December 20, 2025 AVAS Bird Walk
The December 2025 bird walk took place over several days for the Pueblo Reservoir Christmas Bird Count. A total of 20-25 participants identified a grand total of 117 species!
Count Week Dec 17-19 and Dec 21-23, 2025 - 20-25 participants.
1. Snow Goose
2. Cackling Goose
3. Canada Goose
4. Wood Duck
5. Northern Shoveler
6. Gadwall
7. American Wigeon
8. Mallard
9. Northern Pintail
10. Green-winged Teal (American)
11. Canvasback
12. Redhead
13. Ring-necked Duck
14. Greater Scaup
15. Lesser Scaup
16. Bufflehead
17. Common Goldeneye
18. Barrow's Goldeneye
19. Hooded Merganser
20. Common Merganser
21. Red-breasted Merganser
22. Ruddy Duck
23. Scaled Quail (featured in cover photo)
24. Wild Turkey
25. Rock Pigeon
26. Eurasian Collared-Dove
27. White-winged Dove
28. Mourning Dove
29. Greater Roadrunner
30. Virginia Rail
31. American Coot
32. Sandhill Crane (new for the count; featured in cover photo)
33. Killdeer
34. Wilson's Snipe
35. Bonaparte's Gull
36. Short-billed Gull
37. Ring-billed Gull
38. American Herring Gull
39. Great Black-backed Gull
40. Lesser Black-backed Gull
41. California Gull
42. Iceland Gull (Thayer's)
43. Pied-billed Grebe
44. Horned Grebe
45. Red-necked Grebe
46. Eared Grebe
47. Western Grebe
48. Clark's Grebe
49. Red-throated Loon
50. Common Loon
51. Double-crested Cormorant
52. Great Blue Heron
53. American White Pelican
54. Golden Eagle
55. Sharp-shinned Hawk
56. Cooper's Hawk
57. Northern Harrier
58. Bald Eagle
59. Red-tailed Hawk
60. Ferruginous Hawk
61. Great Horned Owl
62. Belted Kingfisher
63. Downy Woodpecker
64. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
65. Hairy Woodpecker
66. Northern Flicker
67. American Kestrel
68. Merlin
69. Say's Phoebe
70. Loggerhead Shrike
71. Northern Shrike
72. Blue Jay
73. Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay
74. Black-billed Magpie
75. American Crow
76. Chihuahuan Raven
77. Common Raven
78. Black-capped Chickadee
79. Mountain Chickadee
80. Horned Lark
81. Barn Swallow (new for the count)
82. Bushtit
83. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
84. White-breasted Nuthatch
85. Pygmy Nuthatch
86. Red-breasted Nuthatch
87. Brown Creeper
88. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
89. Marsh Wren
90. Bewick's Wren
91. European Starling
92. Curve-billed Thrasher
93. Sage Thrasher
94. Townsend's Solitaire
95. American Robin
96. Cedar Waxwing
97. House Sparrow
98. American Pipit
99. House Finch
100. Pine Siskin
101. American Goldfinch
102. American Tree Sparrow
103. Dark-eyed Junco
104. White-crowned Sparrow
105. White-throated Sparrow
106. Song Sparrow
107. Lincoln's Sparrow
108. Swamp Sparrow
109. Canyon Towhee
110. Rufous-crowned Sparrow
111. Spotted Towhee
112. Western Meadowlark
113. Red-winged Blackbird
114. Brown-headed Cowbird Count week
115. Brewer's Blackbird
116. Great-tailed Grackle
117. Yellow-rumped Warbler
About AVAS
The Arkansas Valley Audubon Society (AVAS) is located in Pueblo, Colorado and is one of 500 Audubon chapters around the country. AVAS conducts birding activities, offers community programs, contributes to pro-environmental legislative initiatives, and works with agencies that manage public lands and sponsors birding field trips. The mission of AVAS is to promote the conservation of nature through education, political action and field activities with a focus on birds, other wildlife and habitat in Southern Colorado.
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