New participants are welcome to join us. Please contact me for your territory and to RSVP for the soup dinner
and count off to be held at 5:00 P.M. Thanks!
New observers are welcome! If you are an inexperienced birder, we can team you with someone with more experience.
We have both hiking and driving opportunities available for participants.
We will have an organizational meeting Thursday, December 16 at the First United Methodist Church, Media Center,
117 N Central Ave, Pierre at 7:30pm. Count areas will be assigned and further information provided. See website: http://www.missouribreaksaudubon.org/
Please contact Laura Hubers before count date if you wish to participate. 605 947-4521 or laura_hubers@fws.gov
Thanks! We meet at Waubay NWR at 8:00 AM
Please call Nelda Holden to let us know if you are participating. She will assign you to one of the quadrants.
There will be a leader in each quadrant. Nelda's phone is 605-692-8278
Please call 605-885-6320 if you plan to attend. We will meet at refuge headquarters at 8:00 AM, and re-gather
at a local cafe for lunch around noon to compare notes.
We would be happy to have additional participants with our mobile parties as well as feeder watchers at home.
Call me at 605-787-4311 or use the Email link above.
We meet at the Ben Reifel Visitor Center each year at 0800 promptly. Please call Eddie Childers at 605.433.5263
for details on next years count!
Edward Rodriguez
SDLA
Lake Andes
01/04/2012
Yes
We will meet at Lake Andes NWR headquarters at 7:45 a.m., and the count will start immediately after routes
have been assigned. The surveys are done in the areas surrounding the town of Lake Andes and Pickstown in South Dakota, including
around the Fort Randall Dam where large numbers of bald eagles are seen. At about 12:00 noon we provide lunch for everyone.
The survey will continue after lunch for those that have not completed their routes. Phone numbers are 605-487-7603 or 481-1299.
Bunkhouse is available to participants.
Meghan Dinkins
SDBI
Bison
Yes
Brent Jamison
SDHU
Huron
12/14/2011
Yes
Please call Brent Jamison at 605-352-5894 Ext. 14 or e-mail him at brent_jamison@fws.gov to RSVP if you plan
to participate. On the day of the count, we will meet in the Federal Building (200 4th St. SW, Room 309) at 8:00 AM. Donuts,
muffins, and coffee will be available. A potluck dinner will follow in the late afternoon. While we encourage you to bring
your own optics and bird books if you have them. People of all birding levels are welcome to participate. If you aren't confident
in your birding abilities, we'll just hook you up with someone who is.
Participants will meet on 12/18/10 at 7:30 AM at McDonald's in Sturgis. There will be a potluck at 12067 Crook
City Rd, Whitewood SD following the count. New birders are welcome. For further information contact Vic Fondy at 605-269-2553.
Alternate bad weather date is 12/20/10.
Chris Anderson Gil Blankespoor Bob Bork Mary Braley Doug Chapman Rosemary
Draeger Maggie Elliot David Halbritter Michael Halbritter Wes Halbritter Kathleen
Hofer Todd Jensen
Linda Johnson Dick Kappedal Davi Kemp Kirk Overaas Trent Przymus Lynn
Purdy Robert Schenck Mark Schmidtbauer Carden Tinklenberg Doug Tinklenberg Mick
Zerr
Counts completed: 1,980 Total birds reported: 64,062,406
Information about the weather, number of participants and other count particulars
is found in a separate table at the bottom of this page. Species are presented in taxonomic order. Data includes raw count
numbers, numbers per party hour, and any "flags" added to point out special information about a given record. Flags included
with species are: UH - Unusually High Number US - Unusual Species CW -
Reported in the area during Count Week, but not reported during the count.
Sioux Falls [SDSF] South Dakota Region
43.5667 degrees North x -96.7167 degrees West Christmas Bird Count Count Year:
109
Jeff Behnken Gil Blankespoor Bob Bork Mary Braley Doug Chapman Ken
Demuth Rosemary Draeger David Halbritter Joel Halbritter Michael Halbritter Wes
Halbritter
Linda Johnson Dick Kappedal Lynn Purdy Nancy Schaefer Robert
Schenck Ashley Warren Kyle Warren Sharon Warren Steve Warren Mick Zerr
Click on the owl to get the complete results of CBC's in Sioux Falls.
The 2005 Sioux Falls Christmas Bird Count
was held on December 17,
on a sunny day with a high temperature of 10 degrees F. It was a day of high counts
for the Sioux Falls CBC with the following species recording record high counts of individuals for the fifty-seven year history
of the count: Canada Goose (5,035), Common Goldeneye (12), Bald Eagle (12), Red-tailed Hawk (38), Merlin (3), Wild Turkey
(278), Rock Pigeon (2901) and American Goldfinch (255). A record high of total individuals was tallied of (12,563) due
largely to the high count of Canada Geese and Rock Pigeons. For those concerned with the effects of the West Nile Virus
the following information is presented for three species: a Blue Jays count of (64) which compares to an average count of
(25) and maximum count of (75) in 1979; an American Crow count of (319) compared to an average count of (322) and a max Count
of (1,362) in 1992, Black-capped Chickadee (112) which compares to an average count of (280) and a maximum count of (663)
in 1961. Thank you, to all participants who braved the cold to continue the tradition.
Robert Schenck
Sioux
Falls CBC Compiler
The annual Christmas Bird Count for 2004 was Saturday, Dec.18. For Sioux Falls. Eighteen participants spotted
42 species and 10,691 individuals. Three Long-eared Owls were the birds of the day. (click on "Long-eared Owls" to hear the call of the LEO.)
This RBN was only one of a few seen during the CBC
A comparison of Sioux Falls CBC's at ten year intervals from 1954-2004
The annual Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count will be held Dec. 14 to Jan. 5 in locations throughout the US and other
countries. The CBC is conducted on one specified day in each designated 15-mile diameter area. Its purpose is to document
as many wild birds as can be seen from dawn until dusk on the specified day in over 1900 different areas around the world.
During this time period, thousands of volunteers, including everyone from expert ornithologists to first time birders and
feeder watchers, will search their backyards, neighborhoods, parks, rivers, lakes, forests and farms.
The data collected
is used for environmental and scientific studies, and is available to anyone who is interested. Last year over 63 million
birds were seen. You can access last year’s data on line, at www.audubon.org or www.birdsource.org/
In Sioux
Falls, the search area is centered at Rice Street and Cliff Avenue. The date for the Sioux Falls event is December 18. The
Sioux Falls Bird Club encourages anyone interested in wild birds to take part. You can go with the volunteers or take a count
from your bird feeders in your yard. If you wish to help with the expenses for compiling and publication of the data, you
can pay a $5 participation fee.
The success of the count is dependent on the number of volunteers. Sioux Falls CBC
traditionally finds around 50 species, with totals in the thousands. Feeder watchers will watch from their homes, and other
volunteers will meet at the Outdoor Campus by 7:30 on Saturday, Dec. 18. You can go out till noon or all day. Transportation
will be provided. Volunteers meet back at the Outdoor campus at noon and at 5 PM. Feeder watchers may send their results in.
For a questionnaire/application, contact Robb Schenck at 422 N. Linwood Ct, SF SD 57103 (605)-274- 6554
Results
and photos can be found after the event at the SFBC web site at www.leifericson.org/sfbc For more information on the state
count, type in SDOU on your search engine to access the South Dakota Ornithological Union WebPages.
For those outside
of Sioux Falls, the CDC dates and contact numbers are:
Check in your community for the dates of your count.
