Great Backyard Bird Count: 2003 Results: Alabama

2003 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
Snow Goose	13	5
Canada Goose	196	24
Wood Duck	31	8
Gadwall	4	1
Mallard	146	24
Blue-winged Teal	1	1
Northern Shoveler	4	1
Ring-necked Duck	10	3
Lesser Scaup	87	3
Bufflehead	7	3
Red-breasted Merganser	3	1
Wild Turkey	90	10
Northern Bobwhite	10	1
Common Loon	10	5
Pied-billed Grebe	24	8
Horned Grebe	1	1
Northern Gannet	4	1
American White Pelican	3	1
Brown Pelican	109	8
Double-crested Cormorant	192	10
Great Blue Heron	65	29
Great Egret	16	2
Snowy Egret	10	2
Little Blue Heron	1	1
Green Heron	1	1
White Ibis	2	1
Black Vulture	94	19
Turkey Vulture	181	45
Osprey	3	2
Bald Eagle	3	2
Northern Harrier	4	4
Sharp-shinned Hawk	4	4
Cooper's Hawk	14	13
Red-shouldered Hawk	20	13
Red-tailed Hawk	66	48
American Kestrel	18	9
Merlin	3	3
Peregrine Falcon	1	1
American Coot	128	6
Killdeer	61	18
Greater Yellowlegs	2	1
Willet	3	1
Ruddy Turnstone	2	1
Sanderling	24	1
Wilson's Snipe	30	3
American Woodcock	6	3
Bonaparte's Gull	20	1
Laughing Gull	96	2
Ring-billed Gull	420	5
Herring Gull	60	5
Forster's Tern	15	1
Royal Tern	32	2
Rock Pigeon	258	15
Eurasian Collared-Dove	80	20
Mourning Dove	2,118	298
Common Ground-Dove	18	7
Barn Owl	1	1
Eastern Screech-Owl	2	2
Great Horned Owl	12	8
Barred Owl	12	7
Calliope Hummingbird	1	1
Belted Kingfisher	16	14
Red-headed Woodpecker	34	25
Red-bellied Woodpecker	325	216
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	42	32
Downy Woodpecker	264	160
Hairy Woodpecker	26	16
Red-cockaded Woodpecker	2	2
Northern Flicker	53	45
Pileated Woodpecker	29	24
Eastern Phoebe	22	16
Loggerhead Shrike	11	7
White-eyed Vireo	1	1
Blue-headed Vireo	2	1
Blue Jay	621	242
American Crow	629	148
Fish Crow	35	5
Purple Martin	10	2
Carolina Chickadee	777	254
Tufted Titmouse	724	250
White-breasted Nuthatch	184	94
Brown-headed Nuthatch	127	68
Brown Creeper	12	10
Carolina Wren	358	195
House Wren	29	10
Winter Wren	1	1
Marsh Wren	1	1
Golden-crowned Kinglet	6	5
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	35	32
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	3	2
Eastern Bluebird	232	82
Hermit Thrush	7	6
American Robin	2,269	199
Gray Catbird	7	5
Northern Mockingbird	425	215
Brown Thrasher	132	107
European Starling	1,252	45
American Pipit	14	5
Cedar Waxwing	891	20
Orange-crowned Warbler	2	2
Yellow-rumped Warbler	272	79
Pine Warbler	206	101
Palm Warbler	22	4
Black-and-white Warbler	1	1
Common Yellowthroat	10	4
Scarlet Tanager	2	1
Eastern Towhee	287	135
Chipping Sparrow	1,139	92
Field Sparrow	122	24
Vesper Sparrow	1	1
Savannah Sparrow	41	5
Fox Sparrow	31	18
Song Sparrow	362	77
Swamp Sparrow	38	7
White-throated Sparrow	1,015	181
White-crowned Sparrow	39	8
Dark-eyed Junco	678	134
Northern Cardinal	2,451	337
Red-winged Blackbird	1,100	99
Eastern Meadowlark	99	14
Rusty Blackbird	7	5
Brewer's Blackbird	51	4
Common Grackle	2,014	109
Brown-headed Cowbird	400	52
Baltimore Oriole	3	2
Purple Finch	64	20
House Finch	1,194	208
Red Crossbill	8	2
Pine Siskin	1	1
American Goldfinch	2,981	198
House Sparrow	437	79
Total	29,538

A total of 131 species were reported.

See list of localities in Alabama with reports.

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