Results To Date of Great Backyard Bird Count (you have until March 1st to get your counts in!)
Well, so far we submitted more checklists than last year for the Great Backyard Bird Count. Last year 18 checklists were submitted as compared to 35 for this year. Keep in mind that participants have until March 1st to enter their checklists. Wausau is tied with Oshkosh for 5th place for the most checklists submitted. Madison, Marshfield, Milwaukee and Rhinelander are ahead of us. So far, in Wisconsin, the Canada Goose has the highest count at 22,394 followed by the Pine Siskin (no big surprise!) at15,715; American Goldfinch at13,080 and the Common Redpoll at 10,145 (no big surprise there either!).
Last year the Dark-eyed Junco was number one followed by the American Goldfinch. Many of us are commentingon the lack of junco's this year so it looks like the GBBC supports that so far. Only a couple thousand redpolls were counted last year and only a few hundred siskins!! We really had a great winter this year for finches. They puton quite a show. Thanks to all of you for participating this year and I'm looking forward to increasing those checklist numbers for Wausau next year!!
If you would like to check out this years' results, click here.
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