 12 10 73 155 23 19 6
Elegant Tern 21 7 89 62 20 11 3
Common Tern 2            
Forster's Tern 71 101 83 321 105 19 9
Black Skimmer 6 46   35 28 55 57
Rock Pigeon 53 103 11 36 3 30 6
White-winged Dove 68 6 20 68 151 26 19
Mourning Dove 59 4   7 4 3 6
Inca Dove 10 17 15 13 3 23 6
Common Ground-Dove 2   2 35 4 11 6
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Cuckoos to Flycatchers  98 99 100 102 103 104 105
Greater Roadrunner 1 1 3       1
Groove-billed Ani 14 7 17   22   12
Barn Owl             1
Burrowing Owl     1        
Lesser Nighthawk     1 2      
White-throated Swift 2         55  
Broad-billed Hummingbird 2 2 5 2 2    
White-eared Hummingbird   1     1    
Black-chinned Hummingbird 38 7 8 5 2 2 3
Anna's Hummingbird     1        
Costa's Hummingbird 7 2 2 4 1 2 1
Broad-tailed Hummingbird       1      
Belted Kingfisher 8 4 4 4 4 4 1
Gila Woodpecker 8 6 6 3 3 3 3
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 2 3 4 4   1 1
Northern (Red-shafted) Flicker 1            
Gilded Flicker           1  
Western Wood-Pewee         1    
Gray Flycatcher   1          
Pacific-slope Flycatcher       1      
Cordilleran Flycatcher   1 1   1   1
Black Phoebe 2 4 3 4 1 5 3
Say's Phoebe 2 6 4 3 3   2
Vermilion Flycatcher     2 3 3 4 3
Dusky-capped Flycatcher 1 1 3   1    
Ash-throated Flycatcher 6 8 10 9 1 8 8
Nutting's Flycatcher 1            
Great Kiskadee 1 1 3 2 4 3 1
Western Kingbird 1 1
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Shrike to Thrushes  98 99 100 102 103 104 105
Loggerhead Shrike 5 11 8 2 2 5 7
Bell's Vireo 1 2   1      
Cassin's Vireo 1 1          
"Solitary" Vireo     1 1   1  
Warbling Vireo     2        
Hutton's Vireo 1 1          
Chihuahuan Raven 3 1     3 4  
Common Raven 1 2 5   1 3 2
Mangrove Swallow 24 4   52 3 5 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3 10 3 3 3 3 5
Violet-green Swallow 11            
Verdin 3 4 13 6 13 5 3
Bushtit             2
Cactus Wren 3 8 10 5 11 4 4
Rock Wren 1 3 1 4     1
Canyon Wren 2 1   1     3
Bewick's Wren   1     1    
House Wren 1   1 5     2
Marsh Wren 2 4 10 2 3 6 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 2 1 3 12    
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 7 5 26 11 10 15 4
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 2 2 14   1 2  
Hermit Thrush     1   1 1  
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Thrashers to Tanagers  98 99 100 102 103 104 105
Northern Mockingbird 14 8 21 9 12 13 9
Brown Thrasher     1        
Bendire's Thrasher 1   1 1   1  
Curve-billed Thrasher 6 5 6 2 1 2 7
Crissal Thrasher   1          
European Starling 6 9 10 15      
Orange-crowned Warbler 4 4 23 35 62 5 63
Nashville Warbler   1   1      
Virginia's Warbler 1     2      
Lucy's Warbler       2      
Northern Parula     1        
Yellow Warbler (unspecified)     6 2      
Yellow (Mangrove) Warbler   2     5 2 3
Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler 9 11 31 17 41 12 103
Northern Waterthrush       2      
Common Yellowthroat 1 1 9 5 4 2 7
Yellow-breasted Chat       1      
Western Tanager       1      

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Sparrows to Seedeater  98 99 100 102 103 104 105
Green-tailed Towhee 4 3 16 9 16 10 11
Spotted Towhee 4 1          
Canyon Towhee           2 3
Rufous-winged Sparrow       1      
Rufous-crowned Sparrow             1
Five-striped Sparrow           1  
Cassin's Sparrow   2 1 2 3    
Chipping Sparrow 4 35 4 20 1   1
Clay-colored Sparrow 4   4 15 2 9  
Brewer's Sparrow 3 15 14 72 2 17 2
Black-chinned Sparrow           6 1
Vesper Sparrow   3   51      
Lark Sparrow 12 95 12 79 12 27 6
Black-throated Sparrow 1 3 2 7 6   5
Lark Bunting   6 30 66   50  
Grasshopper Sparrow 2 1          
Savannah (Large-billed) Sparrow       50 1    
Song Sparrow 2 2   3 1 3  
Lincoln's Sparrow 3 2 3 6 2 4 4
Swamp Sparrow     1        
White-throated Sparrow       2 33    
White-crowned Sparrow 84 28 37 142 33 4 8
White-collared Seedeater 1            

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Grosbeaks to House Sparrow  98 99 100 102 103 104 105
Northern Cardinal 7 12 13 5 4 2 2
Pyrrhuloxia 3 3 2 1 5 1 3
Black-headed Grosbeak 1            
Black-headed Grosbeak   1          
Lazuli Bunting 1   2        
Varied Bunting       1     1
Red-winged Blackbird     2 5 12    
Western Meadowlark   1         1
Yellow-headed Blackbird         1    
Brewer's Blackbird 50 55 221   30 2  
Great-tailed Grackle 139 33 45 191 53 11 19
Bronzed Cowbird             6
Brown-headed Cowbird 15 80          
Hooded Oriole 2 1 2 3 2 2 1
Scott's Oriole     1     1 1
Cassin's Finch     2 1      
House Finch 7 8 16 17 3 10 12
Purple Finch 1            
Lesser Goldfinch 15 10 9 5 3 5 15
House Sparrow 39 12 8 25 15 128 13
Total Species 152 154 157 143 138 121 129
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