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CLEVELAND LAKEFRONT WINTER BIRDING TRAIL (PDF)

Cleveland Christmas Bird Counts

Species by Number of Years Seen
1940 - 2006

No of Years Seen

Species

1   Barn Owl  --1992
1   Black-legged Kittiwake  --2005
1   Boreal Chickadee  --1972
1   Brandt  --1994 & 1 in count wk
1   Green Heron  --1979
1   Hoary Redpoll  --1995
1   House Wren  --1975
1   King Eider  --1968
1   Lincoln's Sparrow  --1981
1   Long-eared Owl  --2002 & 1 in count wk
1   Merlin  --2006
1   Mute Swan  --1958
1   Nashville Warbler  --2001
1   Ovenbird  --1996
1   Red Phalarope  --1988 & 1 in count wk
1   Red-necked Phalarope  --1953 & 1 in count wk
1   Savannah Sparrow  --1958
1   Short-eared Owl  --1977 & 2 in count wk
1   Wood Thrush  --1978
1   Yellow-crowned Night Heron  --1973
2   Bald Eagle
2   Baltimore Oriole  --1957 & 1967
2   Dunlin   --2 in count wk
2   Eared Grebe
2   Greater White-fronted Goose --1966 & 2006
2   Harlequin Duck  --1975 & 2005
2   Swainson's Thrush  --1971 & 1980
2   White-winged Crossbill  --1963 & 1966
3   Evening Grosbeak  --1985, 1989 & 1990
3   Franklin's Gull  --1 in count wk
3   Iceland Gull  --1 in count wk
3   Northern Gannet  --1947, 1949 & 2005
3   Pomarine Jaeger 
4   Black-crowned Night Heron
4   Blue-winged Teal
4   Broad-winged Hawk
4   Eastern Phoebe  --1952, 1967, 1995 & 2003
4   Peregrine Falcon  --1st in 1997
4   Pine Grosbeak  --last in 1961
4   Purple Sandpiper
4   Red Crossbill  --1964, 1968, 1969 & 1985
4   Snow Goose  --2 in count wk
4   Snowy Owl  --1 in count wk
4   Wild Turkey
5   Little Gull  --1 in count wk
5   Northern Saw-whet Owl
9   Eastern Meadowlark
9   Fox Sparrow
9   Gray Catbird
9   Lapland Longspurs
9   Ring-necked Duck
10   Northern Shoveler
10   Northern Shrike  --1 in count wk
11   Brown Thrasher
12   Common Loon
12   Green-winged Teal  --1 in count wk
12   Thayer's Gull  --1981 & 1 in count wk
13   Hermit Thrush 
13   Rusty Blackbird
13   Tundra Swan
14   Black Scoter
14   Surf Scoter
15   White-crowned Sparrow  --1st in 1962
16   Glaucous Gull  --2 in count wk
16   Killdeer
16   Long-tailed Duck
16   Ruby-crowned Kinglet  --1 in count wk
16   White-winged Scoter
18   Lesser Black-backed Gull
18   Northern Pintail  --2 in count wk
18   Rough-legged Hawk
21   Double-crested Cormorants  --1 in count wk
22   Northern Bobwhite  (not since 1970)
22   Northern Harrier (Marsh Hawk)   --1 in count wk
23   Horned Lark  --only twice since 1986
24   Eastern Screech-owl
24   Ruffed Grouse  (not since 1981)
25   Field Sparrow
25   Northern Mockingbird  --1st in 1962
26   Common Redpoll
27   American Wigeon  --2 in count wk
27   Gadwall  --2 in count wk
27   Yellow-rumped Warbler
29   Pied-billed Grebe  --1 in count wk
30   Red-headed WOODPECKER
30   Wood Duck  --1 in count wk
31   House Finch  --1st in 1976
31   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  --rare before 1953
33   Winter Wren
34   Purple Finch
35   Common Grackle
35   Wilson's Snipe
36   Swamp Sparrow
37   Bufflehead
37   Canvasback
37   Horned Grebe
37   Red-winged Blackbird
38   Brown-headed Cowbird
38   Great Horned Owl
38   Rock Pigeon **
39   American Coot
39   Greater Scaup
40   Pine Siskins
40   Sharp-shinned Hawk
41   Great Black-backed Gull  --1st in 1958
41   Redhead  --2 in count wk
41   Snow Bunting
42   Ring-necked Pheasant
44   Eastern Towhee
44   Hooded Merganser
45   Canada Goose  --1st year 1959
46   Great Blue Heron
46   Ruddy Duck
49   Carolina Wren
53   Common Merganser --1 in count week
54   Red-shouldered Hawk
55   Barred Owl
55   Cooper's Hawk
55   Eastern Bluebird
57   Red-breasted Nuthatch
58   Cedar Waxwing
58   White-throated Sparrow
61   Golden-crowned Kinglet
62   American Kestrel
62   Belted Kingfisher
62   Lesser Scaup  --1 in count wk
62   Northern Flicker
63   Brown Creeper
63   Red-breasted Merganser
64   Morning Dove
65   American Robin
65   Bonaparte's Gull
65   Red-bellied Woodpecker ***
65   Red-tailed Hawk
66   American Black Duck 
66   Common Goldeneye
66   Pileated Woodpecker  --missed in 1951
67   American Crow
67   American Goldfinch
67   American Tree Sparrow
67   Black-capped Chickadee
67   Blue Jay
67   Dark-eyed Junco
67   Downy Woodpecker
67   European Starling
67   Hairy Woodpecker
67   Herring Gull
67   House Sparrow
67   Mallard
67   Northern Cardinal
67   Ring-billed Gull
67   Song Sparrow
67   Tufted Titmouse
67   White-breasted Nuthatch
  Chipping Sparrow
  Common Yellowthroat  --2001 & 1 in count wk
  Dickcissel  --2 in count wk
  Ivory Gull  --1 in count wk
  Vesper Sparrow  --1984 in count wk
  Western Sandpiper  --1 in count wk
  Yellow-headed Blackbird  --1 in count wk
   
**   Counted in 1944 to 1947,
not counted in 1940 to 1943 & 1948 to 1972
***   Numbers below 10 until 1960
   

Compiled by Jean Hoffman & Tom LePage


Page last updated on Friday June 26, 2009

 



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