Posted by Brian Rapoza on January 11, 2016 at 02:32:29
A total of 30,517 individuals of 126 species were counted during the Coot Bay/Everglades National Park CBC on January 2. This year’s count was characterized by a paucity of ducks, with 100 individuals of only two species encountered. Also of note were a low number of American Coots and Black Skimmers. New high counts were established for Lesser Black-backed Gull and Downy Woodpecker. Unusual species for this count included Black Rail, Wilson’s Snipe, Summer Tanager and Blue Grosbeak. Here’s the breakdown by species: Lesser Scaup 46 Red-breasted Merganser 54 Pied-billed Grebe 7 Horned Grebe 12 Wood Stork 29 Magnificent Frigatebird 10 Double-crested Cormorant 2750 Anhinga 6 American White Pelican 2600 Brown Pelican 770 American Bittern 1 Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 120 Great Blue Heron (White form) 104 Great Blue Heron (Wurdemann's) 4 Great Egret 1850 Snowy Egret 800 Little Blue Heron 600 Tricolored Heron 84 Reddish Egret 23 Cattle Egret 60 Green Heron 5 Black-crowned Night-Heron 11 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 6 White Ibis 1500 Roseate Spoonbill 80 Black Vulture 230 Turkey Vulture 325 Osprey 140 Bald Eagle 11 Red-shouldered Hawk 72 Broad-winged Hawk 2 Short-tailed Hawk 3 Black Rail 1 Sora 1 American Coot 33 Black-necked Stilt 4 American Avocet 49 Black-bellied Plover 80 Wilson's Plover 10 Semipalmated Plover 75 Killdeer 11 Spotted Sandpiper 34 Greater Yellowlegs 11 Willet 2500 Lesser Yellowlegs 16 Whimbrel 15 Long-billed Curlew 1 Marbled Godwit 280 Ruddy Turnstone 53 Red Knot 3 Dunlin 770 Least Sandpiper 2300 Semipalmated Sandpiper 15 Western Sandpiper 5900 Short-billed Dowitcher 700 Wilson's Snipe 1 Laughing Gull 850 Ring-billed Gull 80 Herring Gull 3 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull 175 Great Black-backed Gull 2 Gull-billed Tern 1 Caspian Tern 280 Forster's Tern 61 Royal Tern 540 Sandwich Tern 10 Black Skimmer 33 White-crowned Pigeon 50 Common Ground-Dove 9 Mourning Dove 3 Mangrove Cuckoo 1 Barred Owl 10 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Belted Kingfisher 31 Red-bellied Woodpecker 130 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 4 Downy Woodpecker 9 Northern Flicker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 15 American Kestrel 2 Merlin 1 Peregrine Falcon 9 Least Flycatcher 1 Eastern Phoebe 30 Great Crested Flycatcher 36 White-eyed Vireo 87 Blue-headed Vireo 3 American Crow 140 Tree Swallow 1000 Barn Swallow 7 House Wren 18 Sedge Wren 1 Carolina Wren 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 170 Gray Catbird 260 Brown Thrasher 2 Northern Mockingbird 37 European Starling 37 Ovenbird 12 Worm-eating Warbler 3 Northern Waterthrush 47 Black-and-white Warbler 50 Orange-crowned Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 230 American Redstart 30 Cape May Warbler 1 Northern Parula 32 Magnolia Warbler 5 Yellow Warbler 10 Black-throated Blue Warbler 4 Palm Warbler 125 Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler 104 Yellow-throated Warbler 17 Prairie Warbler 65 Black-throated Green Warbler 2 Nelson's Sparrow 7 Saltmarsh Sparrow 4 Nelson's/Saltmarsh Sparrow 3 Chipping Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 5 Summer Tanager 1 Northern Cardinal 86 Blue Grosbeak 1 Painted Bunting 6 Red-winged Blackbird 70 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Common Grackle 140 Baltimore Oriole 1 American Goldfinch 130 Thanks to the following for their assistance with the count: Angel and Mariel Abreu, Elsa Alvear, Miriam Avello, Joe Barros, Paul Bithorn, Bill Boeringer, John Boyd, Shauna Cotrell, Rangel Diaz, Robin Diaz, Pete Frezza, Josh Friers, Liz Golden, Grace Howell, Eric King, Jim King, Kudy Kuchta, Mandel Monteiro, Bob and Alice Pace, Amy Roda, Maria Rodriguez, David Schaffter, Juan Valadez, Walter and Sue Wallenstein, Joe Wolkowsky, Danny Young and Otto Ziqueira.