Great Backyard Bird Count: 2001 Results: Alabama

2001 Results: Alabama

Other years: 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

See list of localities in Alabama with reports.

Species [taxonomic] [alphabetic]	Number of Birds	Number of Checklists Reporting the Species
Ross's Goose	2	1
Canada Goose	555	34
Wood Duck	80	13
Gadwall	208	8
American Wigeon	407	5
American Black Duck	8	2
Mallard	1,673	26
Northern Shoveler	163	3
Northern Pintail	16	2
Green-winged Teal	55	4
Canvasback	36	2
Redhead	1	1
Ring-necked Duck	236	9
Lesser Scaup	150	5
Bufflehead	22	3
Common Goldeneye	30	1
Hooded Merganser	11	3
Common Merganser	1	1
Red-breasted Merganser	35	2
Ruddy Duck	1,113	3
Wild Turkey	156	11
Northern Bobwhite	38	5
Common Loon	37	3
Pied-billed Grebe	161	11
Horned Grebe	29	1
Brown Pelican	17	4
Double-crested Cormorant	1,022	5
Great Blue Heron	107	34
Great Egret	73	5
Snowy Egret	8	1
Little Blue Heron	1	1
Tricolored Heron	6	1
Green Heron	1	1
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron	3	1
White Ibis	12	1
Black Vulture	55	22
Turkey Vulture	197	46
Osprey	5	5
Bald Eagle	3	1
Northern Harrier	24	11
Sharp-shinned Hawk	12	11
Cooper's Hawk	16	11
Red-shouldered Hawk	29	22
Red-tailed Hawk	145	79
Golden Eagle	1	1
American Kestrel	39	16
Merlin	1	1
King Rail	2	1
American Coot	501	6
Sandhill Crane	43	2
Killdeer	197	26
Greater Yellowlegs	20	4
Lesser Yellowlegs	16	2
Least Sandpiper	8	3
Dunlin	23	3
Common Snipe	19	4
American Woodcock	3	2
Bonaparte's Gull	8	1
Laughing Gull	44	7
Ring-billed Gull	164	6
Herring Gull	33	2
Caspian Tern	1	1
Forster's Tern	5	1
Royal Tern	5	1
Rock Pigeon	655	27
Eurasian Collared-Dove	122	24
White-winged Dove	2	1
Mourning Dove	2,393	372
Common Ground-Dove	109	11
Barn Owl	4	3
Eastern Screech-Owl	4	2
Great Horned Owl	4	3
Barred Owl	10	7
Rufous Hummingbird	1	1
Belted Kingfisher	36	22
Red-headed Woodpecker	49	39
Red-bellied Woodpecker	292	200
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	49	37
Downy Woodpecker	243	152
Hairy Woodpecker	47	33
Red-cockaded Woodpecker	8	4
Northern Flicker	67	42
Pileated Woodpecker	31	23
Eastern Phoebe	29	22
Loggerhead Shrike	14	10
Blue Jay	755	227
American Crow	960	180
Fish Crow	100	12
Horned Lark	2	1
Purple Martin	6	3
Tree Swallow	33	3
Barn Swallow	3	1
Carolina Chickadee	913	320
Tufted Titmouse	761	272
Red-breasted Nuthatch	7	4
White-breasted Nuthatch	211	106
Brown-headed Nuthatch	194	90
Brown Creeper	10	7
Carolina Wren	372	194
House Wren	41	20
Winter Wren	11	6
Sedge Wren	5	1
Marsh Wren	2	1
Golden-crowned Kinglet	15	7
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	31	19
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	2	1
Eastern Bluebird	422	124
Hermit Thrush	13	10
American Robin	1,529	217
Gray Catbird	19	10
Northern Mockingbird	483	211
Brown Thrasher	160	97
European Starling	1,270	60
American Pipit	195	5
Cedar Waxwing	390	28
Orange-crowned Warbler	9	8
Yellow-rumped Warbler	346	104
Yellow-throated Warbler	8	5
Pine Warbler	203	82
Black-and-white Warbler	1	1
Worm-eating Warbler	1	1
Common Yellowthroat	10	6
Eastern Towhee	243	89
American Tree Sparrow	2	1
Chipping Sparrow	1,209	130
Field Sparrow	217	25
Vesper Sparrow	6	2
Savannah Sparrow	67	7
Fox Sparrow	24	9
Song Sparrow	265	73
Swamp Sparrow	35	9
White-throated Sparrow	949	189
White-crowned Sparrow	35	7
Dark-eyed Junco	852	148
Lapland Longspur	4	1
Northern Cardinal	2,396	369
Indigo Bunting	11	4
Red-winged Blackbird	3,078	118
Eastern Meadowlark	246	24
Rusty Blackbird	524	9
Brewer's Blackbird	253	17
Common Grackle	2,052	109
Boat-tailed Grackle	17	2
Brown-headed Cowbird	646	63
Baltimore Oriole	2	1
Purple Finch	166	52
House Finch	1,911	243
Red Crossbill	17	2
Pine Siskin	148	23
American Goldfinch	4,961	263
House Sparrow	512	117
Total	42,602

A total of 151 species were reported.

See list of localities in Alabama with reports.

This report was updated 15-Mar-2009 16:25 ET.