2008 Christmas Bird Count Results
Here are the results from the most recent Edmonton Christmas Bird Count.
Overall, the numbers are a bit down from previous years, most likely largely due to the extremely cold weather on count day (the minimum temperature was -36 degrees!) There were 119 participants and they reported 49 species.
Click here to download a copy of the data you can print off, or you can go to the Audubon Society’s website to download the raw data, view previous years’ data, or check the results from other count circles. (Interesting fact from that website: there were 56,363,060 (!) birds counted in 1,402 count circles across North America)
| Species | # | Species | # | |
| Canada Goose | 3 | Black-capped Chickadee | 3738 | |
| Mallard | 2500 | Boreal Chickadee | 62 | |
| Common Goldeneye | 11 | Red-breasted Nuthatch | 280 | |
| Gray Partridge | 50 | White-breasted Nuthatch | 211 | |
| Ruffed Grouse | 3 | Brown Creeper | 6 | |
| Bald Eagle | 2 | Townsend’s Solitaire | 2 | |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 1 | American Robin | 6 | |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 3 | Varied Thrush | 2 | |
| Northern Goshawk | 7 | European Starling | 18 | |
| Merlin | 14 | Bohemian Waxwing | 10956 | |
| Rock Pigeon | 2332 | Cedar Waxwing | 151 | |
| Great Horned Owl | 6 | White-throated Sparrow | 4 | |
| Boreal Owl | 1 | White-crowned Sparrow | 2 | |
| Northern Saw-whet Owl | 4 | Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco | 54 | |
| Downy Woodpecker | 302 | Snow Bunting | 36 | |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 94 | Pine Grosbeak | 96 | |
| American Three-toed Woodpecker | 1 | Purple Finch | 10 | |
| Northern Flicker | 35 | House Finch | 498 | |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 44 | White-winged Crossbill | 22 | |
| Northern Shrike | 5 | Common Redpoll | 506 | |
| Blue Jay | 463 | Hoary Redpoll | 15 | |
| Black-billed Magpie | 1746 | redpoll sp. | 75 | |
| American Crow | 3 | Pine Siskin | 506 | |
| Common Raven | 213 | American Goldfinch | 4 | |
| Evening Grosbeak | 1 | |||
| House Sparrow | 4366 |
I thought you wanted to know if we see a humingbird in our yard. We did today Friday 21 August 2009.
to Lu Carbyn
We had a ruby throat here a couple weeks ago and he was around again tonight working over the nasturtiums
and other flowers. Last seen about 8:30pm.
Grimshaw is about 520k northwest of Edmonton.
CBE
We saw our last humming bird on the evening of the 17th and none since. Last year it was the 23rd!!
I travel outside the city every day and have been seeing hundreds of geese goin over, esp. at St. Albert. As well as a few cranes. There have been huge flocks of crows and black birds, thousands of them up by Redwater.
Trevor
Sounds great! We’ll be there with the family to celebrate and meet John Acorn. The kids are excited to meet him.
See you tomorrow.
Lowell
This sounds like a great trail to follow.
We love to find and hike trails to see the fall colors like this.
It would be great to see a black bear or wolf!
In a recent Edmonton Journal account, it was stated that no Bohemian Waxwings were seen during the annual count. I would like you to know that Bonnyville is teeming with the birds – they fly in flocks of 100’s as they do every year. This year is different. They came to eat the bountiful mountain ash berries and crabapples, only this year these trees were frozen in the early winter snap. The birds are hungry – and are flying around trying to find food. The mountain ash berries are being swept up off sidewalks, and the birds have tried eating them but merely spit them out when they find they are not edible. I wonder if all these birds will survive the winter? Marjorie Froise