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	Christmas Bird Count Results 2007 Morro Bay Audubon Christmas Bird Count Totals The 54th Morro Bay Audubon Christmas Bird Count was held on December 15th, 2007. There were approximately 35 parties covering the count circle this year. Together the parties spent 73 hours driving 370 miles, 189 hours walking 116 miles, 8 hours boating and kayaking 17 miles, 3 hours at feeders, and 8 hours and 14 miles owling (foot & car). The count total of 51,638 individuals was 3,598 greater than the average of the past 27 years and the total of 202 species was 2.5 greater than the average since 1980. Franklin’s Gull and Grace’s Warbler were new to the count this year and the count’s cumulative (1948-2006) species total now stands at 312 species. Thanks to the 72 volunteers that contributed to this year’s success. A special thanks to Bert and Elaine Townsend for excellently coordinating the count and to the Sector Leaders Maggie Smith, Mike Stiles, and Bill Bouton for organizing the participants. Bold text indicates rare species or high counts. Snow Goose – 4 Ross’s Goose – 3 Brant – 1711 Cackling Goose – 4 Canada Goose – 139 Wood Duck – 1 Gadwall – 52 Eurasian Wigeon – 5 American Wigeon – 1004 Mallard – 258 Blue-winged Teal – 75 Cinnamon Teal – 65 Northern Shoveler – 469 Northern Pintail – 915 Green-winged Teal – 879 Canvasback – 1 Ring-necked Duck – 34 Greater Scaup – 50 Lesser Scaup – 1100 Surf Scoter – 403 White-winged Scoter - 2 Black Scoter – 1 Long-tailed Duck – 2 Bufflehead – 676 Hooded Merganser – 7 Red-breasted Merganser – 21 Ruddy Duck – 477 Wild Turkey – 80 California Quail – 501 Red-throated Loon – 45 Pacific Loon – 227 Common Loon – 19 loon sp. – 2 Pied-billed Grebe – 57 Horned Grebe – 16 Eared Grebe – 408 Western Grebe – 305 Clark’s Grebe – 12 American White Pelican – 170 Brown Pelican – 182 Brandt’s Cormorant – 821 Double-crested Cormorant – 807 Pelagic Cormorant – 183 American Bittern – 1 Great Blue Heron – 48 Great Egret – 48 Snowy Egret – 51 Green Heron – 1 Blk-crowned Night Heron – 48 Turkey Vulture – 473 Osprey – 2 White-tailed Kite – 24 Northern Harrier – 25 Sharp-shinned Hawk – 14 Cooper’s Hawk – 16 Red-shouldered Hawk – 51 Red-tailed Hawk – 125 Ferruginous Hawk – 11 Golden Eagle – 7 American Kestrel – 110 Merlin – 4 Peregrine Falcon – 8 Prairie Falcon – 1 Virginia Rail – 4 Sora – 5 American Coot – 823 Black-bellied Plover – 229 Snowy Plover – 93 Semipalmated Plover – 33 Killdeer – 112 Black Oystercatcher – 31 American Avocet – 430 Spotted Sandpiper – 11 Greater Yellowlegs – 17 Willet – 1000 Lesser Yellowlegs – 1 Whimbrel – 3 Long-billed Curlew – 248 Marbled Godwit – 1500 Black Turnstone – 75 Surfbird – 7 Red Knot – 21 Sanderling – 1502 Western Sandpiper – 1457 Least Sandpiper – 2821 Dunlin – 33 peep sp. – 500 Short-billed Dowitcher – 2 Long-billed Dowitcher – 237 Wilson’s Snipe – 13 Red Phalarope – 2 Franklin’s Gull – 1 Bonaparte’s Gull – 112 Heermann’s Gull –912 Mew Gull – 65 Ring-billed Gull – 611 California Gull – 151 Herring Gull – 2 Thayer’s Gull – 1 Western Gull – 537 Glaucous-winged Gull – 4 gull sp. – 2 Black-legged Kittiwake – 1 Caspian Tern – 35 Royal Tern – 56 Forster’s Tern – 80 Black Skimmer – 2 Common Murre – 75 Marbled Murrelet – 2 Ancient Murrelet – 4 Rhinoceros Auklet – 4 Rock Pigeon - 497 Band-tailed Pigeon – 198135 Eurasian Collared Dove – 224 Mourning Dove – 440 Greater Roadrunner – 3 Barn Owl – 5 Western Screech-Owl – 10 Great Horned Owl – 17 Burrowing Owl – 3 Spotted Owl – 1 Long-eared Owl – 1 Short-eared Owl – 1 Northern Saw-whet Owl – 2 White-throated Swift – 12 swift sp. – 200 Anna’s Hummingbird – 431 Belted Kingfisher – 10 Acorn Woodpecker – 29 Red-naped Sapsucker – 3 Red-breasted Sapsucker – 4 Nuttall’s Woodpecker – 60 Downy Woodpecker – 15 Hairy Woodpecker – 13 Northern (r-s) Flicker – 91 Northern (y-s) Flicker – 1 Black Phoebe – 159 Eastern Phoebe – 1 Say’s Phoebe – 125 Cassin’s Kingbird – 1 Loggerheaded Shrike – 8 Hutton’s Vireo – 26 Steller’s Jay – 48 Western Scrub-Jay – 406 Yellow-billed Magpie – 4 American Crow – 1299 Horned Lark – 4 Tree Swallow – 7 Barn Swallow – 3 Chestnut-sided Chickadee – 121 Oak Titmouse – 26 Bushtit – 917 Red-breasted Nuthatch – 10 White-breasted Nuthatch – 3 Brown Creeper – 2 Rock Wren – 8 Canyon Wren – 1 Bewick’s Wren -82 House Wren – 7 Winter Wren – 1 Marsh Wren – 13 Golden-crowned Kinglet -- 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 367 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 36 Western Bluebird – 205 Mountain Bluebird – 5 Hermit Thrush – 190 American Robin – 174 Varied Thrush – 1 Wrentit – 153 Northern Mockingbird – 104 California Thrasher – 40 European Starling – 2998 American Pipit – 113 Cedar Waxwing – 105 Orange-crowned Warbler – 37 Yellow-rumped Warbler – 173 “Audubon’s” Warbler– 784 “Myrtle” Warbler – 163 Black-throated Gray Warbler -- 1 Townsend’s Warbler - 101 Grace’s Warbler – 1 Common Yellowthroat – 42 Wilson’s Warbler – 1 Spotted Towhee – 97 California Towhee – 177 Rufous-crowned Sparrow - 17 Lark Sparrow – 10 Savannah Sparrow – 229 Fox Sparrow – 199 Song Sparrow – 101 Lincoln’s Sparrow – 27 White-throated Sparrow – 6 White-crowned Sparrow – 3780 Golden-crowned Sparrow – 932 Dark-eyed Junco – 420 Red-winged Blackbird – 1589 Tricolored Blackbird – 9 Western Meadowlark – 884 Yellow-headed Blackbird – CW Brewer’s Blackbird – 1875 Great-tailed Grackle – CW Brown-headed Cowbird - 910 Orchard Oriole – 1 Bullock’s Oriole – 1 Purple Finch – 50 House Finch – 1059 Pine Siskin – 58 Lesser Goldfinch – 283 American Goldfinch – 265 House Sparrow – 164