53 participants in 15-18 parties
weather: 36' to 44'F., wind SW, still water open; AM cloudy; PM cloudy.
List of Cleveland Christmas Bird Count
December 19, 1998
Species Name Count Comment
Common Loon 1
Pied-billed Grebe 2
Horned Grebe 15
Great Blue Heron 25
Snow Goose 1
Canada Goose 2393
Wood Duck 6
American Black Duck 24
Mallard 616
Northern Pintail 1
Blue-winged Teal 4
Gadwall 16
Greater Scaup 2
Black Scoter 1
Surf Scoter 3
Common Goldeneye 40
Bufflehead 30
Hooded Merganser 4
Red-breasted Merganser 7000
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Cooper's Hawk 13
Red-shouldered Hawk 3
Red-tailed Hawk 20
American Kestrel 1
Merlin 1
American Coot 3
Common Snipe 2
Pomarine Jaeger 1
Bonaparte's Gull 614
Ring-billed Gull 1880
Herring Gull 773
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 70
Rock Dove 816
Mourning Dove 173
Eastern Screech-Owl 1
Great Horned Owl 1
Barred Owl 2
Belted Kingfisher 10
Red-bellied Woodpecker 43
Downy Woodpecker 100
Hairy Woodpecker 19
Northern Flicker 7
Pileated Woodpecker 11
Blue Jay 196
American Crow 973
Black-capped Chickadee 409
Tufted Titmouse 177
Red-breasted Nuthatch 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 89
Brown Creeper 7
Carolina Wren 15
Winter Wren 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet 14
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Eastern Bluebird 65
American Robin 211
Northern Mockingbird 4
Cedar Waxwing 119
Northern Shrike 1
European Starling 1362
Yellow-rumped Warbler 33
Northern Cardinal 115
Eastern Towhee 1
American Tree Sparrow 157
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 42
Swamp Sparrow 5
White-throated Sparrow 9
Dark-eyed Junco 412
Red-winged Blackbird 6
Brown-headed Cowbird 18
Purple Finch 10
House Finch 232
American Goldfinch 332
House Sparrow 410
Total Species for 1998 CBC: 76; # of individuals: 20,184
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Created: Dec 18, 1999