Posted by Brian Rapoza on December 30, 2019 at 01:03:24
A total of 15,189 individuals of 139 species (140 taxa: 126 countable/14 non-countable) were tallied by 44 participants during the 50th annual Miami-Dade Christmas Bird Count on December 14, 2019. This year’s results were 1,504 individuals and 8 species higher than in 2018. Common Eider and Masked Booby, both documented with photographs, were new for this count. Other unusual species included Glossy Ibis, Great Horned Owl, Louisiana Waterthrush, Swainson’s Warbler, Nashville Warbler and Rose-breasted Grosbeak. New high counts were obtained for Egyptian Goose, Wood Stork, Yellow-throated Vireo, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, American Redstart, Northern Parula, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler and Prairie Warbler. Twenty different warbler species were tallied during the count. Here are the totals: Swan Goose-7 Graylag Goose -7 Egyptian Goose-84 Muscovy Duck-360 Mallard-6 Mottled Duck-5 Blue-winged Teal-12 Lesser Scaup (count week) Common Eider-1 Red-breasted Merganser-1 Helmeted Guineafowl-12 Indian Peafowl-4 Common Loon-6 Pied-billed Grebe-12 American Flamingo-226 Wood Stork-79 Magnificent Frigatebird-31 Masked Booby-1 Northern Gannet-52 Double-crested Cormorant-350 Anhinga-23 Brown Pelican-360 Great Blue Heron-28 Great Blue Heron (White form)-1 Great Egret-26 Snowy Egret-2 Little Blue Heron-12 Tricolored Heron-10 Reddish Egret (count week) Cattle Egret-33 Green Heron-19 Black-crowned Night-Heron-25 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron-12 White Ibis-1850 Glossy Ibis-6 Black Vulture-90 Turkey Vulture-1200 Osprey-34 Sharp-shinned Hawk-1 Cooper's Hawk-6 Red-shouldered Hawk-11 Broad-winged Hawk-1 Short-tailed Hawk-12 Red-tailed Hawk-4 Common Gallinule-48 American Coot-21 Limpkin-1 Black-bellied Plover-225 Semipalmated Plover-13 Killdeer (count week) Spotted Sandpiper-6 Greater Yellowlegs-5 Ruddy Turnstone-16 Sanderling-70 Least Sandpiper-11 Short-billed Dowitcher 14 Laughing Gull-1900 Ring-billed Gull-150 Herring Gull-6 Lesser Black-backed Gull-15 Great Black-backed Gull-1 Royal Tern-175 Sandwich Tern-4 Black Skimmer-100 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)-640 Eurasian Collared-Dove-330 Common Ground-Dove-7 White-winged Dove-8 Mourning Dove-76 Eastern Screech-Owl-2 Great Horned Owl-1 Chuck-will's-widow (count week) Eastern Whip-poor-will (count week) Ruby-throated Hummingbird-13 Belted Kingfisher-10 Red-bellied Woodpecker-72 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker-21 Downy Woodpecker-4 American Kestrel-46 Merlin-2 Peregrine Falcon-8 Monk Parakeet-10 White-winged Parakeet-13 Yellow-chevroned Parakeet-35 Orange-winged Parrot 28 Chestnut-fronted Macaw-40 Blue-crowned Parakeet-12 Green Parakeet-5 Crimson-fronted Parakeet-50 Scarlet-fronted Parakeet-5 Mitred Parakeet-23 Red-masked Parakeet-37 White-eyed Parakeet-285 Eastern Phoebe-22 Great Crested Flycatcher-1 Loggerhead Shrike-9 White-eyed Vireo-4 Yellow-throated Vireo-7 Blue-headed Vireo-18 Blue Jay-110 Fish Crow-1225 House Wren (count week) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher-286 Ruby-crowned Kinglet-1 Gray Catbird-18 Northern Mockingbird-146 European Starling-2425 Common Myna (count week) Ovenbird-6 Worm-eating Warbler-1 Louisiana Waterthrush-1 Northern Waterthrush-1 Black-and-white Warbler-37 Swainson's Warbler-1 Orange-crowned Warbler-6 Nashville Warbler-1 Common Yellowthroat-15 American Redstart-38 Cape May Warbler-4 Northern Parula-79 Magnolia Warbler-5 Black-throated Blue Warbler-15 Palm Warbler-300 Pine Warbler-12 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)-52 Yellow-throated Warbler-25 Prairie Warbler-45 Black-throated Green Warbler-5 Summer Tanager-2 Northern Cardinal-42 Rose-breasted Grosbeak-1 Painted Bunting-5 Red-winged Blackbird-1 Common Grackle-220 Boat-tailed Grackle-310 Bronzed Cowbird (count week) Brown-headed Cowbird (count week) Spot-breasted Oriole-4 Baltimore Oriole-1 House Sparrow-92 Thanks to the following participants for making these results possible: Miriam Avello, Joe Barros, Silvia Bermudez, Paul Bithorn, Bill Boeringer, John Boyd, Vern Burkhart, John Camp, Edith Einspruch, Nancy Freedman, Luis Gles, Elizabeth Golden, Jose Guilarte, Sophia Guilarte, Greg Hamlin, Alex Harper, Alberto Hernandez, Omar Hernandez, Debbie Jones, Greg Jones, James Jones, Marc Kramer, Natalie Mahomar, Donna Marain, Bonnie Masdeu, Jess McKenzie, Dennis Olle, Alice Pace, Robert Pace, Stephen Paez, Gary Pappas, Gigi Pardo, Facel Quetglas, Cristina Quintero, Jeanette Rawls, Shane Runyon, Jane Spinney, Alan Steinberg, Sierra Taliaferro, Ernest Tate, Roberto Torres, Bertha Vazquez and Xu Zhang.