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Posted by Hawker on 09:36:44 04/16/09
BIG O BIRDING FESTIVAL APRIL 3-6, 2009
TRIP RESULTS
Clewiston, FL Hendry and Glades Counties
Sties and species lists: Lists include birds seen driving to and from sites. Some sites are compilation of several tours (e.g., Lake Okeechobee boat ride).
OK SLOUGH STATE FOREST AND WMA = OK South Florida Birding Trail Site included in FWC guides (also Pranty 2005 Birders Guide to Florida)
STORMWATER TREATMENT AREA 5 = STA 5 South Florida Birding Trail Site included in FWC guides and Pranty page 211
DINNER ISLAND RANCH WMA = DIR South Florida Birding Trail Site included in FWC guides
FISHEATING CREEK WMA (MAIN STREET) = FEC see South Florida Birding Trail Site included in FWC guides
LAKE OKEECHOBEE SCENIC TRAIL = LOST includes riding the Hoover Dike from Clewiston to Uncle Joe s Fish Camp
LAKE OKEECHOBEE = LO includes pontoon boat ride out Clewiston channel and along canal to the west of the main channel, also the outer spit islands of the waterway
AH-TAH-THI-KI MUSEUM ON BIG CYPRESS SEMINOLE RESERVATION = ATTK http://www.ahtahthiki.com/
HENDRY COUNTY = HC includes non-field trip observations in the region
VENUS LOOP = VL from Pranty page 165 and including Detjens Dairy Road (SR17)
HARNEY POND AND FT. CENTER WMA = HPFC Includes the observation towers along Harney Pond Canal and the Ft. Center trail and native American mound sites South Florida Birding Trail Site and Pranty page 168.
OK STA5 DIR FEC LOST LO ATTK HC VL HPFC
Black-bellied Whistling duck X
Fulvous Whistling-Duck X X
Muscovy Duck X
Wood Duck X
Mottled Duck X X X X X
Blue-winged Teal X X X X
Northern Shoveler X X X
Ring-necked Duck X
Lesser Scaup X
Red-breasted Merganser X
Wild Turkey X X X X X X
Northern Bobwhite X X X
Pied-billed Grebe X
American White Pelican X X
Brown Pelican X X
Double-crested Cormorant X X X X X
Anhinga X X X X X
American Bittern X X
Least Bittern X
Great Blue Heron X X X X X X X X
Great White Heron (White Morph Great Blue) X
OK STA5 DIR FEC LOST LO ATTK HC VL HPFC
Great Egret X X X X X X X
Snowy Egret X X X X X
Little Blue Heron X X X X X X
Tricolored Heron X X X X
Cattle Egret X X X X X X X X
Green Heron X X X X X
Black-crowned Night-Heron X
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron X X X
White Ibis X X X X X
Glossy Ibis X X X X
Roseate Spoonbill X X X
Wood Stork X X X X X X X X X
Black Vulture X X X X X X X X X
Turkey Vulture X X X X X X X X X
Osprey X X X X X
Swallow-tailed Kite X X X X X X X
White-tailed Kite X
Snail Kite X
Bald Eagle X X X X
Nest
Northern Harrier X X X X
Cooper s Hawk X
Red-shouldered Hawk X X X X
Nest w/ 2 young X
Nest w/ young X X nest X
Short-tailed Hawk X X
Red-tailed Hawk X
Crested Caracara X X
Nest on tower X X X X
American Kestrel X X X X X X
Peregrine Falcon X X
King Rail X
Sora X X
OK STA5 DIR FEC LOST LO ATTK HC VL HPFC
Purple Gallinule X X
Purple Swamphen X
Common Moorhen X X X X X
American Coot X X X X
Limpkin X X X
Sandhill Crane X X X
2 colts X X
nest
Killdeer X X X X
Black-necked Stilt X X X X
American Avocet X X
Spotted Sandpiper X
Solitary Sandpiper X
Greater Yellowlegs X X X
Lesser Yellowlegs X X X X
Ruddy Turnstone X
Least Sandpiper X
Long-billed Dowitcher X
Wilson s Snipe X X
Laughing Gull X X X
Ring-billed Gull X X X
Herring Gull X
Caspian Tern X X X X
Forster s Tern X
Royal Tern X
Black Skimmer X
Rock Pigeon X X X
Eurasian Collared-Dove X X X X X
White-winged Dove X X
Mourning Dove X X X X X X X X X
Common Ground-Dove X X X X X
Barn Owl X (Palm Beach County)
OK STA5 DIR FEC LOST LO ATTK HC VL HPFC
Barred Owl X X X
nest
Whip-poor-will X
Chimney Swift X
Ruby-throated Hummingbird X
Belted Kingfisher X X X X X X X X
Red-bellied Woodpecker X X X X X X X
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker X
Downy Woodpecker X X
Pileated Woodpecker X
Great Crested Flycatcher X X X X X
Western Kingbird X
Eastern Kingbird X X
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher X X X
Loggerhead Shrike X X X X
White-eyed Vireo X X X X
Blue-headed Vireo X
Blue Jay X X X X
Florida Scrub-Jay X
American Crow X X X X X
Fish Crow X X
Purple Martin X X X X
Tree Swallow X X X X X X
Northern Rough-winged Swallow X X X X
Barn Swallow X
Tufted Titmouse X X X
Carolina Wren X X X X X X
Marsh Wren X X X X
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher X X X
Eastern Bluebird X
OK STA5 DIR FEC LOST LO ATTK HC VL HPFC
Gray Catbird X X X X
Northern Mockingbird X X X X X X
Brown Thrasher X X
Common Myna X McD s and BK X
European Starling X X X
Northern Parula X X X X
Magnolia Warbler X
Yellow-rumped Warbler X
Prairie Warbler X
Palm Warbler X X X X X X X
Black-and-white Warbler X X
American Redstart X
Common Yellowthroat X X X X X X X X
Eastern Towhee X X
Grasshopper Sparrow X
Savannah Sparrow X X X
Swamp Sparrow X
Northern Cardinal X X X X X X
Indigo Bunting X
Red-winged Blackbird X X X X X X
Eastern Meadowlark X X X
Common Grackle X X X X
Boat-tailed Grackle X X X X X X X
Brown-headed Cowbird X
House Sparrow X X X
Mammals:
2 otters Rainey Slough
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