Tropical Audubon Society

South Florida’s Voice of Conservation

Eleven birders joined me for today's birding trip in Collier County. The trip began and ended at the Oasis Visitor Center in Big Cypress National Preserve. Due to lingering smoke from an ongoing brush fire in Big Cypress, we skipped our first planned stop, at Kirby Storter Boardwalk, and continued west to Big Cypress Bend Boardwalk in Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park. Other birding stops included the Marsh Trail at Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge, Eagle Lakes Community Park in Naples, Picayune Strand State Forest and Tiger Tail Beach on Marco Island. By the end of the day, we had tallied nearly 80 species. Here's the list:
Mottled Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Red-breasted Merganser
Northern Gannet
Double-crested Cormorant
Anhinga
Brown Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron
Reddish Egret
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White Ibis
Glossy Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Wood Stork
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Red-shouldered Hawk
American Kestrel
Common Gallinule
Black-necked Stilt
Black-bellied Plover
Wilson's Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Ruddy Turnstone
Stilt Sandpiper (10,000 Islands NWR)
Sanderling
Dunlin
Least Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Royal Tern
Black Skimmer (Eagle Lakes Park)
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Common Ground Dove
Mourning Dove
Burrowing Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Great Crested Flycatcher
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Fish Crow
Purple Martin
Tufted Titmouse
Brown-headed Nuthatch (Picayune Strand)
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird (Picayune Strand)
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Northern Parula
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Palm Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Savannah Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Boat-tailed Grackle