Birdathon 2021
The results of each of the teams who were in the field for our chapter’s 2021 Birdathon (May 7 through 10) have been submitted and compiled. All in all, 10 teams turned in their findings. The 8 teams searching seven local counties found a total of 150 species, while two additional teams birding farther afield in Nebraska, Iowa and Colorado found an additional 18 species for a grand total of 168 species. Thank you to all 15 participants for their time and effort.
Now, the critical portion of the project follows:
Each participant/team is requested to collect all their pledged donations and send them to me.
Each donor who pledged a donation is requested to forward it to your team or directly to me.
Each additional person who would like to donate to the Chapter’s projects is asked to send an amount based on the number of species found or a flat amount of your choosing. Be sure to designate it as ‘Birdathon.’
Most importantly, the Chapter thanks all of you who have donated to Chapter projects and to those of you who considered such.
Bill Huser, LHAS Outings Coordinator & Birdathon Czar, 140 Oakmont Drive, South Sioux City, NE 68776. Telephone: 712-574-3107 or billfhuser@gmail.com
Birdathon highlights include: Eared Grebe, Swainson’s Hawk, Sora, Piping Plover, Sanderling, Least Tern, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Pileated Woodpecker, Golden-winged Warbler, Northern Parula, Blackburnian Warbler, Lousiana Waterthrush, and Summer Tanager.
| BIRD | BIRD | BIRD | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada Goose | Double-crested Cormorant | Brown Thrasher | ||
| Wood Duck | American White Pelican | European Starling | ||
| Blue-winged Teal | Great Blue Heron | House Sparrow | ||
| Northern Shoveler | Great Egret | American Pipet | ||
| Gadwall | Cattle Egret | House Finch | ||
| American Wigeon | Black-crowned Night-Heron | White-winged Crossbill | ||
| Mallard | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | American Goldfinch | ||
| Green-winged Teal | Turkey Vulture | Grasshopper Sparrow | ||
| Ring-necked Duck | Osprey | Lark Sparrow | ||
| Lesser Scaup | Northern Harrier | Chipping Sparrow | ||
| Hooded Merganser | Sharp-shinned Hawk | Clay-colored Sparrow | ||
| Ruddy Duck | Cooper's Hawk | Field Sparrow | ||
| Wild Turkey | Bald Eagle | Dark-eyed Junco | ||
| Ring-necked Pheasant | Broad-winged Hawk | White-crowned Sparrow | ||
| Pied-billed Grebe | Swanson's Hawk | Harris's Sparrow | ||
| Eared Grebe | Red-tailed Hawk | White-throated Sparrow | ||
| Western Grebe | Barred Owl | Vesper Sparrow | ||
| Rock Pigeon | Red-headed Woodpecker | Savannah Sparrow | ||
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | Red-bellied Woodpecker | Song Sparrow | ||
| Mourning Dove | Downy Woodpecker | Lincoln's Sparrow | ||
| Eastern Whip-poor-will | Hairy Woodpecker | Swamp Sparrow | ||
| Chimney Swift | Northern Flicker | Spotted Towhee | ||
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Pileated Woodpecker | Eastern Towhee | ||
| Sora | American Kestrel | Yellow-headed Blackbird | ||
| American Coot | Merlin | Eastern Meadowlark | ||
| Black-necked Stilt | Peregrine Falcon | Western Meadowlark | ||
| American Avocet | Great Crested Flycatcher | Orchard Oriole | ||
| Black-bellied Plover | Eastern Kingbird | Baltimore Oriole | ||
| Killdeer | Willow Flycatcher | Red-winged Blackbird | ||
| Semipalmated Plover | Least Flycatcher | Brown-headed Cowbird | ||
| Piping Plover | Eastern Phoebe | Common Grackle | ||
| Hudsonian Godwit | Warbling Vireo | Great-tailed Grackle | ||
| Ruddy Turnstone | Red-eyed Viro | Ovenbird | ||
| Sanderling | Blue Jay | Louisiana Waterthrush | ||
| Dunlin | Black-billed Magpie | Northern Waterthrush | ||
| Baird's Sandpiper | American Crow | Golden-winged Warbler | ||
| Least Sandpiper | Fish Crow | Black-and-White Warbler | ||
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Horned Lark | Tennessee Warbler | ||
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Bank Swallow | Orange-crowned Warbler | ||
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Tree Swallow | Nashville Warbler | ||
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Violet-green Swallow | Mourning Warbler | ||
| Long-billed Dowitcher | Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Common Yellowthroat | ||
| Wilson's Snipe | Purple Martin | American Redstart | ||
| Spotted Sandpiper | Barn Swallow | Northern Parula | ||
| Solitary Sandpiper | Cliff Swallow | Blackburnian Warbler | ||
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Black-capped Chickadee | Yellow Warbler | ||
| Willet | Tufted Titmouse | Blackpoll Warbler | ||
| Greater Yellowlegs | White-breasted Nuthatch | Palm Warbler | ||
| Bonaparte's Gull | House Wren | Pine Warbler | ||
| Franklin's Gull | Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Yellow-rumped Warbler | ||
| Ring-billed Gull | Eastern Bluebird | Summer Tanager | ||
| Least Tern | Gray-cheeked Thrush | Scarlet Tanager | ||
| Caspian Tern | Swanson's Thrush | Northern Cardinal | ||
| Black Tern | Wood Thrush | Rose-breasted Grosbeak | ||
| Common Tern | American Robin | Indigo Bunting | ||
| Forster's Tern | Gray Catbird | Dickcissel |