2024 Christmas Bird Count

Well, the final results of the 2024 OKC CBC are tabulated. We had 109 species totaling 24,908 birds. We also had one exotic species, 8 Mute Swans and 5 subspecies noted and other genera like gull sp, sparrow sp, and passerine sp.

We had about 41 counters broken up into 19 count teams. Update on party efforts on count day:

                  Party miles on foot…….54.5 mi.

                  Party miles by car………306 mi.

                  Party hours by foot…….70 hours.

                  Party hours by car………48.5 hours.

                  Party hours by boat……..1 hour.

The OKC checklist with our species and numbers appears below

Thanks to all who participated.

            Jimmy Woodard, Compiler

 

Snow Goose

4

Bonaparte’s Gull

41

Yel.-bellied Sapsucker

3

House Sparrow

325

Cackling Goose

48

Ring-billed Gull

5504

Red-headed Wood.

1

American Pipit

8

Canada Goose

1454

Amer. Herring Gull

17

Downy Woodpecker

43

House Finch

90

Mute Swan

8

Les. Black-backed Gull`

3

Hairy Woodpecker

5

Purple Finch

1

Wood Duck

1

Iceland/Thayer’s

1

Pileated Woodpecker

2

Amer. Goldfinch

101

Northern Shoveler

68

Gull sp.

20

Norther Flicker

62

Lapland Longspur

2

Green-winged Teal

215

Forster’s Tern

1

American Kestrel

26

Field Sparrow

7

Canvasback

119

Pied-billed Grebe

57

Eastern Phoebe

3

Amer. Tree Sparrow

2

Redhead

14

Horned Grebe

16

Blue Jay

95

Fox Sparrow

1

Ring-necked Duck

14

Eared Grebe

3

Amer. Crow

263

Dark-eyed Junco

235

Greater Scaup

5

Common Loon

7

Carolina Chickadee

157

Slate-colored Jun.

4

Lesser Scaup

234

Double-crested Cor.

1712

Tufted Titmouse

32

White-crowned Sp.

29

Bufflehead

111

Bl-cr. Night Heron

7

Horned Lark

1

Sparrow sp.

7

Common Goldeneye

57

Great Egret

4

Ruby-crowned King.

38

Harris’s Sparrow

191

Hooded Merganser

203

Great Blue Heron

61

Gold.-crowned King.

23

White-throated Sp.

44

Common Merganser

12

Amer. White Pelican

151

White-br. Nuthatch

1

Savannah Sparrow

6

Red-br. Merganser

910

Black Vulture

3

Brown Creeper

11

Song Sparrow

82

Ruddy Duck

35

Turkey Vulture

2

Winter Wren

1

Lincoln’s Sparrow

4

Blue-winged Teal

5

Sharp-shin. Hawk

6

Carolina Wren

93

Swamp Sparrow

1

Rock Pigeon

905

Cooper’s Hawk

12

Bewick’s Wren

4

Spotted Towhee

22

Eur. Collared Dove

44

Bald Eagle

10

European Starling

6220

Eastern Towhee

1

White-winged Dove

17

Red-shoul. Hawk

20

Brown Thrasher

5

Meadowlark sp.

7

Mourning Dove

124

Red-Tailed Hawk

48

North. Mockingbird

81

Eastern Meadowlark

75

American Coot

146

Hawk

1

East. Bluebird

52

Red-winged Blackbird

422

Killdeer

107

East. Screech Owl

1

Hermit Thrush

1

Passerine sp.

20

Greater Yellowlegs

5

Great Horned Owl

6

Amer. Robin

893

Br.-headed Cowbird

17

 

 

Barred Owl

2

Cedar Waxwing

496

Common Grackle

373

 

 

Belted Kingfisher

30

 

 

Great-tailed Grack.

413

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yel.-rumped Warbler

50

 

 

 

 

 

 

North. Cardinal

324