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Posted by Brian Rapoza on 18:59:39 01/17/13
A total of 54,553 individuals of 144 species were tallied during the Coot Bay/Everglades National Park Christmas Bird Count on December 29, 2012. Species of note recorded during the count included a Horned Grebe on Coot Bay Pond, six Black Rails, heard on the Coastal Prairie Trail, a Long-billed Curlew on Florida Bay, two Short-eared Owls, both in coastal prairie, a Blue-winged Warbler, seen on the Bear Lake Trail and a Prothonotary Warbler, seen on Coot Bay. A total of 21 species of warblers were found. Also, new high counts were recorded for Common Loon, Black Rail, Spotted Sandpiper, Marbled Godwit and Short-billed Dowitcher.
Here are the totals:
Gadwall (count week)
Blue-winged Teal 100
Northern Shoveler 2
Green-winged Teal 90
Lesser Scaup 30
Red-breasted Merganser 28
Ruddy Duck 218
Common Loon 25
Pied-billed Grebe 50
Horned Grebe 2
American White Pelican 3800
Brown Pelican 300
Double-crestedCormorant 1500
Anhinga 62
Magnificent Frigatebird 10
American Bittern 1
Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 140
Great Blue Heron (White form) 320
Great Blue (Wurdemann's) Heron 1
Great Egret 750
Snowy Egret 800
Little Blue Heron 270
Tricolored Heron 175
Reddish Egret 47
Cattle Egret 60
Green Heron 11
Black-crowned Night-Heron 21
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 25
White Ibis 1400
Roseate Spoonbill 150
Wood Stork 70
Black Vulture 55
Turkey Vulture 125
Osprey 90
Bald Eagle 13
Northern Harrier 5
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 58
Broad-winged Hawk 3
Short-tailed Hawk 7
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Kestrel 10
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 3
Black Rail 6
Clapper Rail 2
Common Gallinule 18
American Coot 6000
Black-bellied Plover 425
Wilson's Plover 52
Semipalmated Plover 270
Killdeer 5
Black-necked Stilt 6
American Avocet 5
Spotted Sandpiper 74
Greater Yellowlegs 24
Willet 2400
Lesser Yellowlegs 20
Whimbrel 25
Long-billed Curlew 1
Marbled Godwit 1600
Ruddy Turnstone 21
Red Knot 55
Sanderling 49
Western Sandpiper 7300
Least Sandpiper 5600
Dunlin 7300
Short-billed Dowitcher 4500
Wilson's Snipe 1
Laughing Gull 3000
Ring-billed Gull 50
Herring Gull 5
Lesser Black-backed Gull 60
Gull-billed Tern 9
Caspian Tern 280
Forster's Tern 37
Royal Tern 350
Sandwich Tern 4
Black Skimmer 1650
White-crowned Pigeon 16
Mourning Dove 2
Common Ground-Dove 8
Barn Owl 1
Eastern Screech-Owl 3
Barred Owl 11
Short-eared Owl 2
Lesser Nighthawk 1
Eastern Whip-poor-will 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3
Belted Kingfisher 67
Red-bellied Woodpecker 61
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 6
Northern Flicker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 9
Eastern Phoebe 49
Great Crested Flycatcher 42
Loggerhead Shrike 1
White-eyed Vireo 53
Blue-headed Vireo 3
American Crow 130
Tree Swallow 440
Carolina Wren 2
House Wren 34
Sedge Wren 5
Marsh Wren 2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 130
American Robin 3
Gray Catbird 150
Northern Mockingbird 14
Brown Thrasher 5
European Starling 29
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 9
Northern Parula 17
Yellow Warbler 11
Magnolia Warbler 1
Cape May Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler 12
Black-throated Green Warbler 3
Yellow-throated Warbler 16
Pine Warbler 1
Prairie Warbler 40
Palm Warbler 225
Black-and-white Warbler 50
American Redstart 20
Prothonotary Warbler 1
Worm-eating Warbler 2
Ovenbird 3
Northern Waterthrush 45
Common Yellowthroat 220
Yellow-breasted Chat 1
Savannah Sparrow 55
Nelson's Sparrow 9
Saltmarsh Sparrow 5
Swamp Sparrow 6
Northern Cardinal 65
Indigo Bunting 1
Painted Bunting 16
Red-winged Blackbird 150
Eastern Meadowlark 1
Common Grackle 200
Boat-tailed Grackle 2
Brown-headed Cowbird (count week)
American Goldfinch 42
I d like to thank the following for their assistance during the count: Michael Aronsohn, Aaron Balogh, Joe Barros, Paul Bithorn, John Boyd, Rangel and Michael Diaz, Pete Frezza, Rafael Galvez, Liz Golden, Marshall Iliff, Krista Johnson, Jim King, Larry Millar, Trey Mitchell, Bob and Alice Pace, Bryant Roberts, Maria Rodriguez, Amy Roja, Allison Salas, David Schaffter, Anna Scharnagl, Bob Showler, Roberto Torres and Jeff Weber.
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