Lincoln’s 2025 Christmas Bird Count

Audubon throughout the nation celebrated its 126^th Christmas Chicken Rely (CBC) season and volunteers throughout Lincoln helped depend the Lincoln CBC circle. The day was gentle and partly sunny and included counters within the subject, at their very own chook feeders and native parks, in addition to an accessible and household birding station at Pioneers Park Nature Middle.

The range of chook species was down this depend in comparison with previous years with 76 species of birds detected over the depend day, and the general numbers of particular person birds was a lot decrease, particularly with waterfowl, recreation birds, and most markedly, wintering sparrow species. This pattern appears to proceed throughout the nation with chook populations declining.  As standard, Canada Goose was probably the most quite a few species with European Starling and Pigeon coming in an in depth second and third (and the Darkish-eyed Junco coming in a really shut fourth). Some highlights this yr have been a close to report variety of Brown Creepers detected and a very nice winter for Northern Glints staying round Lincoln.

The complete record of species is under. An enormous THANK YOU to all of the wonderful volunteers of all ages and skills that helped to make the CBC a hit. A particular thanks to Cassandra Dean, the UNL Chicken Membership, and employees at Pioneers Park Nature Middle. We had 110 volunteer counters within the subject and at feeders round Lincoln this yr. And, to rejoice and share tales, greater than 20 of the counters joined in a mac ‘n’ cheese lunch hosted at Pioneers Park Nature Middle.