Birds

A Tally of New Mexico's Great Backyard Bird Count

New Mexicans showed up for the GBBC!

Over 1,200 checklists were submitted and 202 species were counted putting us in the top ten for number of species seen. Below is a tally of the state and country for 2019.

Global Statistics from 2019 (as of March 11)

  • Checklists Submitted: 204,488
  • Total Species Observed: 6,683
  • Total Individual Birds Counted: 31,693,208

New Mexico Statistics 

TOTAL: 202 Species 1,336 Checklists

Counties by Species Count

  1. Bernalillo County (highest for both species and checklists)  = 127 spp, 438 checklists
  2. Dona Ana: 117 spp
  3. Socorro: 108 spp
  4. Grant: 102 spp
  5. Sandoval: 87 spp
  6. Santa Fe: 88 spp
  7. Sierra: 72 spp
  8. San Miguel: 72 spp
  9. Rio Arriba: 60 spp
  10. Los Alamos: 58 spp

Counties by Complete Checklist Count

  1. Bernalillo: 438
  2. Santa Fe, 211
  3. Socorro: 101
  4. Dona Ana: 87
  5. Los Alamos, 80
  6. Sandoval: 73
  7. Grant: 57
  8. Rio Arriba: 31
  9. San Miguel: 28
  10. Harding, 24

Note: Cibola had 0 sp, 0 checklists. All other counties had at least one person participate.

 

 

USA Overall

TOTAL: 673 Species 120,868 Checklists

Total Species count

  1. Texas, 368
  2. California, 352
  3. FL 304
  4. AZ 276
  5. LA 228
  6. OR 224
  7. WA 211
  8. NM 203
  9. SC 199
  10. NC 197

Total Checklist Count

  1. CA 7580
  2. TX 6662
  3. NY 6317
  4. PA 5833
  5. FL 5794
  6. VA 4665
  7. OH 3765
  8. MI 3550
  9. WA 3538
  10. NC 3476

New Mexico came in at #26 with 1,207 checklists submitted

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