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From the Great Backyard Bird Count site in the USA:

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GBBC By the Numbers

March 2014

It’s time to put the exclamation point at the end of another exciting, record-breaking Great Backyard Bird Count with a look at how this GBBC stacked up by the numbers. As of March 4, here are the numbers recorded for the count, February 14-17, 2014:

Number of checklists: 144,109
Species observed: 4,296
Countries participating: 135
Estimated number of participants: 142,051
Photos entered in contest: 4,491
Photos posted to gallery: 1,242

As we note some of our Top 10 lists, bear in mind that although global participation is growing, most checklists still came in from North America, explaining why the top 10 birds are from this region.

Top 10 species appearing on the most checklists:

Rank Species # Checklists

1
Northern Cardinal
61,045

2
Dark-eyed Junco
58,077

3
Mourning Dove
50,596

4
Blue Jay
45,027

5
Downy Woodpecker
42,015

6
American Goldfinch
38,348

7
American Crow
37,121

8
House Finch
36,917

9
Tufted Titmouse
36,418

10
House Sparrow
34,910

Top 10 most numerous birds reported:

Rank Species # Counted

1
Red-winged Blackbird
1,609,037

2
Snow Goose
1,280,829

3
Canada Goose
1,163,527

4
European Starling
596,450

5
Mallard
542,516

6
Ring-billed Gull
466,536

7
Dark-eyed Junco
456,627

8
American Coot
454,169

9
American Crow
371,813

10
American Goldfinch
371,039

Worldwide, India reported the highest number of bird species at 819. Indian states make up 60% of our Top 10 list of the states/provinces reporting the most species.

Top 10 states/provinces with the most species reported:

Rank Location, Country # Species

1
California, United States
448

2
Puntarenas, Costa Rica
443

3
Texas, United States
412

4
Assam, India
404

5
West Bengal, India
398

6
Tamil Nadu, India
398

7
Karnataka, India
379

8
Queensland, Australia
373

9
Uttaranchal, India
367

10
Maharashtra, India
359

Top 10 countries by number of checklists:

Rank Country # Checklists

1
United States
124,310

2
Canada
13,458

3
India
3,358

4
Australia
908

5
Mexico
546

6
Chile
356

7
Costa Rica
256

8
Puerto Rico
196

9
United Kingdom
162

10
Portugal
149

Click here to see the entire list of 135 participating countries.

Top 10 states/provinces in the U.S. and Canada by checklist totals (all totals are all-time highs for the GBBC):

Rank State/Province # Checklists

1
California
9,452

2
New York
8,450

3
Pennsylvania
7,617

4
Ontario
6,851

5
Florida
6,273

6
Texas
6,141

7
Ohio
5,798

8
Virginia
5,481

9
North Carolina
5,453

10
Michigan
4,334

Click here to see all the states and provinces of the U.S. and Canada and number of checklists submitted.

In Canada, the Great Lakes states, and the Northeast down the Atlantic Coast, the big bird story for the past few months has been a massive influx of Snowy Owls. GBBC participants logged more than 1,600 Snowy Owl reports from 34 states and provinces, even as far south and west as Kansas. The province of Ontario had the highest number of reports with 366.

Snowy Owl Reports during the GBBC:

Rank State/Province #Checklists #Snowy Owl Reports

1
Ontario
234

366

2
Minnesota
88

150

3
New York
111

141

4
Michigan
100

139

5
Wisconsin
95

117

6
Quebec
71

116

7
Massachusetts
60

92

8
Vermont
68

85

9
Illinois
37

67

10
North Dakota
15

38

Thank you to everyone who tallied the birds to help make this the most successful Great Backyard Bird count ever.

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Please keep counting year-round with eBird and mark your calendars for the next Great Backyard Bird Count, February 13-16, 2015.