Great Backyard Bird Count: 2009 Results: Maine

2009 Results: Maine

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

See list of localities in Maine with reports.

Species [taxonomic] [alphabetic]	Number of Birds	Number of Checklists Reporting the Species
Snow Goose	2	1
Brant	4	1
Canada Goose	467	33
American Black Duck	1,092	89
Mallard	2,601	123
Northern Pintail	2	2
Ring-necked Duck	3	3
King Eider	1	1
Common Eider	5,120	68
Harlequin Duck	28	5
Surf Scoter	39	5
White-winged Scoter	36	9
Black Scoter	159	5
Long-tailed Duck	862	32
Bufflehead	565	61
Common Goldeneye	468	69
Barrow's Goldeneye	26	9
Hooded Merganser	31	11
Common Merganser	60	11
Red-breasted Merganser	222	30
Ring-necked Pheasant	9	6
Ruffed Grouse	49	37
Spruce Grouse	1	1
Wild Turkey	2,030	155
Common Loon	222	57
Horned Grebe	31	11
Red-necked Grebe	11	5
Great Cormorant	33	7
Bald Eagle	143	96
Northern Harrier	2	2
Sharp-shinned Hawk	23	23
Cooper's Hawk	13	13
Northern Goshawk	11	10
Red-tailed Hawk	38	32
American Kestrel	1	1
Merlin	1	1
Peregrine Falcon	1	1
Sanderling	2	1
Purple Sandpiper	12	2
Dunlin	9	1
Bonaparte's Gull	3	1
Ring-billed Gull	408	43
Herring Gull	6,773	198
Iceland Gull	6	5
Lesser Black-backed Gull	3	2
Glaucous Gull	9	6
Great Black-backed Gull	145	43
Black Guillemot	11	5
Rock Pigeon	976	88
Mourning Dove	4,811	632
Great Horned Owl	7	4
Snowy Owl	3	3
Northern Hawk Owl	1	1
Barred Owl	14	10
Northern Saw-whet Owl	4	4
Belted Kingfisher	3	3
Red-bellied Woodpecker	129	122
Downy Woodpecker	1,044	638
Hairy Woodpecker	907	577
Black-backed Woodpecker	1	1
Northern Flicker	11	10
Pileated Woodpecker	81	73
Northern Shrike	9	8
Gray Jay	123	34
Blue Jay	4,769	812
American Crow	4,262	600
Fish Crow	9	4
Common Raven	266	135
Black-capped Chickadee	7,135	1,077
Boreal Chickadee	7	3
Tufted Titmouse	874	435
Red-breasted Nuthatch	1,219	596
White-breasted Nuthatch	743	451
Brown Creeper	84	72
Carolina Wren	16	15
Winter Wren	13	4
Golden-crowned Kinglet	6	3
Eastern Bluebird	68	15
Hermit Thrush	2	2
American Robin	1,002	265
Varied Thrush	4	3
Northern Mockingbird	45	28
Brown Thrasher	1	1
European Starling	2,440	217
Bohemian Waxwing	724	17
Cedar Waxwing	159	13
Pine Warbler	1	1
Eastern Towhee	1	1
American Tree Sparrow	930	213
Fox Sparrow	5	4
Song Sparrow	150	80
Swamp Sparrow	1	1
White-throated Sparrow	231	93
Dark-eyed Junco	3,003	526
Lapland Longspur	1	1
Snow Bunting	1,779	34
Northern Cardinal	743	338
Red-winged Blackbird	13	7
Rusty Blackbird	1	1
Common Grackle	70	10
Brown-headed Cowbird	5	2
Pine Grosbeak	889	105
Purple Finch	493	107
House Finch	522	135
Red Crossbill	5	3
White-winged Crossbill	256	53
Common Redpoll	5,642	332
Hoary Redpoll	1	1
Pine Siskin	5,243	383
American Goldfinch	7,752	687
Evening Grosbeak	852	51
House Sparrow	605	105
Total	82,954

A total of 112 species were reported.

See list of localities in Maine 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.