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2003
Salt Plains NWR Count
104th Annual Christmas
Bird Count
Census Date: Saturday, December 20, 2003
Census Conditions:
| Temperature: 30-55 | Weather: Clear, sunny |
| 7:30 am - 5:00 pm | South Wind 0-5 mph |
| 16 counters in 6 parties | 447 car miles & 11.5 foot miles |
| American White Pelican | 800 |
| Pied-billed Grebe | 1 |
| Great Blue Heron | 29 |
| Greater White-fronted Goose | 2 |
| Snow Goose | 9593 |
| Canada Goose | 16022 |
| Green-winged Teal | 18 |
| Wood Duck | 1 |
| Mallard | 1915 |
| Northern Pintail | 8 |
| Northern Shoveler | 13 |
| Gadwall | 732 |
| American Wigeon | 24 |
| Lesser Scaup | 10 |
| Redhead | 9 |
| Ring-necked Duck | 31 |
| Common Goldeneye | 10 |
| Bufflehead | 11 |
| Hooded Merganser | 2 |
| Bald Eagle (mature) | 4 |
| Bald
Eagle (immature) |
21 |
| Northern Harrier | 60 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | 3 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 118 |
| Coopers Hawk | 3 |
| Feruginous Hawk | 2 |
| Rough-legged Hawk | 2 |
| American Kestrel | 19 |
| Merlin | 1 |
| Prairie Falcon | 1 |
| Ring-necked Pheasant | 19 |
| Wild Turkey | 49 |
| Northern Bobwhite Quail | 27 |
| American Coot | 3 |
| Sandhill Crane | 6200 |
| Killdeer | 1 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 11 |
| Least Sandpiper | 13 |
| Wilson's Snipe | 3 |
| Bonaparte's Gull | 35 |
| Ring-billed Gull | 574 |
| Herring Gull | 3 |
| Rock Pigeon | 14 |
| Mourning Dove | 18 |
| White-winged Dove | 1 |
| Greater Roadrunner | 1 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 2 |
| Great Horned Owl | 1 |
| Barn Owl | 7 |
| Short-eared Owl | 1 |
| Red-headed Woodpecker | 1 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 26 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 16 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 2 |
| Yellow-shafted Flicker | 18 |
| Red-shafted Flicker | 11 |
| Flicker
species |
30 |
| Loggerhead Shrike | 7 |
| Blue Jay | 12 |
| American Crow | 50 |
| Horned Lark | 82 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 52 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 11 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 1 |
| Carolina Wren | 5 |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 2 |
| Eastern Bluebird | 75 |
| American Robin | 477 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 6 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 44 |
| European Starling | 1079 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | 3 |
| Northern Cardinal | 96 |
| Spotted Towhee | 4 |
| American Tree Sparrow | 317 |
| Chipping Sparrow | 23 |
| Field Sparrow | 90 |
| Vesper Sparrow | 1 |
| Savannah Sparrow | 25 |
| Fox Sparrow | 2 |
| Song Sparrow | 25 |
| Lincoln's Sparrow | 2 |
| White-crowned Sparrow | 62 |
| Harris Sparrow | 590 |
| Dark-eyed Junco | 278 |
| Lapland Longspur | 352 |
| Chestnut-collared Longspur | 45 |
| Brewer's Blackbird | 746 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 7739 |
| Common Grackle | 330 |
| Great-tailed Grackle | 2 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 361 |
| Western Meadowlark | 4 |
| Eastern
Meadowlark |
402 |
| House Finch | 30 |
| American Goldfinch | 75 |
| House Sparrow | 23 |
