2005 Pend Oreille Christmas Bird Count Results
compiled by John Stuart
59 species were counted by 20 local people (including feeder watchers) for the third annual Pend Oreille Christmas Bird Count, held on December 17, 2005. To participate in next year's count, please email cmack@wsu.edu , call 447-2401, or join the Pend Oreille bird watching email list (directions below.)
| Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Double Crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Canada Goose Tundra Swan Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard Northern Pintail Canvasback Redhead Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Barrow’s Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Common Merganser Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk Bald Eagle Adult California Quail Ring Necked Pheasant Ruffed Grouse Wild Turkey Common Snipe Rock Dove (Pigeon) Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Northern Shrike Steller’s Jay Gray Jay American Magpie American Crow Common Raven Black-capped Chickadee Mountain Chickadee Chestnut-sided Chickadee Red-breasted Nuthatch Pygmy Nuthatch Brown Creeper Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Townsend’s Solitaire European Starling Song Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Red-winged Blackbird House Finch Common Redpoll Pine Siskin American Goldfinch House Sparrow White-throated Sparrow |
2 1 1 5 1870 49 40 282 437 2 7 10 202 43 259 5 13 2 4 1 12 74 2 10 178 1 54 203 1 17 15 34 2 1 11 3 23 85 181 202 48 32 73 1 1 5 1 1 55 9 44 25 84 3 20 53 52 2 |
Bird Watchers--Join our Listserve!
Interested in Pend Oreille County birds, and opportunities for birding? WSU has set up an email list service to make communication easier for us. This is a chance for us to report interesting local sightings, ask bird-related questions, or organize informal birding or wildlife-viewing trips. To subscribe to this list, send email to: join-pobirds@lyris.cahnrs.wsu.edu That's all it takes. Addresses of message recipients are not shown, and instructions on how to “un-subscribe” are included in each message.
Pend Oreille Birding Trail Committee
From low elevation fields, lakes and wetlands to alpine tundra areas, our county has some of the most remarkable birding sites around. We are forming a local committee to begin the process of deciding which places to include in a birding map of the county. This is an opportunity to recognize the value of our wonderful and abundant bird habitat, and to help visitors enjoy it and learn to protect it. If you are interesting in participating in this project—please call the Extension
office, or email cmack@wsu.edu -We will be holding our first committee meeting in late February.
Related websites about bird trails:
Washington State Great Birding Trails:
http://wa.audubon.org/birds_GreatWABirdingTrail.html
A Community Guide to Nature Tourism:
http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/tourism/index.htm
2001 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, andWildlife-Associated Recreation for Washington:
http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/01fhw/fhw01-wa.pdf
