The Great Backyard Bird Count 2025

Pick up your Bird Counting Packet at a service desk starting February 1 or print one out here and join us in The Great Backyard Bird Count!

For four days in February (Friday, February 14- Monday, February 17), everyone is invited to spend time in their favorite places watching and counting as many birds as they can find and reporting them. You don’t even have to go outside — you can count the birds you see on your feeder while looking out the window!

Return your tally sheets to the library by February 24 to be included in our library-wide bird count. If you prefer, you may enter your tallies yourself through either the Merlin Bird ID app or the eBird website or app. For more details, visit https://www.birdcount.org/participate/

Sponsored by the National Audubon Society, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Birds Canada, these recorded observations help scientists better understand global bird populations before their annual winter migration.

The Great Backyard Bird Count 2024 Results

The results are in! A huge THANK YOU to all the amazing patrons who joined forces to count birds for The Great Backyard Bird Count this year. Your recorded observations have played a crucial role in enhancing scientists' understanding of global bird populations just before their annual winter migration. Your dedication and participation are making a real difference in the world of bird conservation!

Tally Sheets Returned: 149

Observed Species: 46

Total Birds Counted: 3,360

Duration of Bird-watching: 64,084 Minutes (1,068 Hours and 4 Minutes)

Bird Speices Counted

Common Name (Organized by total counted)	Total Seen
Dark-eyed Junco	492
Canada Goose	269
Song Sparrow	267
Blue Jay	233
Northern Cardinal	232
Mourning Dove	210
House Sparrow	145
Black-capped Chickadee	136
Tufted Titmouse	119
White-throated Sparrow	119
European Starling	114
House Finch	105
crow sp.	94
Mallard	69
Downy Woodpecker	68
American Robin	62
Carolina Wren	60
new world sparrow sp.	56
American Goldfinch	52
bird sp.	52
Red-bellied Woodpecker	47
White-breasted Nuthatch	38
Chipping Sparrow	34
Wild Turkey	33
blackbird sp.	31
House/Purple Finch	26
Ring-billed Gull	26
Eastern Bluebird	22
Hairy Woodpecker	21
American Tree Sparrow	14
Brown-headed Cowbird	14
finch sp.	12
Northern Flicker	11
Hooded Merganser	9
Common Merganser	8
gull sp.	8
Mute Swan	6
Northern Mockingbird	6
Winter Wren	6
Great Blue Heron	5
Brown Thrasher	4
Hermit Thrush	4
Downy/Hairy Woodpecker	3
Eastern Towhee	3
Red-tailed Hawk	3
Red-winged Blackbird	2
Turkey Vulture	2
Common Grackle	1
Eastern Screech-Owl	1
Great Horned Owl	1
hawk sp.	1
Herring Gull	1
Pine Grosbeak	1
Pine Siskin	1
woodpecker sp.	1
TOTAL	3360

Common Name (Alphabetical)	Total Seen
American Goldfinch	52
American Robin	62
American Tree Sparrow	14
bird sp.	52
blackbird sp.	31
Black-capped Chickadee	136
Blue Jay	233
Brown Thrasher	4
Brown-headed Cowbird	14
Canada Goose	269
Carolina Wren	60
Chipping Sparrow	34
Common Grackle	1
Common Merganser	8
crow sp.	94
Dark-eyed Junco	492
Downy Woodpecker	68
Downy/Hairy Woodpecker	3
Eastern Bluebird	22
Eastern Screech-Owl	1
Eastern Towhee	3
European Starling	114
finch sp.	12
Great Blue Heron	5
Great Horned Owl	1
gull sp.	8
Hairy Woodpecker	21
hawk sp.	1
Hermit Thrush	4
Herring Gull	1
Hooded Merganser	9
House Finch	105
House Sparrow	145
House/Purple Finch	26
Mallard	69
Mourning Dove	210
Mute Swan	6
new world sparrow sp.	56
Northern Cardinal	232
Northern Flicker	11
Northern Mockingbird	6
Pine Grosbeak	1
Pine Siskin	1
Red-bellied Woodpecker	47
Red-tailed Hawk	3
Red-winged Blackbird	2
Ring-billed Gull	26
Song Sparrow	267
Tufted Titmouse	119
Turkey Vulture	2
White-breasted Nuthatch	38
White-throated Sparrow	119
Wild Turkey	33
Winter Wren	6
woodpecker sp.	1
TOTAL	3360