Tropical Audubon Society

South Florida’s Voice of Conservation

Thirty birders participated in the Coot Bay/Everglades National Park CBC, which took place on December 30. A total of 32,198 individuals of 121 species (plus two other taxa) were tallied. Wilson’s Warbler and a count week Bufflehead were the only unusual species reported for the count. Here’s the list:
Blue-winged Teal - 5
Green-winged Teal - 2
Lesser Scaup - 450
Bufflehead (count week)
Red-breasted Merganser - 8
Ruddy Duck - 7
Pied-billed Grebe - 3
Horned Grebe - 1
Wood Stork - 100
Double-crested Cormorant - 4750
Anhinga - 3
American White Pelican - 4500
Brown Pelican - 1050
Great Blue Heron (Blue form) - 67
Great Blue Heron (White form) - 275
Great Blue Heron (Wurdemann's) - 3
Great Egret - 700
Snowy Egret - 600
Little Blue Heron - 160
Tricolored Heron - 120
Reddish Egret - 7
Cattle Egret - 34
Green Heron - 13
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 48
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron - 9
White Ibis - 385
Roseate Spoonbill - 62
Black Vulture - 200
Turkey Vulture - 400
Osprey - 90
Northern Harrier - 2
Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1
Bald Eagle - 9
Red-shouldered Hawk - 50
Short-tailed Hawk - 7
Red-tailed Hawk - 1
Clapper Rail - 3
Black-bellied Plover - 300
Wilson's Plover - 65
Semipalmated Plover - 20
Killdeer - 2
Spotted Sandpiper - 63
Greater Yellowlegs - 30
Willet - 1400
Lesser Yellowlegs - 13
Whimbrel - 25
Long-billed Curlew - 1
Marbled Godwit - 20
Ruddy Turnstone - 70
Red Knot - 1
Sanderling - 410
Dunlin - 235
Least Sandpiper - 4500
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2
Western Sandpiper - 850
Short-billed Dowitcher - 150
Bonaparte's Gull - 3
Laughing Gull - 5000
Ring-billed Gull - 36
Herring Gull - 2
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 43
Gull-billed Tern - 1
Caspian Tern - 67
Forster's Tern - 375
Royal Tern - 335
Sandwich Tern - 7
Black Skimmer - 1200
White-crowned Pigeon - 2
Eurasian Collared-Dove- 2
Common Ground-Dove - 1
Mangrove Cuckoo - 1
Barn Owl - 1
Barred Owl - 2
Belted Kingfisher - 21
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 58
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 18
Downy Woodpecker - 4
Pileated Woodpecker - 4
American Kestrel - 6
Merlin - 3
Peregrine Falcon - 3
Eastern Phoebe - 30
Great Crested Flycatcher - 26
White-eyed Vireo - 25
Blue-headed Vireo - 3
Blue Jay - 4
American Crow - 145
Northern Rough-winged Swallow - 1
Tree Swallow - 1000
House Wren - 9
Marsh Wren - 1
Carolina Wren - 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 150
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1
Gray Catbird - 100
Brown Thrasher - 2
Northern Mockingbird - 10
European Starling - 115
Ovenbird - 3
Worm-eating Warbler - 2
Northern Waterthrush - 37
Black-and-white Warbler - 21
Orange-crowned Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 135
American Redstart - 17
Cape May Warbler - 3
Northern Parula - 16
Yellow Warbler - 6
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 5
Palm Warbler - 100
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) - 400
Yellow-throated Warbler - 19
Prairie Warbler - 40
Black-throated Green Warbler - 1
Wilson's Warbler - 1
Grasshopper Sparrow - 1
Savannah Sparrow - 4
Northern Cardinal - 65
Painted Bunting - 57
Red-winged Blackbird - 150
Common Grackle - 5
Baltimore Oriole - 1
American Goldfinch – 5

Thanks to the following for assisting with this year’s count:
Alvear, Elsa
Avello, Miriam
Boeringer, Bill
Boyd, John
Carpenter, Krystina
Davis, Michelle
Deger, Jason
Diaz, Nicholas
Diaz, Sara
Frezza, Pete
Galvez, Rafael
Gles, Luis
Golden, Elizabeth
Gonzalez, Luis
Harris, Darlene
Harris, John
King, Jim
Lake, Bryce
Lake, Michelle
Machado, Benjamin
Pace, Alice
Pace, Robert
Powell, Emily
Rawls, Jeanette
Salino, Nicola
Schaffter, David
Valadez, Juan
Vazquez, Bertha
Zequeira, Otto