The Penticton Christmas bird count was held on Dec. 14.
There were 47 observers in 20 to 24 parties. They recorded 153 party-hours and covered 704 party-kilometres.
The temperature ranged from 1 to 3 C, with no wind and no snow up to 1,000 metres. At 1,400 metres, 20 centimetres of snow was recorded.
Canada Goose 1,650
Trumpeter Swan 9
Tundra Swan 4
Wood Duck 1
Gadwall 8
Eurasian Wigeon 1
American Wigeon 117
Mallard 1,670
Redhead 505
Ring-necked Duck 1
Greater Scaup 185
Lesser Scaup 39
Bufflehead 96
Common Goldeneye 44
Barrow’s Goldeneye 5
Hooded Merganser 21
Common Merganser 62
Ring-necked Pheasant 19
Ruffed Grouse 3
grouse, sp. 1
California Quail 2,954
Common Loon 8
Pied-billed Grebe 10
Horned Grebe 91
Red-necked Grebe 9
Western Grebe 6
Great Blue Heron 19
Bald Eagle 26
Sharp-shinned Hawk 16
Cooper’s Hawk 16
Northern Goshawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 42
Rough-legged Hawk 1
Golden Eagle 1
American Kestrel 16
Merlin 12
Peregrine Falcon 1
hawk, sp. 1
American Coot 642
Mew Gull 3
Ring-billed Gull 132
California Gull 30
Herring Gull 71
Thayer’s Gull 3
Glaucous-winged Gull 123
GW X Western Gull 1
GL X GW ? Gull 1
gull, sp. 496
Rock Pigeon 691
Eurasian Collared-Dove 89
Mourning Dove 34
Western Screech-Owl 3
Great Horned Owl 14
Northern Pygmy-Owl 4
Northern Saw-whet Owl 2
Belted Kingfisher 8
Downy Woodpecker 15
Hairy Woodpecker 12
Am. 3-toed Woodpecker 1
Red-shafted Flicker 547
Pileated Woodpecker 3
Northern Shrike 3
Gray Jay 3
Steller’s Jay 146
Clark’s Nutcracker 82
Black-billed Magpie 377
American Crow 212
Common Raven 335
Black-capped Chickadee 191
Mountain Chickadee 133
Boreal Chickadee 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 70
White-breasted Nuthatch 6
Pygmy Nuthatch 251
Brown Creeper 8
Canyon Wren 3
Bewick’s Wren 2
Pacific Wren 4
American Dipper 4
Golden-crowned Kinglet 21
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 8
Western Bluebird 161
Townsend’s Solitaire 19
American Robin 335
Varied Thrush 2
European Starling 11,898
Bohemian Waxwing 7,849
Cedar Waxwing 27
Yellow-rumped Warbler 8
Spotted Towhee 18
Song Sparrow 319
White-crowned Sparrow 66
Dark-eyed (Ore) Junco 1,151
Dark-eyed (Sc) Junco 7
Red-winged Blackbird 123
Brewer’s Blackbird 8
Pine Grosbeak 21
House Finch 725
Red Crossbill 68
Common Redpoll 20
Pine Siskin 17
American Goldfinch 484
Evening Grosbeak 23
House Sparrow 522
TOTAL INDIVIDUALS 36,326
TOTAL SPECIES 98