Results of the Somerset Christmas Bird Count in Pulaski County, Kentucky, 1996-present
Besides the Somerset Christmas Bird Count (CBC) data that have been made available online in the bi-continental CBC database since the 1996-1997 CBC season (Tables 2 and 3), CBCs were also conducted at this site during a number of earlier CBC seasons, though none of the earlier data were incorporated into the bi-continental database. Some general information about those earlier counts is provided below (Table 1); detailed species lists from these counts may be viewed via this link:
To see results of this CBC in the context of results from other Regional CBCs conducted during the same CBC seasons, click on one of the links below:
Table 1. General Information for Somerset CBCs Conducted 1979-1990.
| Date | # of Species | Compiler | Source | Notes |
| 16 December 1979 | 50 | Jackie B. Elmore, Sr. | KW 56 (1): 3-13 | male BAOR; 1.5 mil. EUST; 1.5 mil COGR |
| 4 January 1981 | 53 | Jackie B. Elmore, Sr. | KW 57 (1): 8-18 | |
| 18 December 1982 | 59 | Jackie B. Elmore, Sr. | KW 59 (1): 3-12 | |
| 31 December 1983 | 52 | Jackie B. Elmore, Sr. | KW 60 (1): 3-13 | 1000 RUBL; 3 EVGR |
| 1 January 1986 | 47 | Jackie B. Elmore, Sr. | KW 62 (1): 9-20 | |
| 3 January 1990 | 42 | Jackie B. Elmore, Sr. | KW 66 (1): 15-27 |
Table 2. Somerset CBC Data 2006/2007-2015/2016.
| CBC Season | 2006- | 2007- | 2008- | 2009- | 2010- | 2011- | 2012- | 2013- | 2014- | 2015- |
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
| Date (Dec) | 30 | 29 | ||||||||
| No. Species | 78 | 77 | ||||||||
| No. Party Hours | 59.25 | 62 | ||||||||
| No. Observers | 25 | 29 | ||||||||
| Compiler | RMD | RMD | ||||||||
| Canada Goose | 97 | 273 | ||||||||
| Mute Swan | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Wood Duck | 7 | cw | ||||||||
| Gadwall | 13 | 12 | ||||||||
| American Wigeon | -- | 2 | ||||||||
| Amer. Black Duck | 70 | 33 | ||||||||
| Mallard | 229 | 206 | ||||||||
| Northern Shoveler | -- | 4 | ||||||||
| Northern Pintail | -- | -- | ||||||||
| CBC Season | 2006- | 2007- | 2008- | 2009- | 2010- | 2011- | 2012- | 2013- | 2014- | 2015- |
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
| Green-winged Teal | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Canvasback | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Redhead | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Ring-necked Duck | 17 | 18 | ||||||||
| Lesser Scaup | -- | cw | ||||||||
| Long-tailed Duck | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Bufflehead | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| Common Goldeneye | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Hooded Merganser | 43 | 37 | ||||||||
| Common Merganser | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Ruddy Duck | -- | 2 | ||||||||
| Duck sp. | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Wild Turkey | 45 | 53 | ||||||||
| Northern Bobwhite | -- | -- | ||||||||
| CBC Season | 2006- | 2007- | 2008- | 2009- | 2010- | 2011- | 2012- | 2013- | 2014- | 2015- |
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
| Common Loon | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Pied-billed Grebe | 15 | 47 | ||||||||
| Horned Grebe | -- | 1 | ||||||||
| Great Blue Heron | 13 | 12 | ||||||||
| Black Vulture | cw | 14 | ||||||||
| Turkey Vulture | 12 | 28 | ||||||||
| Bald Eagle | 1 a | cw | ||||||||
| Northern Harrier | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 3 | 5 | ||||||||
| Cooper's Hawk | 4 | 11 | ||||||||
| Accipiter sp. | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Red-sh. Hawk | 4 | 3 | ||||||||
| Red-tailed Hawk | 31 | 35 | ||||||||
| Golden Eagle | -- | -- | ||||||||
| American Kestrel | 51 | 61 | ||||||||
| Merlin | 1 | -- | ||||||||
| Large Falco sp. | -- | -- | ||||||||
| CBC Season | 2006- | 2007- | 2008- | 2009- | 2010- | 2011- | 2012- | 2013- | 2014- | 2015- |
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
| American Coot | 5 | 7 | ||||||||
| Sandhill Crane | 12 | 2 | ||||||||
| Killdeer | 36 | 4 | ||||||||
| Wilson's Snipe | 24 | 5 | ||||||||
| American Woodcock | 3 | -- | ||||||||
| Bonaparte's Gull | 45 | cw | ||||||||
| Ring-billed Gull | 22 | 6 | ||||||||
| Herring Gull | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Rock Pigeon | 273 | 183 | ||||||||
| Mourning Dove | 1109 | 943 | ||||||||
| East. Screech-Owl | 3 | 2 | ||||||||
| Great Horned Owl | 4 | -- | ||||||||
| Barred Owl | 3 | 2 | ||||||||
| Belted Kingfisher | 9 | 11 | ||||||||
| Red-headed Wood. | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| Red-bellied Wood. | 77 | 62 | ||||||||
| Yellow-bellied Sap. | 5 | 5 | ||||||||
| CBC Season | 2006- | 2007- | 2008- | 2009- | 2010- | 2011- | 2012- | 2013- | 2014- | 2015- |
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
| Downy Woodpecker | 70 | 48 | ||||||||
| Hairy Woodpecker | 10 | 7 | ||||||||
| Northern Flicker | 36 | 44 | ||||||||
| Pileated Wood. | 21 | 6 | ||||||||
| Eastern Phoebe | 9 | 8 | ||||||||
| Flycatcher sp. | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Loggerhead Shrike | 1 | -- | ||||||||
| Blue Jay | 217 | 247 | ||||||||
| American Crow | 323 | 490 | ||||||||
| Horned Lark | -- | 6 | ||||||||
| Carolina Chickadee | 246 | 188 | ||||||||
| Tufted Titmouse | 97 | 200 | ||||||||
| Red-br. Nuthatch | -- | 7 | ||||||||
| White-br. Nuthatch | 66 | 71 | ||||||||
| Brown Creeper | 3 | -- | ||||||||
| CBC Season | 2006- | 2007- | 2008- | 2009- | 2010- | 2011- | 2012- | 2013- | 2014- | 2015- |
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
| Carolina Wren | 180 | 124 | ||||||||
| House Wren | -- | 1 | ||||||||
| Winter Wren | 8 | 1 | ||||||||
| Marsh Wren | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Golden-cr. Kinglet | 43 | cw | ||||||||
| Ruby-cr. Kinglet | 2 | -- | ||||||||
| Eastern Bluebird | 265 | 292 | ||||||||
| Hermit Thrush | 6 | 1 | ||||||||
| American Robin | 506 | 52 | ||||||||
| Gray Catbird | -- | -- | ||||||||
| North. Mockingbird | 113 | 101 | ||||||||
| Brown Thrasher | 5 | -- | ||||||||
| European Starling | 6378 | 7642 | ||||||||
| American Pipit | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Cedar Waxwing | -- | 20 | ||||||||
| Yellow-rumped War. | 109 | 31 | ||||||||
| Pine Warbler | -- | -- | ||||||||
| CBC Season | 2006- | 2007- | 2008- | 2009- | 2010- | 2011- | 2012- | 2013- | 2014- | 2015- |
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
| Palm Warbler | -- | 1 | ||||||||
| Eastern Towhee | 61 | 41 | ||||||||
| Am. Tree Sparrow | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Chipping Sparrow | 2 | 15 | ||||||||
| Field Sparrow | 153 | 93 | ||||||||
| Savannah Sparrow | 16 | 3 | ||||||||
| Fox Sparrow | 21 | 20 | ||||||||
| Song Sparrow | 409 | 474 | ||||||||
| Swamp Sparrow | 47 | 39 | ||||||||
| White-thr. Sparrow | 241 | 170 | ||||||||
| White-cr. Sparrow | 192 | 150 | ||||||||
| Dark-eyed Junco | 232 | 179 | ||||||||
| Lapland Longspur | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Northern Cardinal | 491 | 618 | ||||||||
| Indigo Bunting | -- | -- | ||||||||
| CBC Season | 2006- | 2007- | 2008- | 2009- | 2010- | 2011- | 2012- | 2013- | 2014- | 2015- |
| 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
| Red-w. Blackbird | 71 | 13 | ||||||||
| E. Meadowlark | 53 | 80 | ||||||||
| Rusty Blackbird | -- | 5 | ||||||||
| Common Grackle | 7659 | 36 | ||||||||
| Br.-headed Cowbird | 13 | 13 | ||||||||
| Blackbird sp. | -- | -- | ||||||||
| Purple Finch | 4 | -- | ||||||||
| House Finch | 83 | 173 | ||||||||
| Pine Siskin | -- | -- | ||||||||
| American Goldfinch | 222 | 289 | ||||||||
| House Sparrow | 78 | 111 |