Posted by Brian Rapoza on January 09, 2020 at 00:23:41
A total of 22, 612 individuals of 121 species (123 taxa) were tallied by 27 participants during the 69th annual Coot Bay-Everglades National Park Christmas Bird Count on January 4. A Canada Goose, of unknown provenance but documented with photographs, was new for this count. Other unusual species included Bufflehead, Limpkin, Lesser Nighthawk, Yellow-breasted Chat and Chipping Sparrow. New high counts were obtained for Magnificent Frigatebird, Brown Pelican, Clapper Rail and Northern Flicker. Here are the totals: Canada Goose-1 Blue-winged Teal-15 Green-winged Teal-154 Lesser Scaup-1 Bufflehead-2 Pied-billed Grebe-1 Horned Grebe (count week) Wood Stork-26 Magnificent Frigatebird-45 Double-crested Cormorant-1730 Anhinga-22 American White Pelican-2650 Brown Pelican-2075 American Bittern-3 Great Blue Heron (Blue morph)-133 Great Blue Heron (White morph)-191 Great Blue Heron (Wurdemann's)-4 Great Egret-152 Snowy Egret-500 Little Blue Heron-335 Tricolored Heron-64 Reddish Egret-17 Cattle Egret-20 Green Heron-49 Black-crowned Night-Heron-20 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron-7 White Ibis-900 Glossy Ibis-3 Roseate Spoonbill-153 Black Vulture-94 Turkey Vulture-400 Osprey-119 Northern Harrier-4 Cooper's Hawk-1 Bald Eagle-14 Red-shouldered Hawk-61 Broad-winged Hawk-2 Short-tailed Hawk-1 Clapper Rail-8 Common Gallinule (count week) Limpkin-1 Black-necked Stilt-9 American Avocet-48 Black-bellied Plover-36 Wilson's Plover-33 Semipalmated Plover-40 Killdeer-150 Spotted Sandpiper-22 Greater Yellowlegs-5 Willet-100 Lesser Yellowlegs-3 Whimbrel-16 Long-billed Curlew-1 Marbled Godwit-76 Ruddy Turnstone-27 Sanderling-76 Dunlin-320 Least Sandpiper-6500 Western Sandpiper-1750 Short-billed Dowitcher-90 Laughing Gull-600 Ring-billed Gull-16 Lesser Black-backed Gull-15 Gull-billed Tern-2 Caspian Tern-49 Forster's Tern-65 Royal Tern-725 Sandwich Tern-27 Black Skimmer (count week) White-crowned Pigeon-7 Common Ground Dove-6 Eastern Screech-Owl-2 Barred Owl-7 Lesser Nighthawk-3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird-5 Belted Kingfisher-29 Red-bellied Woodpecker-112 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker-9 Downy Woodpecker-4 Northern Flicker-9 Pileated Woodpecker-17 American Kestrel-4 Peregrine Falcon-3 Eastern Phoebe-22 Great Crested Flycatcher-28 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher-3 White-eyed Vireo-43 Blue-headed Vireo-4 Blue Jay-6 American Crow-180 Tree Swallow-200 House Wren-12 Carolina Wren-2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher-160 Ruby-crowned Kinglet (count week) Gray Catbird-130 Northern Mockingbird-34 European Starling-113 Ovenbird-8 Northern Waterthrush-38 Black-and-white Warbler-20 Common Yellowthroat-190 American Redstart-14 Cape May Warbler-2 Northern Parula-18 Magnolia Warbler-1 Yellow Warbler-8 Black-throated Blue Warbler-3 Palm Warbler-60 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)-22 Yellow-throated Warbler-16 Prairie Warbler-30 Yellow-breasted Chat-1 Chipping Sparrow-3 Savannah Sparrow-3 Northern Cardinal-24 Indigo Bunting-7 Painted Bunting-3 Red-winged Blackbird-115 Common Grackle-75 Boat-tailed Grackle-1 Baltimore Oriole-1 American Goldfinch-16 Thanks to the following participants for making these results possible: Sue Alspach, Carlos Bernal, Ryan Bernal, Bill Boeringer, John Boyd, Kevin Christman, Michelle Davis, Alison Enchelmaier, Pete Frezza, Liz Golden, Ashley Goncalves, Luis Gonzalez, Laurie Householder, Louis Lindner, Bonnie Masdeu, Claire Nemes, Bob Pace, Alice Pace, Jeanette Rawls, Michelle Robinson, Amy Roda, David Schaffter, Juan Valadez, Kevin Welsh, Jeff White and Andrew Wyatt Smith.