KANSAS WINTER BIRD COUNT
Junction City - December 27, 2010
39 degrees 00' North, 96 degrees 53' West Center as described in 1992, I-70
roadside rest area
west of Junction City
7:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Temperature 15 to 42 degrees F. Wind direction SE, wind speed 2 to 19 mph.
Snow 0 inches.
Still Water Partly Open
Moving Water Partly open
A.M.: Clear
P.M.: Clear
OBSERVERS: 15 in field in 6 parties (non-owling)
TIME and DISTANCE:
0 hours at feeders
2 hours and 35 miles owling.
Total party-hours 42 and party miles 358;
7 hours and 7.0 miles on foot,
35 hours and 351 miles by car.
Cackling Goose 9
Canada Goose 747
Wood Duck 1
Gadwall 77
Mallard 2,062
Green-winged Teal 4
Lesser Scaup 16
Bufflehead 2
Common Goldeneye 80
Hooded Merganser 20
Common Merganser 742
Northern Bobwhite 20
Ring-necked Pheasant 2
Greater Prairie-Chicken 15
Wild Turkey 19
Pied-billed Grebe 4
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 34
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Bald Eagle 45
Northern Harrier 29
Sharp-shinned Hawk 3
Cooper's Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 78
Red-tailed (Harlan's) Hawk 3
American Kestrel 10
Merlin 2
Prairie Falcon 2
Falcon species 1
Ring-billed Gull 67
Herring Gull 65
Rock Dove 296
Eurasian Collared-Dove 4
Mourning Dove 6
Eastern Screech-Owl 2
Great Horned Owl 4
Barred Owl 2
Belted Kingfisher 9
Red-bellied Woodpecker 37
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Downy Woodpecker 23
Hairy Woodpecker 6
Northern Flicker 8
Yellow Shafted 30
Red Shafted 4
Northern Shrike 1
Blue Jay 53
American Crow 386
Horned Lark 26
Black-capped Chickadee 71
Tufted Titmouse 20
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 11
Brown Creeper 3
Carolina Wren 5
Winter Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 6
Eastern Bluebird 243
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 1,681
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 713
Cedar Waxwing 133
Lapland Longspur 25
Yellow-rumped Warbler 60
Spotted Towhee 8
American Tree Sparrow 509
Song Sparrow 12
Swamp Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 5
Harris' Sparrow 100
White-crowned Sparrow 14
Dark-eyed (SC) Junco 651
Oregon Junco 3
Northern Cardinal 70
Red-winged Blackbird 961
Western Meadowlark 444
Sturnella spp. 178
Rusty Blackbird 177
Common Grackle 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 3
House Finch 27
American Goldfinch 77
House Sparrow 74
Number of Individuals 11,356
Number of Species 78
Additional species seen in count circle count week but not on count day.
Short-eared Owl
Henry Armknecht
Vanessa Avara
Doris Burnett
Warren Buss
Rachel Gugler
Chod Hedinger
Carol Hoogheem
Hoogy Hoogheem
Bob Hoopes
Sarah Inskeep
Jeff Keating
Robert Kruger
Chuck Otte, compiler, 613 Tamerisk, Junction City, KS 66441 otte2@cox.net
Jaye Otte
Pat Silovsky