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55 th Calgary Christmas Bird Count

55 th Calgary Christmas Bird Count. Sunday December 17, 2006. Observation Skills Test. Count all the “F” s in the text in the next slide:. FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS. Three. F INISHED F ILES ARE THE RE

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55 th Calgary Christmas Bird Count

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  1. 55th Calgary Christmas Bird Count Sunday December 17, 2006

  2. Observation Skills Test Count all the “F” s in the text in the next slide:

  3. FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

  4. Three FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

  5. Six FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

  6. Calgary Count Circle

  7. Conditions • Sunny from 11 AM • Temperature Range: -12 to -1 deg C • Wind: calm, then W 20 gusting to 37 km/h • Snow Cover: 4 - 10 cm • Open Water: Rivers 50 – 100 %, Reservoir, 0% • Low cone crop and many berries

  8. Field Observers

  9. Participants

  10. Effort

  11. Number of Individuals Seen 63 752 Second-Highest Ever

  12. New Records - Birders!! No of Party-Hours: 255 (Old Record, 228.5 in 2005) No of Field Observers: 107 (Old Record, 102 in 2005)

  13. Number of Species Recorded 69 20 yr avg - 65 2005 - 65

  14. Count Week • Count Day, 69 • Count Week, 2 • Total Including Count-Week, 71

  15. Battle of Alberta Calgary, 69 Edmonton, 56

  16. Cumulative Species for Count Cumulative, 133 species No new species this year

  17. Number 1 15 505

  18. Number 2 12 709

  19. Number 3 12 301

  20. Number 4 6348

  21. Number 5 4611 Record High Count

  22. Number 6 2880

  23. Number 7 2264

  24. Number 8 2221 Record High Count

  25. Number 9 886

  26. Number 10 754 Record High Count

  27. Unusual Species 2 or less years in previous 10 years Pacific Loon Only previous record was in 1993 – the same winter as Pine Warbler and Northern Cardinal

  28. Fairly Unusual Species (2) 3 or 4 years in previous 10 years

  29. Record High Counts Record High Counts were set for 12 species (2003 – 19; 2004 – 6; 2005 -9)

  30. Record High Counts (1)

  31. Record High Counts (2)

  32. High Counts (1) More than twice 10-year average

  33. High Counts (2) More than twice 10-year average

  34. Low Counts Less than 50% of Ten-Year Average Low counts in recent years: 2003 – 2; 2004 – 9; 2005 - 13

  35. Ten of Last Ten Years Old Faithfuls (1)

  36. Ten of Last Ten Years Old Faithfuls (2)

  37. Ten of Last Ten Years Old Faithfuls (3)

  38. Not Always Seen (1) 9 of Last Ten Years

  39. Not Always Seen (2) 7-8 of Last Ten Years

  40. Not Always Seen (3) 5-6 of Last Ten Years

  41. Missed Species Seen in at least 5 of last 10 years

  42. Scarcity of Rarities 1/54 24/36 43/43

  43. Count Week Birds

  44. Honorable Mention (1)

  45. Most Improved (1) Team W-6S (Costello and Costello) improved from “Nowhere” to 13th place

  46. Most Improved (2) Team N-8 (Kissinger, Kissinger, Marler and Ryan) improved from 20th place to 9th place

  47. 6th Place Team E-2 (Mulligan, Fishkin, Howlin and Vanderpol) Ring-necked Pheasant 22 species 109.2 points

  48. 5th Place Team E-4 (Wieckowski, Wieckowski and Phelps) Coopers Hawk Mountain Chickadee 30 species 140.6 points

  49. 4th Place Feeder Watchers Song Sparrow Purple Finch 34 species 164.9 points

  50. Contribution of Feeder Watchers The only Song Sparrow and the only Purple Finch >40%: Merlin, Northern Flicker, Red-breasted Nuthatch, White-throated Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, House Finch and Pine Siskin 9 species > 40% vs. 7 species in 2005

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