The month before the count, you can help us by scouting your neighborhood or anywhere else within the count circle for any of the interesting or unusual birds on the list below. If you have an assignment for the count, it’s very helpful to scout your location prior to the count. 

Even if you are not participating in the count you can help by birding in the count circle and reporting your findings. Please report sightings of these species within or near the SB CBC Count Circle via eBird, to SBCO Birding, or to Libby Patten at: email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Thanks in advance and happy scouting!

  • Western Cattle Egret
  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Eurasian Wigeon
  • Greater Scaup
  • Common Merganser
  • Common Gallinule
  • Virginia Rail
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Wilson’s Snipe
  • Iceland Gull
  • Greater Roadrunner
  • any owls (other than Barn, Great Horned, and Western-Screech)
  • White-throated Swift
  • any Hummingbirds (other than Anna’s or Allen’s)
  • Sapsuckers (other than Red-breasted)
  • Horned Lark
  • any swallows
  • Rock or Pacific Wrens
  • Common Raven
  • Phainopepla
  • Nashville Warbler
  • Black-throated Gray Warbler
  • Yellow Warbler
  • Hermit Warbler
  • Wilson’s Warbler
  • any tanagers
  • any grosbeaks
  • Gray Catbird
  • White-throated Sparrow
  • Swamp Sparrow
  • Green-tailed Towhee
  • Tri-colored Blackbird
  • any orioles
  • Lawrence’s Goldfinch

Montane Species

  • Mountain Chickadee
  • Golden-crowned Kinglet
  • Brown Creeper
  • Townsend’s Solitaire
  • Varied Thrush
  • Cassin’s Finch
  • Mountain Quail
  • Clark’s Nutcracker