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Audubon Christmas Bird Count, Indiana summaries, 121st and 122nd counts
The county's birds are counted every winter under a circle that carries South Bend's name. Audubon's Indiana summaries record a South Bend count circle: in the 122nd count (the 2021 season) the circle found the state count's first Tennessee Warbler and its second Nashville Warbler — forty-seven years after the first — with a high count of twenty-one Brown Creepers; the 121st count recorded Red Crossbills. Whether the circle's fifteen-mile diameter reaches Union Township was not established in the carriers read, and the count is therefore printed at circle-name strength: the baseline it builds is the region's, and this section claims no township species from it. Behind the count stands the longer baseline this section has used throughout — Chapman's 1880 chapter — so the county's bird record runs from a printed fauna of 1880 to an annual counted fauna today, with the township inside the region both describe but enumerated by neither.