Results of Spring Bird Counts Conducted in the Upper Cumberland Region of Kentucky and Tennessee--10 May 2003
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| Morgan, TN * | Putnam, TN * | Pulaski, KY ** | |
| Number Field Observers | 1 | 17 | 7 |
| Number Feederwatchers | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Number Parties | 1 | 6-7 | 4 |
| Party Hours | 10.25 | 68.75 | 38.75 |
| Party Miles | 65.5 | 454.5 | 246.75 |
| Hours Owling | 0 | 2.75 | 3.5 |
| Miles Owling | 0 | 48 | 10 |
| Hours at Feeders | 0 | 5.5 | 0 |
| Compiler | DJT | SJS | RMD |
| Total Species | 78 | 126 | 110 |
| Canada Goose | 97 | 19 | |
| Wood Duck | 24 | 23 | |
| Mallard | 3 | 4 | 37 |
| Wild Turkey | 10 | 3 | |
| Northern Bobwhite | 8 | 17 | |
| Common Loon | 5 | ||
| Pied-billed Grebe | 1 | ||
| Double-crested Cormorant | 3 | 5 | |
| Great Blue Heron | 14 | 28 | |
| Great Egret | 1 | ||
| Green Heron | 1 | 13 | 3 |
| Black Vulture | 3 | 30 | 11 |
| Turkey Vulture | 17 | 71 | 57 |
| Osprey | 1 | ||
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 1 | 1 | |
| Cooper's Hawk | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Accipiter sp. | 1 | 4 | |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 3 | 6 | 10 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 9 | 3 | |
| Buteo sp. | 2 | ||
| American Kestrel | 1 | 9 | |
| Virginia Rail | 1 | ||
| Killdeer | 6 | 40 | 18 |
| Spotted Sandpiper | 9 | 2 | |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 2 | 2 | |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 1 | ||
| Least Sandpiper | 5 | 6 | |
| Peep sp. | 3 | ||
| American Woodcock | 2 | ||
| Rock Pigeon | 9 | 23 | 14 |
| Mourning Dove | 40 | 204 | 169 |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 1 | 13 | 14 |
| Barn Owl | 1 | ||
| Eastern Screech-Owl | 2 | 2 | |
| Great Horned Owl | 1 | ||
| Barred Owl | 4 | ||
| Common Nighthawk | 3 | 1 | |
| Chuck-will's-widow | 5 | 11 | |
| Whip-poor-will | 3 | 10 | |
| Chimney Swift | 9 | 108 | 76 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 3 | 12 | 6 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 5 | 2 | |
| Red-headed Woodp. | 4 | 7 | |
| Red-bellied Woodp. | 3 | 55 | 24 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 2 | 12 | 6 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 3 | ||
| Northern Flicker | 2 | 10 | 8 |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 5 | 22 | 13 |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 1 | 48 | 25 |
| Acadian Flycatcher | 9 | 47 | 4 |
| Willow Flycatcher | 3 | 1 | |
| Empidonax sp. | 2 | ||
| Eastern Phoebe | 2 | 32 | 12 |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 41 | 21 | |
| Eastern Kingbird | 3 | 72 | 21 |
| Loggerhead Shrike | 1 | ||
| White-eyed Vireo | 3 | 136 | 21 |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | 6 | 24 | 9 |
| Blue-headed Vireo | 5 | 7 | 2 |
| Warbling Vireo | 3 | ||
| Red-eyed Vireo | 28 | 370 | 91 |
| Blue Jay | 22 | 132 | 53 |
| American Crow | 26 | 85 | 61 |
| Horned Lark | 1 | ||
| Purple Martin | 71 | 54 | |
| Tree Swallow | 25 | 9 | |
| N. Rough-winged Swallow | 15 | 67 | 13 |
| Bank Swallow | 1 | ||
| Cliff Swallow | 5 | 25 | |
| Barn Swallow | 10 | 109 | 79 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 5 | 61 | 33 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 6 | 92 | 45 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 9 | 8 | |
| Brown-headed Nuthatch | 2 | ||
| Carolina Wren | 8 | 111 | 49 |
| House Wren | 21 | 1 | |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 15 | 116 | 71 |
| Eastern Bluebird | 12 | 189 | 54 |
| Swainson's Thrush | 5 | 6 | |
| Wood Thrush | 5 | 56 | 20 |
| American Robin | 21 | 229 | 156 |
| Gray Catbird | 4 | 23 | 2 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 6 | 91 | 54 |
| Brown Thrasher | 4 | 64 | 21 |
| European Starling | 95 | 571 | 416 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 7 | 136 | |
| Blue-winged Warbler | 18 | 2 | |
| Tennessee Warbler | 5 | ||
| Northern Parula | 1 | 37 | 7 |
| Yellow Warbler | 3 | 23 | 2 |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | 3 | 5 | |
| Magnolia Warbler | 2 | 4 | |
| Cape May Warbler | 5 | 1 | |
| Yellow-rumped Warb. | 6 | 5 | |
| Black-throated Gr. Warbler | 13 | 7 | 3 |
| Yellow-throated Warbler | 6 | 33 | 12 |
| Pine Warbler | 15 | 1 | |
| Prairie Warbler | 6 | 62 | 24 |
| Palm Warbler | 1 | ||
| Bay-breasted Warbler | 2 | ||
| Blackpoll Warbler | 5 | 6 | |
| Cerulean Warbler | 5 | 35 | |
| Black-and-white Warbler | 8 | 20 | 7 |
| American Redstart | 7 | 38 | 2 |
| Prothonotary Warbler | 1 | 5 | |
| Worm-eating Warbler | 9 | 5 | |
| Swainson's Warbler | 2 | ||
| Ovenbird | 15 | 58 | 17 |
| Northern Waterthrush | 1 | ||
| Louisiana Waterthrush | 1 | 15 | 6 |
| Kentucky Warbler | 3 | 78 | 7 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 9 | 204 | 68 |
| Hooded Warbler | 9 | 64 | 30 |
| Yellow-breasted Chat | 7 | 84 | 33 |
| Summer Tanager | 63 | 13 | |
| Scarlet Tanager | 5 | 51 | 21 |
| Eastern Towhee | 4 | 89 | 33 |
| Chipping Sparrow | 4 | 134 | 38 |
| Field Sparrow | 2 | 82 | 38 |
| Grasshopper Sparrow | 6 | 7 | |
| Henslow's Sparrow | 3 | ||
| Song Sparrow | 28 | 162 | 53 |
| White-throated Sparrow | 2 | 1 | |
| Northern Cardinal | 15 | 281 | 87 |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 3 | ||
| Blue Grosbeak | 5 | 16 | 2 |
| Indigo Bunting | 24 | 490 | 189 |
| Bobolink | 1 | ||
| Red-winged Blackbird | 19 | 206 | 112 |
| Eastern Meadowlark | 22 | 110 | 70 |
| Common Grackle | 11 | 164 | 154 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 4 | 97 | 39 |
| Orchard Oriole | 4 | 55 | 11 |
| Baltimore Oriole | 3 | 6 | |
| House Finch | 3 | 67 | 13 |
| American Goldfinch | 11 | 89 | 48 |
| House Sparrow | 11 | 108 | 21 |
| Total Individuals | 684 | 7023 | 3278 |
| Total Species | 78 | 126 | 110 |
* Results published in Hoff (2003b); ** data courtesy Roseanna M. Denton and Somerset Bird Club.
Compilers of these counts were Roseanna M. Denton (RMD), Stephen J. Stedman (SJS), and David J. Trently (DJT).
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