Tropical Audubon Society

South Florida’s Voice of Conservation

5 of us participated in the Virginia Key portion of the Miami CBC yesterday. Strong steady NNE winds (20-25mph) made finding passerines difficult, but we found enough to eventually total 68 species, including Horned Grebe and Piping Plover. Our full list:

Egyptian Goose 7
Muscovy Duck (Established Feral) 21
Mallard (Domestic type) 1
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Horned Grebe 1
Magnificent Frigatebird 5
Double-crested Cormorant 338
Anhinga 1
Brown Pelican 31
Great Blue Heron 11
Great Egret 9
Snowy Egret 1
Little Blue Heron 1
Tricolored Heron 1
Reddish Egret 1
Cattle Egret 20
Green Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 7
White Ibis 112
Black Vulture 25
Turkey Vulture 125
Osprey 6
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Short-tailed Hawk 2 (1 light morph, 1 dark morph)
Common Gallinule 4
Black-bellied Plover 2
Piping Plover 1
Killdeer 8
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Willet 5
Ruddy Turnstone 3
Sanderling 6
Laughing Gull 136
Ring-billed Gull 16
Herring Gull 1
Lesser Black-backed Gull 12
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Royal Tern 11
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 65
Common Ground-Dove 3
Mourning Dove 10
Belted Kingfisher 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4
Monk Parakeet 7
Eastern Phoebe 4
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Loggerhead Shrike 2
Blue Jay 2
Fish Crow 710
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 25
Gray Catbird 4
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 25
Common Myna 1
Northern Waterthrush 2
Black-and-white Warbler 3
Common Yellowthroat 3
American Redstart 1
Northern Parula 1
Palm Warbler 43
Pine Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 5
Yellow-throated Warbler 1
Prairie Warbler 2
Northern Cardinal 7
Indigo Bunting 1
Red-winged Blackbird 1
Boat-tailed Grackle 25