Christmas Bird Count National Highs

Christmas Bird Counts are held each year surveying early winter bird populations. Aside from conducting the survey, birders are competitive and proud of their local areas. They strive to report as many species as possible to showcase their count and compete at local, state and national levels for bragging rights. These results are published annually in the American Birds Magazine. A more obscure competition, but more biologically significant, is which geographic areas report the most sindividuals of each species.

Listed below in a somewhat complicated table are the CBCs and States which had the most counts of the highest numbers of individual species.

CBC Number = CBC Season, for ex. 48 = 1947-48 winter; 49 = 1948-49 winter.

The SP column = total species reported during the CBC in the Nation.

The FORMS column = total number of infraspecific forms reported in the Nation that were summarized in results.

The EOTICS column = total number of exotic species reported in the Nation that were summarized in results.

CBC = the CBC with the most reports of the highest counts of individual species.

#1 = total high counts of species by top CBC

State 1st = Number one state and the number of species with high counts

State 2nd = Number two state and the number of species with high counts

CBC National High Summary

Total Species For Nation						Highest Counts of Individual Species
CBC	SP	FORMS	Exotics	CBC		#1	STATE	1ST	STATE	2ND
48	415						CA	98	TX	61
50	445			Harlingen		35	TX		CA
52	433			Coot Bay		32	CA	89	FL	85
54				Coot Bay		25	CA	100	FL	86
56	485			Laguna Atascosa		30	FL	103	CA	93
58	483			Coot Bay		34
60	501			Coot Bay		48	FL	109	CA	105
62	508			Coot Bay		33	CA	105	FL	97
64	515			Coot Bay		45	FL	115	CA	91
66	536			Coot Bay		39	CA	132	FL	114
68	554			Coot Bay		33	CA	119	FL	117
70	573			Coot Bay		40	FL	117	CA	116
72	583			Point Reyes Pen.		27	FL	121	CA	115
74	585			Coot Bay		25	CA	115	FL	107
76	597			Freeport		22	CA	122	FL	106
78	609	23		Coot Bay		30	CA	115	FL	102
80	585	21		Coot Bay		25	CA	113	TX	105
82	597	19		Honolulu		26	CA	126	TX	95
84	605	31		Santa Barbara		24	CA	123	FL	89
86	632	32		Freeport		25	CA	125	TX	106
88	638	35		Freeport		18	CA	129	TX	102
90	641	30		Freeport		26	CA	131	TX	95
92	628	32		Freeport		22	CA	122	TX	102
94				Honolulu		20	CA	154	TX	104
96	610	30	19	Honolulu		21	CA	123	TX	96
98	650	33	18	Mad Island		21	CA	119	TX	112
100	672	22	21	Mad Island		22	CA	132	TX	105
102	657	38	23	Mad Island		18	CA	142	TX	108
104	654	37	31	Mad Island		20	CA	134	TX	105
106	652	35	25	Mad Island		30	CA	123	TX	119

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