Salt Lake City Christmas Bird Count 2005
reported by Steve Carr

CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT, Salt Lake City – 2005, page 1
Name of Bird 1 2 3 4 5* 6 7 8 9 10# 11+ 12 13 14# 15 16 17 Total
Pied-billed Grebe 1 4 5 18 3 31
Great Blue Heron 1 3 7 1 5 17
Bl-cr Night Heron 1 9 10
Tundra Swan 40 40
Canada Goose 472 80 713 438 23 420 28 2174
Cackling Goose 1
Wood Duck 1 1 2 4
Green-wing Teal 14 7 15 145 3 184
Mallard 2 53 353 333 491 23 93 568 162 30 2109
No. Pintail 21 16 482 519
Cinnamon Teal 2 2 4
No. Shoveler 103 9 26 2228 71 2437
Gadwall 27 8 23 91 8 157
Am. Wigeon 5 66 71
Redhead 1 2 3
Ring-neck Duck 2 25 155 182
Lesser Scaup 22 166 7 195
Blue-wing Teal 1 1
Com. Goldeneye 19 6 18 11 44 98
Bar. Goldeneye 1 1
Bufflehead 1 1 2
C. Merganser 2 26 28
H. Merganser 1 5 6
Ruddy Duck 1 6 8 15
Bald Eagle 1 1 1 3 1 18 25
No. Harrier 1 1 12 8 12 33
Sharp-sh Hawk 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 12
Cooper’s Hawk 1 2 1 1 1 6
No. Goshawk 1 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2 2 1 1 5 18 20 23 2 74
Rough-leg Hawk 5 2 7
Am. Kestrel 5 1 4 3 3 2 1 17 15 10 28 9 82
Merlin 1 1 1
Peregrine Falcon 1 1
Prairie Falcon 1 5 6
Chukar 15 15
Ring-n Pheasant 6 8 14
Calif. Quail 7 62 52 12 15 8 12 7 6 18 21 160
Virginia Rail 5 5
Amer. Coot 7 9 30 183 8 237
Killdeer 1 1 2
Gr. Yellowlegs 1 1 2
Wilson’s Snipe 1 1 2 4
Ring-bill Gull 3 10 11 71 116 36 117 82 100 546
Calif. Gull 7 1 1 220 4 183 9 6 13 3 4 451
Herring Gull 2 1 3
Rock Pigeon 1 40 10 49 243 341 26 55 2 966 127 2 1862
Mourning Dove 3 12 20 1 89 1 7 19 82 27 2 263
Eur. Coll-Dove 14 14

CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT, Salt Lake City – 2005, page 2
Name of Bird 1 2 3 4 5* 6 7 8 9 10# 11+ 12 13 14# 15 16 17 Total
W. Screech-Owl 2 2
Great Horned Owl 1 1
Belt. Kingfisher 1 1
Downy W’pecker 2 1 6 2 1 12
No. Flicker 6 10 17 14 5 2 9 9 10 5 8 8 15 37 11 166
Horned Lark 25 25
Steller’s Jay 1 1
West. Scrub-Jay 18 30 12 28 18 6 7 7 13 8 1 8 156
Bl-billed Magpie 5 100 43 35 4 31 5 53 23 48 32 74 155 26 634
Common Raven 3 4 6 10 1 2 5 31
Amer. Crow 1 1
Bl-cap Chickadeew 11 39 17 52 25 24 5 9 2 5 5 2 9 205
Mntn. Chickadee 2 4 1 1 1 2 11
Brown Creeper 3 2 3 2 1 11
Winter Wren 1 1
Marsh Wren 13 13
Amer. Dipper 1 1
Gold-cr. Kinglet 5 3 2 10
Ruby-cr. Kinglet 5 1 1 2 1 1 1 12
Towns. Solitaire 1 5 1 1 8
Hermit Thrush 2 1 1 4
Amer. Robin 68 15 81 72 28 39 71 86 40 2 2 11 2 24 541
Amer. Pipit 30 30
Boh. Waxwing 15 15
Cedar Waxwing 55 24 17 104 1 201
Northern Shrike 1 1
Logger. Shrike 1 1
Eur. Starling 375 70 409 500 198 324 120 652 1200 420 225 1830 450 485 40 7298
Yel-rump. Warbler 5 1 1 7
Spotted Towhee 3 27 2 3 6 1 1 4 47
Amer. Tree Sparr. 30 34 64
Song Sparrow 5 5 3 3 1 47 11 23 1 99
Wh-crwn. Sparrow 1 1 11 1 52 47 46 20 149
Wh-thro. Sparrow 1 1
Harris’s Sparrow 1 1
D-eyed Junco 12 25 23 87 13 20 9 4 9 2 2 52 311 34 16 3 212
R-wing. Blackbird 40 25 1 67
Brewer Blackbird 84 84
W. Meadowlark 2 6 53 61
Br-head Cowbird 12 12
Cassin’s Finch 3 3
House Finch 79 5 216 171 147 36 78 24 65 16 53 81<