Posted by Brian Rapoza on May 15, 2016 at 18:46:33
This weekend, I completed two breeding bird surveys; Homestead yesterday and Flamingo today. Both routes end near Pay-hay-okee in Everglades National Park and together form an almost 50-mile transect extending from Homestead General Airport to Flamingo. I’ve been doing the Flamingo BBS for a number of years now but had never done the Homestead BBS before. I added four new breeding birds to the species lists: Wood Stork, Black-crowned Night-Heron and Shiny Cowbird for Homestead and Chuck-will’s widow for Flamingo. I also had three late migrants: Black-bellied Plover and Barn Swallow for Homestead and American Redstart for both surveys. Here’s my combined list for both surveys: (H=Homestead, F=Flamingo) Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – 4 (H) Northern Bobwhite – 2 (H) Wood Stork - 1 (H), 7 (F) Anhinga – 1 (F) Great Blue Heron – 1 (F) Great Egret – 2 (H), 25 (F) Snowy Egret – 2 (H), 21 (F) Little Blue Heron – 1 (H), 3 (F) Tricolored Heron – 1 (H), 2 (F) Cattle Egret – 25 (H) Black-crowned Night-Heron – 1 (H) White Ibis – 22 (H), 22 (F) Roseate Spoonbill – 4 (F) Black Vulture – 3 (F) Turkey Vulture – 15 (H), 16 (F) Swallow-tailed Kite – 1 (F) Red-shouldered Hawk – 1 (H), 7 (F) Black-necked Stilt – 2 (H) Black-bellied Plover – 1 (H) Killdeer – 4 (H) Laughing Gull – 13 (H) Rock Pigeon – 1 (H) White-crowned Pigeon – 3 (F) Eurasian Collared-Dove – 4 (H) Common Ground-Dove – 2 (H) Mourning Dove – 11 (H) Common Nighthawk – 26 (H) Chuck-will’s-widow – 2 (F) Red-bellied Woodpecker – 22 (H), 34 (F) Downy Woodpecker – 2 (H), 1 (F) Northern Flicker – 1 (H), 2 (F) Pileated Woodpecker – 1 (F) Great Crested Flycatcher – 7 (H), 17 (F) Loggerhead Shrike – 4 (H) White-eyed Vireo – 25 (H), 37 (F) Black-whiskered Vireo – 1 (F) Blue Jay – 1 (H) American Crow – 14 (H), 50 (F) Barn Swallow – 1 (H) Carolina Wren – 2 (F) Northern Mockingbird – 16 (H) European Starling – 8 (H) Common Myna – 1 (H) Common Yellowthroat – 4 (H), 22 (F) Pine Warbler – 11 (H), 1 (F) Prairie Warbler – 4 (F) American Redstart – 1 (H), 1 (F) Northern Cardinal – 32 (H), 38 (F) Red-winged Blackbird – 12 (H), 16 (F) Eastern Meadowlark – 10 (H) Common Grackle – 29(H), 6 (F) Boat-tailed Grackle – 13 (H), 2 (F) Brown-headed Cowbird – 2 (H) Shiny Cowbird – 2 (H) House Sparrow – 2 (H)