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CLEVELAND LAKEFRONT WINTER BIRDING TRAIL (PDF)

Cleveland Christmas Bird Counts

Species with Number of Years Seen
1940 - 2006

No of Years Seen

 Species

2   Greater White-fronted Goose --1966 & 2006
4   Snow Goose  --2 in count wk
45   Canada Goose  --1st year 1959
1   Brandt  --1994 & 1 in count wk
1   Mute Swan  --1958
13   Tundra Swan
30   Wood Duck  --1 in count wk
27   Gadwall  --2 in count wk
27   American Wigeon  --2 in count wk
66   American Black Duck 
67   Mallard
4   Blue-winged Teal
10   Northern Shoveler
18   Northern Pintail  --2 in count wk
12   Green-winged Teal  --1 in count wk
37   Canvasback
41   Redhead  --2 in count wk
9   Ring-necked Duck
39   Greater Scaup
62   Lesser Scaup  --1 in count wk
1   King Eider  --1968
2   Harlequin Duck  --1975 & 2005
14   Surf Scoter
16   White-winged Scoter
14   Black Scoter
16   Long-tailed Duck
37   Bufflehead
66   Common Goldeneye
44   Hooded Merganser
53   Common Merganser --1 in count week
63   Red-breasted Merganser
46   Ruddy Duck
42   Ring-necked Pheasant
24   Ruffed Grouse  (not since 1981)
4   Wild Turkey
22   Northern Bobwhite  (not since 1970)
12   Common Loon
29   Pied-billed Grebe  --1 in count wk
37   Horned Grebe
2   Eared Grebe
3   Northern Gannet  --1947, 1949 & 2005
21   Double-crested Cormorants  --1 in count wk
46   Great Blue Heron
1   Green Heron  --1979
4   Black-crowned Night Heron
1   Yellow-crowned Night Heron  --1973
2   Bald Eagle
22   Northern Harrier (Marsh Hawk)   --1 in count wk
40   Sharp-shinned Hawk
55   Cooper's Hawk
54   Red-shouldered Hawk
4   Broad-winged Hawk
65   Red-tailed Hawk
18   Rough-legged Hawk
62   American Kestrel
1   Merlin  --2006
4   Peregrine Falcon  --1st in 1997
39   American Coot
16   Killdeer
  Western Sandpiper  --1 in count wk
4   Purple Sandpiper
2   Dunlin   --2 in count wk
35   Wilson's Snipe
1   Red-necked Phalarope  --1953 & 1 in count wk
1   Red Phalarope  --1988 & 1 in count wk
3   Pomarine Jaeger 
3   Franklin's Gull  --1 in count wk
5   Little Gull  --1 in count wk
65   Bonaparte's Gull
67   Ring-billed Gull
67   Herring Gull
12   Thayer's Gull  --1981 & 1 in count wk
3   Iceland Gull  --1 in count wk
18   Lesser Black-backed Gull
16   Glaucous Gull  --2 in count wk
41   Great Black-backed Gull  --1st in 1958
1   Black-legged Kittiwake  --2005
  Ivory Gull  --1 in count wk
38   Rock Pigeon **
64   Morning Dove
1   Barn Owl  --1992
24   Eastern Screech-owl
38   Great Horned Owl
4   Snowy Owl  --1 in count wk
55   Barred Owl
1   Long-eared Owl  --2002 & 1 in count wk
1   Short-eared Owl  --1977 & 2 in count wk
5   Northern Saw-whet Owl
62   Belted Kingfisher
30   Red-headed WOODPECKER
65   Red-bellied Woodpecker ***
31   Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  --rare before 1953
67   Downy Woodpecker
67   Hairy Woodpecker
62   Northern Flicker
66   Pileated Woodpecker  --missed in 1951
4   Eastern Phoebe  --1952, 1967, 1995 & 2003
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