Mitchell SD Christmas Bird Count Results 2019
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| Cedar Waxwing in Mitchell by Lonnie Wiese |
About the Audubon CBC
For over 100 years, the Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC)
uses volunteers to track bird populations by holding local counts across North
and South America. Counts are held between December 14 and January 5 and are
composed of volunteers of all birding levels to count birds in the field and at
their feeders. Volunteers count birds and tally them by species within a 15
mile diameter count circle.
About the Mitchell CBC
The Mitchell circle is centered at the Corn Palace. It encompasses parts of Davison and Hanson
counties including the cities of Mitchell and Loomis. The Mitchell count circle
can be found at https://arcg.is/0mDr0W.
After a 46 year hiatus, the Mitchell CBC was reinstated in 2013. The first count was executed in 1957. Two more counts were executed in 1966 and 1967.
Count Summary
This year’s count took place on Saturday, December 21, 2019
and was the seventh consecutive year to hold the count since reinstatement.
On the day of the count the skies were partly cloudy. Day time temperatures started at 21° F and rose to 41° F. The maximum wind speed was 9 mph out of the south. Due to high water on the James River and Lake Mitchell, some moving water was open.
A total of 27 people participated. We had 8 groups of people who birded in the field but 12 groups that watched their feeders. Field groups spent 47.5 hours in the field observing birds. In comparison feeder watchers spent 29 hours watching birds at their feeders.
We had a total of 3,025 birds composed of 51 species for the count day. There were an additional 2 count week species. Count week species are seen 3 days before or after the count day but not on the count day. The most abundant species was the European starling at 832.
We added five new species to the count. With the open water we added gadwall, redhead, and ruddy ducks. Two new owl species were added: barred and northern saw-whet. I’d say the barred owl was the best bird of the count as they were not known to exist this far west in the state. Some misses included lapland longspur, common grackle, mourning dove, and Canada geese. The five rare species seen were ruddy duck, belted kingfisher, eastern bluebird, brown-headed cowbird, and rusty blackbird.
I’ve composed the following tables: Counts for the Year, Participants for the Year, Counts by Year, and Effort by Year.
Counts for the Year
The following table contains counts for the year. CW designates count week birds.
Species
|
Total
|
Gadwall
|
2
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Mallard
|
40
|
Redhead
|
1
|
Ruddy Duck
|
2
|
Ring-necked Pheasant
|
146
|
Wild Turkey
|
215
|
Rock Pigeon
|
323
|
Eurasian Collared-dove
|
45
|
Sharp-shinned Hawk
|
2
|
Cooper's Hawk
|
1
|
Northern Goshawk
|
2
|
Bald Eagle
|
9
|
Red-tailed Hawk
|
31
|
Rough-legged Hawk
|
6
|
Eastern Screech-owl
|
6
|
Great Horned Owl
|
14
|
Barred Owl
|
1
|
Northern Saw-whet Owl
|
1
|
Belted Kingfisher
|
1
|
Red-bellied Woodpecker
|
13
|
Downy Woodpecker
|
34
|
Hairy Woodpecker
|
12
|
Northern Flicker
|
12
|
American Kestrel
|
4
|
Merlin
|
3
|
Prairie Falcon
|
1
|
falcon sp.
|
1
|
Northern Shrike
|
3
|
Blue Jay
|
73
|
American Crow
|
32
|
Horned Lark
|
70
|
Black-capped Chickadee
|
53
|
Red-breasted Nuthatch
|
2
|
White-breasted Nuthatch
|
22
|
Brown Creeper
|
2
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Golden-crowned Kinglet
|
3
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Eastern Bluebird
|
CW
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Townsend's Solitaire
|
5
|
American Robin
|
6
|
European Starling
|
832
|
Cedar Waxwing
|
140
|
House Finch
|
27
|
Purple Finch
|
CW
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Pine Siskin
|
17
|
American Goldfinch
|
139
|
Snow Bunting
|
8
|
American Tree Sparrow
|
49
|
Dark-eyed Junco
|
123
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Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)
|
28
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Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)
|
4
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Harris's Sparrow
|
6
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Red-winged Blackbird
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106
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Brown-headed Cowbird
|
2
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Rusty Blackbird
|
19
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Northern Cardinal
|
23
|
House Sparrow
|
336
|
Participants for the Year
The count wouldn’t have been possible without the help of
all of these volunteers.
Full Name
|
Field
|
Feeder
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Mavis Anderson
|
Feeder
|
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Ray Anderson
|
Field
|
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Carrie Azure
|
Field
|
|
Jan Balcom
|
Feeder
|
|
James Blades
|
Feeder
|
|
Lois Blades
|
Feeder
|
|
Nancy Drilling
|
Field
|
|
Oakley Hague
|
Feeder
|
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Doug Hansen
|
Field
|
|
Jeff Hansen
|
Field
|
Feeder
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Rick Hansen
|
Field
|
|
Dee Johnson
|
Feeder
|
|
Dennis Leland
|
Feeder
|
|
Josh Leland
|
Feeder
|
|
Sheri Leland
|
Field
|
Feeder
|
Don Martin
|
Feeder
|
|
Andrea Meyer
|
Field
|
Feeder
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Scott Meyer
|
Field
|
Feeder
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Ricky Olson
|
Field
|
|
Barry Parkin
|
Field
|
|
Kelly Preheim
|
Field
|
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Letha Rowley
|
Feeder
|
|
Sherry Stilley
|
Feeder
|
|
Scott Stolz
|
Field
|
|
Tammy Wheeler
|
Feeder
|
|
Westen White
|
Field
|
|
Lonnie Wiese
|
Feeder
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Counts by Year
This table contains counts by year. Note, zero denotes count
week species.
Species
|
1957
|
1966
|
1967
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2013
|
2014
|
2015
|
2016
|
2017
|
2018
|
2019
|
Snow Goose
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0
|
0
|
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Canada Goose
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0
|
50
|
0
|
24
|
0
|
|||||
Wood Duck
|
1
|
|||||||||
Gadwall
|
2
|
|||||||||
Mallard
|
802
|
43
|
225
|
2
|
40
|
|||||
Northern Pintail
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6
|
|||||||||
Redhead
|
1
|
|||||||||
Lesser Scaup
|
3
|
|||||||||
Common Merganser
|
1
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Ruddy Duck
|
2
|
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Ring-necked Pheasant
|
26
|
37
|
3
|
194
|
137
|
366
|
141
|
221
|
34
|
146
|
Greater Prairie-chicken
|
10
|
3
|
||||||||
Wild Turkey
|
104
|
294
|
88
|
162
|
30
|
168
|
215
|
|||
Rock Pigeon
|
112
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495
|
435
|
131
|
631
|
55
|
323
|
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Eurasian Collared-dove
|
68
|
95
|
54
|
179
|
37
|
35
|
45
|
|||
Mourning Dove
|
9
|
1
|
0
|
2
|
0
|
|||||
Northern Harrier
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
||||||
Sharp-shinned Hawk
|
5
|
2
|
3
|
2
|
2
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2
|
||||
Cooper's Hawk
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2
|
1
|
3
|
2
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
|||
Northern Goshawk
|
3
|
1
|
2
|
|||||||
Bald Eagle
|
8
|
3
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6
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6
|
8
|
1
|
9
|
|||
Red-tailed Hawk
|
15
|
24
|
19
|
28
|
21
|
0
|
31
|
|||
Red-tailed Hawk (Harlan's)
|
1
|
0
|
||||||||
Rough-legged Hawk
|
1
|
16
|
3
|
2
|
20
|
11
|
1
|
6
|
||
buteo sp.
|
1
|
1
|
||||||||
Eastern Screech-owl
|
4
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
6
|
|||||
Great Horned Owl
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
10
|
2
|
5
|
7
|
0
|
14
|
|
Snowy Owl
|
1
|
|||||||||
Barred Owl
|
1
|
|||||||||
Long-eared Owl
|
1
|
|||||||||
Short-eared Owl
|
1
|
|||||||||
Northern Saw-whet Owl
|
1
|
|||||||||
Belted Kingfisher
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
|||||||
Red-bellied Woodpecker
|
5
|
9
|
9
|
8
|
5
|
4
|
13
|
|||
Downy Woodpecker
|
6
|
11
|
2
|
19
|
30
|
32
|
27
|
18
|
9
|
34
|
Hairy Woodpecker
|
1
|
5
|
17
|
16
|
13
|
11
|
5
|
12
|
||
Northern Flicker
|
21
|
8
|
20
|
27
|
6
|
9
|
12
|
|||
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)
|
6
|
1
|
6
|
5
|
||||||
American Kestrel
|
3
|
1
|
2
|
6
|
3
|
4
|
||||
Merlin
|
2
|
2
|
1
|
3
|
||||||
Prairie Falcon
|
1
|
1
|
||||||||
falcon sp.
|
1
|
1
|
||||||||
Northern Shrike
|
2
|
8
|
3
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
3
|
|||
Blue Jay
|
12
|
1
|
59
|
37
|
46
|
73
|
37
|
20
|
73
|
|
American Crow
|
21
|
12
|
90
|
12
|
54
|
57
|
15
|
10
|
17
|
32
|
Common Raven
|
1
|
|||||||||
Horned Lark
|
30
|
27
|
100
|
43
|
255
|
444
|
4
|
368
|
60
|
70
|
Black-capped Chickadee
|
7
|
11
|
6
|
32
|
39
|
34
|
24
|
15
|
11
|
53
|
Tufted Titmouse
|
0
|
|||||||||
Red-breasted Nuthatch
|
4
|
3
|
3
|
3
|
12
|
1
|
2
|
2
|
||
White-breasted Nuthatch
|
2
|
1
|
10
|
17
|
20
|
20
|
6
|
5
|
22
|
|
Brown Creeper
|
4
|
1
|
8
|
7
|
1
|
0
|
2
|
|||
Golden-crowned Kinglet
|
5
|
1
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
4
|
3
|
|||
Eastern Bluebird
|
4
|
5
|
0
|
|||||||
Townsend's Solitaire
|
1
|
5
|
||||||||
American Robin
|
1
|
14
|
1746
|
39
|
561
|
261
|
118
|
14
|
6
|
|
Brown Thrasher
|
1
|
|||||||||
European Starling
|
14
|
48
|
130
|
1339
|
286
|
445
|
6559
|
689
|
47
|
832
|
Cedar Waxwing
|
174
|
52
|
153
|
70
|
157
|
84
|
140
|
|||
House Finch
|
1
|
61
|
33
|
108
|
49
|
128
|
38
|
27
|
||
Purple Finch
|
7
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
||||||
Common Redpoll
|
14
|
45
|
7
|
97
|
4
|
|||||
White-winged Crossbill
|
1
|
|||||||||
Pine Siskin
|
42
|
11
|
0
|
16
|
22
|
24
|
12
|
17
|
||
American Goldfinch
|
7
|
6
|
29
|
57
|
197
|
292
|
132
|
18
|
139
|
|
Lapland Longspur
|
1
|
1200
|
46
|
133
|
32
|
30
|
50
|
20
|
||
Snow Bunting
|
5
|
1
|
55
|
8
|
||||||
American Tree Sparrow
|
106
|
230
|
220
|
67
|
52
|
141
|
456
|
413
|
11
|
49
|
Dark-eyed Junco
|
278
|
96
|
136
|
83
|
172
|
50
|
123
|
|||
Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)
|
62
|
17
|
43
|
36
|
14
|
28
|
||||
Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)
|
1
|
4
|
8
|
4
|
||||||
White-crowned Sparrow
|
2
|
|||||||||
Harris's Sparrow
|
4
|
14
|
5
|
1
|
1
|
6
|
||||
Song Sparrow
|
2
|
3
|
1
|
1
|
||||||
Western Meadowlark
|
4
|
3
|
6
|
|||||||
Red-winged Blackbird
|
5720
|
597
|
410
|
1212
|
1230
|
285
|
106
|
|||
Brown-headed Cowbird
|
1
|
2
|
||||||||
Rusty Blackbird
|
1
|
19
|
||||||||
Common Grackle
|
13
|
3
|
1
|
2
|
||||||
Yellow-rumped Warbler
|
3
|
0
|
1
|
|||||||
Northern Cardinal
|
2
|
1
|
4
|
14
|
29
|
26
|
27
|
21
|
6
|
23
|
House Sparrow
|
200
|
25
|
1000
|
360
|
292
|
749
|
687
|
809
|
73
|
336
|
Effort by Year
This table contains effort for all years.
Count Date
|
Count Year
|
Field People
|
Field Hours All
|
Feeder People
|
Feeder Hours
|
Count Day Species
|
Count Week Species
|
Count Species Total
|
Bird Total
|
12/23/1957
|
1957
|
2
|
9.00
|
25
|
0
|
25
|
1377
|
||
12/30/1966
|
1966
|
1
|
9.00
|
20
|
0
|
20
|
463
|
||
12/31/1967
|
1967
|
1
|
9.00
|
20
|
0
|
20
|
2885
|
||
12/26/2013
|
2013
|
17
|
52.50
|
6
|
13.25
|
47
|
2
|
49
|
10639
|
12/26/2014
|
2014
|
9
|
42.75
|
11
|
34.25
|
49
|
0
|
49
|
3560
|
12/26/2015
|
2015
|
20
|
37.25
|
14
|
29.00
|
49
|
6
|
55
|
4737
|
12/26/2016
|
2016
|
17
|
48.00
|
15
|
32.75
|
45
|
0
|
45
|
10682
|
12/26/2017
|
2017
|
17
|
47.00
|
4
|
13.00
|
42
|
2
|
44
|
5552
|
12/26/2018
|
2018
|
9
|
10.25
|
5
|
21.00
|
32
|
6
|
38
|
1121
|
12/21/2019
|
2019
|
13
|
47.50
|
17
|
29.00
|
51
|
2
|
53
|
3058
|
Thanks to everyone who helped with the count and if you
know anyone who would like to help with the count next year, send me their
contact information so they can be included in all communications.
Jeff Hansen
CBC Compiler
jeff.hansen.sd@gmail.com
785.806.6917
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