Results of Spring Bird Counts in White County, Tennessee, 2004-Present

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.

 

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Year 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Date (May) 1 7 6 19 17 16
Start CDT 0345 0330 0400 0415 0400 0430
End CDT 1930 1930 1915 2015 1930 2000
No. Field Observers 2 6 8 4 8 8
No. of Field Parties 1 3 4-5 2 5 5
No. of Feederwatchers 1 0 0 0 1 0
Compiler DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD
   Total Hours on Foot 2 6.5 7.25 2.5 7.25 1.75
   Total Hours by Car 12.25 29 40.5 23 42.25 52.75
Total Party Hours 14.25 35.5 47.75 25.5 49.5 54.5
   Total Miles on Foot 0.5 4 6.5 2 5.5 1.5
   Total Miles by Car 157 309 451 316 397 493
Total Party Miles 157.5 313 457.5 318 402.5 494.5
Hours Owling 1.5 2.5 3 1 3.25 2
Miles Owling 28 40 46 25 40 26
Hours Feederwatching 0.25 0 0 0 2 0
Total Species 116 134 129 113 125 113
Brant -- 1 -- -- -- --
Canada Goose 64 145 108 102 118 120
Wood Duck 28 25 24 23 25 10
Mallard 9 9 21 12 27 24
Blue-winged Teal -- 2 11 -- -- --
Ring-necked Duck -- -- 1 -- -- --
Redhead 1 -- -- -- -- --
Hooded Merganser 5 2 -- 1 -- --
Wild Turkey 2 9 8 6 8 27
Northern Bobwhite 10 16 18 12 23 28
Common Loon -- -- 1 -- -- --
Pied-billed Grebe 1 -- 1 -- -- --
Great Blue Heron 5 13 25 8 18 17
Great Egret 3 -- -- -- 1 1
Cattle Egret -- -- 1 -- -- --
Green Heron 4 10 10 7 7 11
Yellow-cr. Night-Heron 1 -- -- -- -- --
Black Vulture 11 24 99 10 79 13
Turkey Vulture 20 60 100 64 105 99
Osprey -- 2 -- -- 1 --
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 2 -- 1 -- 2
Cooper's Hawk 1 2 7 1 5 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 2 14 10 1 18 7
Broad-winged Hawk -- 2 2 3 12 7
Red-tailed Hawk 4 15 10 6 11 15
     Buteo sp. -- -- -- 2 -- --
American Kestrel 4 12 12 10 7 12
Sora -- -- -- -- 1 --
American Coot -- -- -- -- 1 --
Semipalmated Plover -- 1 -- 1 -- --
Killdeer 27 60 42 27 54 70
Spotted Sandpiper 5 9 3 9 5 1
Solitary Sandpiper 19 19 26 1 6 5
Greater Yellowlegs 1 1 5 -- -- --
Lesser Yellowlegs 18 11 24 1 -- --
Semipalmated Sandpiper -- -- -- 2 -- --
Least Sandpiper 12 4 2 6 3 --
Pectoral Sandpiper -- 1 -- -- -- --
Stilt Sandpiper -- 1 -- -- -- --
American Woodcock -- 3 -- -- 1 3
Rock Pigeon 23 54 57 32 27 43
Eurasian Collared-Dove -- 4 8 1 4 8
Mourning Dove 70 143 266 109 235 231
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 1 8 1 10 8
Black-billed Cuckoo -- -- -- -- 1 --
Eastern Screech-Owl -- 1 4 2 1 2
Great Horned Owl -- -- 2 3 2 --
Barred Owl 1 3 5 1 4 2
Common Nighthawk -- 3 1 2 1 5
Chuck-will's-widow -- 2 4 2 7 1
Whip-poor-will -- -- 6 2 14 4
Chimney Swift 14 51 99 35 59 79
Ruby-thr. Hummingbird 1 4 6 7 11 10
Belted Kingfisher 3 6 4 2 4 2
Red-head. Woodpecker 4 4 12 4 10 5
Red-bellied Woodpecker 17 42 56 24 65 44
Downy Woodpecker 2 10 18 9 12 12
Hairy Woodpecker 1 2 3 -- 6 3
Northern Flicker 5 13 8 5 12 20
Pileated Woodpecker 1 21 14 7 24 35
Eastern Wood-Pewee 13 33 50 31 94 80
Acadian Flycatcher 8 7 18 20 41 41
Empid sp. -- -- -- -- -- 1
Eastern Phoebe 7 47 47 30 36 76
Great Cr. Flycatcher 16 24 51 18 59 50
Eastern Kingbird 24 118 82 35 81 82
Loggerhead Shrike -- 1 2 3 1 5
White-eyed Vireo 15 72 80 40 60 99
Yellow-throated Vireo 14 13 31 15 26 18
Blue-headed Vireo 1 4 3 3 6 12
Warbling Vireo -- 2 -- -- -- --
Red-eyed Vireo 124 213 237 142 397 332
Blue Jay 24 242 92 31 90 73
American Crow 71 155 148 121 170 186
Horned Lark 1 1 -- -- -- 3
Purple Martin 15 131 61 113 114 170
Tree Swallow 20 24 26 8 41 21
N. Rough-wing. Swallow 33 36 72 23 27 28
Cliff Swallow -- 3 12 26 6 16
Barn Swallow 80 289 201 177 169 147
Carolina Chickadee 12 55 72 20 60 55
Tufted Titmouse 38 102 102 36 135 129
White-br. Nuthatch 2 14 15 14 17 13
Carolina Wren 49 123 187 70 146 208
House Wren 5 37 14 10 12 13
Sedge Wren -- 1 -- -- -- --
Ruby-crowned Kinglet -- -- 1 -- -- --
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 42 48 68 50 116 144
Eastern Bluebird 82 192 231 130 185 266
Veery -- -- -- -- 1 --
Gray-cheeked Thrush -- -- -- -- 1 2
Swainson's Thrush -- 3 3 -- 22 2
Wood Thrush 12 38 49 23 53 36
American Robin 73 198 202 78 235 176
Gray Catbird 7 9 14 2 5 2
Northern Mockingbird 46 125 167 99 175 239
Brown Thrasher 9 45 65 23 33 43
European Starling 175 400 722 330 742 1046
Cedar Waxwing -- 1 40 47 35 161
Blue-winged Warbler 3 4 5 1 -- 3
Golden-winged Warbler -- 1 -- -- -- --
Tennessee Warbler 1 1 6 -- 4 --
Northern Parula 4 16 17 21 23 28
Yellow Warbler 3 22 7 1 6 2
Chestnut-sided Warb. 1 3 16 1 1 --
Magnolia Warbler 1 -- 6 -- 7 1
Cape May Warbler 10 3 7 -- 1 --
Yellow-rumped Warbler 5 4 7 1 -- --
Black-thr. Green Warb. 4 3 10 1 10 1
Blackburnian Warbler -- -- -- -- 1 --
Yellow-thr. Warbler 15 18 24 18 35 44
Pine Warbler 3 8 19 13 13 17
Prairie Warbler 20 30 27 16 24 44
Palm Warbler 1 2 1 -- -- --
Bay-breasted Warbler -- -- 1 -- -- --
Blackpoll Warbler 1 5 4 1 15 2
Cerulean Warbler -- 1 1 -- 1 --
Black-and-white Warb. 19 30 33 9 19 23
American Redstart 1 1 1 1 4 3
Prothonotary Warbler -- 2 2 -- 4 2
Worm-eating Warbler 7 10 6 7 5 9
Ovenbird 25 33 57 8 54 40
Northern Waterthrush 1 5 4 -- -- --
Louisiana Waterthrush 1 6 11 4 3 6
Kentucky Warbler 8 14 24 15 19 30
Mourning Warbler -- -- -- -- 1 --
Common Yellowthroat 71 169 157 50 126 105
Hooded Warbler 21 17 54 28 42 59
Canada Warbler 1 -- -- 1 3 --
Yellow-breasted Chat 17 44 57 28 82 70
Summer Tanager 15 70 70 20 68 56
Scarlet Tanager 14 46 33 16 42 26
Eastern Towhee 22 97 94 37 66 71
Bachman's Sparrow 1 -- -- -- -- --
Chipping Sparrow 43 167 112 70 154 140
Field Sparrow 36 149 158 80 153 170
Savannah Sparrow -- 1 9 -- 1 --
Grasshopper Sparrow 4 9 21 3 6 31
Henslow's Sparrow -- -- -- 4 6 18
Song Sparrow 43 206 199 118 171 149
Swamp Sparrow -- 8 1 -- 1 --
White-throated Sparrow 2 5 1 -- -- --
White-crowned Sparrow 7 3 -- -- -- --
Northern Cardinal 67 234 243 126 250 239
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 4 2 5 -- 2 1
Blue-Grosbeak 16 86 42 13 37 54
Indigo Bunting 166 346 408 142 401 507
Dickcissel 1 -- -- 2 5 34
Bobolink -- 5 46 -- -- --
Red-winged Blackbird 144 316 474 206 273 265
Eastern Meadowlark 88 251 205 146 195 242
Common Grackle 52 231 189 85 144 136
Brown-head. Cowbird 10 104 95 31 100 63
Orchard Oriole 15 81 55 12 40 37
Baltimore Oriole 3 11 6 1 -- --
House Finch 3 14 17 24 22 25
Pine Siskin -- -- -- -- -- 1
American Goldfinch 33 93 30 45 74 53
House Sparrow 25 109 129 61 349 185
Total Individuals 2478 6755 7517 3799 7499 7968
Total Species 116 134 129 113 125 113
Low Temperature (F) 60 45 43 39 46 65
High Temperature (F) 75 78 74 75 75 80
A.M. Sky mclo cle fog; pclo cle fog, pclo pclo
P.M. Sky mcle pclo pclo cle pclo over
A.M. Precipitation none none none none mist none
P.M. Precipitation none none none none none rain
Wind Direction S ? ? ? ? ?
Wind Speed (mph) 0-10 0-10 0-15 0-5 0-10 0-15
Year 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Douglas A. Downs (DAD) is the compiler of the Spring Bird Count in White County, Tennessee.