Posted by Bill Boeringer on December 20, 2015 at 16:36:30
5 of us participated in the Virginia Key portion of the Miami CBC yesterday. Strong steady NNE winds (20-25mph) made finding passerines difficult, but we found enough to eventually total 68 species, including Horned Grebe and Piping Plover. Our full list: Egyptian Goose 7 Muscovy Duck (Established Feral) 21 Mallard (Domestic type) 1 Red-breasted Merganser 1 Horned Grebe 1 Magnificent Frigatebird 5 Double-crested Cormorant 338 Anhinga 1 Brown Pelican 31 Great Blue Heron 11 Great Egret 9 Snowy Egret 1 Little Blue Heron 1 Tricolored Heron 1 Reddish Egret 1 Cattle Egret 20 Green Heron 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron 7 White Ibis 112 Black Vulture 25 Turkey Vulture 125 Osprey 6 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Broad-winged Hawk 1 Short-tailed Hawk 2 (1 light morph, 1 dark morph) Common Gallinule 4 Black-bellied Plover 2 Piping Plover 1 Killdeer 8 Spotted Sandpiper 4 Willet 5 Ruddy Turnstone 3 Sanderling 6 Laughing Gull 136 Ring-billed Gull 16 Herring Gull 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull 12 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Royal Tern 11 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 65 Common Ground-Dove 3 Mourning Dove 10 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 Monk Parakeet 7 Eastern Phoebe 4 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Loggerhead Shrike 2 Blue Jay 2 Fish Crow 710 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 25 Gray Catbird 4 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 25 Common Myna 1 Northern Waterthrush 2 Black-and-white Warbler 3 Common Yellowthroat 3 American Redstart 1 Northern Parula 1 Palm Warbler 43 Pine Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 5 Yellow-throated Warbler 1 Prairie Warbler 2 Northern Cardinal 7 Indigo Bunting 1 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Boat-tailed Grackle 25