Report by Michelle Baudais

The weather for the 69th Annual Vancouver Christmas Bird count was cool (6-7C) and overcast, with a few scattered showers and moderate winds of 10-25 km/h.

Our team of 218 volunteers counted a total of 119 species on count day, including 47,772 American Crows and 4376 American Wigeon (more than double last year’s number). More than 99,000 individual birds were counted in total.

Notable rarities found were a Tufted Duck, a White-faced/Glossy Ibis, and a Harris’s Sparrow. A notable miss was a Long-Billed Dowitcher. An Ovenbird was found during count week.

See the Vancouver CBC 2025 eBird Report from: https://ebird.org/tripreport/438818.

Thanks to everyone who participated this year!  The CBC is the world’s longest-running Community Science project, and the data that you help collect forms the longest continuous record of bird populations in existence. It’s an irreplaceable ecological record, and we very much appreciate you taking the time out of your busy holiday schedules to help out.