Posted by Brian Rapoza on January 21, 2017 at 02:33:06
A total of 22,522 individuals of 118 bird species were counted during the Coot Bay/Everglades National Park CBC on Saturday, December 31, 2016. Thanks to the following who participated in the count: Angel and Mariel Abreu, Elsa Alvear, Joe Barros, Paul Bithorn, John Boyd, Shauna Cotrell, Barbara Dewitt, A. J Hartman, Elizabeth Lago, Liz Golden, Jim King, Tina Nauman, Dan O’Malley, Bob and Alice Pace, Jeanette Rawls, Amy Roda, David Schaffter, Alex Schimel, Juan Valadez and Otto Zequeira. Species totals: American Wigeon - 8 Blue-winged Teal - 35 Northern Shoveler - 10 Ring-necked Duck - 1 Red-breasted Merganser - 1 Ruddy Duck - 100 Pied-billed Grebe - 7 Wood Stork - 3 Magnificent Frigatebird - 3 Double-crested Cormorant - 2800 Anhinga - 3 American White Pelican - 3000 Brown Pelican - 600 American Bittern - 2 Great Blue Heron (Blue form) - 80 Great Blue Heron (White form) – 80 Great Blue Heron (Wurdemann's) - 1 Great Egret - 270 Snowy Egret - 340 Little Blue Heron - 550 Tricolored Heron - 125 Reddish Egret - 9 Cattle Egret - 57 Green Heron - 5 Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - 1 White Ibis - 800 Roseate Spoonbill - 26 Black Vulture - 130 Turkey Vulture - 225 Osprey - 80 Northern Harrier - 3 Cooper's Hawk - 2 Bald Eagle - 5 Red-shouldered Hawk - 44 Short-tailed Hawk - 5 Common Gallinule - 5 American Coot - 70 Black-necked Stilt - 7 Black-bellied Plover - 83 Wilson's Plover - 12 Semipalmated Plover - 28 Killdeer - 27 Spotted Sandpiper - 26 Greater Yellowlegs - 4 Willet - 1000 Lesser Yellowlegs - 3 Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs - 3 Whimbrel - 11 Long-billed Curlew - 1 Marbled Godwit - 125 Ruddy Turnstone - 33 Red Knot - 2 Dunlin - 725 Least Sandpiper - 3600 Western Sandpiper - 2860 Short-billed Dowitcher - 345 Laughing Gull - 480 Ring-billed Gull - 22 Lesser Black-backed Gull - 11 Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Gull-billed Tern - 2 Caspian Tern - 46 Forster's Tern - 15 Royal Tern - 975 Sandwich Tern - 6 Black Skimmer - 950 White-crowned Pigeon - 25 Common Ground-Dove - 8 Mourning Dove - 5 Barred Owl - 7 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5 Belted Kingfisher - 20 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 56 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 2 Pileated Woodpecker - 7 American Kestrel - 1 Peregrine Falcon - 2 Eastern Phoebe - 24 Great Crested Flycatcher - 25 White-eyed Vireo - 40 Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 American Crow - 140 Tree Swallow - 200 Barn Swallow - 5 House Wren - 13 Marsh Wren - 1 Carolina Wren - 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 160 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Gray Catbird - 110 Northern Mockingbird - 15 European Starling - 56 Ovenbird - 4 Worm-eating Warbler - 3 Louisiana Waterthrush - 2 Northern Waterthrush - 44 Black-and-white Warbler - 38 Orange-crowned Warbler - 8 Common Yellowthroat - 135 American Redstart - 22 Northern Parula - 26 Magnolia Warbler - 2 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4 Palm Warbler - 100 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 17 Yellow-throated Warbler - 8 Prairie Warbler - 50 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 Nelson's Sparrow - 4 Savannah Sparrow - 16 Swamp Sparrow - 1 Northern Cardinal - 50 Painted Bunting - 12 Red-winged Blackbird - 75 Eastern Meadowlark - 2 Common Grackle - 52 Boat-tailed Grackle - 4 American Goldfinch - 15