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Posted by Rafael Galvez on 21:55:32 09/16/07
An extremely productive and GREAT NAMC for Juan Valadez and I!!!
As usual, we had a tremendous stretch of territory to cover, from Cape Sable to Snake Bight, and many keys in between; we were out in the field for nearly 15 hours (and an additional 7 in front of the computer).
Juan and I started doing this count trajectory in 1997 for the CBC. By then, great birders such as Fred Griffin, Brian Hope, and George Meyer had been doing the area for the previous 20 years. We are very happy that finally the area is being covered during the NAMC, and this year's records prove how important it is to monitor movement through Florida Bay and Cape Sable during fall migration.
We had a total of 80 species for 2 counties (78 Monroe, 2 Dade only).
We counted over 21,000 individual birds, our record to this date!
Highlights included finding the American Flamingo flock at Snake Bight, near Porpoise Point, and high numbers of plovers, sandpipers, and rails.
Our top species with noteworthy numbers were:
American Flamingo- 11
Whimbrel- 18
Clapper Rail- 21
Wilson s Plover- 42
Great White Heron- 106 (132 total GBH)
Roseate Spoonbill- 329
Semipalmated Plover- 280
Willet- 1475
Short-billed Dowitchers- 1745
Western Sandpiper- 1864
White Ibis- 2437
Least Sandpiper- 9870
The List:
[2]____Pied-billed Grebe
[1]____American White Pelican
[135]____Brown Pelican
[376]____Double-crested Cormorant
[5]____Magnificent Frigatebird
[132]____Gr. Blue Heron ,[3] Wurdemann's, [106] Gr. White Heron
[393]____Great Egret
[180]____Snowy Egret
[138]____Little Blue Heron
[78]____Tricolored Heron
[9]____Reddish Egret [1]____ White form
[7]____Cattle Egret
[1]____Green Heron
[3]____Black-crowned Night-Heron
[11]____Yellow-cr. Night-Heron
[2437]____White Ibis
[329]____Roseate Spoonbill
[2]____Wood Stork
[11]____American Flamingo
[135]____Blue-winged Teal
[2]____Northern Shoveler
[1]____Black Vulture
[8]____Turkey Vulture
[7]____Osprey
[2]____Bald Eagle
[1]____Northern Harrier
[2]____Red-shouldered Hawk
[2]____Merlin
[21]____Clapper Rail
[1] ____King Rail
[314]____Black-bellied Plover
[42]____Wilson's Plover
[280]____Semipalmated Plover
[22]____Black-necked Stilt
[12]____American Avocet
[4]____Greater Yellowlegs
[1]____Lesser Yellowlegs
[1475]____Willet
[54]____Spotted Sandpiper
[18]____Whimbrel
[66]____Marbled Godwit
[118]____Ruddy Turnstone
[291]____Red Knot
[20]____Sanderling
[756]____Semipalmated Sandpiper
[1864]____Western Sandpiper
[9870]____Least Sandpiper
[28]____Dunlin
[1745]____Short-billed Dowitcher
[122]____Laughing Gull
[1]____Herring Gull
[2]____Caspian Tern
[123]____Royal Tern
[18]____Sandwich Tern
[7]____Forster's Tern
[12]____Least Tern
[68]____Black Skimmer
[52]____White-crowned Pigeon
[1] ____Barred Owl
[5]____Common Nighthawk
[5]____Chuck-will's-widow
[11]____Belted Kingfisher
[4]____Red-bellied Woodpecker
[3]____Great Crested Flycatcher
[3]____Eastern Kingbird
[4]____Northern Rough-winged Swallow
[1]____Cliff Swallow
[39]____Barn Swallow
[16]____Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
[2]____White-eyed Vireo
[1]____Red-eyed Vireo
[2]____Northern Parula
[16]____Yellow Warbler
[4]____Yellow-throated Warbler
[31]____Prairie Warbler
[3]____American Redstart
[3]____Northern Waterthrush
[1]____Louisiana Waterthrush
[4]____Common Yellowthroat
[1]____Hooded Warbler
Anyone seriously interested in a detailed breakdown of species numbers and sighting locations can contact me directly.
An amazing migration season, and very happy to participate in NAMC 2007.
Rafael A. Galvez
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