Posted by Brian Rapoza on January 17, 2017 at 01:41:52
The Coot Bay/Everglades National Park CBC took place on Saturday, December 31. Thanks to all who participated. Following are totals so far (I'm still missing results from the Christian Point Trail team): American Wigeon - 8 Blue-winged Teal - 30 Northern Shoveler - 4 Red-breasted Merganser - 1 Ring-necked Duck - 1 Ruddy Duck - 99 Pied-billed Grebe - 3 Wood Stork - 3 Magnificent Frigatebird - 3 Double-crested Cormorant - 2800 Anhinga - 1 American White Pelican - 2850 Brown Pelican - 585 American Bittern - 2 Great Blue Heron (Blue form) - 74 Great Blue Heron (White form) - 79 Great Blue Heron (Wurdermann’s) - 1 Great Egret - 217 Snowy Egret - 295 Little Blue Heron - 462 Tricolored Heron - 104 Reddish Egret - 8 Cattle Egret - 56 Green Heron - 3 Black-crowned Night- Heron - 1 Yellow-crowned Night- Heron - 1 White Ibis - 758 Roseate Spoonbill - 18 Black Vulture - 105 Turkey Vulture - 163 Osprey - 56 Northern Harrier - 3 Cooper's Hawk - 2 Bald Eagle - 4 Red-shouldered Hawk - 33 Short-tailed Hawk - 4 Common Gallinule - 5 American Coot - 4 Black-bellied Plover - 83 Wilson's Plover - 12 Semipalmated Plover - 28 Spotted Sandpiper - 20 Greater Yellowlegs - 3 Willet - 987 Lesser Yellowlegs - 2 Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs - 7 Whimbrel - 11 Long-billed Curlew - 1 Ruddy Turnstone - 33 Red Knot - 2 Dunlin - 725 Least Sandpiper - 3600 Western Sandpiper - 2860 Short-billed Dowitcher - 345 Laughing Gull – 479 Ring-billed Gull - 20 Lesser Black-backed Gull - 10 Gull-billed Tern - 2 Caspian Tern - 46 Forster's Tern - 15 Royal Tern - 975 Sandwich Tern - 6 Black Skimmer - 555 White-crowned Pigeon - 22 Common Ground-Dove - 6 Mourning Dove - 5 Barred Owl - 4 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 Belted Kingfisher - 13 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 42 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Northern Flicker - 2 Pileated Woodpecker - 3 Peregrine Falcon - 1 Eastern Phoebe - 20 Great Crested Flycatcher - 21 White-eyed Vireo - 35 Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 American Crow - 109 Tree Swallow - 35 Barn Swallow - 5 House Wren - 12 Marsh Wren - 1 Carolina Wren - 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 110 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Gray Catbird - 94 Northern Mockingbird - 11 European Starling - 46 Ovenbird - 2 Northern Waterthrush - 33 Black-and-white Warbler - 26 Orange-crowned Warbler - 7 Common Yellowthroat - 79 American Redstart - 14 Northern Parula - 21 Magnolia Warbler - 2 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2 Palm Warbler - 86 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) - 4 Yellow-throated Warbler - 7 Prairie Warbler - 36 Nelson's Sparrow - 4 Savannah Sparrow - 16 Swamp Sparrow - 1 Northern Cardinal - 30 Painted Bunting - 4 Red-winged Blackbird - 49 Eastern Meadowlark - 2 Common Grackle - 37 Boat-tailed Grackle - 4 American Goldfinch - 15