Christmas Bird Count Highest Species Tallies

Each year Christmas Bird Counts are conducted across the nation with Texas and California typically competing for honors as having the count reporting the most species during one calendar day. This competition had been pretty intense at the national level until recent years when two Texas Counts have dominated the results: Matagorda County - Mad Island Marsh, and Corpus Christi.

The table below shows the top CBCs since the 74th CBC season held during 1973-74 winter.

CBC number = CBC season with 107 being 2006-07, 106 being 2005-06, etc.

Top Count = winning CBC with the first two letters representing state and the last two being the count code; MM = Matagorda County, CC = Corpus Christi, FR = Freeport, SB = Santa Barbara.

Species = total species accepted for that count for that CBC season.

CBC	Top count	Species
107	TXCC	238
106	TXMM	250
105	TXMM	246
104	TXMM,TXCC	231
103	TXMM	243
102	TXMM	233
101	TXMM	235
100	TXMM	228
99	TXMM	230
98	TXMM	234
97	TXCC	233
96	TXCC	227
95	TXCC	217
94	CAMD	211
93	TXCC	224
92	TXFR	219
91	TXFR	218
90	TXFR	226
89	TXFR	226
88	CASB	218
87	TXFR	212
86	TXFR	207
85	TXFR	222
84	CASB	215
83	TXFR	222
82	CASB	212
81	TXFR	214
80	TXFR	217
79	TXFR	216
78	CASB	214
77	TXFR	196
76	TXFR	216
75	CASD	202
74	FL Cocoa	210

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