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Posted by Brian Rapoza on 18:48:51 01/13/15
Thirty-four birders participated in the Coot Bay/Everglades National Park Christmas Bird Count on January 3. A total of 48,985 individuals of 125 species were tallied during the count. Lesser Nighthawk and Eastern Whip-poor-will were added during count week. Unusual species included Canvasback, Bufflehead, Brown-crested Flycatcher, Blue-winged Warbler and Summer Tanager. Amazing numbers of Lesser Scaup and American Coot (appropriately) were found this year on Coot Bay.
A film crew joined us for this year s count; they are working on a PBS mini-series called The Crowd and the Cloud, which will focus on the role of technology in citizen science. The host of the series is Dr. Waleed Abdalati, a University of Colorado scientist and former chief scientist of NASA. Dr. Abdalati and the crew followed Angel and Mariel Abreu on a very muddy Coastal Prairie Trail and later met up with Paul Bithorn and Joe Barros, who were covering Coot Bay by canoe. The mini-series is scheduled for broadcast sometime in 2016.
Here s the list, with number of individuals counted:
American Wigeon 2
Blue-winged Teal 70
Green-winged Teal 30
Canvasback 3
Ring-necked Duck 5
Lesser Scaup 5300
Bufflehead 8
Red-breasted Merganser 7
Ruddy Duck 350
Common Loon 1
Pied-billed Grebe 10
Horned Grebe 5
American White Pelican 1800
Brown Pelican 600
Double-crested Cormorant 5200
Anhinga 9
Magnificent Frigatebird 9
American Bittern 1
Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 240
Great Blue Heron (White form) 135
Great Blue Heron (Wurdemann's) 2
Great Egret 1000
Snowy Egret 860
Little Blue Heron 750
Tricolored Heron 140
Reddish Egret 16
Cattle Egret 1
Green Heron 5
Black-crowned Night-Heron 12
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 3
White Ibis 1100
Glossy Ibis 45
Roseate Spoonbill 170
Wood Stork 3
Black Vulture 60
Turkey Vulture 350
Osprey 130
Bald Eagle 17
Northern Harrier 4
Red-shouldered Hawk 30
Short-tailed Hawk 8
American Kestrel 3
Merlin 3
Peregrine Falcon 5
Black Rail 4
Sora 1
Common Gallinule 2
American Coot 15600
Black-bellied Plover 90
Wilson's Plover 21
Semipalmated Plover 125
Killdeer 19
Black-necked Stilt 8
American Avocet 42
Spotted Sandpiper 46
Greater Yellowlegs 6
Willet 700
Lesser Yellowlegs 5
Whimbrel 17
Long-billed Curlew 1
Marbled Godwit 530
Ruddy Turnstone 5
Red Knot 15
Sanderling 30
Western Sandpiper 4350
Least Sandpiper 3000
Dunlin 1350
Short-billed Dowitcher 600
Laughing Gull 1800
Ring-billed Gull 20
Herring Gull 1
Lesser Black-backed Gull 23
Caspian Tern 45
Forster's Tern 7
Royal Tern 180
Black Skimmer 450
White-crowned Pigeon 20
Mangrove Cuckoo 1
Barn Owl 2
Eastern Screech-Owl 1
Barred Owl 4
Lesser Nighthawk cw
Eastern Whip-poor-will cw
Belted Kingfisher 30
Red-bellied Woodpecker 50
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3
Downy Woodpecker 3
Pileated Woodpecker 4
Eastern Phoebe 32
Great Crested Flycatcher 30
Brown-crested Flycatcher 1
White-eyed Vireo 34
Yellow-throated Vireo 1
American Crow 145
Tree Swallow 3
Carolina Wren 1
House Wren 11
Sedge Wren 1
Marsh Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 106
Gray Catbird 100
Northern Mockingbird 16
European Starling 22
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 2
Northern Parula 15
Yellow Warbler 14
Magnolia Warbler 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 3
Yellow-throated Warbler 9
Prairie Warbler 34
Palm Warbler 120
Black-and-white Warbler 22
American Redstart 13
Worm-eating Warbler 3
Ovenbird 6
Northern Waterthrush 41
Common Yellowthroat 150
Summer Tanager 1
Savannah Sparrow 35
Nelson's Sparrow 23
Saltmarsh Sparrow 4
Swamp Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 53
Indigo Bunting 1
Painted Bunting 2
Red-winged Blackbird 150
Common Grackle 62
Boat-tailed Grackle 1
Thanks to the following who assisted with the count:
Abreu, Angel
Abreu, Mariel
Alvear, Elsa
Avello, Miriam
Barros, Joe
Bithorn, Paul
Boeringer, Bill
Booth, Brian
Boyd, John
Brooks, David
Cotrell, Shaun
Davis, Michelle
DeWitt, Al
DeWitt, Barbara
Diaz, Rangel
Frezza, Peter
Lago, Elizabeth
Navas, Ingrid
Pace, Alice
Pace, Robert
Rawls, Jeanette
Roberts, Bryant
Robinson, Michelle
Rodriguez, Maria
Schaffter, David
Trott, Dave
Trott, Marcia
Trott, Ryan
Valadez, Juan
Weber, Jeff
Whitehead, Brian
Ziqueira, Jose
Ziqueira, Otto
Brian Rapoza
Coot Bay/Everglades National Park CBC Coordinator
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