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Detroit River Christmas Bird Count

The Detroit River bird count is held each year on New Year's Day. The CBC includes both the American and Canadian sides of the Detroit River. The totals provided on this page are for the thirty percent of the count which falls in Canada. The Ojibway Prairie Complex and Detroit River shoreline account for the majority of coverage in Windsor.

2007 FIELD OBSERVERS: Karen Cedar, Paul DesJardins, JoAnn Grondin, Shirley Grondin, Dan Loncke, Bonnie Ross, Kathy Lesperance, JP Marentette, Mary Montsch, Ron Muir, Jacques Nicoletti, Paul Pratt, Ian Woodfield.

The list below is divided into 9 columns: SPECIES and the results for 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. Species recorded during count week but not on count day are shown as (CW).

SPECIES	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
species total	57	61	63	63	54	54	60	67	65	61
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron	1	2	2	1	1			2	8	6
Tundra Swan		6	1		28	92	1	76	54	2
Mute Swan	3	12	2	34	38	30	17	236	7	39
swan sp.			3				10
Snow Goose
Canada Goose	984	1410	2441	97	415	870	844	1379	697	356
Wood Duck
American Black Duck	30	10	15	11	13	7	7	1	3
Mallard	688	660	1282	572	447	165	141	307	173	102
Northern Pintail		1				1
Gadwall	CW	CW			18	3	5	11
American Wigeon		3						1
Canvasback	333	4	2	70	16	65	169	285	20065	295
Redhead	4	14	1	1	9	1		6	14	16
Ring-necked Duck		CW	6					56	3	1
Greater Scaup	9		2	1		1	1	25		7
Lesser Scaup	2		2	1		3	1	4
"scaup" species								17
Common Goldeneye	461	41	25	148	7	47	22	114	4	108
Bufflehead	9	32	38	35		35	8	8	36	23
Oldsquaw
Hooded Merganser	CW						5	17		6
Common Merganser	1198	176	130	82	12	43	59	1240	6	94
Red-breasted Merganser	2	8	26	550				3		5
Merganser species					71		53
Ruddy Duck								1
duck sp.			14	18		8	3	16		32
Bald Eagle	1		1	1ad.	1ad.		2ad.	3ad.	2ad.	2i
Northern Harrier										1
Sharp-shinned Hawk	1	2	1	3			CW	1	1	1
Cooper's Hawk	CW	1	2	5		3	2	3	5	8
Northern Goshawk								1
accipiter sp.			1	1
Red-shouldered Hawk									2
Red-tailed Hawk	26	18	32	15	18	12	17	18	9	9
Rough-legged Hawk		1		2				1
American Kestrel	6	5	14	3	2	8	4	7	9	8
Merlin				1
Peregrine Falcon		CW				2		2	1
hawk species						1
Ring-necked Pheasant	3	8	3	15	3	2	7	4	4	6
Wild Turkey										1
Sora
American Coot					1
Killdeer		CW
Common Snipe
Bonaparte's Gull	29	30	11				77	CW		132
Ring-billed Gull	352	375	397	390	23	215	320	504	2	794
Herring Gull	113	47	167	275	68	101	62	124	195	11
Iceland Gull								CW
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull	3	CW	5	9				3	1	3
"gull" species	110	76	70	90	120		22	2	6	8
Rock Pigeon	367	292	379	562	249	736	706	837	971	1130
Mourning Dove	245	511	389	397	183	169	186	332	450	370
E Screech-Owl	1	7	2	3	1	4	1	3	CW	1
Great Horned Owl	3	4	4	2		2	2	2	3
Snowy Owl
Long-eared Owl	1
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Belted Kingfisher	1	4	1	4	3	1	1	2	1	1
Red-headed Woodpecker					1
Red-bellied Woodpecker	4	3	9	1	5	5	18	17	15	3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker	17	44	54	81	52	62	81	89	78	74
Hairy Woodpecker		2					1	1	2	2
Northern Flicker	2	2	1	1	6	1	3		4	2
woodpecker sp.									1
Horned Lark	1	306		23		28	3		1	2
Blue Jay	51	67	201	191	237	60	71	37	201	26
American Crow	63	60	220	430	129	6	12	6	35	1
Black-capped Chickadee	82	142	149	121	166	29	46	67	188	53
Tufted Titmouse	16	25	32	35	27	7	7	4	3	4
Red-breasted Nuthatch	1		10		5		1	1	1	2
White-breasted Nuthatch	30	16	34	8	24	11	21	20	55	8
Brown Creeper		1		1		3	3	4	6	2
Carolina Wren	6	9	8	6	2	8	19	5	25	23
House Wren
Winter Wren			1					2	5	CW
Marsh Wren		1					CW
Golden-crowned Kinglet		5		2		5	CW	1	4	10
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird	8	4	5	2	9	6	1		4	8
Hermit Thrush		1	2	3					1	CW
American Robin	4	5	7	44	5	4	2	4	10	48
Gray Catbird					1		1
Northern Mockingbird	1		1	1	1		2
Brown Thrasher						CW
Cedar Waxwing	5		11	9		27	2	2	1
Northern Shrike		1	1					1		1
European Starling	15000	498	911	637	787	1052	1196	683	794	1105
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Yellowthroat										1
Northern Cardinal	107	166	154	163	101	88	128	106	85	81
Eastern Towhee				1	1				1
American Tree Sparrow	75	296	203	138	88	121	107	61	74	29
Chipping Sparrow						1
Field Sparrow		1		1			1		2
Savannah Sparrow									1
Fox Sparrow				1	1			1	CW
Song Sparrow	6	30	36	45	9	14	21	9	24	12
Swamp Sparrow	1		1				1	1	3	2
White-throated Sparrow	6	5	4	23	10	2	6	1	42	5
White-crowned Sparrow	2	17	1	4	11	1	6	6	16	20
Dark-eyed Junco	198	350	226	171	115	158	331	279	250	539
"Oregon" Junco		1
Lapland Longspur									1
Snow Bunting		289					CW		1
Red-winged Blackbird		CW	23	4	7		11	2	4	5
Eastern Meadowlark
Rusty Blackbird		17	7	2	8	4	27		6
Common Grackle	2	1	19	7	7		CW	3	CW
Brown-headed Cowbird	71	142	252	37	198	19	320	6	40	1
Purple Finch										0
House Finch	114	216	250	89	75	84	126	76	101	50
Common Redpoll	21
Pine Siskin			1
American Goldfinch	63	79	112	84	29	91	109	84	156	257
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow	408	488	609	617	980	579	803	517	503	1161

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