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1998 Cedar Creek Christmas Bird Count



The Cedar Creek CBC covers the central southern portion of Essex County, Ontario including Kingsville, Harrow, McGregor, Essex and a portion of the Lake Erie shoreline. The fourteenth Cedar Creek CBC on December 19th, 1998 attracted thirty-nine participants who tallied 94 species and 38,085 individual birds. Record high counts were observed for seventeen species (numbers in bold) including Red-bellied Woodpecker, Tufted Titmouse, Carolina Wren, Eastern Bluebird and American Robin. Horned Grebe, Northern Shoveler, Ruddy Duck, Little Gull and Lincoln's Sparrow have been recorded on only a few previous counts. American Coot, Barn Swallow and Northern Rough-winged Swallow were new to the Cedar Creek CBC, bringing the total number of species recorded on all counts to 138.

The excellent results this year (only one species off the record high count of 95 species in 1994) was probably due to the record mild temperatures during the first three weeks of December and the persistence of all observers.

PARTICIPANTS: Area 1 Kingsville: (59 sp/12.5 party hrs) Tom Hince, Ethan Meleg, Dean Ware. Area 2 Cedar Beach: (50 sp/21.5 party hrs) Betty Learmouth, Denise Hartley, Paul Desjardins, Muriel Kassimatis, Margaret Calder, Ron Muir, Ruth Junge, John Moore, Peggy Hurst, David D'hondt, Bob Wickett. Area 3 Gesto: (48 sp/31.5 party hrs) Anne & Brian Barbour, Bonnie Foley, Bernard Beneteau, Allan Merritt, Bernard Calhoun, Hank Hunt, John Zoch, Shirley Grondin, JoAnn Grondin, Jim McAllister, Phil Roberts, Andy Garlatti, Patricia Rhoads. Area 4 S. Colchester: (64 sp/17 party hrs) Steve Pike, Thomas Hurst, Keith Burk, Jim Burk, Jeff Larson, Randy Horvath. Area 5 Harrow: (52 sp/12.5 party hrs) Paul Pratt, Elaine Sinnott, Karen Cedar, June Hurley, Lynda Corkum. After a long day of birding everyone descended on Tom and Peggy Hurst's for the tally and a pot luck dinner.

The list below is divided into four columns: (SPECIES); (#) the number of counts recording this species; (MAX) maximum number recorded in any prior count; (1998) results for 1998 count. Species recorded during count week but never on the count are shown as (cw).


SPECIES # MAX 1998
Common Loon 2 2
Pied-billed Grebe 1 1
Horned Grebe 3 3 3
Red-necked Grebe 1 1
Eared Grebe 1 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1 1
Great Blue Heron 14 50 10
Tundra Swan 7 12
Mute Swan 1 3
Snow Goose 10 14 14
Canada Goose 14 8554 5422
Wood Duck 7 10 1
Green-winged Teal 2 4 4
American Black Duck 14 114 10
Mallard 14 2807 373
Northern Pintail 5 7 7
Blue-winged Teal 1 1
Northern Shoveler 2 2 5
Gadwall 4 2
American Wigeon 4 2 2
Canvasback 5 85 1
Redhead 8 110 2
Ring-necked Duck 3 1
Greater Scaup 8 187 2
Lesser Scaup 5 178
"scaup" species 29
Common Goldeneye 14 30 8
Bufflehead 11 8 7
Hooded Merganser 9 9 4
Common Merganser 14 5515 185
Red-breasted Merganser 14 2449 471
"merganser" species 215
Ruddy Duck 2 1 1
"duck" species 82
Turkey Vulture 5 4 2
Bald Eagle 14 4 3
Northern Harrier 14 28 10
Sharp-shinned Hawk 14 11 7
Cooper's Hawk 14 9 4
Northern Goshawk 3 2
"accipiter" species 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 13 5
Red-tailed Hawk 14 89 40
Rough-legged Hawk 13 25 2
American Kestrel 14 61 35
Peregrine Falcon 1 1
Ring-necked Pheasant 14 24 3
Virginia Rail 1 1
Sora 1 1
American Coot new 1 1
Killdeer 10 42 19
Dunlin 1 1
Common Snipe 6 6 1
American Woodcock 2 1
Little Gull 3 2 1
Bonaparte's Gull 13 5620 2284
Ring-billed Gull 14 4280 398
Herring Gull 14 1333 228
Thayer's Gull 1 1
Lesser Black-backed Gull cw
Glaucous Gull 2 1
Great Black-backed Gull 14 193 37
Black-legged Kittiwake 1 1
"gull" species 37
Rock Dove 14 771 233
Mourning Dove 14 2016 942
E. Screech-Owl 14 56 22
Great Horned Owl 14 29 9
Snowy Owl 2 1
Long-eared Owl 13 14 11
Short-eared Owl 6 3 1
Northern Saw-whet Owl 3 4
Belted Kingfisher 12 4 4
Red-headed Woodpecker 9 9 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 13 29 29
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 6 2
Downy Woodpecker 14 215 150
Hairy Woodpecker 14 10 9
Northern Flicker 14 54 38
Eastern Phoebe 5 1
Horned Lark 14 3152 60
N. Rough-winged Swallow new 1 1
Barn Swallow new 2 2
Blue Jay 14 712 378
American Crow 14 94200 14325
Black-capped Chickadee 14 526 100
Boreal Chickadee 1 1
Tufted Titmouse 7 26 26
Red-breasted Nuthatch 13 19 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 14 106 20
Brown Creeper 14 44 35
Carolina Wren 14 28 28
House Wren 4 1
Winter Wren 12 16 8
Marsh Wren 4 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 14 98 97
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 1
Eastern Bluebird 13 149 149
Mountain Bluebird 1 1
Swainson's Thrush 1 1
Hermit Thrush 13 17 4
American Robin 13 271 271
Gray Catbird 4 1
Northern Mockingbird 8 4 2
Brown Thrasher 5 2 1
American Pipit 1 1
Cedar Waxwing 14 102 2
Northern Shrike 7 1 1
European Starling 14 5797 5180
Orange-crowned Warbler 1 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 12 21 21
Common Yellowthroat 3 2
Northern Cardinal 14 422 318
Dickcissel 1 1
Eastern Towhee 12 7 3
American Tree Sparrow 14 1858 947
Chipping Sparrow 7 11 1
Field Sparrow 14 33 6
Vesper Sparrow 2 1
Savannah Sparrow 5 4 1
Fox Sparrow 5 3
Song Sparrow 14 301 148
Lincoln's Sparrow 2 1 1
Swamp Sparrow 14 90 49
White-throated Sparrow 14 195 43
White-crowned Sparrow 13 126 49
Dark-eyed Junco 14 1065 564
Lapland Longspur 9 30 1
Snow Bunting 13 3185 675
Red-winged Blackbird 14 80 1
(Eastern) Meadowlark 10 59 16
Rusty Blackbird 12 157 6
Common Grackle 13 8 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 14 874 63
Pine Grosbeak 1 3
Purple Finch 13 60 5
House Finch 14 1682 392
Common Redpoll 5 451
Pine Siskin 8 86
American Goldfinch 14 432 159
Evening Grosbeak 3 26
House Sparrow 14 5804 2502


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