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Currently, the 2011 Dallas Count has tallied 116 birds for the count day and 117 for count week (Common Merganser - cw). We added a new species in Mottled Duck. We had very high numbers of Eastern Bluebirds and we had all the typical wren species including House, Marsh, and Sedge wrens.

For zone information, you can download the entire 2011 Dallas Christmas Bird in an excel format at the bottom of this page.

(correction added December 27 - Blue-winged Teal added to spreadsheet increasing the total by one = 116 count day and 117 cw)

The count circle has remained constant since it began in 1957. The map has been added as an PDF file attachment at the bottom of this page.

If you wish to look up historical count data by count circle, the Dallas code is TXDA. Historical Count Data

The 2009 and 2010 Christmas Count data in Excel format is an attachment at the bottom of this page.

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Obvious Mistakes from Past Years

* Plain Titmouse (55) from 1967. Pulich shows no records of this bird before or after the split. Clearly a bizarre misidentification. Now considered "Juniper Titmouse".

* Pygmy Nuthatch (1) from 1967. Pulich shows the only PYNU record from 1966 – a year earlier... a bird collected in Irving, Texas on December 31, 1966 by Pulich (WMP 1537).

* Semipalmated Sandpiper 50 from 1957 and also 26 from 1975. That would be unheard of (December/January records are so rare in Texas that they are reviewable by the TBRC.)

* Baird’s Sandpiper (25) from 1966. Individual records in North America in December are extraordinary.

* Pectoral Sandpiper (9) from 1957. Also unbelievable.

* Pyrrhuloxia (221) from 1974. A number of 221? Someone must have been counting this west Texas bird from the window of a local bar.

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Curiosities and Possible Errors 

* Sage Thrasher (7) from 1957 – No records from that year (Pulich)

* Baird’s Sparrow (4) from 1961 – No records from that year (Pulich)

* Golden-fronted Woodpecker –1978, 1984. Probably misidentified

* Dickcissel (1) from 1982 (possible, but no details)

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I Wish I Had Seen It 

* Rough-legged Hawk – several seen nearly every year from 1957-1978. More common before the county became so urban

* Glaucous Gull from 2001 (cw) – details available

* King Rail from 1962, 1964, 1969

* Couch’s/Tropical Kingbird from 2005 – details and photograph

* White-eyed Vireo from 2009 - details available

* Townsend’s Solitaire from 1973

* Northern Parula Warbler from 2000 – details available

* Nashville Warbler (2) from 1995 and 2010 – details available

* Mourning Warbler (1) from 1991

* Western Tanager (1) from 1996 – details available (Actually, I did see it! Seen by myself and two others)

* Blue Grosbeak from 1976 (I actually met the woman who had this bird at her feeder for a few weeks during that year.)

* Rose-breasted Grosbeak (male) from 1999 and 2006 – details available for both years

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High Numbers of Interesting Species 

* Hairy Woodpecker – 22 from 1982

* Red-headed Woodpecker 14 from 1984

* Eastern Bluebird – 68 from 1973

* Red-winged Blackbird – 613,841 from 1977 and 510,739 from 1978. (Since 1980, most individual blackbird numbers have not exceeded four figures.) 

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Top Ten Dallas CBCs by Species

2004 = 119 CD and 125 CW
2006 = 117 CD and 123 CW
2009 = 117 CD and 117 CW
2010 = 116 CD and 117 CW
2011 = 116 CD and 117 CW
2005 = 115 CD and 118 CW
2002 = 112 CD and 115 CW
2008 = 111 CD and 114 CW
2007 = 109 CD and 110 CW
1983 = 108 CD and 108 CW

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Unusual Photo Sightings from Past Christmas Counts

Common Nighthawk from 2006 Count

California Gull from 2006 Count

Selasphorus Hummingbird from 2007 and 2008 counts

Tropical\Couch's Kingbird from 2005 Count