During the 2015-16 (116th) Christmas Bird Count, 206 parties volunteered 1627 party-hours across 27 counts. Three counts were resurrected this year including Red River N.W.R., Lake Charles, and Thibodaux. A huge congratulations and thank you to those compilers and counters who made these happen! A total of 263 species was tallied (including feral Canada Goose, Monk Parakeet, and Scaly-breasted Munia not on the official state list), nine better than last year. And 6,393,475 individual birds were counted with Red-winged Blackbird (3,913,113), Brown-headed Cowbird (1,080,304), and Snow Goose (636,503) as top three most abundant. The top five counts this year were southwest Louisiana circles. Top prize went to Lacassine N.W.R.-Thornwell with 161 species, just squeaking out Sabine N.W.R. with 160. Sweet Lake-Cameron Prairie took third with 151, followed by White Lake and Creole with 143 each. Baton Rouge ended up with a very respectable 140, just topping New Orleans with 138. Five north...