Christmas Bird Count Data
for the Guadalupe River Park & Gardens
Species 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
American Coot             1 2  
American Crow 16 5 9 13 7 13 12 38 38
American Goldfinch 10 0 20 45 4 33   60  
American Kestrel 2 2 0 2 2 1      
American Robin 14 2 10 25 1 45 33 52 10
Anna's Hummingbird 10 4 13 16 7 13 23 27 14
Belted Kingfisher 1 3 3 1 1 1     1
Bewick's Wren 0 0 2 4 0 3 3 2  
Black Phoebe 6 15 14 12 7 46 33 29 26
Brewer's Blackbird 57 36 0 17 160 1   100 412
Brown-headed Cowbird               5  
Bushtit 61 64 17 32 18 27 62 60 89
California Gull               30 2
California Towhee 9 7 12 10 4 0 8 20 16
Canada Goose             1 8 2
Cedar Waxwing 1 45 42 23 0 95 170 70 40
Chestnut-backed Chickadee 0 4 0 4 0 9 12 15 6
Common Merganser 0 0 1 2 0 0      
Cooper's Hawk 0 0 0 1 0 0 2    
Dark-Eyed (Oregon) Junco               8  
Double-crested Cormorant 1 2 2 0 2 0 2    
Downy Woodpecker 0 2 2 2 0 0 4 1  
European Starling 15 105 10 40 77 116 300 500 375
Glaucous-winged Gull               3  
Golden-crowned Sparrow 1 19 8 20 26 9 12 4 5
Great Blue Heron 0 1 0 1 2 0   1  
Great Egret 4 5 1 3 2 2 5 2 2
Green Heron 0 0 0 1 0 0      
gull, sp. 165 65 50 41 100 158   50 69
Hermit Thrush 0 0 1 0 0 5   6 1
Hooded Merganser               1  
House Finch 48 17 17 19 13 97   6 11
House Sparrow 16 7 3 8 0 5   40 16
Hutton's Vireo               1  
Killdeer 0 0 0 0 0 1      
Lesser Goldfinch 18 7 0 5 0 9   1 49
Lincoln's Sparrow 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 2  
Loggerhead Shrike 1 0 0 1 0 2 1    
Mallard 3 15 2 11 13 12 12 29 14
Merlin 0 0 1 0 0 0   1 1
Mourning Dove 69 41 53 69 49 52 30 64 56
Northern Harrier 0 0 0 0 0 1      
Northern Mocking Bird 18 5 11 12 7 9 9 5 11
Northern Red-shafted Flicker 9 6 8 3 2 7 1 6 4
Nuttall's Woodpecker 0 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 5
Oak Titmouse             2   3
Pied-billed Grebe               1  
Pine Siskin 0 0 0 7 0 0      
Red-shouldered Hawk 1 0 2 2 2 3 1 3  
Red-tailed Hawk 4 2 2 3 0 4 6 3 3
Red-winged Blackbird 0 0 0 0 50 0   10  
Ring-billed Gull               1  
Rock Pigeon 90 56 52 98 45 85 125 210 64
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4 2 4 7 1 19 17 12 2
Say's Phoebe 0 0 0 0 0 1     1
Sharp-shinned Hawk             2    
Snowy Egret 0 0 1 1 3 0 6   2
Song Sparrow 0 0 0 3 0 7 7 5 1
Spotted Towhee 1 0 0 0 0 0      
Townsend's Warbler 0 0 2 0 0 0   3  
Tricolored Blackbird               1  
Turkey Vulture 5 0 2 1 0 5 6 2 1
Western Blue Bird           1 5   7
"Westen" Flycatcher                 1
Western Scrub Jay 40 12 15 12 4 16 10 12 15
White-crowned Sparrow 8 27 11 32 75 30 73 15 47
White-throated Swift 0 0 0 0 8 0 5   2
Wilson's Snipe             1   1
Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler             42 10 3
Yellow rumped (Myrtle) Warbler               4  
Yellow-rumped Warbler (form) 40 1 38 19 1 107   40 46
Total Number of Birds 774 599 445 641 696 1053 1048 1582 1474
Total Species Seen At least 37 At least 33 At least 36 At least 45 At least 32 At least 40 At least 39 At least 52  

 

*Due to the windy and rainy conditions on the counting day in 2002, it is possible that fewer numbers and species of birds were observed