May Bird Count 2024 Results

2024 May Bird Count Results are in!

445 participants spent 1,258 hours counting 160,206 individual birds from 263 species (plus 8 additional count week species).

A new species was added to the count in Writing-on-stone: ash-throated flycatcher. Another rarity was recorded in Cardston: black-chinned hummingbird. And we had a new record for number of common grackles (3,387), loggerhead shrikes (93), and blackburnian warblers (33). Participants didn’t count any yellow rail nor yellow-bellied flycatchers which were previously regulars on the count. See how the numbers stack up against previous years below. Find out more, including full results at naturealberta.ca/may-species-count

Thanks to Lara Fitzpatrick for volunteering to compile results and provide a comprehensive summary of the 2024 May Bird Count.