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Posted by Rafael Galvez on 00:13:45 09/25/08
With much apologies, here is a delayed tally of NAMC for Florida Bay. From Lake Ingraham and East Cape, arching around the chain of keys and banks over to Snake Bight, covering over 50 miles in a 13 hour count day (Monroe and Dade), Juan Valadez and I had a productive count.
With 81 species, we had 9737 individuals total (which paled in comparison to last year s nearly 22,000 individuals, half of which were Least Sandpipers we had very low numbers of Least Sandpipers this year).
Highlights included 3 Flamingos near Gibby Point (which Bob reported earlier), nearly 600 Snowy Egrets! 358 Roseate Spoonbills, 638 Red Knots, 2089 SB Dowitchers, 101 Marbled Godwits, 19 species of shorebirds in all, and a good variety of passerines including a Clay-colored Sparrow!
Here is the list, for specific locations please contact me directly:
60 American White Pelican
241 Brown Pelican
342 Double-crested Cormorant
6 Magnificent Frigatebird
87 Great Blue Heron (5 Wurdemann s & 65 Great White)
123 Great Egret
596 Snowy Egret
76 Little Blue Heron
20 Tricolored Heron
7 Reddish Egret (2 White)
31 Cattle Egret
2 Black-crowned Night-Heron
1 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
379 White Ibis
358 Roseate Spoonbill
3 Greater Flamingo
2 Black Vulture
12 Turkey Vulture
13 Osprey
7 Bald Eagle
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
1 Merlin
15 Clapper Rail
114 Black-bellied Plover
17 Wilson s Plover
50 Semipalmated Plover
7 Black-necked Stilt
48 American Avocet
5 Greater Yellowlegs
1 Solitary Sandpiper
1308 Willet
17 Spotted Sandpiper
7 Whimbrel
101 Marbled Godwit
26 Ruddy Turnstone
638 Red Knot
12 Sanderling
513 Semipalmated Sandpiper
1255 Western Sandpiper
716 Least Sandpiper
1 Dunlin
2089 Short-billed Dowitcher
102 Laughing Gull
1 Ring-billed Gull
1 Herring Gull
1 Lesser Black-backed Gull
1 Gull-billed Tern
6 Caspian Tern
157 Royal Tern
7 Sandwich Tern
14 Forster s Tern
1 Black Skimmer
11 White-crowned Pigeon
1 Barred Owl
6 Common Nighthawk
2 Chuck-will s-widow
8 Belted Kingfisher
9 Red-bellied Woodpecker
4 Great Crested Flycatcher
1 Gray Kingbird
1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
1 Cliff Swallow
12 Barn Swallow
1 American Crow
3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1 Northern Mockingbird
1 Loggerhead Shrike
2 European Starling
1 Northern Parula
10 Yellow Warbler
2 Black-throated Blue Warbler
3 Yellow-throated Warbler
13 Prairie Warbler
1 American Redstart
1 Worm-eating Warbler
2 Ovenbird
14 Northern Waterthrush
17 Common Yellowthroat
1 Clay-colored Sparrow
1 Bobolink
6 Red-winged Blackbird
Gotta love the counts!
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