Bird Board
Miami-Dade County CBC Results
A total of 17,196 individuals of 132 species were tallied during the Miami-Dade County CBC on December 19. Unusual species included White-cheeked Pintail (apparently resident on Fisher Island, of unknown provenance) and Yellow-headed Blackbird (seen during count week). New high counts were set for Wood Stork, Short-tailed Hawk and White-eyed Parakeet.
Here are the totals:
Swan Goose 2
Graylag Goose 16
Canada Goose 1
Egyptian Goose 29
Muscovy Duck 300
Mallard 20
Mottled Duck 11
Blue-winged Teal 12
White-cheeked Pintail 2
Black Scoter 3
Red-breasted Merganser 3
Indian Peafowl 13
Common Loon 1
Pied-billed Grebe 45
Horned Grebe 1
American Flamingo 240
Wood Stork 38
Magnificent Frigatebird 34
Northern Gannet 1
Double-crested Cormorant 850
Anhinga 25
Brown Pelican 200
Great Blue Heron 46
Great Egret 62
Snowy Egret 8
Little Blue Heron 33
Tricolored Heron 18
Reddish Egret 1
Cattle Egret 130
Green Heron 22
Black-crowned Night-Heron 34
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 8
White Ibis 1350
Black Vulture 210
Turkey Vulture 1200
Osprey 42
Sharp-shinned Hawk 3
Cooper's Hawk 15
Bald Eagle 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 8
Broad-winged Hawk 6
Short-tailed Hawk 12
Red-tailed Hawk 3
Common Gallinule 88
American Coot 190
Black-necked Stilt 3
Black-bellied Plover 150
Piping Plover 1
Killdeer 43
Spotted Sandpiper 11
Willet 5
Ruddy Turnstone 17
Sanderling 110
Short-billed Dowitcher 1
Laughing Gull 2300
Ring-billed Gull 400
Herring Gull 8
Lesser Black-backed Gull 13
Great Black-backed Gull 2
Forster's Tern 1
Royal Tern 100
Sandwich Tern 1
Rock Pigeon 1250
Eurasian Collared-Dove 300
Common Ground-Dove 5
White-winged Dove 23
Mourning Dove 104
Eastern Screech-Owl 7
Burrowing Owl 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 13
Belted Kingfisher 12
Red-bellied Woodpecker 63
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 9
Downy Woodpecker 2
American Kestrel 38
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 5
Monk Parakeet 47
White-winged Parakeet 12
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet 28
Orange-winged Parrot 37
Blue-and-yellow Macaw 7
Chestnut-fronted Macaw 8
Blue-crowned Parakeet 2
Green Parakeet 15
Mitred Parakeet 25
White-eyed Parakeet 315
Eastern Phoebe 29
Great Crested Flycatcher 3
White-eyed Vireo 1
Blue-headed Vireo 6
Blue Jay 120
Fish Crow 2000
House Wren 6
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 170
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2
Gray Catbird 17
Northern Mockingbird 120
European Starling 1700
Common Myna 26
Ovenbird 2
Worm-eating Warbler 1
Louisiana Waterthrush 1
Northern Waterthrush 4
Black-and-white Warbler 31
Orange-crowned Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 20
American Redstart 11
Cape May Warbler 2
Northern Parula 32
Black-throated Blue Warbler 8
Palm Warbler 320
Pine Warbler 17
Yellow-rumped Warbler 105
Yellow-throated Warbler 11
Prairie Warbler 22
Black-throated Green Warbler 5
Grasshopper Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 2
Summer Tanager 1
Northern Cardinal 64
Indigo Bunting 1
Painted Bunting 11
Red-winged Blackbird 21
Yellow-headed Blackbird cw
Common Grackle 700
Boat-tailed Grackle 520
Bronzed Cowbird 3
Spot-breasted Oriole 2
Baltimore Oriole 2
American Goldfinch 92
House Sparrow 107
Thanks to the following birders who participated in this year's count:
Abreu, Angel
Abreu, Mariel
Avello, Miriam
Barros, Joe
Boeringer, Bill
Boyd, John
Camp, John
Diaz, Robin
Drucker, Michele
Einspruch, Edith
Freedman, Nancy
Jones, Debbie
Jones, Greg
Jones, James
King, Jim
Lago, Elizabeth
Manfredi, Larry
Manfredi, Phillip
Molfetto, Donna
Olle, Dennis
Pace, Alice
Pace, Robert
Padura, Miguel
Paez, Omar
Paez, Stephen
Pappas, Gary
Porcelli, Mario
Porcelli, Nicholas
Quetglas, Facel
Rawls, Jeanette
Salino, Nicola
Sanchez, Carlos
Shapiro, Susan
Stanley, Elliot
Steinberg, Alan
Steinberg, Sue
Torres, Helen
Vazquez, Bertha
Weber, Jeff
Wiley, Ann
Zequeira, Jose
Zequeira, Otto
Comments
Just noticed that I didn't include Liz Golden on the participant list. Sorry about that, Liz!
Forgive me I'm not a local Florida birder, but that can't be the correct number for American Flamingo, right? Was it the one on Elliott Key?
This is the Hialeah Park racetrack population, plus a few more from Fisher Island. These are all free-flying birds, so we include them in the count simply to keep track of the population.
For some reason, I remembered reading that the CBC was on December 26. So, this is late, but just wanted to add that I am regularly getting three male and three female painted buntings and one female or juvenile ruby throated hummingbird in my yard, as well as one male northern cardinal. I have also had a gray catbird (a few weeks ago), and loads of mourning doves and ring necked doves, occasionally monk parakeets.
I am in West Kendall, just East of the hammocks.
The information I posted above was for the Miami-Dade County CBC, which took place on December 19. This CBC covers areas in the northern half of Miami-Dade County. Yesterday's CBC, called the Kendall CBC and coordinated by Bill Boeringer, covers areas in the southern half of Miami-Dade County, including where you live, Naisy. It must be noted, though, that each CBC takes place within a fixed geographic circle that is 15 miles in diameter, so there are a number of areas in Miami-Dade County that are not within either of these CBC circles. Data can only be accepted if it is collected within the circle.
In order for backyard birders to participate in a CBC in Miami-Dade County, they first need to know if their residence is located within either of the two CBC circles mentioned above. Email Bill or me to find out the answer to that question. You also need to know on what date each of the CBCs is taking place. Our email addresses and count dates can be found at http://www.tropicalaudubon.org/birds/citizen-science/christmas-bird-count. Backyard data, that is the species of birds seen or heard and the number of individuals of each species counted, can only be submitted for the designated date of the count. Species can be counted for "count week," that is, three days before and three days after the official date of the count, only if that species was not counted anywhere within the count circle on the day of the count. It's thus really important that backyard birders do their count on the official date for that count.
I hope this information is helpful to local backyard birders. As more data is received from backyards within our CBC circles and can be submitted with our CBC totals, we'll gain a more and more accurate understanding of the status of wintering birds in our county.
Hi Brian,
Thank you for that excellent explanation about the count circles and backyard birder contributions to the CBC. Unfortunately, my house, a block from Merry Christmas Park, does not appear to be located in either the Miami or Kendall Circle, but I'm still happy to have a male and 2 female Painted Buntings and 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, among others, coming to my feeders, even if they can't be counted. By the way, I enjoyed participating with Jim King and Elliot Stanley on the Miami count.
Best wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year everyone!
Brian, thanks! I'll check the links and see if my residence is included. Happy 2016!
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