63 participants in 20 parties
weather: 20° to 41°F., 1 inch snow cover; AM partly cloudy; PM partly cloudy; wind south 3-5 MPH; water open.
List of Cleveland Christmas Bird Count
December 18, 1999
Species Name Count Comment
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Horned Grebe 7
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Blue Heron 32
Tundra Swan 124 New high count
Canada Goose 1763
American Black Duck 27
Mallard 542
Northern Pintail 1
Gadwall 10
American Wigeon 1
Greater Scaup 60
Lesser Scaup 3
Common Goldeneye 34
Bufflehead 46
Hooded Merganser 12
Common Merganser 17
Red-breasted Merganser 13,036 New high count
Ruddy Duck 29
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Cooper's Hawk 11
Red-shouldered Hawk 4
Red-tailed Hawk 26
American Kestrel 4
Merlin 5 New high count
American Coot 1
Common Snipe 2
Bonaparte's Gull 2613
Ring-billed Gull 3087
Herring Gull 680
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Great Black-backed Gull 45
Rock Dove 877
Mourning Dove 301 New high count
Eastern Screech-Owl 1
Barred Owl 2
Belted Kingfisher 6
Red-bellied Woodpecker 72 New high count
Downy Woodpecker 123
Hairy Woodpecker 18
Northern Flicker 11
Pileated Woodpecker 5
Blue Jay 358
American Crow 1217
Black-capped Chickadee 365
Tufted Titmouse 229
Red-breasted Nuthatch 9
White-breasted Nuthatch 139
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 16
Winter Wren 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet 4
Eastern Bluebird 76 New high count
American Robin 314
Northern Mockingbird 9 New high count
Brown Thrasher 1
Cedar Waxwing 106
Northern Shrike 1
European Starling 1544
Yellow-rumped Warbler 14
Northern Cardinal 242
American Tree Sparrow 137
Song Sparrow 35
Swamp Sparrow 10 New high count
White-throated Sparrow 13
Dark-eyed Junco 331
Snow Bunting 9
Red-winged Blackbird 17
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
House Finch 340
Common Redpoll 52
Pine Siskin 22
American Goldfinch 305
House Sparrow 908
Total Species for 1999 CBC: 74; 0 Count Week; # of individuals: 30,474
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Created: Jan 5, 2000