The 2022 Tricolored Blackbird Statewide Survey was conducted from April 15 to April 17, 2022.

A total of 36 county coordinators and 112 participants surveyed 894 sites in 44 counties.

The best estimate of the statewide population where multiple estimates of the same sites are averaged is 218,000, with a minimum estimate 183,000 and a maximum estimate 261,000 (all figures rounded to the nearest 1,000). 

A total of 733 locations surveyed was unoccupied, and 161 locations were occupied by at least one bird.

The 2022 statewide population estimate is up 41,000 birds from the 2017 population estimate of 177,000 birds and 73,000 birds higher than the 2014 population estimate of 145,000 birds, but only 55% of the 2008 population estimate of 395,000 birds.