Posted by Brian Rapoza on December 27, 2015 at 01:49:36
A total of 17,196 individuals of 132 species were tallied during the Miami-Dade County CBC on December 19. Unusual species included White-cheeked Pintail (apparently resident on Fisher Island, of unknown provenance) and Yellow-headed Blackbird (seen during count week). New high counts were set for Wood Stork, Short-tailed Hawk and White-eyed Parakeet. Here are the totals: Swan Goose 2 Graylag Goose 16 Canada Goose 1 Egyptian Goose 29 Muscovy Duck 300 Mallard 20 Mottled Duck 11 Blue-winged Teal 12 White-cheeked Pintail 2 Black Scoter 3 Red-breasted Merganser 3 Indian Peafowl 13 Common Loon 1 Pied-billed Grebe 45 Horned Grebe 1 American Flamingo 240 Wood Stork 38 Magnificent Frigatebird 34 Northern Gannet 1 Double-crested Cormorant 850 Anhinga 25 Brown Pelican 200 Great Blue Heron 46 Great Egret 62 Snowy Egret 8 Little Blue Heron 33 Tricolored Heron 18 Reddish Egret 1 Cattle Egret 130 Green Heron 22 Black-crowned Night-Heron 34 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 8 White Ibis 1350 Black Vulture 210 Turkey Vulture 1200 Osprey 42 Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 Cooper's Hawk 15 Bald Eagle 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 8 Broad-winged Hawk 6 Short-tailed Hawk 12 Red-tailed Hawk 3 Common Gallinule 88 American Coot 190 Black-necked Stilt 3 Black-bellied Plover 150 Piping Plover 1 Killdeer 43 Spotted Sandpiper 11 Willet 5 Ruddy Turnstone 17 Sanderling 110 Short-billed Dowitcher 1 Laughing Gull 2300 Ring-billed Gull 400 Herring Gull 8 Lesser Black-backed Gull 13 Great Black-backed Gull 2 Forster's Tern 1 Royal Tern 100 Sandwich Tern 1 Rock Pigeon 1250 Eurasian Collared-Dove 300 Common Ground-Dove 5 White-winged Dove 23 Mourning Dove 104 Eastern Screech-Owl 7 Burrowing Owl 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 13 Belted Kingfisher 12 Red-bellied Woodpecker 63 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 9 Downy Woodpecker 2 American Kestrel 38 Merlin 1 Peregrine Falcon 5 Monk Parakeet 47 White-winged Parakeet 12 Yellow-chevroned Parakeet 28 Orange-winged Parrot 37 Blue-and-yellow Macaw 7 Chestnut-fronted Macaw 8 Blue-crowned Parakeet 2 Green Parakeet 15 Mitred Parakeet 25 White-eyed Parakeet 315 Eastern Phoebe 29 Great Crested Flycatcher 3 White-eyed Vireo 1 Blue-headed Vireo 6 Blue Jay 120 Fish Crow 2000 House Wren 6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 170 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Gray Catbird 17 Northern Mockingbird 120 European Starling 1700 Common Myna 26 Ovenbird 2 Worm-eating Warbler 1 Louisiana Waterthrush 1 Northern Waterthrush 4 Black-and-white Warbler 31 Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 20 American Redstart 11 Cape May Warbler 2 Northern Parula 32 Black-throated Blue Warbler 8 Palm Warbler 320 Pine Warbler 17 Yellow-rumped Warbler 105 Yellow-throated Warbler 11 Prairie Warbler 22 Black-throated Green Warbler 5 Grasshopper Sparrow 1 Savannah Sparrow 2 Summer Tanager 1 Northern Cardinal 64 Indigo Bunting 1 Painted Bunting 11 Red-winged Blackbird 21 Yellow-headed Blackbird cw Common Grackle 700 Boat-tailed Grackle 520 Bronzed Cowbird 3 Spot-breasted Oriole 2 Baltimore Oriole 2 American Goldfinch 92 House Sparrow 107 Thanks to the following birders who participated in this year's count: Abreu, Angel Abreu, Mariel Avello, Miriam Barros, Joe Boeringer, Bill Boyd, John Camp, John Diaz, Robin Drucker, Michele Einspruch, Edith Freedman, Nancy Jones, Debbie Jones, Greg Jones, James King, Jim Lago, Elizabeth Manfredi, Larry Manfredi, Phillip Molfetto, Donna Olle, Dennis Pace, Alice Pace, Robert Padura, Miguel Paez, Omar Paez, Stephen Pappas, Gary Porcelli, Mario Porcelli, Nicholas Quetglas, Facel Rawls, Jeanette Salino, Nicola Sanchez, Carlos Shapiro, Susan Stanley, Elliot Steinberg, Alan Steinberg, Sue Torres, Helen Vazquez, Bertha Weber, Jeff Wiley, Ann Zequeira, Jose Zequeira, Otto