Every year on the first Saturday of May (give or take a week), Kane County Audubon joins birders across the country to participate in a national bird count.  2007 marks the 36^th consecutive year that Kane County Audubon has conducted a Spring Bird Count.  This year, thirty-nine birders fanned out to cover the county in 19 groups attempting to count as many birds as possible on May 5^th. 

Once again this year, the Red-winged Blackbird took honors as the most-counted species at 1,722 birds.  Joining the KCA Spring Bird Count list for the first time are the Smith's Longspur and American White Pelican, an injured migrant holdover. Amazingly, although 104 of the 149 species counted posted numbers above their yearly average, no new high counts were recorded. The  American Black Duck, Virginia Rail, Wilson's Snipe, Chimney Swift, Blue-headed Vireo, Carolina Wren, and Marsh Wren tied previous record highs. 

The details for this year's count are presented below. Last year's information is available by clicking here.

The complete 36 year record in spreadsheet form (.xls) can be downloaded here.