Results of Spring Bird Counts in Pulaski County, Kentucky, 2000-Present
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| First reported on the Pulaski County Spring Bird Count during 2005, Ruffed Grouse sometimes allow very close approach; photo Harold Bright. |
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| Year | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
| Date (May) | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 10 | |
| Start EDT | 0530 | 0600 | 0510 | 0500 | 0515 | 0600 | 0500 | 0550 | 0520 | |
| End EDT | 2130 | 2145 | 2145 | 2130 | 2130 | 2100 | 2102 | 2200 | 2115 | |
| No. Field Observers | 12 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 3 | |
| No. of Field Parties | 4 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | |
| No. of Feederwatchers | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Compiler | RMD | RMD | RMD | RMD | RMD | CGH | RMD | RMD | RMD | |
| Total Hours on Foot | 24.25 | 26.5 | 34.5 | 18.5 | 50.25 | 15.25 | 19 | 18.5 | 5 | |
| Total Hours by Car | 13.5 | 18 | 27.75 | 20.25 | 21.75 | 29.25 | 28.25 | 38 | 15.25 | |
| Total Party Hours | 37.75 | 44.5 | 62.25 | 38.75 | 72 | 44.5 | 47.25 | 56.5 | 20.25 | |
| Total Miles on Foot | 13 | 12.75 | 8.25 | 13.75 | 16 | 5.5 | 12 | 7.5 | 2 | |
| Total Miles by Car | 199 | 237 | 357.25 | 233 | 277 | 355 | 305 | 328 | 183 | |
| Total Party Miles | 212 | 249.75 | 365.5 | 246.75 | 293 | 360.5 | 317 | 335.5 | 185 | |
| Hours Owling | 1.75 | 2.75 | 3 | 3.5 | 3.75 | 0.75 | 5 | 3 | 1.75 | |
| Miles Owling | 1.75 | 19 | 40 | 10 | 20 | 12.25 | 26 | 30 | 26 | |
| Feederwatching Hrs. | 2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| Total Species | 109 | 116 | 128 | 110 | 121 | 107 | 119 | 131 | 118 | |
| Brant | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | |
| Canada Goose | 1 | 2 | 14 | 19 | 24 | 39 | 36 | 24 | 3 | |
| Wood Duck | 12 | 33 | 8 | 23 | 24 | 13 | 44 | 14 | 3 | |
| Mallard | 8 | 44 | 26 | 37 | 14 | 38 | 9 | 25 | 10 | |
| Blue-winged Teal | 5 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Redhead | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | |
| Ruffed Grouse | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | |
| Wild Turkey | 1 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 7 | 17 | 8 | -- | |
| Northern Bobwhite | 19 | 14 | 22 | 17 | 31 | 17 | 13 | 11 | 4 | |
| Common Loon | 2 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Double-cr. Cormorant | -- | -- | -- | 5 | -- | 3 | -- | -- | -- | |
| Great Blue Heron | 18 | 16 | 16 | 28 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 6 | |
| Great Egret | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | |
| Green Heron | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 8 | -- | 5 | 4 | 1 | |
| Black Vulture | 4 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 16 | 17 | |
| Turkey Vulture | 51 | 87 | 111 | 57 | 127 | 64 | 71 | 71 | 68 | |
| Osprey | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Northern Harrier | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | |
| Cooper's Hawk | -- | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | -- | 2 | -- | |
| Broad-winged Hawk | -- | 3 | 2 | 2 | -- | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 12 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 1 | |
| American Kestrel | 8 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 1 | |
| Peregrine Falcon | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Virginia Rail | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Am. Coot | -- | 3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Sandhill Crane | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Semipalmated Plover | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 40 | -- | |
| Killdeer | 20 | 8 | 47 | 18 | 25 | 18 | 23 | 22 | 16 | |
| Spotted Sandpiper | 1 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 6 | |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 1 | -- | 6 | -- | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 11 | |
| Greater Yellowlegs | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 6 | 2 | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 11 | 8 | |
| Semipalmated Sandp. | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 10 | 2 | |
| Least Sandpiper | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -- | 11 | 8 | 109 | 17 | |
| Dunlin | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 21 | -- | |
| Wilson's Snipe | -- | 2 | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| American Woodcock | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 3 | |
| Bonapate's Gull | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Rock Pigeon | 14 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 25 | 5 | 1 | |
| Mourning Dove | 83 | 196 | 221 | 169 | 220 | 118 | 139 | 119 | 63 | |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 4 | -- | 11 | 14 | 23 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 1 | |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Eastern Screech-Owl | -- | -- | 2 | 2 | 2 | -- | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
| Great Horned Owl | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Barred Owl | 1 | 1 | 5 | -- | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | -- | |
| Common Nighthawk | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Chuck-will's-widow | 2 | -- | 9 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 | |
| Whip-poor-will | 3 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | -- | |
| Chimney Swift | 39 | 51 | 76 | 76 | 79 | 194 | 239 | 13 | 72 | |
| Ruby-thr. Hummingbird | 4 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 21 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 1 | |
| Belted Kingfisher | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | |
| Red-head. Woodpecker | 3 | 5 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -- | |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 16 | 21 | 46 | 24 | 60 | 13 | 22 | 35 | 21 | |
| Downy Woodpecker | 8 | 9 | 20 | 6 | 24 | 5 | 15 | 11 | 4 | |
| Hairy Woodpecker | -- | 1 | 3 | -- | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
| Northern Flicker | 8 | 9 | 17 | 8 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 21 | 8 | |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 15 | 18 | 33 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 14 | 22 | 5 | |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 27 | 38 | 42 | 25 | 66 | 16 | 34 | 47 | 23 | |
| Yellow-bellied Flyc. | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Acadian Flycatcher | 16 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 29 | 1 | 16 | 19 | 4 | |
| Alder Flycatcher | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Willow Flycatcher | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 2 | 2 | -- | |
| Least Flycatcher | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | |
| Eastern Phoebe | 14 | 8 | 22 | 12 | 55 | 37 | 47 | 28 | 10 | |
| Great Cr. Flycatcher | 21 | 18 | 31 | 21 | 38 | 21 | 19 | 26 | 12 | |
| Eastern Kingbird | 23 | 16 | 65 | 21 | 67 | 33 | 22 | 43 | 20 | |
| Loggerhead Shrike | 2 | 1 | 3 | -- | 1 | -- | 2 | -- | -- | |
| White-eyed Vireo | 34 | 23 | 61 | 23 | 74 | 31 | 45 | 49 | 28 | |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | 2 | 9 | 17 | 9 | 19 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 7 | |
| Blue-headed Vireo | -- | 4 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | |
| Warbling Vireo | -- | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | -- | |
| Philadelphia Vireo | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Red-eyed Vireo | 94 | 115 | 164 | 91 | 205 | 69 | 77 | 114 | 89 | |
| Blue Jay | 60 | 44 | 83 | 53 | 93 | 66 | 51 | 69 | 34 | |
| American Crow | 91 | 67 | 124 | 61 | 122 | 54 | 84 | 74 | 36 | |
| Horned Lark | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | |
| Purple Martin | 1 | 20 | 142 | 54 | 98 | 10 | 58 | 58 | 84 | |
| Tree Swallow | 2 | 23 | 36 | 9 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 11 | 19 | |
| N. Rough-wing. Swallow | 20 | 32 | 77 | 13 | 52 | 29 | 26 | 24 | 18 | |
| Bank Swallow | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | 6 | -- | -- | -- | |
| Cliff Swallow | 7 | 26 | 34 | 25 | 28 | 2 | 28 | 16 | 1 | |
| Barn Swallow | 62 | 53 | 199 | 79 | 293 | 113 | 111 | 157 | 37 | |
| Carolina Chickadee | 41 | 40 | 50 | 33 | 55 | 49 | 41 | 54 | 13 | |
| Tufted Titmouse | 43 | 48 | 103 | 45 | 80 | 42 | 55 | 76 | 24 | |
| White-br. Nuthatch | 17 | 18 | 17 | 8 | 26 | 12 | 23 | 14 | 10 | |
| Carolina Wren | 26 | 33 | 72 | 49 | 47 | 40 | 79 | 59 | 32 | |
| House Wren | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 4 | |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 46 | 48 | 118 | 71 | 195 | 50 | 58 | 73 | 33 | |
| Eastern Bluebird | 90 | 91 | 174 | 54 | 118 | 80 | 59 | 44 | 33 | |
| Veery | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | |
| Swainson's Thrush | 3 | -- | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 2 | |
| Hermit Thrush | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Wood Thrush | 19 | 27 | 46 | 20 | 47 | 32 | 42 | 88 | 19 | |
| American Robin | 157 | 228 | 434 | 156 | 521 | 277 | 313 | 265 | 134 | |
| Gray Catbird | 6 | 16 | 15 | 2 | 22 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 5 | |
| Northern Mockingbird | 60 | 38 | 171 | 54 | 110 | 37 | 69 | 52 | 25 | |
| Brown Thrasher | 27 | 13 | 38 | 21 | 39 |