2009
OTTAWA - GATINEAU MID FALL BIRD COUNT RESULTS
The 15th annual Ottawa-Gatineau Fall Bird Count was held on the weekend of Oct. 17 & 18, 2009. Sixty eitght observers had 2 glorious days of weather to enjoy the count. Temperatures between 0 and 9 degrees with lots of sun. The post-count compilation was at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden, and as usual delicious free food and beverages for all comers. Sincere thanks to everyone who participated in all the sectors, and the volunteers who looked after the post-count meeting
A total of 129 species were recorded, with 9 record high counts, 8 ties as well as 2 new species.
This count covers a 50-km radius of the Peace Tower. S.E. and S.W. represent the Ontario side of the area and N.E. and N.W. represent the Quebec side.
Record Highs since 1995 are noted in RED in the "Species" and "Total" columns.
Record Ties since 1995 are noted in GREEN in the "Species" and "Total" columns
New Records since 1995 are noted in BLUE in the "Species" and "Total" columns.
| SPECIES | N.E. | N.W. | S.W. | S.E. | TOTAL |
Greater White-fronted Goose / Oie rieuse |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
| Snow Goose / Oie des neiges | 0 |
2 |
3 |
70 |
75 |
| Ross's Goose / Oie de Ross | 0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Brant / Bernache cravant | 0 |
0 |
23 |
0 |
23 |
| Cackling Goose / Bernache de Hutchins | 0 |
1 |
9 |
5 |
15 |
| Canada Goose / Bernache du Canada | 14,312 |
7,811 |
26,780 |
30,870 |
79,773 |
| Wood Duck / Canard branchu | 52 |
9 |
41 |
81 |
183 |
| Gadwall / Canard chipeau | 30 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
33 |
| American Wigeon / Canard d'Amérique | 801 |
1 |
43 |
0 |
845 |
| American Black Duck / Canard noir | 176 |
22 |
131 |
106 |
435 |
| Mallard / Canard colvert | 527 |
44 |
1,158 |
833 |
2,562 |
| Mallard x American Black Duck /
Canard colvert x Canard noir |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| Blue-winged Teal / Sarcelle à ailes bleues | 11 |
0 |
2 |
36 |
49 |
| Northern Shoveler / Canard souchet | 46 |
0 |
9 |
17 |
72 |
| Northern Pintail / Canard pilet | 23 |
0 |
3 |
4 |
30 |
| Green-winged Teal / Sarcelle d'hiver | 81 | 0 | 148 | 202 | 431 |
| Redhead / Fuligule à tête rouge | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Ring-necked Duck / Fuligule à collier | 675 | 257 | 280 | 17 | 1,229 |
| Greater Scaup / Fuligule milouinan | 75 |
420 |
46 |
5 |
546 |
| Lesser Scaup / Petit Fuligule | 13 |
114 |
234 |
29 |
390 |
| Surf Scoter / Macreuse à front blanc | 0 |
0 |
12 |
0 |
12 |
| White-winged Scoter / Macreuse brune | 0 |
8 |
12 |
8 |
28 |
| Black Scoter / Macreuse noire | 0 |
7 |
6 |
1 |
14 |
| Long-tailed Duck / Harelde kakawi | 0 |
0 |
3 |
2 |
5 |
| Bufflehead / Petit Garrot | 0 |
10 |
81 |
0 |
91 |
| Common Goldeneye / Garrot à oeil d'or | 3 |
111 |
62 |
22 |
198 |
| Hooded Merganser / Harle couronné | 372 |
36 |
186 |
11 |
605 |
| Common Merganser / Grand Harle | 77 |
7 |
56 |
8 |
148 |
| Red-breasted Merganser / Harle huppé | 2 |
0 |
14 |
1 |
17 |
| Ruddy Duck / Erismature rousse | 0 |
0 |
16 |
17 |
33 |
| Ruffed Grouse / Gélinotte huppée | 10 |
2 |
7 |
4 |
23 |
| Wild Turkey / Dindon sauvage | 59 |
17 |
65 |
6 |
147 |
| Common Loon / Plongeon huard | 3 |
2 |
13 |
0 |
18 |
| Pied-billed Grebe / Grèbe à bec bigarré | 45 |
0 |
15 |
6 |
66 |
| Horned Grebe / Grèbe esclavon | 0 |
1 |
3 |
0 |
4 |
| Red-necked Grebe / Grèbe jougris | 0 |
2 |
13 |
0 |
15 |
| Double-crested Cormorant / Cormoran à aigrettes | 14 |
22 |
23 |
4 |
63 |
| American Bittern / Butor d'Amérique | 3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
| Great Blue Heron / Grand Héron | 40 |
8 |
34 |
26 |
108 |
| Black-crowned Night Heron / Bihoreau gris | 0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
| Turkey Vulture / Urubu à tête rouge | 1 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
9 |
| Osprey / Balbuzard pêcheur | 0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Bald Eagle / Pygargue à tête blanche | 1 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
| Northern Harrier / Busard Saint-Martin | 7 |
5 |
19 |
11 |
42 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk / Épervier brun | 0 |
0 |
4 |
1 |
5 |
| Cooper's Hawk / Épervier de Cooper | 2 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
10 |
| Red-shouldered Hawk / Buse à épaulettes | 1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| Red-tailed Hawk / Buse à queue rousse | 12 |
12 |
34 |
26 |
84 |
| Rough-legged Hawk / Buse pattue | 6 |
5 |
1 |
4 |
16 |
| Merlin / Faucon émerillon | 1 |
1 |
4 |
4 |
10 |
| Peregrine Falcon / Faucon pèlerin | 0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
| Common Moorhen / Gallinule poule-d'eau | 6 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
| American Coot / Foulque d'Amérique | 4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
| Sandhill Crane / Grue du Canada | 0 |
0 |
3 |
59 |
62 |
| Semipalmated Plover / Pluvier semipalmé | 0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
| Killdeer / Pluvier kildir | 2 |
0 |
76 |
15 |
93 |
| Greater Yellowlegs / Grand Chevalier | 0 |
2 |
5 |
2 |
9 |
| Lesser Yellowlegs / Petit Chevalier | 0 |
0 |
17 |
0 |
17 |
| Dunlin / Bécasseau variable | 0 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
6 |
| Wilson's Snipe / Bécassine de Wilson | 1 |
0 |
8 |
1 |
10 |
| American Woodcock / Bécase d'Amérique | 0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
| Bonaparte's Gull / Mouette de Bonaparte | 1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| Ring-billed Gull / Goéland à bec cerclé | 1,252 |
123 |
9,102 |
3,189 |
13,666 |
| Herring Gull / Goéland argenté | 1 |
2 |
3,884 |
100 |
3,987 |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull / Goéland brun | 0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
| Glaucous Gull / Goéland bourgmestre | 0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Great Black-backed Gull / Goéland marin | 0 |
101 |
460 |
7 |
568 |
| Rock Pigeon / Pigeon biset | 173 |
88 |
544 |
407 |
1,212 |
| Mourning Dove / Tourterelle triste | 34 |
16 |
113 |
49 |
212 |
| Eastern Screech Owl / Petit-duc maculé | 0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Great Horned Owl / Grand-duc d'Amérique | 0 |
0 |
4 |
2 |
6 |
| Barred Owl / Chouette rayée | 1 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
| Long-eared Owl / Hibou moyen-duc | 0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
| Short-eared Owl / Hibou des marais | 0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Northern Saw-whet Owl / Petite Nyctale | 0 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
| Belted Kingfisher / Martin-pêcheur d'Amérique | 3 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
13 |
| Downy Woodpecker / Pic mineur | 9 |
7 |
34 |
17 |
67 |
| Hairy Woodpecker / Pic chevelu | 17 |
9 |
44 |
26 |
96 |
| Northern Flicker / Pic flamboyant | 1 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
6 |
| Pileated Woodpecker / Grand Pic | 8 |
4 |
7 |
6 |
25 |
| Eastern Phoebe / Moucherolle phébi | 3 |
1 |
3 |
6 |
13 |
| Northern Shrike / Pie-grièche grise | 1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| Blue-headed Vireo / Viréo à tête bleue | 0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
| Blue Jay / Geai bleu | 61 |
65 |
344 |
221 |
691 |
| American Crow / Corneille d'Amérique | 335 |
127 |
2,833 |
3.542 |
6,837 |
| Common Raven / Grand Corbeau | 25 |
28 |
59 |
20 |
132 |
| Horned Lark / Alouette hausse-col | 12 |
0 |
0 |
19 |
31 |
| Black-capped Chickadee / Mésange à tête noire | 189 |
99 |
613 |
647 |
1,548 |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch / Sittelle à poitrine rousse | 10 |
0 |
8 |
14 |
32 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch / Sittelle à poitrine blanche | 18 |
15 |
110 |
43 |
186 |
| Brown Creeper / Grimpereau brun | 1 |
0 |
8 |
6 |
15 |
| Carolina Wren / Troglodyte de Caroline | 0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Winter Wren - Troglodyte mignon | 0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
| Marsh Wren / Troglodyte des marais | 0 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
8 |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet / Roitelet à couronne dorée | 2 |
4 |
33 |
22 |
61 |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet / Roitelet à couronne rubis | 0 |
4 |
24 |
33 |
61 |
| Eastern Bluebird / Merlebleu de l'Est | 10 |
7 |
9 |
5 |
31 |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush / Grive à joues grises | 0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Swainson's Thrush / Grive à dos olive | 1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| Hermit Thrush / Grive solitaire | 4 |
3 |
35 |
9 |
51 |
| American Robin / Merle d'Amérique | 375 |
234 |
1,110 |
787 |
2,506 |
| Varied Thrush / Grive à collier | 0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| European Starling / Étourneau sansonnet | 880 |
204 |
1,637 |
2.289 |
5,010 |
| American Pipit / Pipet d'Amérique | 7 |
41 |
130 |
231 |
409 |
| Bohemian Waxwing / Jaseur boréal | 0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Cedar Waxwing / Jaseur d'Amérique | 0 |
0 |
17 |
4 |
21 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler / Paruline à croupion jaune | 8 |
3 |
32 |
28 |
71 |
| American Redstart / Paruline flamboyante | 0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| American Tree Sparrow / Bruant hudsonien | 22 |
9 |
21 |
7 |
59 |
| Chipping Sparrow / Bruant familier | 8 |
7 |
12 |
0 |
27 |
| Vesper Sparrow / Bruant vespéral | 0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Savannah Sparrow / Bruant des prés | 0 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
| Fox Sparrow / Bruant fauve | 3 |
4 |
29 |
19 |
55 |
| Song Sparrow / Bruant chanteur | 50 |
20 |
131 |
61 |
262 |
| Lincoln Sparrow / Bruant de Lincoln | 0 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
3 |
| Swamp Sparrow / Bruant des marais | 10 |
3 |
15 |
4 |
32 |
| White-throated Sparrow / Bruant à gorge blanche | 37 |
12 |
122 |
65 |
236 |
| White-crowned Sparrow / Bruant à couronne blanche | 53 |
25 |
37 |
62 |
177 |
| Dark-eyed Junco / Junco ardoisé | 329 |
66 |
461 |
409 |
1,265 |
| Snow Bunting / Bruant des neiges | 0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Northern Cardinal / Cardinal rouge | 10 |
7 |
71 |
40 |
128 |
| Red-winged Blackbird / Carouge à épaulettes | 896 |
3,454 |
3,508 |
10,911 |
18,769 |
| Eastern Meadowlark / Sturnelle des prés | 11 |
5 |
3 |
0 |
19 |
| Rusty Blackbird / Quiscale rouilleux | 30 |
30 |
31 |
0 |
91 |
| Common Grackle / Quiscale bronzé | 18 |
163 |
768 |
1,918 |
2,867 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird / Vacher à tête brune | 0 |
20 |
0 |
3 |
23 |
| Purple Finch / Roselin pourpré | 1 |
4 |
7 |
7 |
19 |
| House Finch / Roselin familier | 3 |
7 |
11 |
7 |
28 |
| Common Redpoll / Sizerin flammé | 2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| American Goldfinch / Chardonneret jaune | 23 |
9 |
130 |
122 |
284 |
| Evening Grosbeak / Gros-bec errant | 0 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
| House Sparrow / Moineau domestique | 24 |
13 |
82 |
40 |
159 |
| TOTAL SPECIES | 85 | 80 | 110 | 97 | 129 |
| PARTICIPANTS | 19 | 7 | 29 | 13 | 68 |
| - | N.E. | N.W. | S.W. | S.E. | - |
Compiled by K Allison & C.R.Bowen, October 8, 2009