The North American Migration Count (NAMC), held every May, ascertains numbers of spring avian migrants across the continent.

Birders on the Huntingdon County NAMC usually find a good mix of species with relatively high numbers of some forest species. This year was the same; I would term it an average year with more than the usual numbers of shorebirds, few as they were. The new species for the count were Ring-necked Duck, Semipalmated, Least, and Pectoral Sandpipers, Caspian Tern, and American Pipit. After two consecutive years with the migration being later than normal, we observed a "normal" number of most common species, with exceptions being few Pewees and Acadian Flycatchers. A week later I heard numerous individuals of each species, so our NAMC result may be partially related to the count being the earliest possible day for the second Saturday in May, the 8th. Following are the 1999 counts from 7 parties with the numbers from previous years shown for comparison. Thanks to all who participated.

Nicholas Bolgiano, State College Bird Club, 1999

Year	93	94	95	96	97	98	99
Day in May	8	14	13	11	10	9	8
Party Hours	47	54	40	50	73	56	49
Common Loon	1	0	0	3	1	4	1
Pied-billed Grebe	0	0	0	1	1	2	0
Double-crested Cormorant	0	0	1	9	8	6	26
American Bittern	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
Green Heron	4	6	8	7	3	1	5
Little Blue Heron	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Great Blue Heron	2	9	9	8	0	12	12
Tundra Swan	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Mute Swan	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Canada Goose	12	34	67	19	54	64	51
Wood Duck	10	7	56	9	11	7	19
Mallard	30	59	45	30	48	32	48
Northern Pintail	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Blue-winged Teal	1	0	0	4	3	0	0
Ring-necked Duck	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Bufflehead	0	0	0	0	0	4	1
Red-breasted Merganser	1	0	0	6	1	12	6
Hooded Merganser	0	0	0	1	0	5	0
Ruddy Duck	0	0	0	0	0	6	1
Turkey Vulture	45	30	36	24	99	29	37
Black Vulture	0	0	1	7	4	2	0
Osprey	2	1	2	3	3	7	2
Northern Harrier	0	2	0	2	1	0	0
Bald Eagle	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
eagle sp.	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Sharp-shinned Hawk	0	1	0	2	1	2	1
Cooper's Hawk	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
Northern Goshawk	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Broad-winged Hawk	6	9	1	5	1	3	5
Red-shouldered Hawk	2	3	2	1	1	1	1
Red-tailed Hawk	13	6	4	5	10	6	5
American Kestrel	5	7	3	2	3	6	3
Ring-necked Pheasant	1	2	1	1	2	3	0
Wild Turkey	8	17	6	5	2	8	3
Ruffed Grouse	0	7	1	4	4	8	6
American Coot	0	0	0	2	2	1	0
Killdeer	10	25	12	22	16	18	14
Greater Yellowlegs	0	0	0	1	0	3	2
Solitary Sandpiper	5	11	8	4	11	5	12
Spotted Sandpiper	7	10	5	5	23	8	27
Semipalmated Sandpiper	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Western Sandpiper	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
Least Sandpiper	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Pectoral Sandpiper	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Common Snipe	0	0	0	0	2	0	2
American Woodcock	10	11	5	3	8	5	6
Bonaparte's Gull	0	0	1	0	1	0	2
Ring-billed Gull	0	16	75	100	261	5	56
gull sp.	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Caspian Tern	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Forster's Tern	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Common Tern	0	0	0	0	0	7	0
Sterna sp.	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Rock Dove	52	18	42	73	51	21	52
Mourning Dove	44	28	26	39	58	47	38
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	4	6	5	2	2	3	4
Black-billed Cuckoo	1	4	2	2	0	1	0
Great Horned Owl	4	4	10	0	3	0	1
Barred Owl	2	8	7	4	3	1	4
Eastern Screech Owl	0	1	2	0	2	1	2
Common Nighthawk	2	3	4	0	0	1	1
Whip-poor-will	8	12	13	5	2	5	1
Chimney Swift	38	26	9	52	24	17	29
Ruby-thr. Hummingbird	12	17	10	19	8	9	7
Belted Kingfisher	8	6	2	5	5	9	9
Red-headed Woodpecker	1	2	2	0	1	0	4
Red-bellied Woodpecker	20	17	13	12	14	24	26
Northern Flicker	29	21	15	26	26	28	18
Downy Woodpecker	18	19	9	13	18	22	15
Hairy Woodpecker	3	7	2	2	13	8	13
Pileated Woodpecker	14	10	11	11	18	9	22
Olive-sided Flycatcher	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Eastern Wood Pewee	6	20	11	16	0	2	2
Acadian Flycatcher	9	11	5	10	0	2	2
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
Willow Flycatcher	0	3	2	0	0	0	0
Least Flycatcher	5	5	7	12	12	2	0
Empidonax sp.	0	0	0	0	3	1	2
Eastern Phoebe	35	32	16	32	13	35	41
Great Crested Flycatcher	24	44	22	39	9	22	29
Eastern Kingbird	11	17	3	16	6	3	4
White-eyed Vireo	1	1	0	5	0	0	1
Yellow-throated Vireo	7	3	7	3	4	2	4
Blue-headed Vireo	14	12	19	22	22	17	24
Red-eyed Vireo	62	103	71	131	8	69	60
Warbling Vireo	10	8	6	7	3	2	2
Blue Jay	59	54	35	211	66	154	83
American Crow	77	121	60	312	183	121	87
Fish Crow	2	0	0	1	6	1	1
Common Raven	10	3	5	5	10	3	5
Horned Lark	0	0	3	0	0	2	0
Tree Swallow	27	37	8	77	139	70	47
Purple Martin	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
Bank Swallow	0	0	17	15	0	7	12
Cliff Swallow	8	22	2	39	105	26	9
Northern Rough-wing Swallow	10	41	8	18	31	6	11
Barn Swallow	95	95	62	82	403	108	40
swallow sp.	0	0	0	0	500	0	0
Tufted Titmouse	30	36	25	38	37	52	65
Black-capped Chickadee	32	49	31	42	54	60	67
Carolina Chickadee	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
Brown Creeper	7	10	0	10	6	2	7
White-bellied Nuthatch	6	13	5	10	15	22	12
Red-bellied Nuthatch	2	8	0	7	3	8	3
House Wren	42	43	30	45	32	40	23
Winter Wren	1	3	2	1	5	3	3
Carolina Wren	10	3	5	3	3	5	13
Golden-crowned Kinglet	2	0	4	0	5	0	7
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	6	6	5	0	28	5	8
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher	31	36	28	49	39	38	41
Eastern Bluebird	52	38	20	14	24	27	16
Wood Thrush	103	97	31	84	38	82	88
Veery	0	0	4	8	4	1	1
Swainson's Thrush	0	0	2	5	1	1	1
Hermit Thrush	7	2	2	6	2	9	1
American Robin	147	160	110	132	136	179	129
Gray Catbird	62	74	61	129	76	78	121
Northern Mockingbird	5	7	4	4	2	7	5
Brown Thrasher	11	14	4	11	5	8	10
European Starling	119	104	108	125	113	116	75
American Pipit	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
Cedar Waxwing	10	14	22	15	0	24	34
Blue-wing Warbler	3	8	2	6	5	4	4
Golden-wing Warbler	9	10	11	13	5	4	9
Tennesse Warbler	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
Orange-crowned Warbler	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Nashville Warbler	1	6	0	2	4	3	4
Northern Parula	8	9	4	7	3	12	15
Chesnut-sided Warbler	5	15	3	26	9	8	24
Cape May Warbler	2	2	1	4	0	0	0
Magnolia Warbler	2	5	4	10	3	1	6
Yellow-rumped Warbler	19	35	20	29	73	29	33
Black and White Warbler	15	15	13	24	24	23	18
Black-throated Blue Warbler	12	10	12	24	20	30	19
Cerulean Warbler	6	6	7	4	8	1	7
Blackburnian Warbler	15	9	6	53	29	27	25
Black-throated Green Warbler	46	29	31	75	77	72	109
Yellow-throated Warbler	0	1	3	2	4	2	1
Prairie Warbler	6	6	6	13	5	18	10
Bay-breasted Warbler	0	1	4	9	0	0	0
Blackpoll Warbler	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
Pine Warbler	2	4	1	1	4	4	9
Palm Warbler	0	2	0	0	7	2	2
Yellow Warbler	61	46	87	83	34	56	66
Kentucky Warbler	0	2	3	2	0	0	0
Canada Warbler	1	8	3	18	6	6	10
Wilson's Warbler	0	4	1	1	0	0	2
Hooded Warbler	22	8	10	19	1	15	29
Worm-eating Warbler	14	17	11	16	6	18	36
Ovenbird	154	108	84	204	123	251	217
Louisiana Waterthrush	19	9	8	25	16	16	17
Northern Waterthrush	2	2	1	0	1	2	0
Common Yellowthroat	119	122	84	229	80	244	142
Yellow-breasted Chat	10	6	5	7	2	4	2
American Redstart	55	52	40	69	26	42	50
Scarlet Tanager	67	81	44	77	15	52	51
Eastern Towhee	108	142	100	173	165	197	159
Field Sparrow	37	21	26	34	35	47	34
Chipping Sparrow	129	134	69	153	104	143	128
Grasshopper Sparrow	4	4	6	14	0	6	7
Savannah Sparrow	1	1	2	5	0	3	2
Lincoln's Sparrow	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Song Sparrow	74	61	53	96	77	77	86
Vesper Sparrow	0	0	3	1	1	2	3
Swamp Sparrow	0	6	0	0	3	4	6
White-throated Sparrow	10	6	4	19	28	24	22
White-crowned Sparrow	10	31	7	18	8	4	13
Dark-eyed Junco	0	5	2	11	7	17	0
Rose-breasted Grosbeak	14	23	24	28	75	16	20
Northern Cardinal	62	54	37	54	45	62	42
Indigo Bunting	16	58	42	72	16	16	27
Bobolink	1	0	1	1	10	9	15
Eastern Meadowlark	10	10	7	5	3	9	4
Red-winged Blackbird	197	137	150	129	167	172	303
Common Grackle	162	112	110	99	141	188	66
Brown-headed Cowbird	63	24	26	43	41	66	50
Orchard Oriole	1	4	1	5	2	3	5
Baltimore Oriole	43	58	28	53	31	59	43
Purple Finch	0	0	0	3	3	17	0
House Finch	53	37	18	22	20	17	5
Pine Siskin	0	12	0	14	0	4	0
American Goldfinch	98	132	94	123	164	139	96
Common Redpoll	0	0	0	0	0	14	0
Evening Grosbeak	0	36	0	2	0	15	0
House Sparrow	47	26	21	32	20	23	19
Total Species	123	133	136	148	138	148	144
Cumulative species	123	139	151	163	168	174	180