Posted by Brian Rapoza on February 10, 2019 at 19:27:20
Twenty-one birders participated in the Coot Bay CBC on December 29, 2018. A total of 5,723 individuals of 114 species were reported for the count; 102 on the day of the count and another 12 during count week. The only unusual species reported was Great Horned Owl. No new high counts were set during the count. Here's the list of species reported: Red-breasted Merganser cw Ruddy Duck 50 Pied-billed Grebe 7 Wood Stork 73 Magnificent Frigatebird 1 Double-crested Cormorant 64 Anhinga 21 American White Pelican 300 Brown Pelican 83 Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 35 Great Blue Heron (White form) 14 Great Blue Heron (Wurdemann's) cw Great Egret 160 Snowy Egret 350 Little Blue Heron 250 Tricolored Heron 110 Reddish Egret 8 Cattle Egret 300 Green Heron 110 Black-crowned Night-Heron 13 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 2 White Ibis 600 Glossy Ibis 12 Roseate Spoonbill 88 Black Vulture 170 Turkey Vulture 180 Osprey 60 Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Bald Eagle 4 Red-shouldered Hawk 42 Short-tailed Hawk 4 American Coot 3 Black-necked Stilt 13 American Avocet 320 Black-bellied Plover 66 Wilson's Plover 10 Semipalmated Plover 4 Killdeer 10 Spotted Sandpiper 11 Greater Yellowlegs 11 Willet 22 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 Whimbrel 22 Marbled Godwit 5 Ruddy Turnstone 1 Red Knot 26 Sanderling cw Dunlin 160 Least Sandpiper 500 Semipalmated Sandpiper 2 Western Sandpiper 61 Short-billed Dowitcher 29 Bonaparte's Gull cw Laughing Gull 130 Ring-billed Gull 1 Herring Gull cw Lesser Black-backed Gull 2 Caspian Tern 41 Royal Tern 23 Black Skimmer cw Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) cw White-crowned Pigeon 39 Common Ground-Dove 5 White-winged Dove cw Mourning Dove 1 Mangrove Cuckoo 1 Barred Owl 2 Lesser Nighthawk cw Ruby-throated Hummingbird 12 Belted Kingfisher 19 Red-bellied Woodpecker 64 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 8 Downy Woodpecker 4 Northern Flicker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 8 American Kestrel 4 Peregrine Falcon 1 Eastern Phoebe 16 Great Crested Flycatcher 31 Western Kingbird cw Scissor-tailed Flycatcher cw Loggerhead Shrike 4 White-eyed Vireo 50 Blue-headed Vireo 5 American Crow 96 Tree Swallow 8 House Wren 6 Carolina Wren 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 120 Gray Catbird 130 Northern Mockingbird 19 European Starling 64 Ovenbird 5 Louisiana Waterthrush 1 Northern Waterthrush 40 Black-and-white Warbler 17 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 71 American Redstart 7 Northern Parula 24 Magnolia Warbler 1 Yellow Warbler 3 Black-throated Blue Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 34 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 40 Yellow-throated Warbler 5 Prairie Warbler 34 Savannah Sparrow cw Northern Cardinal 57 Indigo Bunting 8 Painted Bunting 3 Red-winged Blackbird 30 Common Grackle 6 Boat-tailed Grackle 3 American Goldfinch 22 Thanks to the following participants for their assistance on count day (I’m still missing the names of five participants): Avello, Miriam Barros, Joe Davis, Michelle Golden, Elizabeth Machado, Benjamin Manfredi, Larry Manfredi, Philip Masdeu, Bonnie Pace, Alice Pace, Robert Rawls, Jeanette Roda, Amy Rodriguez, Ricky Salino, Nicola Schaffter, David Brian Rapoza, Coot Bay CBC Compiler