Great Backyard Bird Count: 2004 Results: Alabama

2004 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
Canada Goose	256	22
Wood Duck	24	8
Gadwall	41	4
American Wigeon	1	1
American Black Duck	2	1
Mallard	115	14
Northern Shoveler	33	3
Canvasback	9	2
Ring-necked Duck	156	4
Greater Scaup	4	1
Lesser Scaup	19	3
Long-tailed Duck	5	1
Bufflehead	10	3
Common Goldeneye	39	2
Red-breasted Merganser	57	6
Ruddy Duck	184	2
Wild Turkey	44	6
Northern Bobwhite	14	2
Pacific Loon	1	1
Common Loon	93	9
Pied-billed Grebe	59	9
Horned Grebe	20	1
Northern Gannet	19	1
American White Pelican	4	1
Brown Pelican	291	16
Double-crested Cormorant	310	13
Anhinga	1	1
Great Blue Heron	130	32
Great Egret	139	4
Snowy Egret	17	4
Little Blue Heron	6	4
Tricolored Heron	2	1
Cattle Egret	6	2
Green Heron	1	1
Black-crowned Night-Heron	2	1
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron	1	1
Black Vulture	130	12
Turkey Vulture	217	37
Osprey	14	8
Bald Eagle	6	4
Northern Harrier	9	4
Sharp-shinned Hawk	16	13
Cooper's Hawk	16	12
Red-shouldered Hawk	19	15
Red-tailed Hawk	161	91
Golden Eagle	2	2
American Kestrel	36	16
Merlin	2	2
Peregrine Falcon	1	1
American Coot	159	5
Killdeer	218	43
Ruddy Turnstone	1	1
Sanderling	3	1
Wilson's Snipe	14	2
Bonaparte's Gull	199	7
Laughing Gull	299	10
Ring-billed Gull	526	12
Herring Gull	72	7
Glaucous Gull	3	1
Common Tern	5	2
Forster's Tern	41	6
Royal Tern	4	1
Black Skimmer	86	2
Rock Pigeon	711	35
Eurasian Collared-Dove	137	14
Mourning Dove	2,652	363
Common Ground-Dove	141	11
Eastern Screech-Owl	1	1
Great Horned Owl	7	6
Barred Owl	6	4
Ruby-throated Hummingbird	3	3
Black-chinned Hummingbird	1	1
Rufous Hummingbird	12	5
Belted Kingfisher	29	24
Red-headed Woodpecker	47	26
Red-bellied Woodpecker	315	206
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	71	59
Downy Woodpecker	331	186
Hairy Woodpecker	40	28
Red-cockaded Woodpecker	2	1
Northern Flicker	46	33
Pileated Woodpecker	28	21
Eastern Phoebe	9	7
Western Kingbird	2	1
Loggerhead Shrike	23	7
Blue-headed Vireo	3	2
Blue Jay	899	295
American Crow	1,099	223
Fish Crow	22	5
Purple Martin	51	16
Tree Swallow	21	7
Carolina Chickadee	846	304
Tufted Titmouse	843	282
Red-breasted Nuthatch	11	7
White-breasted Nuthatch	216	117
Brown-headed Nuthatch	105	59
Brown Creeper	14	10
Carolina Wren	429	218
Bewick's Wren	1	1
House Wren	23	12
Golden-crowned Kinglet	10	4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	31	23
Eastern Bluebird	268	75
Hermit Thrush	55	11
American Robin	3,957	201
Gray Catbird	7	5
Northern Mockingbird	503	244
Brown Thrasher	139	108
European Starling	1,482	118
American Pipit	63	1
Cedar Waxwing	2,178	47
Orange-crowned Warbler	1	1
Yellow-rumped Warbler	229	57
Yellow-throated Warbler	2	2
Pine Warbler	90	56
Palm Warbler	1	1
Common Yellowthroat	2	2
Eastern Towhee	297	131
Bachman's Sparrow	15	3
Chipping Sparrow	1,601	145
Field Sparrow	199	29
Vesper Sparrow	12	3
Savannah Sparrow	134	4
Fox Sparrow	3	2
Song Sparrow	464	118
Swamp Sparrow	18	7
White-throated Sparrow	710	153
White-crowned Sparrow	11	5
Dark-eyed Junco	570	118
Northern Cardinal	2,200	379
Rose-breasted Grosbeak	1	1
Indigo Bunting	6	2
Red-winged Blackbird	3,457	110
Eastern Meadowlark	256	9
Rusty Blackbird	232	2
Brewer's Blackbird	76	7
Common Grackle	24,012	107
Boat-tailed Grackle	13	5
Brown-headed Cowbird	479	48
Baltimore Oriole	2	2
Purple Finch	391	92
House Finch	1,253	228
Red Crossbill	3	1
Pine Siskin	91	11
American Goldfinch	6,640	294
House Sparrow	799	99
Total	66,534

A total of 146 species were reported.

See list of localities in Alabama with reports.

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