Muskegon City Christmas Bird Count Data

As posted previously (see Dec. 24 below) we conducted our annual City of Muskegon Christmas Bird Count on Saturday, Dec. 23, 2017.

Thanks to the 16 participants, particularly Brian Johnson, Feller DeWitt, Bonnie Kot and Steve Minard for helping to compile the numbers.

The Bird of the Day was a Marsh Wren.  Common Ravens weren't bad either!  

The final tally included 58 species and 5,279 individual birds:

2 Canada Goose, 39 Mute Swan, 4 Tundra Swan, 31 swan species, 6 Gadwall, 1 American Black Duck, 148 Mallard, 7 Canvasback, 53 Redhead, 1 Greater Scaup, 121 scaup species, 2,568 Long-tailed Duck, 1 Bufflehead, 12 White-winged Scoter, 408 Common Goldeneye, 3 Hooded Merganser, 376 Common Merganser, 93 Red-breasted Merganser, 3 Red-throated Loon, 162 duck species,

32 Wild Turkey, 2 Horned Grebe, 3 Great Blue Heron, 1 Cooper's Hawk, 10 Bald Eagle, 3 Red-shouldered Hawk, 4 Red-tailed Hawk, 2 American Coot, 212 Ring-billed Gull, 301 Herring Gull, 64 gull species, 127 Rock Pigeon, 27 Mourning Dove, 2 Snowy Owl, 2 Belted Kingfisher, 9 Red-bellied Woodpecker, 13 Downy Woodpecker, 4 Hairy Woodpecker, 2 Northern Flicker, 5 Pileated Woodpecker, 

1 American Kestrel, 1 Northern Shrike, 35 Blue Jay, 58 American Crow, 2 Common Raven, 72 Black-capped Chickadee, 11 Tufted Titmouse, 5 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 16 White-breasted Nuthatch, 1 Marsh Wren, 15 Golden-crowned Kinglet, 7 Eastern Bluebird, 1 American Robin, 5 Cedar Waxwing, 9 European Starling, 

17 American Tree Sparrow, 22 Dark-eyed Junco, 1 Song Sparrow, 25 Northern Cardinal, 25 House Finch, 67 American Goldfinch and 19 House Sparrow.

- Ric