Results of Spring Bird Counts in Putnam County, Tennessee, 2002-Present
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| A male Red-bellied Woodpecker, photographed on Dakota Ave., Cookeville, during May 2007; photo Bettie Doyle. Note: the red belly of the Red-belly is slightly visible in this photo. |
Results of Spring Bird Counts (SBC), formerly known as North American Migration Counts (NAMC), in Tennessee are published in the journal of the TOS, as well as summarized below. Where discrepancies occur between the two, the summary below represents the official results. These results were formerly available at a national website, but that site is now defunct and does not appear likely to be resuscitated in the future. To view results of SBCs in Putnam County for decades prior to 2002, click on one of the links below (Note: no SBC was conducted in Putnam County during a year earlier than 1961 or during any year from 1979 to 1991 inclusive):
Detailed results of the most recent SBCs in Putnam County may be viewed by clicking on the appropriate link below:
For a summary of the high count for each of 201 species registered on the SBC, click on this link:
Guidelines for the SBC in Putnam County (click on first word of this line).
| Year | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
| Date (May) | 11 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 10 | |||
| Start CDT | 0315 | 0355 | 0245 | 0345 | 0356 | 0350 | 0201 | |||
| End CDT | 2015 | 1940 | 2000 | 1945 | 1945 | 2000 | 1945 | |||
| Number Parties | 6 | 6-8 | 6-7 | 8-9 | 7 | 7-9 | 6-8 | |||
| Number Field Obs. | 14 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 21 | |||
| No. Party Hrs. | 66.75 | 68.75 | 72.75 | 87.25 | 73.5 | 76.75 | 83.75 | |||
| No. Party Mi. | 545 | 454.5 | 524 | 585.25 | 528 | 607 | 523.75 | |||
| Feederwatchers | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | |||
| Hrs. Feederwatching | 0.75 | 5.5 | 12.5 | 2.5 | 7 | 6.25 | 10.5 | |||
| Hrs. Owling | 3 | 2.75 | 4.25 | 4 | 2.5 | 4.25 | 5.75 | |||
| Mi. Owling | 48 | 48 | 64 | 66 | 51 | 71 | 64 | |||
| Temp. Low | 55 | 69 | 54 | 59 | 41 | 62 | 57 | |||
| Temp. High | 75 | 85 | 89 | 81 | 78 | 87 | 81 | |||
| Wind A.M. | 0-10 | 0-20 | 0-5 | 0-10 | 0-15 | 0-5 | 0-10 | |||
| Wind P.M. | 0-15 | 0-20 | 0-5 | 0-25 | 10-25 | 0-7.5 | 0-10 | |||
| Wind Direction | E | SW | Var. | W | SW | Var. | Var. | |||
| Sky A.M. | cle | clo | cle | m cle | m cle | fog; p clo | clo | |||
| Sky P.M | m cle | p cl | cle | overc | p clo | m cle | m cle | |||
| Moon | new | half | 2/3full | 1st quart. | full | new | near news | |||
| Species Total | 135 | 126 | 129 | 127 | 136 | 137 | 139 | |||
| Snow Goose | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Canada Goose | 91 | 97 | 179 | 131 | 134 | 140 | 137 | |||
| Wood Duck | 35 | 24 | 11 | 22 | 25 | 28 | 13 | |||
| American Wigeon | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Mallard | 10 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 20 | 27 | |||
| Blue-winged Teal | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | |||
| Ring-necked Duck | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Lesser Scaup | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 3 | |||
| Long-tailed Duck | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Hooded Merganser | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Common Merganser | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Red-breasted Merganser | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| merganser sp. | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | |||
| Ruddy Duck | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | |||
| Ruffed Grouse | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Wild Turkey | 3 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 7 | |||
| Northern Bobwhite | 18 | 8 | 22 | 15 | 12 | 17 | 10 | |||
| Common Loon | -- | 5 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | |||
| Pied-billed Grebe | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | |||
| Double-cr. Cormorant | 1 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 16 | |||
| Great Blue Heron | 8 | 14 | 12 | 15 | 22 | 23 | 30 | |||
| Great Egret | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | |||
| Little Blue Heron | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Cattle Egret | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | -- | |||
| Green Heron | 8 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 20 | |||
| Yellow-cr. Night-Heron | 1 | -- | 1 | 1 | 1 | -- | 1 | |||
| Night-Heron sp. | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Black Vulture | 18 | 30 | 7 | 27 | 11 | 22 | 25 | |||
| Turkey Vulture | 55 | 71 | 47 | 111 | 66 | 85 | 110 | |||
| Osprey | 1 | 1 | -- | 1 | 1 | 1 | -- | |||
| Mississippi Kite | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Bald Eagle | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Northern Harrier | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | 1 | 2 | -- | |||
| Cooper's Hawk | 2 | 2 | -- | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | |||
| Accipiter sp | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Red-shouldered Hawk | 11 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 16 | 13 | |||
| Broad-winged Hawk | 4 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 8 | |||
| Red-tailed Hawk | 8 | 9 | 10 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 22 | |||
| Buteo sp. | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | |||
| American Kestrel | 14 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 8 | 11 | 9 | |||
| Sora | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | |||
| American Coot | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Semipalmated Plover | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Killdeer | 29 | 40 | 47 | 73 | 37 | 57 | 62 | |||
| Spotted Sandpiper | 4 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 22 | |||
| Solitary Sandpiper | 5 | 2 | 7 | 3 | -- | 2 | 9 | |||
| Greater Yellowlegs | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | |||
| Lesser Yellowlegs | -- | -- | 3 | -- | 2 | -- | -- | |||
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Least Sandpiper | -- | -- | 2 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 8 | |||
| White-rumped Sandpiper | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| peep sp. | -- | 3 | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | |||
| Pectoral Sandpiper | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Short-billed Dowitcher | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Dowitcher sp. | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Wilson's Snipe | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| American Woodcock | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | -- | 1 | 2 | |||
| Sandpiper sp. | 8 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Forster's Tern | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Tern sp. | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Rock Pigeon | 65 | 23 | 46 | 48 | 56 | 29 | 43 | |||
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Mourning Dove | 269 | 204 | 298 | 363 | 283 | 358 | 424 | |||
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 5 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 4 | |||
| Black-billed Cuckoo | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | |||
| Barn Owl | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Eastern Screech-Owl | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | |||
| Great Horned Owl | 2 | 1 | 2 | -- | 6 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Barred Owl | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 8 | |||
| Common Nighthawk | 7 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 8 | |||
| Chuck-will's-widow | 3 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 14 | |||
| Whip-poor-will | 8 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 15 | |||
| Chimney Swift | 191 | 108 | 118 | 193 | 150 | 128 | 238 | |||
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 15 | 12 | 17 | 8 | 15 | 51 | 15 | |||
| Belted Kingfisher | 9 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | |||
| Red-headed Woodpecker | 7 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 25 | |||
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 60 | 55 | 63 | 85 | 51 | 72 | 122 | |||
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Downy Woodpecker | 27 | 12 | 29 | 27 | 22 | 46 | 44 | |||
| Hairy Woodpecker | 4 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 6 | |||
| Northern Flicker | 22 | 10 | 17 | 30 | 18 | 26 | 21 | |||
| Pileated Woodpecker | 29 | 22 | 31 | 33 | 28 | 38 | 46 | |||
| Olive-sided Flycatcher | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 81 | 48 | 51 | 82 | 126 | 99 | 124 | |||
| Acadian Flycatcher | 62 | 47 | 53 | 65 | 59 | 67 | 71 | |||
| Willow Flycatcher | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Least Flycatcher | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | |||
| Empidonax sp. | -- | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -- | 2 | |||
| Eastern Phoebe | 58 | 32 | 77 | 86 | 77 | 99 | 107 | |||
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 41 | 41 | 80 | 54 | 40 | 51 | 72 | |||
| Eastern Kingbird | 71 | 72 | 95 | 91 | 94 | 94 | 130 | |||
| Loggerhead Shrike | -- | 1 | 1 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | |||
| White-eyed Vireo | 146 | 121 | 147 | 96 | 129 | 250 | 166 | |||
| Yellow-throated Vireo | 34 | 24 | 43 | 32 | 40 | 32 | 66 | |||
| Blue-headed Vireo | 8 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 34 | |||
| Warbling Vireo | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 2 | 3 | |||
| Philadelphia Vireo | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Red-eyed Vireo | 556 | 370 | 484 | 483 | 691 | 625 | 672 | |||
| Blue Jay | 150 | 82 | 125 | 197 | 160 | 269 | 218 | |||
| American Crow | 284 | 135 | 102 | 314 | 249 | 355 | 328 | |||
| Horned Lark | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | -- | |||
| Purple Martin | 89 | 71 | 57 | 107 | 84 | 104 | 230 | |||
| Tree Swallow | 20 | 25 | 31 | 34 | 53 | 32 | 69 | |||
| N. Rough-winged Swallow | 68 | 67 | 48 | 63 | 62 | 71 | 48 | |||
| Bank Swallow | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | 3 | -- | -- | |||
| Cliff Swallow | 4 | 5 | -- | 16 | 8 | 38 | 7 | |||
| Barn Swallow | 199 | 109 | 150 | 285 | 147 | 243 | 323 | |||
| Carolina Chickadee | 102 | 61 | 78 | 109 | 118 | 158 | 135 | |||
| Tufted Titmouse | 123 | 92 | 125 | 160 | 133 | 221 | 236 |
| Red-br. Nuthatch | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| White-br. Nuthatch | 16 | 9 | 30 | 26 | 32 | 45 | 57 | |||
| Brown-h. Nuthatch | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 3 | |||
| Brown Creeper | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Carolina Wren | 212 | 111 | 185 | 288 | 228 | 282 | 213 | |||
| Bewick's Wren | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| House Wren | 40 | 21 | 41 | 65 | 40 | 43 | 45 | |||
| Winter Wren | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Sedge Wren | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Marsh Wren | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
| Golden-cr. Kinglet | -- |