Lincoln’s 2025 Christmas Bird Count

Audubon throughout the nation celebrated its 126^th Christmas Chook Depend (CBC) season and volunteers throughout Lincoln helped rely the Lincoln CBC circle. The day was gentle and partly sunny and included counters within the subject, at their very own chook feeders and native parks, in addition to an accessible and household birding station at Pioneers Park Nature Middle.

The variety of chook species was down this rely in comparison with previous years with 76 species of birds detected over the rely day, and the general numbers of particular person birds was a lot decrease, particularly with waterfowl, recreation birds, and most markedly, wintering sparrow species. This development appears to proceed throughout the nation with chook populations declining.  As ordinary, Canada Goose was essentially the most quite a few species with European Starling and Pigeon coming in an in depth second and third (and the Darkish-eyed Junco coming in a really shut fourth). Some highlights this 12 months had been a close to file variety of Brown Creepers detected and a very nice winter for Northern Sparkles staying round Lincoln.

The complete record of species is beneath. An enormous THANK YOU to all of the wonderful volunteers of all ages and skills that helped to make the CBC successful. A particular thanks to Cassandra Dean, the UNL Chook Membership, and workers at Pioneers Park Nature Middle. We had 110 volunteer counters within the subject and at feeders round Lincoln this 12 months. And, to rejoice and share tales, greater than 20 of the counters joined in a mac ‘n’ cheese lunch hosted at Pioneers Park Nature Middle.