North Coast

Cleveland, Ohio Christmas Bird Count, 1999

Sponsored by the Kirtland Bird Club and conducted on Cleveland's east side, eastern suburbs into Lake and Geauga Counties, it covers a circle of 15 miles in diameter centered 0.5 miles west of the junction of Rtes 6 and 175.

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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