2019 CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT: These figures are for entertainment purposes only are not necessarily the final figures for some counts. The totals are for identified species only and do not include count week birds or hybrids.
Total identified species this year was 149 . Last year it was 137.
Total number of identified birds this year was 159,026 which was lower than last year's 173,950.
Average number of birds per count was 4,970. Last year it was 5,611.
Highest species count was 99 at Portland which had 101 last year.
The count with the least number of species was Caribou with 21 followed by Misery Gore with 22 and Grand Lake Stream with 24.
Birds that appeared on all the counts were the Bald Eagle, Mourning Dove, Hairy Woodpecker, Blue Jay, Crow, and Raven. Previous all-count birds that dropped off this year were the Black-capped Chickadee, Red-breasted and White-Breasted Nuthatches.
Most abundant: Crow with 23725, Herring Gull 17051, Starling 15474, Mallard 9408, and Black-capped Chickadee with 9403.
/There were 22 species represented with only one individual bird: Snow Goose, Northern Shoveler, King Eider, Ring-necked Pheasant, Spruce Grouse, Northern Harrier, Red-shouldered Hawk, Killdeer, Woodcock, Common Murre, Thick-billed Murre, Short-eared Owl, Blue-headed Vireo, Fish Crow, Marsh Wren, Brown Thrasher, Orange-crowned Warbler, Yellow-breasted Chat, Clay-colored Sparrow, Field Sparrow, Lark Sparrow, and Lincoln's Sparrow. Nine of these were on the Portland count, four on the York County count, and 14 other counts had one or two of the unique birds.
Counts that had over 10,000 individual birds were Augusta with 16376, Portland 15376, Biddeford 11144, and Freeport 11116.
Seven counts were held on Dec. 15, Five on Dec. 28, Four on Dec. 21, three on Dec. 14 (the day with torrential rainfall and gale force winds), and Jan. 1, two on Dec. 16, and Jan. 4 and one count on Dec. 20, 26, 27, 29, 30.
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