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On May 12-13, 2000, five teams from the Fort Collins Audubon Society scoured the Fort Collins area to find as many species of birds as possible within a 24-hour period.  Here is the list turned in by the winning team.

Fort Collins Audubon Birdathon
May 12-13,2000

Total Species: 162

Total Individuals: 2936+

Observers:
Nick Komar, Scott Baily, Larry Semo, Chip Clouse

# Individuals

Species

2

Common Loon

2

Pied-billed Grebe

15

Eared Grebe

30

Western Grebe

3

Clark's Grebe

50

American White Pelican

100

Double-crested Cormorant

15

Great Blue Heron

7

Snowy Egret

3

Black-crowned Night Heron

5

White-faced Ibis

30

Canada Goose

10

Green-winged Teal

30

Mallard

2

Northern Pintail

6

Blue-winged Teal

15

Cinnamon Teal

30

Northern Shoveler

15

Gadwall

6

American Wigeon

15

Redhead

1

Ring-necked Duck

12

Lesser Scaup

1

Common Goldeneye

3

Bufflehead

7

Common Merganser

60

Ruddy Duck

3

Turkey Vulture

2

Osprey

1

Bald Eagle

1

Northern Harrier

20

Swainson's Hawk

4

Red-tailed Hawk

1

Ferruginous Hawk

3

Golden Eagle

5

American Kestrel

1

Peregrine Falcon

1

Ring-necked Pheasant

5

Virginia Rail

5

Sora

8

American Coot

3

Black-bellied Plover

20

Killdeer

1

Mountain Plover

3

Black-necked Stilt

3

American Avocet

12

Willet

10

Spotted Sandpiper

2

Marbled Godwit

1+

Least Sandpiper

20

Long-billed Dowitcher

1

Common Snipe

200

Wilson's Phalarope

2

Red-necked Phalarope

1+

Franklin's Gull

1+

Bonaparte's Gull

100

Ring-billed Gull

100

California Gull

1

Herring Gull

1

Caspian Tern

25

Forster's Tern

30

Black Tern

20

Rock Dove

30

Mourning Dove

2

Great Horned Owl

5

Burrowing Owl

2

Chimney Swift

40

White-throated Swift

6

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

1

Belted Kingfisher

3

Red-naped Sapsucker

1

Williamson's Sapsucker

3

Downy Woodpecker

1

Hairy Woodpecker

6

Northern Flicker

1

Least Flycatcher

1

Hammond's Flycatcher

1

Cordilleran Flycatcher

1

Say's Phoebe

30

Western Kingbird

4

Eastern Kingbird

100

Horned Lark

20

Tree Swallow

20

Violet-green Swallow

2

Rough-winged Swallow

100

Bank Swallow

200

Cliff Swallow

30

Barn Swallow

6

Steller's Jay

6

Blue Jay

20

Black-billed Magpie

10

American Crow

6

Common Raven

4

Black-capped Chickadee

12

Mountain Chickadee

12

Red-breasted Nuthatch

2

White-breasted Nuthatch

3

Pygmy Nuthatch

2

Brown Creeper

1

Rock Wren

1

Canyon Wren

12

House Wren

10

Marsh Wren

1

American Dipper

8

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

6

Western Bluebird

4

Mountain Bluebird

4

Townsend's Solitaire

3

Swainson's Thrush

3

Hermit Thrush

30

American Robin

6

Gray Catbird

1

Northern Mockingbird

6

Brown Thrasher

3

Loggerhead Shrike

40

European Starling

1

White-eyed Vireo

3

Plumbeous Vireo

3

Warbling Vireo

2

Orange-crowned Warbler

12

Virginia's Warbler

12

Yellow Warbler

16

Yellow-rumped Warbler

1

Ovenbird

1

Northern Waterthrush

2

MacGillivray's Warbler

2

Common Yellowthroat

1

Wilson's Warbler

1

Yellow-breasted Chat

1

Western Tanager

1

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

6

Black-headed Grosbeak

6

Lazuli Bunting

4

Green-tailed Towhee

20

Spotted Towhee

15

Chipping Sparrow

1

Clay-colored Sparrow

3

Brewer's Sparrow

4

Vesper Sparrow

10

Lark Sparrow

200

Lark Bunting

1

Savannah Sparrow

5

Song Sparrow

3

White-crowned Sparrow

5

Dark-eyed Junco

8

McCown's Longspur

2

Chestnut-collared Longspur

400

Red-winged Blackbird

50

Western Meadowlark

20

Yellow-headed Blackbird

20

Brewer's Blackbird

20

Common Grackle

1

Great-tailed Grackle

100

Brown-headed Cowbird

1

Orchard Oriole

3

Bullock's Oriole

6

House Finch

6

Red Crossbill

2

Pine Siskin

10

American Goldfinch

1

Evening Grosbeak

20

House Sparrow