District of Columbia

The District of Columbia (D.C.) lies along the shores of the Potomac River, covering 68 square miles of heavily developed urban landscape. A few parklands, notably Rock Creek Park, Kenilworth Park and Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, the National Mall, and the National Arboretum provide some islands of open space among an urban jungle. The District literally spans the Fall Line, with Coastal Plain area on its southern section giving way to slightly hillier and rockier Piedmont areas in its northern and western sections. With a 2005 population of 550,500 people averaging 9378 per square mile, the District of Columbia is the most heavily settled "state" in the Northeast.

A total of xxx bird species have been recorded in the District of Columbia (MD/DCRC 2008), of which about xxx are known to breed regularly or occasionally. Click here to download an excel spreadsheet showing the bird species of D.C. and their conservation status based on various criteria.

AKN RESOURCES
Three AKN datasets have data from D.C., totaling 53,432 observations!

**A file of the complete AKN dataset for D.C. can be downloaded here.**

The AKN Bar Charts provide an easy way to view AKN data from D.C., showing a summary of all species reported for the state and their temporal frequency throughout the year. Click here or on the image below to view a bar chart summarizing all AKN data from D.C. or click here to generate your own bar chart.

Additional bar charts using just eBird data allow one to generate bar charts for specific refuges, parks, and other "hot" birding locations (hotspots). You can customize a bar chart for any state, county, BCR, or hotspot. A customized bar chart can be generated for one or multiple D.C. locations, and please note that you can select as many locations as you wish. It is also possible to explore frequency maps for a species, and within eBird those maps can be refined to view point maps for just D.C..

The AKN Google Earth files provide a way to explore AKN data for D.C. geographically. Click here or on the image below to download a Google Earth file showing all datapoints for D.C.. Using Google Earth, a free application, you can then explore the spatial distribution of the various datasets and also see summaries of the data by clicking on the points. For more on how to use these files, click here.

A number of additional projects have data from D.C. not yet represented in the AKN. The Northeast Coordinated Bird Monitoring Network has compiled a Register of Northeast Bird Monitoring Programs; to get a similar file with only the D.C. projects, click here.

BIRD HABITATS AND CONSERVATION IN D.C.

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D.C. IBAs

The Maryland-D.C. Important Bird Area (IBA) program has identified 26 IBAs in Maryland, but none in the District of Columbia. Maryland's IBAs are shown on a map and are listed below. For more information on the Maryland-D.C. IBA program, click here or contact the state IBA director:

David Curson
dcurson@audubon.org
Maryland-DC IBA Coordinator
(410) 558-2473

ORNITHOLOGICAL RESOURCES

Audubon Naturalist Society
www.audubonnaturalist.org/

Maryland Ornithological Society (MOS)
http://www.mdbirds.org/

D.C. Records Committee

Maryland/D.C. Records Committee
http://www.mdbirds.org/mddcrc/rcindex.html

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eBird: Report your birding observations, whether from a week long trip throughout the state or backyard sightings while gardening. All sightings are valuable and will be automatically integrated with the Avian Knowledge Network and Northeast Avian Data Center. Read more about eBird or submit observations now!