(BC: Ladner); Snow Goose (Blue Form), 2 (ON: Wallaceburg); Ross's Goose, 1 (NL: St

High Counts: Canadian Christmas Bird Counts 2005-2006

Canadian counts reported 289 species on the 106th Christmas Bird Count, down 11 from last year. Two species were added to the Canadian CBC list—Buller’s Shearwater at Hecate Strait, BC and Le Conte’s Sparrow at Kingston, ON. The national list now stands at 405. British Columbia led the way as usual with 161 high counts, followed by Ontario with 87, and Nova Scotia with 36. Victoria, BC had the highest number for a single count with 35, followed by Ladner, BC (21), Halifax-Dartmouth, NS (12) and Cedar Creek, ON (11). Thirty of the high counts are all-time Canadian highs (not counting the new species mentioned above; numbers boldfaced below). Italics indicate those totals (64 species) that are highs for North America as well as Canada.

Greater White-fronted Goose, 8 (BC: Port Alberni); Snow Goose (white form), 16814 (BC: Ladner); Snow Goose (blue form), 2 (ON: Wallaceburg); Ross's Goose, 1 (NL: St. Johns); Brant, 657 (BC: Ladner); Cackling Goose, 47 (BC: Victoria); Canada Goose, 19480 (AB: Calgary); Mute Swan, 344 (ON: Presqu'ile P.P.); Trumpeter Swan, 1424 (BC: Comox); Tundra Swan, 2614 (ON: St. Clair N.W.A.); Wood Duck, 458 (BC: Chilliwack); Gadwall, 323 (BC: Chilliwack); Eurasian Wigeon, 61 (BC: Ladner); American Wigeon, 48203 (BC: Ladner); American Black Duck, 2703 (NS: Halifax- Dartmouth); Mallard, 17281 (BC: Ladner); Blue-winged Teal, 2 (BC: Pender Harbour; ON: Mindemoya); Northern Shoveler, 274 (BC: Ladner); Northern Pintail, 18117 (BC: Ladner); American Green-winged Teal, 5091 (BC: Ladner); Eurasian Green-winged Teal, 5 (NL: St. Johns; BC: Masset); Canvasback, 5287 (ON: Holiday Beach); Redhead, 2261 (ON: Toronto); Ring-necked Duck, 502 (BC: Victoria); Tufted Duck, 9 (NL: St. Johns); Greater Scaup, 9031 (ON: Prince Edward Point); Lesser Scaup, 3075 (BC: Vancouver); King Eider, 3 (NL: Cape Race); Common Eider, 2250 (NB: Grand Manan Island); Harlequin Duck, 259 (BC: Deep Bay); Surf Scoter, 3918 (BC: Vancouver); White-winged Scoter, 2835 (BC: Comox); Black Scoter, 319 (BC: Parksville-Qualicum Beach); Long-tailed Duck, 24304 (ON: Hamilton); Bufflehead, 2296 (BC: Victoria); Common Goldeneye, 10266 (ON: Sutton); Barrow's Goldeneye, 3747 (BC: Lower Howe Sound); Hooded Merganser, 460 (BC: Victoria); Common Merganser, 6672 (ON: Fisherville); Red-breasted Merganser, 2428 (ON: St. Thomas); Ruddy Duck, 850 (ON: Hamilton).

Chukar, 128 (BC: Kamloops); Gray Partridge, 167 (SK: Regina); Ring-necked Pheasant, 260 (NS: Wolfville); Ruffed Grouse, 39 (ON: Algonquin P.P.); Spruce Grouse, 6 (MB: Thompson); Willow Ptarmigan, 58 (NT: Norman Wells); Rock Ptarmigan, 4 (NU: Rankin Inlet); White-tailed Ptarmigan, 2 (BC: Fauquier); Blue Grouse, 2 (BC: Cawston; Lasqueti Island; Bridesville); Sharp-tailed Grouse, 169 (MB: Lyleton); Wild Turkey, 431 (ON: Orillia); California Quail, 4197 (BC: Penticton); Red-throated Loon, 105 (BC: Vancouver); Pacific Loon, 432 (BC: Nanoose Bay); Common Loon, 151 (BC: White Rock); Yellow-billed Loon, 16 (BC: Hecate Strait); Pied-billed Grebe, 40 (BC: Lake Country); Horned Grebe, 503 (BC: White Rock); Red-necked Grebe, 125 (NB: Grand Manan Island); Eared Grebe, 3 (BC: Parksville-Qualicum Beach); Western Grebe, 343 (BC: Sooke); Northern Fulmar, 2 (BC: Rose Spit; Hecate Strait); Buller's Shearwater, 1 (BC: Hecate Strait); Sooty Shearwater, 22 (BC: Rose Spit); Short-tailed Shearwater, 9 (BC: Rose Spit); Leach's Storm-Petrel, 1 (BC: Broughton Strait); Northern Gannet, 235 (NS: Brier Island); Brandt's Cormorant, 1112 (BC: Sooke); Double-crested Cormorant, 650 (BC: Victoria); Great Cormorant, 167 (NS: Brier Island); Pelagic Cormorant, 422 (BC: Bamfield); American Bittern, 26 (BC: Ladner); Great Blue Heron, 273 (BC: Ladner); Snowy Egret, 1 (NL: St. Johns); Green Heron, 1 (BC: Abbotsford-Mission); Green Heron, 1 (BC: Vancouver); Black-crowned Night-Heron, 9 (ON: Toronto); Turkey Vulture, 11 (BC: Victoria).

Osprey, 1 (BC: Squamish); Bald Eagle, 1030 (BC: Squamish); Northern Harrier, 153 (BC: Ladner); Sharp-shinned Hawk, 19 (ON: St. Clair N.W.A; Fisherville); Cooper's Hawk, 35 (BC: Victoria); Northern Goshawk, 8 (BC: Kelowna); Red-shouldered Hawk, 8 (ON: Point Pelee); Broad-winged Hawk, 1 (NS: Pictou Harbour; Antigonish; Port L'Hebert; ON: Caledon; Elliot Lake (Penokean Hills)); Red-tailed Hawk, 156 (ON: Hamilton); Harlan's Hawk, 2 (BC: Princeton); Rough-legged Hawk, 78 (BC: Creston Valley); Golden Eagle, 13 (BC: Vaseux Lake); American Kestrel, 44 (ON: Fisherville); Merlin, 25 (BC: Kelowna); Gyrfalcon, 4 (ON: Thunder Bay); Peregrine Falcon, 21 (BC: Ladner); Prairie Falcon, 4 (AB: Nanton).

Virginia Rail, 27 (BC: Nanaimo); Common Moorhen, 1 (ON: Ottawa-Gatineau); American Coot, 2896 (BC: Penticton); Sandhill Crane, 120 (ON: Long Point); Black- bellied Plover, 1613 (BC: Ladner); Semipalmated Plover, 1 (NS: Port L'Hebert); Killdeer, 67 (BC: Victoria, White Rock); Black Oystercatcher, 248 (BC: Skidegate Inlet); Greater Yellowlegs, 91 (BC: White Rock); Willet, 1 (BC: Ladner); Spotted Sandpiper, 2 (BCHR Harrison River, Broughton Strait, Squamish, Victoria); Marbled Godwit, 4 (BC: White Rock); Ruddy Turnstone, 2 (NL: Ferryland); Black Turnstone, 533 (BC: Skidegate Inlet); Surfbird, 390 (BC: Nanaimo); Red Knot, 5 (NS: Cape Sable Island); Sanderling, 518 (BC: Masset); Western Sandpiper, 42 (BC: Ladner); Least Sandpiper, 6 (BC: Masset); Purple Sandpiper, 201 (NL: Cape Race); Rock Sandpiper, 7 (BC: Skidegate Inlet); Dunlin, 25508 (BC: Ladner); Long-billed Dowitcher, 30 (BC: Ladner); Wilson's Snipe, 42 (BC: Ladner); American Woodcock, 1 (ON: Blenheim; Point Pelee; Long Point); Red Phalarope, 47 (BC: Port Alberni).

Little Gull, 9 (ON: Woodhouse Township); Black-headed Gull, 365 (NS: Halifax- Dartmouth); Bonaparte's Gull, 1321 (ON: Niagara Falls); Mew Gull, 3542 (BC: Victoria); Ring-billed Gull, 3978 (ON: Toronto); California Gull, 329 (BC: Kelowna); Herring Gull, 5843 (NS: Halifax-Dartmouth); Yellow-legged Gull, 1 (NL: St. Johns); Thayer's Gull, 782 (BC: Parksville-Qualicum Beach); Iceland Gull, 1147 (QC: Tadoussac); Lesser Black-backed Gull, 74 (ON: Barrie); Western Gull, 19 (BC: Masset); Glaucous-winged Gull, 55803 (BC: Ladner); Glaucous Gull, 318 (NL: St. Johns); Great Black-backed Gull, 4515 (NL: St. Johns); Black-legged Kittiwake, 5800 (NB: Grand Manan Island); Forster's Tern, 1 (NS: Halifax-Dartmouth); Forster's Tern, 1 (NS: The Sydneys); Dovekie, 431 (NL: Cape St. Mary's); Common Murre, 1426 (BC: Sooke); Thick-billed Murre, 12 (NS: Halifax-Dartmouth); Razorbill, 1850 (NB: Grand Manan Island); Black Guillemot, 237 (NL: Cape Race); Pigeon Guillemot, 77 (BC: Sidney- South Saltspring); Marbled Murrelet, 219 (BC: Sunshine Coast); Ancient Murrelet, 4197 (BC: Sunshine Coast); Cassin's Auklet, 11 (BC: Hecate Strait); Rhinoceros Auklet, 2 (BC: Pender Islands; Hecate Strait); Atlantic Puffin, 10 (NS: Halifax-Dartmouth).

Rock Pigeon, 5140 (ON: Hamilton); Band-tailed Pigeon, 73 (BC: Pender Islands); Eurasian Collared-Dove, 174 (BC: Cawston); Mourning Dove, 2443 (ON: Cedar Creek); Barn Owl, 38 (BC: Abbotsford-Mission); Western Screech-Owl, 5 (BC: Vaseux Lake); Eastern Screech-Owl, 79 (ON: Fisherville); Great Horned Owl, 31 (ONCA Cambridge); Snowy Owl, 24 (BC: Ladner); Northern Hawk Owl, 7 (SK: Squaw Rapids); Northern Pygmy-Owl, 5 (BC: Bridesville); Barred Owl, 11 (BC: Victoria); Great Gray Owl, 3 (ON: Dryden); Long-eared Owl, 11 (ON: St. Clair N.W.A; Fisherville); Short-eared Owl, 29 (ON: Fisherville; AB: Tofield); Boreal Owl, 2 (AB: Edmonton); Northern Saw-whet Owl, 52 (BC: Vaseux Lake); Anna's Hummingbird, 391 (BC: Victoria); Belted Kingfisher, 44 (BC: Victoria); Lewis's Woodpecker, 1 (BC: Penticton); Red-headed Woodpecker, 4 (ON: Fisherville); Red-bellied Woodpecker, 66 (ON: West Elgin); Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 3 (ON: Cedar Creek); Red-naped Sapsucker, 1 (BC: Chilliwack); Red-breasted Sapsucker, 8 (BC: Duncan); Red-breasted Sapsucker, 8 (BC: Victoria); Downy Woodpecker, 282 (AB: Edmonton); Hairy Woodpecker, 220 (ON: North Bay); American Three-toed Woodpecker, 14 (AB: Banff-Canmore); Black-backed Woodpecker, 9 (ON: Algonquin P.P.); Northern (Red-shafted) Flicker, 536 (BC: Penticton); Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker, 75 (ON: Holiday Beach); Pileated Woodpecker, 49 (AB: Edmonton).

Eastern Phoebe, 1 (ON: Point Pelee; Holiday Beach; Woodhouse Township; West Elgin; Long Point); Say's Phoebe, 2 (BC: Oliver-Osoyoos); Northern Shrike, 16 (BC: Oliver- Osoyoos); Hutton's Vireo, 18 (BC: Pender Islands); Gray Jay, 84 (ON: Kenora); Steller's Jay, 184 (BC: Chilliwack); Blue Jay, 653 (ON: Petroglyphs); Western Scrub-Jay, 1 (BC: Chilliwack); Clark's Nutcracker, 121 (BC: Penticton); Black-billed Magpie, 2114 (AB: Edmonton); American Crow, 37220 (ON: Cedar Creek); Northwestern Crow, 20386 (BC: Vancouver); Common Raven, 1351 (AB: Fort McMurray); Sky Lark, 44 (BC: Sidney- South Saltspring); Horned Lark, 2964 (ON: Cedar Creek); Tree Swallow, 6 (NS: Yarmouth); Black-capped Chickadee, 4700 (AB: Edmonton); Mountain Chickadee, 448 (BC: Bridesville); Chestnut-backed Chickadee, 1412 (BC: Victoria); Boreal Chickadee, 160 (AB: Snake's Head); Tufted Titmouse, 43 (ON: Wallaceburg); Bushtit, 1225 (BC: Victoria); Red-breasted Nuthatch, 404 (AB: Edmonton); White-breasted Nuthatch, 380 (ON: Ottawa-Gatineau); Pygmy Nuthatch, 345 (BC: Kelowna); Brown Creeper, 96 (BC: Victoria).

Rock Wren, 2 (BC: Vaseux Lake); Canyon Wren, 25 (BC: Oliver-Osoyoos); Carolina Wren, 60 (ON: Holiday Beach); Bewick's Wren, 227 (BC: Victoria); House Wren, 1 (NS: Halifax-Dartmouth; ON: Point Pelee); Winter Wren, 377 (BC: Victoria); Marsh Wren, 38 (BC: Ladner); American Dipper, 60 (BC: Squamish); Golden-crowned Kinglet, 1377 (BC: Victoria); Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 376 (BC: Victoria); Eastern Bluebird, 130 (ONST St. Thomas); Western Bluebird, 90 (BC: Penticton); Mountain Bluebird, 2 (BC: Skidegate Inlet); Townsend's Solitaire, 20 (BC: Williams Lake); Hermit Thrush, 51 (BC: Victoria); American Robin, 5765 (BC: Victoria); Varied Thrush, 863 (BC: Victoria); Gray Catbird, 16 (NS: Halifax-Dartmouth); Northern Mockingbird, 69 (ON: St. Catharines); European Starling, 13855 (ON: Niagara Falls); American Pipit, 72 (BC: Victoria); Bohemian Waxwing, 35298 (AB: Edmonton); Cedar Waxwing, 477 (ON: Thunder Bay).

Orange-crowned Warbler, 3 (BC: Victoria); Nashville Warbler, 1 (NS: Cape Sable Island); Cape May Warbler, 1 (BC: Nakusp; NS: Wolfville); Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler, 12 (BC: Ladner); Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler, 96 (NS: Cape Sable Island); Townsend's Warbler, 15 (BC: Sooke); Yellow-throated Warbler, 1 (NB: Moncton; Fredericton); Pine Warbler, 4 (NB: Fredericton); Palm Warbler, 2 (NS: Halifax-Dartmouth; Lunenburg); Black-and-white Warbler, 1 (NL: St. Johns); Common Yellowthroat, 1 (BC: Vancouver; NS: Halifax-Dartmouth; Pictou Harbour); Wilson's Warbler, 1 (NS: Lunenburg); Yellow-breasted Chat, 6 (NS: Halifax-Dartmouth); Western Tanager, 1 (NS: Strait of Canso; BC: Prince George).

Spotted Towhee, 802 (BC: Victoria); Eastern Towhee, 6 (ON: Cedar Creek); American Tree Sparrow, 1826 (ON: Long Point); Chipping Sparrow, 83 (ON: Cedar Creek); Clay- colored Sparrow, 1 (NS: Cape Sable Island; NB: Sackville); Field Sparrow, 61 (ON: Cedar Creek); Vesper Sparrow, 4 (ON: Cedar Creek); Lark Sparrow, 1 (NS: Glace Bay); Savannah Sparrow, 59 (NS: Wolfville); Savannah (Ipswich) Sparrow, 1 (NS: Cape Sable Island); Le Conte's Sparrow, 1 (ON: Kingston); Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow, 2 (NS: Cape Sable Island); Fox Sparrow, 520 (BC: Victoria); Eastern Fox Sparrow, 18 (ON: Blenheim); Song Sparrow, 1387 (BC: Vancouver); Lincoln's Sparrow, 32 (BC: White Rock); Swamp Sparrow, 145 (ON: Long Point); White-throated Sparrow, 440 (ON: Point Pelee); Harris's Sparrow, 3 (AB: Medicine Hat; BC: Kelowna); White-crowned Sparrow, 541 (BC: Abbotsford-Mission); Golden-crowned Sparrow, 812 (BC: Victoria); Dark- eyed (Oregon) Junco, 3059 (BC: Victoria); Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco, 2170 (ON: Woodhouse Township); Lapland Longspur, 138 (ON: Kingston); Snow Bunting, 4148 (ON: Cedar Creek); Northern Cardinal, 612 (ON: London); Rose-breasted Grosbeak, 3 (NB: St. Stephen); Blue Grosbeak, 1 (NB: Fredericton); Dickcissel, 4 (NS: Strait of Canso).

Red-winged Blackbird, 1281 (BC: Ladner); Eastern Meadowlark, 7 (ON: St. Thomas); Eastern Meadowlark, 7 (ON: Cedar Creek); Western Meadowlark, 44 (BC: Victoria); Yellow-headed Blackbird, 1 (BC: Ladner; ON: Presqu'ile P.P.); Rusty Blackbird, 199 (ON: Long Point); Brewer's Blackbird, 1835 (BC: Ladner); Common Grackle, 636 (ON: Cedar Creek); Brown-headed Cowbird, 9552 (ON: St. Clair N.W.A.); Baltimore Oriole, 11 (NS: Halifax-Dartmouth); Brambling, 3 (BC: Port Clements); Gray-crowned Rosy- Finch, 4 (AB: Jasper); Pine Grosbeak, 624 (ON: Iroquois Falls); Purple Finch, 511 (ON: North Bay); Cassin's Finch, 7 (BC: Fernie); House Finch, 1776 (BC: Penticton); Red Crossbill, 166 (BC: Bridesville); White-winged Crossbill, 229 (YT: Teslin); Common Redpoll, 1835 (QC: Quebec); Hoary Redpoll, 216 (NT: Fort Simpson); Pine Siskin, 1602 (ON: Thunder Bay); American Goldfinch, 1335 (ON: London); Evening Grosbeak, 784 (ON: Renfrew); House Sparrow, 5791 (AB: Calgary).