Subject: Penticton, BC CBC
Date: Jan 4 11:47:43 1995
From: Dick Cannings - cannings at bcu.ubc.ca



Here are the results of the Penticton Christmas Bird Count. The species total
is about average for the count, not bad considering it was a foggy, drenching
mist sort of day, when the mean time between clean lenses and total fog was
about 10 seconds. The Mandarin Ducks were not counted in the species total,
but are included for interest; they were a pair on Okanagan Lake with coots
and other ducks. No new species, although it's only the second time we've
gotten Mew Gull and Chestnut-backed Chickadee.

PENTICTON CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT
27 December 1994

Common Loon 8
Pied-billed Grebe 14
Horned Grebe 178
Red-necked Grebe 13
Western Grebe 2
Great Blue Heron 10
Tundra Swan 3
Canada Goose 1603 (high count)
Mandarin Duck 2
Mallard 1552
Gadwall 10
American Wigeon 7
Canvasback 61
Redhead 2047
Ring-necked Duck 7
Greater Scaup 690 (high count)
Lesser Scaup 16
scaup, sp. 17
Common Goldeneye 35
Barrow's Goldeneye 1
goldeneye, sp. 2
Bufflehead 75
Hooded Merganser 8
Common Merganser 25
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Bald Eagle: adult 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 8
Cooper's Hawk 6
Northern Goshawk 4
Accipiter, sp. 2
Red-tailed Hawk 12
Rough-legged Hawk 3
Golden Eagle 1
American Kestrel 10
Merlin 10
Chukar 2
Ring-necked Pheasant 66
Ruffed Grouse 5
California Quail 2216
American Coot 2067
Common Snipe 1
Ring-billed Gull 273
Mew Gull 1
California Gull 96
Herring Gull 65
Glaucous-winged Gull 8
Gl-w. X W. Gull 1
gull, sp. 25
Rock Dove 248
Mourning Dove 3
Western Screech-Owl 2
Great Horned Owl 6
Northern Pygmy-Owl 5
Long-eared Owl 1
Northern Saw-whet Owl 2
Belted Kingfisher 5
Lewis' Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 16
Hairy Woodpecker 6
Northern Flicker 321
Pileated Woodpecker 7
Gray Jay 3
Steller's Jay 66
Clark's Nutcracker 40
Black-billed Magpie 364
American Crow 77
Common Raven 284
Black-capped Chickadee 117
Mountain Chickadee 252
Chestnut-back Chickadee 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 92
White-breasted Nuthatch 16
Pygmy Nuthatch 273
Brown Creeper 3
Canyon Wren 2
Winter Wren 8
Marsh Wren 2
American Dipper 3
Golden-crowned Kinglet 25
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Western Bluebird 33
Townsend's Solitaire 14
American Robin 109
Varied Thrush 1
Bohemian Waxwing 790
Cedar Waxwing 34
European Starling 2379
Rufous-sided Towhee 4
Song Sparrow 155
Fox Sparrow 1
White-crowned Sparrow 6
Dark-eyed (Sc) Junco 3
Dark-eyed (Ore) Junco 1014
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Western Meadowlark 1
Pine Grosbeak 25
Cassin's Finch 85
House Finch 1552
Red Crossbill 59
White-winged Crossbill 5
Pine Siskin 38
American Goldfinch 63
House Sparrow 465

TOTAL INDIVIDUALS 20367
TOTAL SPECIES 96
OBSERVERS 56
Parties (max) 26
Parties (min) 22
Party-hours (foot) 84.75
Party-hours (car) 79.5
Party-miles (foot) 78.5
Party-miles (car) 283.5
Feeder-watchers 13