Great Backyard Bird Count: 2009 Results: Massachusetts

2009 Results: Massachusetts

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

See list of localities in Massachusetts with reports.

Species [taxonomic] [alphabetic]	Number of Birds	Number of Checklists Reporting the Species
Snow Goose	10	3
Brant	1,071	20
Canada Goose	3,491	113
Mute Swan	231	45
Wood Duck	7	4
Gadwall	74	10
American Wigeon	36	9
American Black Duck	1,078	70
Mallard	3,346	141
Northern Shoveler	2	1
Northern Pintail	73	8
Green-winged Teal	37	8
Canvasback	19	3
Ring-necked Duck	219	15
Greater Scaup	364	8
Lesser Scaup	86	5
King Eider	1	1
Common Eider	2,387	28
Harlequin Duck	115	7
Surf Scoter	63	12
White-winged Scoter	107	9
Black Scoter	21	4
Long-tailed Duck	38	4
Bufflehead	1,032	48
Common Goldeneye	428	31
Barrow's Goldeneye	5	3
Hooded Merganser	218	46
Common Merganser	259	27
Red-breasted Merganser	412	38
Ring-necked Pheasant	18	10
Ruffed Grouse	1	1
Wild Turkey	498	51
Northern Bobwhite	19	2
Red-throated Loon	6	3
Common Loon	90	22
Pied-billed Grebe	11	3
Horned Grebe	38	11
Red-necked Grebe	22	8
Double-crested Cormorant	1	1
Great Cormorant	79	9
Great Blue Heron	33	28
Black Vulture	20	4
Turkey Vulture	109	39
Bald Eagle	30	16
Northern Harrier	22	18
Sharp-shinned Hawk	48	48
Cooper's Hawk	54	54
Northern Goshawk	6	5
Red-shouldered Hawk	15	11
Red-tailed Hawk	212	155
Rough-legged Hawk	5	3
Golden Eagle	1	1
American Kestrel	4	4
Merlin	6	6
Peregrine Falcon	7	7
American Coot	11	6
Black-bellied Plover	6	1
Killdeer	2	2
Ruddy Turnstone	5	1
Sanderling	72	5
Purple Sandpiper	111	8
Dunlin	277	3
Wilson's Snipe	1	1
American Woodcock	1	1
Black-legged Kittiwake	1	1
Black-headed Gull	3	3
Ring-billed Gull	2,471	90
Herring Gull	3,041	120
Iceland Gull	53	7
Lesser Black-backed Gull	28	3
Glaucous Gull	7	2
Great Black-backed Gull	411	56
Dovekie	1	1
Razorbill	12	3
Black Guillemot	4	3
Rock Pigeon	1,593	109
Mourning Dove	3,332	644
Eastern Screech-Owl	17	13
Great Horned Owl	14	11
Snowy Owl	9	8
Barred Owl	7	5
Belted Kingfisher	8	7
Red-bellied Woodpecker	423	333
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	8	8
Downy Woodpecker	1,457	773
Hairy Woodpecker	405	290
Northern Flicker	140	106
Pileated Woodpecker	16	16
Northern Shrike	3	2
Blue Jay	2,273	611
American Crow	4,159	508
Fish Crow	32	5
Common Raven	24	11
Horned Lark	96	4
Black-capped Chickadee	3,876	946
Tufted Titmouse	2,190	778
Red-breasted Nuthatch	189	101
White-breasted Nuthatch	1,166	656
Brown Creeper	40	32
Carolina Wren	393	261
Winter Wren	48	22
Golden-crowned Kinglet	16	10
Eastern Bluebird	344	92
Hermit Thrush	21	19
American Robin	1,828	307
Gray Catbird	14	8
Northern Mockingbird	103	81
Brown Thrasher	6	4
European Starling	6,803	255
American Pipit	1	1
Bohemian Waxwing	70	1
Cedar Waxwing	342	18
Orange-crowned Warbler	1	1
Yellow-rumped Warbler	169	47
Pine Warbler	26	7
Eastern Towhee	19	14
American Tree Sparrow	959	181
Field Sparrow	101	29
Savannah Sparrow	28	5
Fox Sparrow	44	20
Song Sparrow	601	248
Swamp Sparrow	19	10
White-throated Sparrow	767	249
White-crowned Sparrow	27	11
Dark-eyed Junco	4,361	761
Lapland Longspur	3	1
Snow Bunting	144	7
Northern Cardinal	2,420	751
Red-winged Blackbird	1,057	122
Rusty Blackbird	1	1
Common Grackle	238	71
Brown-headed Cowbird	81	30
Pine Grosbeak	13	1
Purple Finch	262	92
House Finch	1,423	388
White-winged Crossbill	54	7
Common Redpoll	270	41
Pine Siskin	3,888	378
American Goldfinch	6,137	718
Evening Grosbeak	4	2
House Sparrow	4,237	434
Total	81,923

A total of 141 species were reported.

See list of localities in Massachusetts 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.