Our Teams of avid birders did exceptionally well during the 2010-2011 Christmas Bird Count Season.  Matagorda County – Mad Island Marsh regained its title as the Number One count for total species and also the most highest counts for individual species. 

 

Guadalupe River Delta – McFaddin Family Ranches had another banner year and placed 2nd for total species nationally.  It also had the highest counts on 9 species.

 

Kenedy County Wind Turbes was a new CBC for our teams and we were able to display the massive amounts of waterbirds for this CBC.

 

Pasted below are the top 10 national ranks for species reported on our 3 CBCs

 

NATIONAL	SPECIES	TOTAL
RANK		BIRDS
	MATAGORDA COUNTY MAD ISLAND MARSH
1	Barred Owl	54
1	Barn Owl	31
1	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	403
1	Crested Caracara	166
1	Eastern Phoebe	1172
1	Forster’s Tern	1070
1	Great Blue Heron (Blue form)	725
1	House Wren	452
1	Least Flycatcher	5
1	Lesser Scaup	85438
1	MacGillivray’s Warbler	1
1	nighthawk sp.	1
1	Northern Harrier	278
1	Roseate Spoonbill	274
1	Ruby-crowned Kinglet	1028
1	Savannah Sparrow	3626
1	Snowy Egret	1705
1	Solitary Sandpiper	5
1	Yellow-breasted Chat	8
2	Belted Kingfisher	112
2	Boat-tailed Grackle	4340
2	Caspian Tern	143
2	Cave Swallow	226
2	Common Poorwill	1
2	Eastern Meadowlark	613
2	Great Egret	1169
2	Great Horned Owl	55
2	Gull-billed Tern	29
2	Sedge Wren	186
2	Sprague’s Pipit	18
2	White-tailed Hawk	25
3	American Kestrel	161
3	American Woodcock	68
3	Black Rail	1
3	Black Vulture	1029
3	Common Tern	3
3	Common Yellowthroat	308
3	Killdeer	2184
3	Loggerhead Shrike	151
3	Northern Mockingbird	522
3	Orange-crowned Warbler	440
3	Scissor-tailed Flycatcher	7
3	Short-billed Dowitcher	1079
3	White-eyed Vireo	70
4	Blue-headed Vireo	44
4	Eastern Whip-poor-will	1
4	Groove-billed Ani	3
4	Lesser Yellowlegs	146
4	Pied-billed Grebe	332
4	Stilt Sandpiper	48
4	Turkey Vulture	1375
4	Wilson’s Snipe	353
5	American Green-winged Teal	3828
5	Brown-headed Cowbird	20752
5	Broad-winged Hawk	1
5	Franklin’s Gull	2
5	Greater White-fronted Goose	10419
5	Least Sandpiper	2455
5	Merlin	13
5	Northern Rough-winged Swallow	71
5	Sora	62
5	Spotted Sandpiper	42
5	Virginia Rail	45
5	White Ibis	2871
6	Black-chinned Hummingbird	1
6	Grasshopper Sparrow	27
6	Le Conte’s Sparrow	26
6	Western Sandpiper	2677
7	Hermit Thrush	118
7	Northern Bobwhite	76
7	Red-winged Blackbird	317446
7	Sandwich Tern	33
7	Vermilion Flycatcher	25
8	American Pipit	926
8	King Rail	17
8	Least Bittern	4
8	Marsh Wren	140
8	Osprey	141
8	Reddish Egret	34
8	Short-eared Owl	9
8	White-faced Ibis	1513
8	Wilson’s Warbler	6
9	Ash-throated Flycatcher	4
9	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck	621
9	Bronzed Cowbird	51
9	Neotropic Cormorant	273
10	American Avocet	871
10	Carolina Wren	284
10	Greater Yellowlegs	156
10	Indigo Bunting	6
10	Piping Plover	16
10	Swamp Sparrow	514
	GUADALUPE RIVER DELTA MCFADDIN FAMILY RANCHES
1	Common Yellowthroat	445
1	Couch’s Kingbird	78
1	Least Flycatcher	5
1	Marsh Wren	500
1	Orange-crowned Warbler	736
1	Red-eyed Vireo	1
1	Sedge Wren	265
1	Tropical Parula	2
1	White-eyed Vireo	163
2	Black-and-white Warbler	43
2	Black Rail	2
2	Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	329
2	Blue-headed Vireo	58
2	blue morph Ross’s Goose	2
2	Eastern Phoebe	1101
2	Savannah Sparrow	2736
2	Sora	84
2	Summer Tanager	3
2	Vermilion Flycatcher	69
3	Dickcissel	1
3	House Wren	297
3	Lincoln’s Sparrow	419
3	Roseate Spoonbill	205
3	Ruby-crowned Kinglet	900
3	Sprague’s Pipit	14
3	White-winged Dove	1782
3	Wilson’s Warbler	12
3	Zone-tailed Hawk	1
4	Crested Caracara	123
4	Eastern Meadowlark	556
4	Greater Yellowlegs	206
4	King Rail	19
5	Carolina Wren	380
5	Winter Wren	34
5	Groove-billed Ani	2
5	Indigo Bunting	13
5	Nashville Warbler	3
5	Nelson’s Sparrow	20
5	Red-shouldered Hawk	121
6	Common Pauraque	2
6	Henslow’s Sparrow	1
6	Hermit Thrush	121
6	Northern Cardinal	1140
6	Northern Waterthrush	7
6	Wilson’s Snipe	328
7	Scissor-tailed Flycatcher	4
7	Swamp Sparrow	536
7	Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	79
8	Gull-billed Tern	11
8	Northern Rough-winged Swallow	38
8	White-tipped Dove	6
8	White-tailed Hawk	15
9	Black Vulture	809
9	Cave Swallow	28
9	Common Moorhen	334
9	Long-billed Thrasher	19
9	Pine Warbler	226
9	Spotted Sandpiper	30
10	Grasshopper Sparrow	16
10	Green Kingfisher	3
10	Northern Mockingbird	377
	KENEDY COUNTY WIND TURBINES
1	Dunlin	46840
1	Greater Yellowlegs	1008
1	Least Sandpiper	25060
1	Reddish Egret	83
1	Snowy Plover	291
1	Western Sandpiper	159000
2	Forster’s Tern	879
2	Least Tern	1
2	Northern Pintail	62762
2	Redhead	15080
2	Red Knot	154
3	Black-bellied Plover	1395
4	Gadwall	5697
4	Gull-billed Tern	23
7	American Coot	21000
7	American Wigeon	5925
7	Sprague’s Pipit	9
8	Sanderling	943
9	Willet	1213
10	Long-billed Dowitcher	950
10	Yellow-breasted Chat	1

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