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Posted by John Boyd on 12:09:58 05/15/11
Nancy Freedman and I had a long but rewarding day of birding in the keys. This is the ninth time that I have done this spring count since I took it over from Mort Cooper in 2002 (skipped 2006). Our total of 1604 individuals was our 2nd highest for this count, as was our total of 69 species.
Highlights included 3 Yellow Warblers near the Card Sound Bridge, Antillean Nighthawk in Tavernier, a record 109 White-crowned Pigeons (everywhere!), 6 Clapper Rails (Crocodile Lake NWR on Card Sound Rd), Roseate Tern (Marathon and Ohio-Missouri Channel), and a Mangrove Cuckoo sitting right above our heads at Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammocks Botanical Park
Unusual birds included Chimney Swift and White-winged Dove on Key Largo, a couple of Common Peafowl at Plantation Key (known location, but not on this count), Solitary Sandpiper on Summerland Key, and Roseate Spoonbill at Tavernier.
2 Common Peafowl
9 Magnificent Frigatebird
399 Double-crested Cormorant
1 Anhinga
28 Brown Pelican
3 Great Blue Heron (Wurdemann's)
6 Great White Heron
16 Great Egret
21 Snowy Egret
5 Little Blue Heron
17 Tricolored Heron
10 Reddish Egret
9 Cattle Egret
10 Green Heron
36 White Ibis
1 Roseate Spoonbill
1 Black Vulture
13 Turkey Vulture
10 Osprey
6 Clapper Rail
1 Common Gallinule
4 Black-bellied Plover
1 Wilson's Plover
4 Semipalmated Plover
1 Killdeer
7 Black-necked Stilt
1 Spotted Sandpiper
3 Solitary Sandpiper
1 Greater Yellowlegs
3 Willet
18 Ruddy Turnstone
18 Sanderling
2 Least Sandpiper
29 Short-billed Dowitcher
77 Laughing Gull
56 Least Tern
2 Roseate Tern
24 Royal Tern
12 Rock Pigeon
109 White-crowned Pigeon
88 Eurasian Collared-Dove
2 White-winged Dove
46 Mourning Dove
5 Common Ground-Dove
1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo
1 Mangrove Cuckoo
5 Burrowing Owl
4 Common Nighthawk
3 Antillean Nighthawk
1 Chimney Swift
14 Red-bellied Woodpecker
5 Great Crested Flycatcher
31 Gray Kingbird
24 White-eyed Vireo
17 Black-whiskered Vireo
2 Blue Jay
12 Northern Mockingbird
20 European Starling
5 Common Myna
3 Yellow Warbler
1 Black-throated Blue Warbler
25 Prairie Warbler
6 Blackpoll Warbler
6 American Redstart
2 Northern Waterthrush
6 Common Yellowthroat
93 Northern Cardinal
85 Red-winged Blackbird
115 Common Grackle
1 Brown-headed Cowbird
1604 birds, 69 species (70 taxa)
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