Tropical Audubon Society

South Florida’s Voice of Conservation

A total of 30,517 individuals of 126 species were counted during the Coot Bay/Everglades National Park CBC on January 2. This year’s count was characterized by a paucity of ducks, with 100 individuals of only two species encountered. Also of note were a low number of American Coots and Black Skimmers. New high counts were established for Lesser Black-backed Gull and Downy Woodpecker. Unusual species for this count included Black Rail, Wilson’s Snipe, Summer Tanager and Blue Grosbeak. Here’s the breakdown by species:
Lesser Scaup 46
Red-breasted Merganser 54
Pied-billed Grebe 7
Horned Grebe 12
Wood Stork 29
Magnificent Frigatebird 10
Double-crested Cormorant 2750
Anhinga 6
American White Pelican 2600
Brown Pelican 770
American Bittern 1
Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 120
Great Blue Heron (White form) 104
Great Blue Heron (Wurdemann's) 4
Great Egret 1850
Snowy Egret 800
Little Blue Heron 600
Tricolored Heron 84
Reddish Egret 23
Cattle Egret 60
Green Heron 5
Black-crowned Night-Heron 11
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 6
White Ibis 1500
Roseate Spoonbill 80
Black Vulture 230
Turkey Vulture 325
Osprey 140
Bald Eagle 11
Red-shouldered Hawk 72
Broad-winged Hawk 2
Short-tailed Hawk 3
Black Rail 1
Sora 1
American Coot 33
Black-necked Stilt 4
American Avocet 49
Black-bellied Plover 80
Wilson's Plover 10
Semipalmated Plover 75
Killdeer 11
Spotted Sandpiper 34
Greater Yellowlegs 11
Willet 2500
Lesser Yellowlegs 16
Whimbrel 15
Long-billed Curlew 1
Marbled Godwit 280
Ruddy Turnstone 53
Red Knot 3
Dunlin 770
Least Sandpiper 2300
Semipalmated Sandpiper 15
Western Sandpiper 5900
Short-billed Dowitcher 700
Wilson's Snipe 1
Laughing Gull 850
Ring-billed Gull 80
Herring Gull 3 1
Lesser Black-backed Gull 175
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Gull-billed Tern 1
Caspian Tern 280
Forster's Tern 61
Royal Tern 540
Sandwich Tern 10
Black Skimmer 33
White-crowned Pigeon 50
Common Ground-Dove 9
Mourning Dove 3
Mangrove Cuckoo 1
Barred Owl 10
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Belted Kingfisher 31
Red-bellied Woodpecker 130
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 4
Downy Woodpecker 9
Northern Flicker 1
Pileated Woodpecker 15
American Kestrel 2
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 9
Least Flycatcher 1
Eastern Phoebe 30
Great Crested Flycatcher 36
White-eyed Vireo 87
Blue-headed Vireo 3
American Crow 140
Tree Swallow 1000
Barn Swallow 7
House Wren 18
Sedge Wren 1
Carolina Wren 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 170
Gray Catbird 260
Brown Thrasher 2
Northern Mockingbird 37
European Starling 37
Ovenbird 12
Worm-eating Warbler 3
Northern Waterthrush 47
Black-and-white Warbler 50
Orange-crowned Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 230
American Redstart 30
Cape May Warbler 1
Northern Parula 32
Magnolia Warbler 5
Yellow Warbler 10
Black-throated Blue Warbler 4
Palm Warbler 125
Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler 104
Yellow-throated Warbler 17
Prairie Warbler 65
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Nelson's Sparrow 7
Saltmarsh Sparrow 4
Nelson's/Saltmarsh Sparrow 3
Chipping Sparrow 2
Savannah Sparrow 5
Summer Tanager 1
Northern Cardinal 86
Blue Grosbeak 1
Painted Bunting 6
Red-winged Blackbird 70
Eastern Meadowlark 1
Common Grackle 140
Baltimore Oriole 1
American Goldfinch 130

Thanks to the following for their assistance with the count: Angel and Mariel Abreu, Elsa Alvear, Miriam Avello, Joe Barros, Paul Bithorn, Bill Boeringer, John Boyd, Shauna Cotrell, Rangel Diaz, Robin Diaz, Pete Frezza, Josh Friers, Liz Golden, Grace Howell, Eric King, Jim King, Kudy Kuchta, Mandel Monteiro, Bob and Alice Pace, Amy Roda, Maria Rodriguez, David Schaffter, Juan Valadez, Walter and Sue Wallenstein, Joe Wolkowsky, Danny Young and Otto Ziqueira.