Lincoln’s 2025 Christmas Bird Count

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

The variety 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 ordinary, Canada Goose was probably the most quite a few species with European Starling and Pigeon coming in a detailed second and third (and the Darkish-eyed Junco coming in a really shut fourth). Some highlights this 12 months have been a close to report variety of Brown Creepers detected and a extremely nice winter for Northern Glints staying round Lincoln.

The complete checklist of species is under. An enormous THANK YOU to all of the superb volunteers of all ages and talents that helped to make the CBC a hit. A particular thanks to Cassandra Dean, the UNL Hen Membership, and workers at Pioneers Park Nature Heart. We had 110 volunteer counters within the area and at feeders round Lincoln this 12 months. And, to have a good time and share tales, greater than 20 of the counters joined in a mac ‘n’ cheese lunch hosted at Pioneers Park Nature Heart.

2025 LINCOLN CBC – BIRD COUNT SUMMARY
Species	Tally	Species	Tally	Species	Tally
Snow Goose	14	American Coot	1	Jap Bluebird	41
Better White-fronted Goose	8	Killdeer	2	American Robin	532
Cackling Goose	145	Ring-billed Gull	41	European Starling	3,039
Canada Goose	4,945	Feral (Rock) Pigeon	1,152	Cedar Waxwing	58
Wooden Duck	2	Eurasian Collared-Dove	150	Lapland Longspur	19
Gadwall	13	Mourning Dove	179	Yellow-rumped Warbler	8
Mallard	930	Jap Screech-Owl	1	Noticed Towhee	2
Northern Shoveler	8	Nice Horned Owl	9	American Tree Sparrow	460
Inexperienced-winged Teal	77	Barred Owl	3	Track Sparrow	22
Ring-necked Duck	3	Belted Kingfisher	8	Fox Sparrow	1
Widespread Merganser	48	Crimson-bellied Woodpecker	107	Harris’s Sparrow	51
Northern Bobwhite	25	Downy Woodpecker	145	White-throated Sparrow	41
Ring-necked Pheasant	1	Bushy Woodpecker	47	White-crowned Sparrow	11
Wild Turkey	120	Northern Flicker	146	Darkish-eyed Junco	1,151
American White Pelican	1	Northern Shrike	3	Northern Cardinal	221
Nice Blue Heron	9	Blue Jay	407	Crimson-winged Blackbird	648
Bald Eagle	25	American Crow	123	Western Meadowlark	56
Northern Harrier	2	Horned Lark	75	Jap Meadowlark	2
Sharp-shinned Hawk	13	Black-capped Chickadee	146	Widespread Grackle	3
Cooper’s Hawk	17	Crimson-breasted Nuthatch	44	Nice-tailed Grackle	1
Crimson-tailed Hawk	50	White-breasted Nuthatch	175	Purple Finch	1
Tough-legged Hawk	1	Brown Creeper	57	Home Finch	344
American Kestrel	23	Carolina Wren	5	Pine Siskin	6
Merlin	2	Winter Wren	2	American Goldfinch	309
Peregrine Falcon	1	Golden-crowned Kinglet	12	Home Sparrow	800
		Ruby-crowned Kinglet	2

Complete # of Species	76