Posted by Brian Rapoza on November 16, 2003 at 08:14:51:
A total of 100 species were seen on Tropical Audubon's carpool trip to Marco Island. Highlights were an adult Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (species # 100) on Fritchey Road, off of US 41 in Naples, incredible numbers of Limpkin(30+) and Snail Kites(10+)in a flooded field on US 41 near the Fritchey Road area, and a huge (100+) feeding flock of Magnificent Frigatebirds off of Tigertail Beach.
Species seen:
Pied-billed Grebe
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Magnificent Frigatebird
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Wood Stork
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Muscovy Duck
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Osprey
Snail Kite
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Accipiter species
Red-shouldered Hawk
Short-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Limpkin
Black-bellied Plover
Snowy Plover
Wilson's Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Killdeer
Willet
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Common Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Dove
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Monk Parakeet
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue Jay
Florida Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Tree Swallow
Tufted Titmouse
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Hill Myna
Northern Parula
Magnolia Warbler
Myrtle Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Eastern Towhee
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle