Tweeters:

Here are the preliminary totals for the Penticton, BC, Christmas count held
on Sunday December 19

Unusual species and high totals are boldfaced.

PENTICTON CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT
19 December 1999

Common Loon 15
Pied-billed Grebe 13
Horned Grebe 54
Red-necked Grebe 5
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 13
Tundra Swan 3
swan, sp. 2
Greater White-fronted Goose 2
Canada Goose 1645
Green-winged Teal 2
Mallard 2172
Gadwall 18
American Wigeon 148
Canvasback 18
Redhead 938
Ring-necked Duck 17
Greater Scaup 185
Lesser Scaup 7
scaup, sp. 9
Common Goldeneye 60
Barrow's Goldeneye 2
Bufflehead 97
Hooded Merganser 24
Common Merganser 14
Bald Eagle: adult 17
Bald Eagle: immature 3
Northern Harrier 11
Sharp-shinned Hawk 8
Cooper's Hawk 4
Northern Goshawk 3
Accipiter, sp. 4
Red-tailed Hawk 22
Rough-legged Hawk 3
Golden Eagle: adult 3
Golden Eagle: immature 2
American Kestrel 16
Merlin 5
Ring-necked Pheasant 84
Ruffed Grouse 3
California Quail 3310 (2nd highest total ever)
American Coot 3343
Killdeer 1
Ring-billed Gull 153
California Gull 26
Herring Gull 19
Glaucous-winged Gull 6
gull, sp. 47
Rock Dove 224
Mourning Dove 29
Great Horned Owl 4
Northern Pygmy-Owl 1
Barred Owl 1
Belted Kingfisher 10
Lewis' Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 17
Hairy Woodpecker 15
Black-backed Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 344
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Gray Jay 2
Steller's Jay 69
Clark's Nutcracker 90
Black-billed Magpie 405
American Crow 78
Common Raven 548
Black-capped Chickadee 213
Mountain Chickadee 191
Red-breasted Nuthatch 93
White-breasted Nuthatch 13
Pygmy Nuthatch 162
Canyon Wren 2
Winter Wren 1
Marsh Wren 4
American Dipper 5
Golden-crowned Kinglet 23
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Western Bluebird 17
Townsend's Solitaire 6
American Robin 88
Varied Thrush 4
Bohemian Waxwing 875
Cedar Waxwing 81
Northern Shrike 7
European Starling 5097
Spotted Towhee 5
Song Sparrow 200
Fox Sparrow 1
Golden-crowned Sparrow 1
White-crowned Sparrow 14
Dark-eyed (Sc) Junco 6
Dark-eyed (Ore) Junco 889
Red-winged Blackbird 47
Brewer's Blackbird 2
Cassin's Finch 22
House Finch 1498
Red Crossbill 69
Pine Siskin 3
American Goldfinch 145
House Sparrow 572

TOTAL INDIVIDUALS 24758
TOTAL SPECIES 92
OBSERVERS 47

Dick Cannings

1330 Debeck Road
S11, C96, RR#1
Naramata, BC V0H 1N0
CANADA

(250) 496-4049.