Below is a listing of the bird species we saw during the Oklahoma City Christmas Bird Count for 2013, a total of 113 species. We also saw an additional 7 species during count week, for a total of 120 species for the CBC and during count week. A total of 21 parties and 47 people participated on this cold, windy count.
Thanks to all for the extra effort on count day and for the data sheets turned in by each party.
Some of the highlights of the count and count week were Tundra Swan (count week), Red-throated Loon (cw), Solitary Sandpiper (cw), Franklin’s Gull, Thayer’s Gull, California Gull (cw), White-winged Dove, Greater Roadrunner (2), Hairy Woodpecker (3), Eastern Towhee, McCown’s Longspur, and Evening Grosbeak (cw).
| Greater White-fronted Goose | 322 |
| Snow Goose | 16 |
| Cackling Goose | 931 |
| Canada Goose | 1855 |
| Tundra Swan | cw |
| Wood Duck | 10 |
| Gadwall | 168 |
| American Wigeon | 24 |
| Mallard | 1268 |
| Northern Shoveler | 316 |
| Northern Pintail | 98 |
| Green-winged Teal | 138 |
| Canvasback | 44 |
| Redhead | 23 |
| Ring-necked Duckl | 49 |
| Greater Scaup | 13 |
| Lesser Scaup | 82 |
| Bufflehead | 104 |
| Common Goldeneye | 113 |
| Hooded Merganser | 344 |
| Common Merganser | 11 |
| Red-breasted Merganser | 118 |
| Rudd Duck | 31 |
| Duck (sp) | 16 |
| Red-throated Loon | cw |
| Common Loon | 13 |
| Pied-billed Grebe | 26 |
| Horned Grebe | 24 |
| American White Pelican | 40 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 102 |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | 2 |
| Great Blue Heron | 98 |
| Great Egret | 7 |
| Bald Eagle | 4 |
| Northern Harrier | 7 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 1 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 4 |
| Accipiter (sp) | 1 |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | 5 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 106 |
| Ferruginous Hawk | 1 |
| American Kestrel | 23 |
| Merlin | cw |
| Small falcon | 1 |
| American Coot | 38 |
| Killdeer | 14 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | cw |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 14 |
| Least Sandpiper | 51 |
| Wilson’s Snipe | 2 |
| Franklin’s Gull | 1 |
| Bonaparte’s Gull | 95 |
| Ring-billed Gull | 4879 |
| Herring Gull | 224 |
| Thayer’s Gull | 1 |
| California Gull | cw |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | 4 |
| Forster’s Tern | cw |
| Rock Pigeon | 687 |
| Eurasian Collaged-Dove | 81 |
| White-winged Dove | 1 |
| Mourning Dove | 90 |
| Greater Roadrunner | 2 |
| Eastern Screech-Owl | 1 |
| Great Horned Owl | 3 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 9 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 31 |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | 2 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 30 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 3 |
| Northern Flicker | 51 |
| Yellow-shafted Flicker | 10 |
| Red-shafted Flicker | 10 |
| Eastern Phoebe | 2 |
| Loggerhead Shrike | 1 |
| Blue Jay | 104 |
| American Crow | 90 |
| Horned Lark | 43 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 71 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 13 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 1 |
| Brown Creeper | 2 |
| Carolina Wren | 30 |
| Bewick’s Wren | 2 |
| Winter Wren | 2 |
| Marsh Wren | 1 |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | 4 |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 14 |
| Kinglet sp. | 1 |
| Eastern Bluebird | 31 |
| American Robin | 484 |
| Hermit Thrush | 1 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 51 |
| European Starling | 2289 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 182 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | 35 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 1 |
| Spotted Towhee | 7 |
| Eastern Towhee | 1 |
| American Tree Sparrow | 3 |
| Chipping Sparrow | 2 |
| Field Sparrow | 4 |
| Vesper Sparrow | 1 |
| Savannah Sparrow | 16 |
| Fox Sparrow | 35 |
| Song Sparrow | 59 |
| Lincoln’s Sparrow | 1 |
| Swamp Sparrow | 2 |
| White-throated Sparrow | 59 |
| Harris’s Sparrow | 165 |
| White-crowned Sparrow | 17 |
| Dark-eyed Junco | 462 |
| Pink-sided Junco | 1 |
| Lapland Longspur | 2 |
| Smith’s Longspur | 21 |
| McCown’s Longspur | 6 |
| Northern Cardinal | 155 |
| Evening Grosbeak | cw |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 169 |
| Meadowlark (sp) | 133 |
| Common Grackle | 79 |
| Great-tailed Grackle | 389 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 103 |
| House Finch | 145 |
| Pine Siskin | 1 |
| American Goldfinch | 100 |
| House Sparrow | 324 |