Posted by Brian Rapoza on January 08, 2018 at 02:11:08
Thirty birders participated in the Coot Bay/Everglades National Park CBC, which took place on December 30. A total of 32,198 individuals of 121 species (plus two other taxa) were tallied. Wilson’s Warbler and a count week Bufflehead were the only unusual species reported for the count. Here’s the list: Blue-winged Teal - 5 Green-winged Teal - 2 Lesser Scaup - 450 Bufflehead (count week) Red-breasted Merganser - 8 Ruddy Duck - 7 Pied-billed Grebe - 3 Horned Grebe - 1 Wood Stork - 100 Double-crested Cormorant - 4750 Anhinga - 3 American White Pelican - 4500 Brown Pelican - 1050 Great Blue Heron (Blue form) - 67 Great Blue Heron (White form) - 275 Great Blue Heron (Wurdemann's) - 3 Great Egret - 700 Snowy Egret - 600 Little Blue Heron - 160 Tricolored Heron - 120 Reddish Egret - 7 Cattle Egret - 34 Green Heron - 13 Black-crowned Night-Heron - 48 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - 9 White Ibis - 385 Roseate Spoonbill - 62 Black Vulture - 200 Turkey Vulture - 400 Osprey - 90 Northern Harrier - 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 Bald Eagle - 9 Red-shouldered Hawk - 50 Short-tailed Hawk - 7 Red-tailed Hawk - 1 Clapper Rail - 3 Black-bellied Plover - 300 Wilson's Plover - 65 Semipalmated Plover - 20 Killdeer - 2 Spotted Sandpiper - 63 Greater Yellowlegs - 30 Willet - 1400 Lesser Yellowlegs - 13 Whimbrel - 25 Long-billed Curlew - 1 Marbled Godwit - 20 Ruddy Turnstone - 70 Red Knot - 1 Sanderling - 410 Dunlin - 235 Least Sandpiper - 4500 Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2 Western Sandpiper - 850 Short-billed Dowitcher - 150 Bonaparte's Gull - 3 Laughing Gull - 5000 Ring-billed Gull - 36 Herring Gull - 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull - 43 Gull-billed Tern - 1 Caspian Tern - 67 Forster's Tern - 375 Royal Tern - 335 Sandwich Tern - 7 Black Skimmer - 1200 White-crowned Pigeon - 2 Eurasian Collared-Dove- 2 Common Ground-Dove - 1 Mangrove Cuckoo - 1 Barn Owl - 1 Barred Owl - 2 Belted Kingfisher - 21 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 58 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 18 Downy Woodpecker - 4 Pileated Woodpecker - 4 American Kestrel - 6 Merlin - 3 Peregrine Falcon - 3 Eastern Phoebe - 30 Great Crested Flycatcher - 26 White-eyed Vireo - 25 Blue-headed Vireo - 3 Blue Jay - 4 American Crow - 145 Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1 Tree Swallow - 1000 House Wren - 9 Marsh Wren - 1 Carolina Wren - 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 150 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Gray Catbird - 100 Brown Thrasher - 2 Northern Mockingbird - 10 European Starling - 115 Ovenbird - 3 Worm-eating Warbler - 2 Northern Waterthrush - 37 Black-and-white Warbler - 21 Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 135 American Redstart - 17 Cape May Warbler - 3 Northern Parula - 16 Yellow Warbler - 6 Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5 Palm Warbler - 100 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) - 400 Yellow-throated Warbler - 19 Prairie Warbler - 40 Black-throated Green Warbler - 1 Wilson's Warbler - 1 Grasshopper Sparrow - 1 Savannah Sparrow - 4 Northern Cardinal - 65 Painted Bunting - 57 Red-winged Blackbird - 150 Common Grackle - 5 Baltimore Oriole - 1 American Goldfinch – 5 Thanks to the following for assisting with this year’s count: Alvear, Elsa Avello, Miriam Boeringer, Bill Boyd, John Carpenter, Krystina Davis, Michelle Deger, Jason Diaz, Nicholas Diaz, Sara Frezza, Pete Galvez, Rafael Gles, Luis Golden, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Luis Harris, Darlene Harris, John King, Jim Lake, Bryce Lake, Michelle Machado, Benjamin Pace, Alice Pace, Robert Powell, Emily Rawls, Jeanette Salino, Nicola Schaffter, David Valadez, Juan Vazquez, Bertha Zequeira, Otto