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2019 Balcones Count Results Balcones Canyonlands NWR CBC 2019 Bird Tally Eckhardt Flying X Doeskin 1431/CBS BCP/Round MountainLiberty Hill Simons/Russell/Mullen Warbler Vista Webster WebsterCedar (feeder) Stump (Private) CedarWhitewater Stump (feeder) Springs WWSPeaceful (feeder) Springs Arnold/GainerMartin/SalemRodgers Total # presence Black-bellied Whistling Duck 0 goose sp. 0 Snow Goose 0 Wood Duck 12 121 Gadwall 13 10 141 American Wigeon 12254 9 501 Mallard 1 11 Northern Shoveler 0 Northern Pintail 0 Blue-winged Teal 0 Green-winged Teal 2 21 Canvasback 0 Redhead 0 Ring-necked Duck 9 91 Lesser Scaup 12 101 1131 Ruddy Duck 0 duck sp. 1 1 Bufflehead 5 51 Hooded Merganser 5 51 Northern Bobwhite 0 Wild Turkey 3 1 41 Pied-billed Grebe 37 5 151 Eared Grebe 0 American White Pelican 0 Double-crested Corm. 1 1 21 Great Blue Heron 1 1 12 161 Great Egret 121 41 egret sp. 0 Green Heron 0 Black Vulture 23 21142 16 9 20 111 12 1125 2 185 1 Turkey Vulture 7 362 185 17101 1 261 79 1 Osprey 0 Northern Harrier 1 1 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 1 21 Cooper's Hawk 1 11 Accipiter sp 0 White-tailed Hawk 0 Red-shouldered Hawk 0 Red-tailed Hawk 2 1 2 2 32 121 Zone-tailed Hawk 0 small hawk sp. 0 hawk sp. 1 1 Bald Eagle 1 121 American Coot 1 1 21 Sandhill Crane 104 141 Killdeer 228 7 11 481 Spotted Sandpiper 1 11 Greater Yellowlegs 1 11 Wilson's Snipe 1 1 21 Common Snipe 0 American Woodcock 1 671 Ring-billed Gull 0 Rock Pigeon 0 Eurasian Collared-Dove 0 Inca Dove 1 11 Common Ground-Dove 2 21 Balcones Canyonlands NWR CBC 2019 Bird Tally White-winged Dove 4 1215 33 66 3 2 130 211 1 Mourning Dove 2 32141 204 11 841 dove sp. 2 2 Greater Roadrunner 2 131 Eastern Screech-Owl 1 11 Great Horned Owl 2 2 1 51 Short-eared Owl 0 Broad-tailed Hummingbird 0 Black-chinned Hummingbird Hummingbird 0 Rufous Hummingbird 3 31 selasphorous sp. 0 archilochus sp. 0 hummingbird sp. 0 Belted Kingfisher 11 2 41 Green Kingfisher 0 Golden-fronted Woodpecker 11 21 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 21 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 122 1 4101 Red-naped Sapsucker 0 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 3 22912 214 12 2 1 5 551 Downy Woodpecker 1 4 51 Northern Flicker 111 2 51 Northern (Red-shafted) Flicker 1 1 Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker 1 1 woodpecker sp. 1 1 2 Crested Caracara 2 131 1 2 101 American Kestrel 11153 21 533251 Merlin 0 Peregrine Falcon 0 falcon sp. 1 1 Black Phoebe 0 Eastern Phoebe 7 168 193 12 95 2 11 7771 105 1 Say's Phoebe 0 Vermilion Flycatcher 0 Ash-throated Flycatcher 0 Western Kingbird 0 Loggerhead Shrike 3 1 12 15 131 White-eyed Vireo 1 11 Blue-headed Vireo 0 Eastern Solitary Vireo 0 Hutton's Vireo 0 Blue Jay 1 11 Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay (western) 2 33 22 31 1171 scrub-jay sp. 0 American Crow 30 151 189 7 4 3 1 121 101 1 Common Raven 3 112222 4 171 Carolina Chickadee 9 6168 31 1 12 283 13 6 52153 158 1 Black-crested Titmouse 8 8818 315 18 143 15 5 71 1 142 1 Verdin 0 Bushtit 0 Red-breasted Nuthatch 0 Brown Creeper 0 Cactus Wren 0 Rock Wren 0 Canyon Wren 12 1151 House Wren 1217 1 2 2 161 Winter Wren 0 Sedge Wren 0 Balcones Canyonlands NWR CBC 2019 Bird Tally Carolina Wren 37152 12 1 351401 Bewick's Wren 4 3333 64 342 351 Marsh Wren 1 11 wren sp. 1 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 0 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 231 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 7 51013 14 14 156 7 2 5782 115 1 Eastern Bluebird 5111914 10 4 78 781 Mountain Bluebird 0 Swainson's Thrush 0 Hermit Thrush 1 244 15 2 191 Varied Thrush 0 American Robin 16 102445 8 183 626 28 3361 386 1 Brown Thrasher 0 Sage Thrasher 0 Curve-billed Thrasher 0 Gray Catbird 1 11 Northern Mockingbird 16 472 83 1211 1 311 372 1 European Starling 2518201 641 Cedar Waxwing 1 44656 447 24 27 8537 331 1 American Pipit 32 2 341 Sprague's Pipit 0 Orange-crowned Warbler 13541 31 2 4 2 1 271 Common Yellowthroat 0 Pine Warbler 0 Yellow-rumped Warbler 6 144 4 1 201 Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler 0 Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler 21 3 Grasshopper Sparrow 2 1 31 Le Conte's Sparrow 1 11 Ammodramus sp. 1 1 Chipping Sparrow 3 30 34 3280 22 1 15 64 218 2 303 1 Field Sparrow 4 136 254 42 3 11 991 Black-throated Sparrow 43 181 Lark Sparrow 1 47121 Fox Sparrow 3 31 Dark-eyed Junco 29 710 1291 Dark-eyed (Oregon) Junco 0 Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco 828 18 White-crowned Sparrow 19 122 235 4 741 Harris's Sparrow 4 27232 381 White-throated Sparrow 2 71 101 Vesper Sparrow 9 662 1 7 311 Savannah Sparrow 3428 63 14 311 Song Sparrow 14 352 9 1 3 3401 Lincoln's Sparrow 6 241624 3 281 Swamp Sparrow 0 Green-tailed Towhee 0 Canyon Towhee 31 41 Rufous-crowned Sparrow 2723 111 3 12 231 Spotted Towhee 6 1312 10 4 1 34351 Eastern Towhee 1 11 Rufous-sided Towhee sp 0 Cassin's Sparrow 0 Lark Bunting 0 sparrow sp. 1 45 2 2 86468 Chestnut-collared Longspur 0 longspur sp. 0 Northern Cardinal 58 16 38 46 20 39 22 19 15 171630 3 339 1 Balcones Canyonlands NWR CBC 2019 Bird Tally Pyrrhuloxia 0 Red-winged Blackbird 301302 75 49 39 325 1 Eastern Meadowlark 11 21 Western Meadowlark 1 11 meadowlark sp. 4 25 51 276 113 Brewer's Blackbird 0 Common Grackle 0 Great-tailed Grackle 813 211 Brown-headed Cowbird 1 11 blackbird sp. 75 75 Purple Finch 0 House Finch 184 7 81 381 Pine Siskin 1 11 Lesser Goldfinch 18 7312712 8 581 American Goldfinch 27198 12 2 1 2221 House Sparrow 521 261 Least Sandpiper 0 Total Individuals 305 172 285 448 1073 293 662 187 82 0 194 0 400 0 238 407 143 35 4924 101.
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