Great Backyard Bird Count: 2009 Results: California

2009 Results: California

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

See list of localities in California with reports.

Species [taxonomic] [alphabetic]	Number of Birds	Number of Checklists Reporting the Species
Greater White-fronted Goose	11,568	51
Snow Goose	24,373	53
Ross's Goose	1,326	10
Brant	2,031	12
Cackling Goose	712	18
Canada Goose	11,928	432
Mute Swan	20	7
Tundra Swan	2,499	41
Wood Duck	620	79
Mandarin Duck	7	3
Gadwall	1,278	89
Eurasian Wigeon	27	15
American Wigeon	6,507	160
Mallard	9,772	618
Blue-winged Teal	356	22
Cinnamon Teal	809	74
Northern Shoveler	6,073	127
Northern Pintail	3,631	78
Green-winged Teal	3,253	92
Canvasback	1,708	68
Redhead	352	22
Ring-necked Duck	1,224	107
Greater Scaup	1,295	45
Lesser Scaup	1,306	78
Surf Scoter	543	36
White-winged Scoter	19	3
Black Scoter	6	2
Long-tailed Duck	1	1
Bufflehead	3,341	236
Common Goldeneye	1,219	107
Barrow's Goldeneye	27	8
Hooded Merganser	184	56
Common Merganser	1,101	118
Red-breasted Merganser	43	19
Ruddy Duck	6,623	188
Chukar	3	2
Ring-necked Pheasant	50	38
Common Peafowl	14	3
Wild Turkey	1,492	106
Helmeted Guineafowl	1	1
Mountain Quail	30	7
California Quail	5,470	418
Gambel's Quail	264	19
Red-throated Loon	29	9
Pacific Loon	26	9
Common Loon	111	17
Pied-billed Grebe	609	185
Horned Grebe	109	26
Eared Grebe	482	53
Western Grebe	1,369	93
Clark's Grebe	103	26
Laysan Albatross	1	1
Black-footed Albatross	6	3
Northern Fulmar	4	2
Pink-footed Shearwater	1	1
Black-vented Shearwater	47	4
American White Pelican	1,442	88
Brown Pelican	3,379	84
Brandt's Cormorant	2,554	32
Double-crested Cormorant	5,432	296
Pelagic Cormorant	225	32
American Bittern	6	6
Least Bittern	3	3
Great Blue Heron	634	316
Great Egret	1,358	391
Snowy Egret	1,035	249
Little Blue Heron	12	5
Reddish Egret	1	1
Cattle Egret	625	23
Green Heron	81	48
Black-crowned Night-Heron	596	80
White-faced Ibis	674	18
Turkey Vulture	3,144	711
California Condor	4	1
Osprey	105	67
White-tailed Kite	198	107
Bald Eagle	161	82
Northern Harrier	208	98
Sharp-shinned Hawk	181	158
Cooper's Hawk	454	362
Red-shouldered Hawk	621	399
Swainson's Hawk	8	6
Red-tailed Hawk	1,518	718
Ferruginous Hawk	26	23
Rough-legged Hawk	31	11
Golden Eagle	39	26
American Kestrel	450	235
Merlin	48	42
Peregrine Falcon	54	48
Prairie Falcon	25	23
Clapper Rail	5	3
Virginia Rail	10	6
Sora	19	16
Common Moorhen	98	35
American Coot	28,548	416
Sandhill Crane	3,403	26
Black-bellied Plover	806	24
Pacific Golden-Plover	2	2
Snowy Plover	235	14
Semipalmated Plover	84	10
Killdeer	1,091	224
Mountain Plover	13	2
Black Oystercatcher	29	10
Black-necked Stilt	1,545	57
American Avocet	1,626	51
Spotted Sandpiper	71	43
Wandering Tattler	9	3
Greater Yellowlegs	127	47
Willet	1,547	77
Lesser Yellowlegs	22	9
Whimbrel	38	22
Long-billed Curlew	436	50
Marbled Godwit	2,879	52
Ruddy Turnstone	21	5
Black Turnstone	193	16
Surfbird	98	8
Red Knot	1	1
Sanderling	718	25
Western Sandpiper	1,620	29
Least Sandpiper	2,238	46
Rock Sandpiper	1	1
Dunlin	865	15
Stilt Sandpiper	3	1
Short-billed Dowitcher	256	13
Long-billed Dowitcher	1,482	30
Wilson's Snipe	170	23
Red Phalarope	4	1
Black-legged Kittiwake	11	2
Bonaparte's Gull	3,198	13
Laughing Gull	6	2
Heermann's Gull	943	39
Mew Gull	774	44
Ring-billed Gull	9,196	226
Western Gull	5,060	227
Yellow-footed Gull	1	1
California Gull	14,088	408
Herring Gull	2,701	58
Thayer's Gull	403	25
Iceland Gull	3	1
Glaucous-winged Gull	1,099	69
Glaucous Gull	3	3
Caspian Tern	17	8
Forster's Tern	276	39
Royal Tern	92	13
Black Skimmer	710	8
Parasitic Jaeger	4	2
Common Murre	18	2
Pigeon Guillemot	1	1
Marbled Murrelet	2	1
Xantus's Murrelet	2	1
Cassin's Auklet	48	2
Rhinoceros Auklet	2	1
Tufted Puffin	2	1
Rock Pigeon	12,737	513
Band-tailed Pigeon	3,750	295
Eurasian Collared-Dove	783	151
Spotted Dove	21	2
White-winged Dove	11	4
Mourning Dove	15,748	2,219
Inca Dove	7	2
Common Ground-Dove	106	30
Ruddy Ground-Dove	4	2
Rose-ringed Parakeet	36	5
Black-hooded Parakeet	20	3
Blue-crowned Parakeet	10	2
Mitred Parakeet	42	7
Red-masked Parakeet	103	9
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet	19	5
Red-crowned Parrot	674	32
Lilac-crowned Parrot	36	4
Red-lored Parrot	5	2
Yellow-headed Parrot	22	5
Greater Roadrunner	58	39
Barn Owl	55	35
Western Screech-Owl	25	21
Great Horned Owl	153	100
Northern Pygmy-Owl	5	4
Burrowing Owl	17	13
Barred Owl	2	1
Long-eared Owl	9	3
Short-eared Owl	1	1
Northern Saw-whet Owl	4	3
Lesser Nighthawk	2	1
Common Poorwill	16	3
Vaux's Swift	1	1
White-throated Swift	658	31
Anna's Hummingbird	5,011	1,788
Costa's Hummingbird	218	109
Rufous Hummingbird	151	77
Allen's Hummingbird	671	275
Belted Kingfisher	147	123
Lewis's Woodpecker	40	16
Acorn Woodpecker	1,553	460
Williamson's Sapsucker	6	3
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	1	1
Red-naped Sapsucker	7	4
Red-breasted Sapsucker	58	56
Ladder-backed Woodpecker	27	16
Nuttall's Woodpecker	766	478
Downy Woodpecker	261	175
Hairy Woodpecker	75	59
White-headed Woodpecker	12	8
Northern Flicker	1,239	617
Gilded Flicker	4	2
Pileated Woodpecker	28	22
Hammond's Flycatcher	1	1
Gray Flycatcher	4	4
Pacific-slope Flycatcher	5	4
Black Phoebe	1,856	984
Say's Phoebe	247	146
Vermilion Flycatcher	16	9
Tropical Kingbird	1	1
Cassin's Kingbird	291	89
Loggerhead Shrike	55	38
Northern Shrike	2	2
Cassin's Vireo	2	1
Hutton's Vireo	87	52
Gray Jay	4	2
Steller's Jay	1,849	448
Island Scrub-Jay	6	4
Western Scrub-Jay	4,230	1,706
Pinyon Jay	16	1
Clark's Nutcracker	8	3
Black-billed Magpie	52	13
Yellow-billed Magpie	968	179
American Crow	25,466	1,551
Common Raven	2,911	622
Horned Lark	320	27
Tree Swallow	2,602	82
Violet-green Swallow	101	17
Northern Rough-winged Swallow	70	16
Cliff Swallow	146	12
Barn Swallow	61	10
Black-capped Chickadee	34	11
Mountain Chickadee	297	76
Chestnut-backed Chickadee	1,955	603
Oak Titmouse	1,754	857
Verdin	72	18
Bushtit	4,792	467
Red-breasted Nuthatch	137	85
White-breasted Nuthatch	778	434
Pygmy Nuthatch	176	59
Brown Creeper	113	62
Cactus Wren	80	37
Rock Wren	55	21
Canyon Wren	16	11
Bewick's Wren	509	327
House Wren	270	116
Winter Wren	60	26
Marsh Wren	257	54
American Dipper	1	1
Red-whiskered Bulbul	17	6
Golden-crowned Kinglet	74	27
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	711	397
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	48	22
California Gnatcatcher	40	12
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher	2	1
Western Bluebird	1,277	294
Mountain Bluebird	35	13
Townsend's Solitaire	15	10
Hermit Thrush	309	182
American Robin	11,286	892
Varied Thrush	270	88
Wrentit	308	103
Northern Mockingbird	1,579	863
Sage Thrasher	2	2
California Thrasher	216	123
Crissal Thrasher	7	2
Le Conte's Thrasher	7	3
European Starling	15,069	599
American Pipit	425	47
Cedar Waxwing	9,727	312
Phainopepla	65	35
Tennessee Warbler	4	4
Orange-crowned Warbler	271	140
Nashville Warbler	2	2
Yellow Warbler	12	9
Chestnut-sided Warbler	1	1
Yellow-rumped Warbler	5,236	853
Black-throated Gray Warbler	7	6
Townsend's Warbler	146	94
Black-and-white Warbler	2	2
American Redstart	1	1
Common Yellowthroat	262	69
Wilson's Warbler	3	3
Painted Redstart	1	1
Western Tanager	4	3
Spotted Towhee	1,865	785
California Towhee	3,232	1,353
Abert's Towhee	41	6
Rufous-crowned Sparrow	117	31
Chipping Sparrow	280	60
Brewer's Sparrow	4	2
Vesper Sparrow	65	13
Lark Sparrow	889	103
Black-throated Sparrow	73	15
Sage Sparrow	29	11
Savannah Sparrow	1,076	95
Grasshopper Sparrow	5	3
Fox Sparrow	443	207
Song Sparrow	1,788	476
Lincoln's Sparrow	139	82
Swamp Sparrow	4	4
White-throated Sparrow	67	56
Harris's Sparrow	1	1
White-crowned Sparrow	16,257	1,829
Golden-crowned Sparrow	4,620	800
Dark-eyed Junco	15,326	1,633
Lapland Longspur	1	1
Chestnut-collared Longspur	1	1
Northern Cardinal	8	4
Black-headed Grosbeak	4	4
Red-winged Blackbird	19,167	421
Tricolored Blackbird	275	37
Western Meadowlark	2,257	178
Yellow-headed Blackbird	28	4
Rusty Blackbird	1	1
Brewer's Blackbird	17,806	442
Great-tailed Grackle	921	54
Brown-headed Cowbird	886	75
Hooded Oriole	9	8
Bullock's Oriole	3	3
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch	115	1
Purple Finch	1,288	237
Cassin's Finch	159	22
House Finch	27,758	2,373
Pine Siskin	3,114	296
Lesser Goldfinch	19,467	1,496
Lawrence's Goldfinch	136	13
American Goldfinch	14,199	941
Evening Grosbeak	12	2
House Sparrow	12,504	1,265
Orange Bishop	7	3
Nutmeg Mannikin	72	14
Total	542,416

A total of 334 species were reported.

See list of localities in California with reports.

This report was updated 15-Mar-2009 16:25 ET. Bird checklists submitted to GBBC are included on these results within about 2 hours of submission.