Tropical Audubon Society

South Florida’s Voice of Conservation

A total of 22,522 individuals of 118 bird species were counted during the Coot Bay/Everglades National Park CBC on Saturday, December 31, 2016. Thanks to the following who participated in the count: Angel and Mariel Abreu, Elsa Alvear, Joe Barros, Paul Bithorn, John Boyd, Shauna Cotrell, Barbara Dewitt, A. J Hartman, Elizabeth Lago, Liz Golden, Jim King, Tina Nauman, Dan O’Malley, Bob and Alice Pace, Jeanette Rawls, Amy Roda, David Schaffter, Alex Schimel, Juan Valadez and Otto Zequeira.

Species totals:
American Wigeon - 8
Blue-winged Teal - 35
Northern Shoveler - 10
Ring-necked Duck - 1
Red-breasted Merganser - 1
Ruddy Duck - 100
Pied-billed Grebe - 7
Wood Stork - 3
Magnificent Frigatebird - 3
Double-crested Cormorant - 2800
Anhinga - 3
American White Pelican - 3000
Brown Pelican - 600
American Bittern - 2
Great Blue Heron (Blue form) - 80
Great Blue Heron (White form) – 80
Great Blue Heron (Wurdemann's) - 1
Great Egret - 270
Snowy Egret - 340
Little Blue Heron - 550
Tricolored Heron - 125
Reddish Egret - 9
Cattle Egret - 57
Green Heron - 5
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 1
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - 1
White Ibis - 800
Roseate Spoonbill - 26
Black Vulture - 130
Turkey Vulture - 225
Osprey - 80
Northern Harrier - 3
Cooper's Hawk - 2
Bald Eagle - 5
Red-shouldered Hawk - 44
Short-tailed Hawk - 5
Common Gallinule - 5
American Coot - 70
Black-necked Stilt - 7
Black-bellied Plover - 83
Wilson's Plover - 12
Semipalmated Plover - 28
Killdeer - 27
Spotted Sandpiper - 26
Greater Yellowlegs - 4
Willet - 1000
Lesser Yellowlegs - 3
Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs - 3
Whimbrel - 11
Long-billed Curlew - 1
Marbled Godwit - 125
Ruddy Turnstone - 33
Red Knot - 2
Dunlin - 725
Least Sandpiper - 3600
Western Sandpiper - 2860
Short-billed Dowitcher - 345
Laughing Gull - 480
Ring-billed Gull - 22
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 11
Great Black-backed Gull - 1
Gull-billed Tern - 2
Caspian Tern - 46
Forster's Tern - 15
Royal Tern - 975
Sandwich Tern - 6
Black Skimmer - 950
White-crowned Pigeon - 25
Common Ground-Dove - 8
Mourning Dove - 5
Barred Owl - 7
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 5
Belted Kingfisher - 20
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 56
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3
Downy Woodpecker - 3
Northern Flicker - 2
Pileated Woodpecker - 7
American Kestrel - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 2
Eastern Phoebe - 24
Great Crested Flycatcher - 25
White-eyed Vireo - 40
Yellow-throated Vireo - 1
American Crow - 140
Tree Swallow - 200
Barn Swallow - 5
House Wren - 13
Marsh Wren - 1
Carolina Wren - 3
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 160
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
Gray Catbird - 110
Northern Mockingbird - 15
European Starling - 56
Ovenbird - 4
Worm-eating Warbler - 3
Louisiana Waterthrush - 2
Northern Waterthrush - 44
Black-and-white Warbler - 38
Orange-crowned Warbler - 8
Common Yellowthroat - 135
American Redstart - 22
Northern Parula - 26
Magnolia Warbler - 2
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 4
Palm Warbler - 100
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 17
Yellow-throated Warbler - 8
Prairie Warbler - 50
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
Nelson's Sparrow - 4
Savannah Sparrow - 16
Swamp Sparrow - 1
Northern Cardinal - 50
Painted Bunting - 12
Red-winged Blackbird - 75
Eastern Meadowlark - 2
Common Grackle - 52
Boat-tailed Grackle - 4
American Goldfinch - 15