On December 14th, the Stanton Bird Club organized six teams with a total of 20 birders to spread across the Lewiston/Auburn area, with the goal of finding as many birds as possible. This was just one count of hundreds held across North America, as part of the Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count. The CBC is both a fun event that brings birders together, and an important data collection effort that tracks trends in bird populations.
Despite unexpectedly heavy snow, our teams found a total of 50 species, including three that have never been recorded during this Christmas Bird Count: Fish Crow, Savannah Sparrow, and Red-headed Woodpecker.
Check back next year if you’d like to join us!
Full species list
| Canada Goose | 960 |
| Mallard | 1156 |
| American Black Duck | 16 |
| Green-winged Teal | 1 |
| Bufflehead | 3 |
| Common Goldeneye | 105 |
| Hooded Merganser | 9 |
| Common Merganser | 19 |
| Wild Turkey | 132 |
| Mourning Dove | 92 |
| Rock Pigeon | 401 |
| Ring-billed Gull | 251 |
| American Herring Gull | 72 |
| Common Loon | 2 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 3 |
| Cooper’s Hawk | 4 |
| Bald Eagle | 8 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 4 |
| Red-headed Woodpecker | 1 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 4 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 19 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 9 |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 1 |
| Peregrine Falcon | 1 |
| Blue Jay | 26 |
| American Crow | 5117 |
| Fish Crow | 3 |
| Common Raven | 1 |
| Black-capped Chickadee | 116 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 44 |
| Horned Lark | 40 |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | 1 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 21 |
| Brown Creeper | 1 |
| Carolina Wren | 3 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 2 |
| European Starling | 161 |
| Eastern Bluebird | 32 |
| House Sparrow | 82 |
| Evening Grosbeak | 8 |
| House Finch | 102 |
| Purple Finch | 3 |
| Redpoll | 1 |
| American Goldfinch | 93 |
| Snow Bunting | 2 |
| American Tree Sparrow | 11 |
| Dark-eyed Junco | 134 |
| Savannah Sparrow | 1 |
| Song Sparrow | 4 |
| Northern Cardinal | 60 |