Winter Bird Highlights

After each FeederWatch season, Lab scientists analyze the data submitted by FeederWatch participants. Starting in 2005, the findings were published in Winter Bird Highlights. Click on the links below to see a PDF of each publication.

Volume I: 2004-2005
Volume II: 2005-2006
Volume III: 2006-2007

Annual Reports

Prior to 2005, the year-end reports, which were called Annual Reports, were printed in the Lab's newsletter, BirdScope. Click the links below to view the BirdScope articles.

Hummingbirds and Other Gems of Winter. Bonter. D. Autumn 2004. Volume 18, Number 4:1, 8-11. View Report.

A Winter's Yield. Bonter, D. & W. Hochachka. Autumn 2003. Volume 17, Number 4:16-19.

Now You See Them, Now You Don't: When, where, and why the birds didn't show up. Hochachka, W. Autumn 2002. Volume 16, Number 4:6-9. View Report.

Down from the Mountains: FeederWatchers document exodus of western montane birds. Hochachka, W. & Kammermeier, L. Autumn 2001. Volume 15, Number 4:6-9. View Report.

Project FeederWatch Annual Report 1999-2000: An overview of winter feeder bird populations across North America. Kammermeier, L. & Hochachka, W. Autumn 2000. Volume 14, Number 4:1-7, 9, 10.   View Report.

Project FeederWatch Annual Report 1998-99: FeederWatchers document mass movements of robins, siskins, and jays. Kammermeier, L. & Hochachka, W. Autumn 1999. Volume 13, Number 4:1-6.  View Report.

Project FeederWatch Annual Report 1997-98: FeederWatch comes of age in its second decade. Hochachka, W. & Rosenberg, K. Autumn 1998. Volume 12, Number 4:1-7.  View Report.

Project FeederWatch Annual Report 1996-97: All quiet on the eastern front; a banner year for unusual sightings in the West. Tessaglia, D. Autumn 1997. Volume 11, Number 4:1-5, 8. View Report.

Project FeederWatch Annual Report 1995-96: An overview of winter bird populations across North America. Tessaglia, D. & Rosenberg, K. Autumn 1996. Volume 10, Number 4:1-5, 8.

Project FeederWatch Annual Report 1994-95: Rosenberg, K., Tessaglia, D. & Wells, J. Autumn 1995. Volume 9, Number 4:4-6. 

Project FeederWatch Annual Report 1993-94: A winter of "seeing red" in the North, more purple and gold in the south. Tessaglia, D. & Rosenberg, K. Autumn 1994. Volume 8, Number 4:1-6. View Report.