Long-Billed Curlew

The Great Backyard Bird Count is in. These are the results for Utah. My favorite bird, the long-billed curlew, is not listed because the curlew is not here in February. But, come June, there should be plenty of Curlews nesting at the bird refuge. I am amazed by how many birds I do know on this list, after only three short years of studying birds, and I am also amazed by how many I would definitely not be able to spot in the wild. I hope some year soon I can know enough about birds to participate in the great backyard bird count.

Species / Number of Birds

Snow Goose 5,017
Cackling Goose 1
Canada Goose 3,669
Tundra Swan 804
Wood Duck 27
Gadwall 191
Eurasian Wigeon 1
American Wigeon 507
Mallard 2,528
Cinnamon Teal 23
Northern Shoveler 853
Northern Pintail 425
Green-winged Teal 188
Canvasback 83
Redhead 120
Ring-necked Duck 267
Greater Scaup 63
Lesser Scaup 1,015
White-winged Scoter 1
Long-tailed Duck 6
Bufflehead 241
Common Goldeneye 363
Barrow's Goldeneye 29
Hooded Merganser 71
Common Merganser 22
Red-breasted Merganser 4
Ruddy Duck 97
Chukar 22
Ring-necked Pheasant 61
Greater Sage-Grouse 2
Sharp-tailed Grouse 1
Wild Turkey 79
California Quail 883
Gambel's Quail 76
Common Loon 15
Pied-billed Grebe 102
Horned Grebe 1
Eared Grebe 77
Western Grebe 10
American White Pelican 348
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Great Blue Heron 82
Great Egret 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2
Bald Eagle 598
Northern Harrier 107
Sharp-shinned Hawk 41
Cooper's Hawk 23
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 99
Ferruginous Hawk 11
Rough-legged Hawk 32
Golden Eagle 22
American Kestrel 105
Merlin 7
Peregrine Falcon 1
Prairie Falcon 8
Virginia Rail 2
American Coot 5,337
Sandhill Crane 20
Killdeer 24
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Wilson's Snipe 25
Mew Gull 1
Ring-billed Gull 1,207
California Gull 506
Herring Gull 106
Thayer's Gull 9
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1
Glaucous-winged Gull 1
Glaucous Gull 1
Rock Pigeon 859
Eurasian Collared-Dove 340
White-winged Dove 2
Mourning Dove 697
Greater Roadrunner 3
Barn Owl 1
Western Screech-Owl 2
Great Horned Owl 12
Northern Pygmy-Owl 1
Burrowing Owl 3
Belted Kingfisher 7
Lewis's Woodpecker 2
Red-naped Sapsucker 2
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 5
Downy Woodpecker 98
Hairy Woodpecker 14
Northern Flicker 225
Black Phoebe 1
Say's Phoebe 6
Loggerhead Shrike 3
Northern Shrike 7
Steller's Jay 21
Western Scrub-Jay 192
Pinyon Jay 210
Clark's Nutcracker 17
Black-billed Magpie 613
American Crow 191
Common Raven 539
Horned Lark 840
Black-capped Chickadee 486
Mountain Chickadee 30
Juniper Titmouse 5
Verdin 12
Bushtit 32
Red-breasted Nuthatch 21
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
Pygmy Nuthatch 13
Brown Creeper 1
Cactus Wren 4
Rock Wren 2
Canyon Wren 4
Bewick's Wren 7
Marsh Wren 4
American Dipper 2
Golden-crowned Kinglet 28
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 36
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher 2
Western Bluebird 8
Mountain Bluebird 49
Townsend's Solitaire 11
Hermit Thrush 4
American Robin 1,241
Varied Thrush 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
Sage Thrasher 1
Crissal Thrasher 8
European Starling 11,962
American Pipit 8
Bohemian Waxwing 10
Cedar Waxwing 191
Phainopepla 12
Yellow-rumped Warbler 20
Spotted Towhee 163
Abert's Towhee 5
American Tree Sparrow 110
Black-throated Sparrow 2
Sage Sparrow 7
Song Sparrow 114
Harris's Sparrow 1
White-crowned Sparrow 577
Dark-eyed Junco 1,631
Snow Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 1,877
Western Meadowlark 55
Yellow-headed Blackbird 19
Brewer's Blackbird 54
Great-tailed Grackle 14
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch 85
Black Rosy-Finch 52
Pine Grosbeak 42
Cassin's Finch 66
House Finch 3,134
Red Crossbill 15
White-winged Crossbill 41
Pine Siskin 4,969
Lesser Goldfinch 380
American Goldfinch 1,240
Evening Grosbeak 36
House Sparrow 2,214
Total 62,716