Silver City
Christmas Bird Count - 2005
Route/Route Leader 1 - GL 2 - DAZ 3 - LM 4 - BN 5 - BH 6 - TH 7 - DB 8 - RSS Total
Snow Goose 1 1
Canada Goose 7 7
Wood Duck
Gadwall 2 1 3
American Wigeon 6 134 140
Mallard 9 10 10 12 2 1 155 199
     Mexican Duck 6 4
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler 9 106 17 132
Northern Pintail 1 1 2
Green-winged Teal 4 1 6 11
Canvasback 3 3
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck 7 10 12 25 54
Lesser Scaup 12 1 1 14
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser 19 3 22
Ruddy Duck 4 4
Scaled Quail 1 1
Gambel's Quail 149 109 10 15 150 193 626
Montezuma Quail
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe 1 1 2
Great Blue Heron 1 1
Green Heron 1 1
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier 1 1 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 1 3 7
Cooper's Hawk 1 1 1 1 4
Northern Goshawk
Accipiter sp. 1 2 3
Red-tailed Hawk 8 2 8 5 1 24
Ferruginous Hawk
Golden Eagle
American Kestrel 2 2 1 1 3 5 1 15
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Sora
American Coot 3 4 7
Killdeer 1 1
Spotted Sandpiper
Common Snipe 1 1
Ring-billed Gull 29 29
Rock Pigeon 22 1 21 68 112
Eurasian Collared-Dove 1 1 1 14 17
White-winged Dove 15 39 12 54 11 14 145
Mourning Dove 45 13 20 114 8 200
Inca Dove
Greater Roadrunner 2 1 3
Great Horned Owl 1 1
Magnificent Hummingbird
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Hummingbird sp. 1 1
Belted Kingfisher 1 1
Acorn Woodpecker 2 10 12
Centurus (=Melanerpes) sp.
Williamson's Sapsucker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Red-naped Sapsucker 4 2 4 1 8 2 21
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 2 1 1 5 3 2 6 5 25
Downy Woodpecker 2 2
Hairy Woodpecker 1 1
Northern Flicker 10 1 4 5 7 7 2 2 38
Empidonax sp.
Black Phoebe 2 1 2 5
Say's Phoebe 1 3 7 1 1 3 1 17
Loggerhead Shrike 4 1 2 7
Hutton's Vireo
Steller's Jay 4 4
Western Scrub-Jay 29 6 19 18 10 12 11 105
Mexican Jay 1 9 8 26 44
Pinyon Jay 1 14 15
American Crow
Chihuahuan Raven 6 6
Common Raven 29 23 13 9 30 15 44 9 172
Raven sp. 9 9
Horned Lark 2 2
Mountain Chickadee
Bridled Titmouse 4 4
Juniper Titmouse 3 1 5 9
Bushtit 13 15 55 36 119
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch 3 6 9
Brown Creeper 2 2
Cactus Wren 1 1 2 4
Rock Wren 1 1
Bewick's Wren 2 1 5 1 9
House Wren 1 1
Winter Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4 4 1 5 17 8 3 42
Eastern Bluebird
Western Bluebird 138 17 61 48 40 82 25 14 425
Mountain Bluebird
Townsend's Solitaire 1 1
Hermit Thrush 2 2 4
American Robin 5 2 5 5 70 1 1 89
Northern Mockingbird 1 1 2
Sage Thrasher 3 3
Brown Thrasher
Curve-billed Thrasher 2 4 6 4 7 4 10 37
Crissal Thrasher 1 1
European Starling 22 1 12 17 52
American Pipit 1 1
Cedar Waxwing 20 6 26
Phainopepla 1 3 1 4 2 11
Olive Warbler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 2 1 7 13 24 13 62
     Audubon's 1
     Myrtle's 1 1
Common Yellowthroat
Green-tailed Towhee 2 1 3
Spotted Towhee 5 2 5 2 15 2 1 32
Canyon Towhee 23 10 17 23 8 7 12 2 102
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Chipping Sparrow 56 4 14 6 3 12 2 4 101
Brewer's Sparrow 5 2 7
Black-chinned Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow 1 1 2
Lark Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow 5 5
Sage Sparrow
Lark Bunting 3 3
Savannah Sparrow 1 1
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow 2 9 4 1 75 7 98
Lincoln's Sparrow 6 1 7
Swamp Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow 1 1
Harris's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow 146 200 116 43 19 312 2 176 1014
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco 211 23 79 125 118 190 30 65 841
     Oregon 13 33 46
     Gray-headed 7 2 9
     Pink-sided 10 10
     Slate-colored
Northern Cardinal
Pyrrhuloxia 1 2 3
Black-headed Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird 360 2 18 380
Eastern Meadowlark
Western Meadowlark 1 1 1 3
Meadowlark sp. 1 6 6 1 6 20
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird 37 91 9 176 77 390
Great-tailed Grackle 5 4 4 1 14
Brown-headed Cowbird
Cassin's Finch 4 3 7
House Finch 29 12 55 36 51 44 7 15 249
Red Crossbill
Pine Siskin 8 20 3 31
Lesser Goldfinch 4 3 5 2 4 18
Lawrence's Goldfinch
American Goldfinch 2 2 1 5
Evening Grosbeak
House Sparrow 63 4 68 42 38 81 66 362
Number of Individuals 1461 712 808 572 566 1430 351 1072 6972
Number of Species 44 49 49 44 35 44 29 43 103
Total Party Hours 10 6 6.5 6 8.5 9.5 7 5.3 58.8
Total Party Miles 43 48 11.2 19.9 57 29 5 8 221.1
Hours & Miles by Foot 5 & 4 1 & 1 6 & 2.6 3 & 2 1 & 1 7.5 & 4 7 & 5 4.3 & 5 33.8 & 24.6 
Hours & Miles by Car 5 & 39 5 & 47 0.5 & 8.6 3 & 17.9 7.5 & 56 2 & 25 1 & 3 24 & 196.5
1. Route 1 - Begin east of Kirkland Road and covering the Arenas Valley, Fort Bayard, Santa Rita and south along count line towards Hurley. 
Gene and Eulalia Lewis et al.
2. Route 2 - Begin at the junction of Ridge Road and Highway 90 and proceeding southeast along Ridge Road to Mangus Valley Road. 
Turn west until you intersect Highway 90. Return via 90 to city limits of Silver City. Dale and Marian Zimmerman
3. Route 3 -U.S. 180 from mile marker 105 east to Silver City including Wind Canyon and Chloride Flats.  Continue at the junction of Highway 180 
and Alabama Street in Silver City. Larry Malone and Rinda Metz
4.. Proceed north and west along Cottage San Road to the junction of Bear Mountain Road. Include the Silva Creek area behind Jose Barrios 
School. Procedure on Bear Mountain Rd to the edge of the circle taking any public or Forest Service Roads off of Bear Mountain 
Road. Bill Norris and Denise , Jack Carter et al.
5. Route 5 -The area bounded by Little Walnut Road to the West, Highway 180 to the south, 32nd Avenue bypass to the east and Little Walnut 
Picnic grounds and Pinos Altos to the north. Bruce Hayward et al.
3a. Route 6 -The Tyrone Town Site, and the area of Silver City bounded on the north and west by Highway 180 and the bypass road, and to the east
by Highway 90. Also the Tyrone sewage ponds. Larry Malone and Rinda Metz.
6. The area bounded on the west by Highway 90, on the north by Highway 180, to the east to Kirkland road and to the south to Ridge Road on the 
western boundary and approximately 2 miles south of 180 on the Kirkland Rd boundary. Also San Vicente Wash from the overpass 
southeast to ¼ mile of the golf course. Tricia and Mark
7. The area bounded on the north and west by Highway 180, to the east by Highway 90 and to the south by the bypass road. Include Big Ditch 
Park, Boston Hill. Dave Beatty and Jim Pritchard
8. Silver City Golf Course and the area east of the 32nd Bypass and north of Highway 180, east to Kirkland Road. Roland Shook, Wayne Sptizer, 
et al.