Miami (Dade County) CBC Results

The 2021 Miami (Dade County) Christmas Bird Count took place on Saturday, December 18. Forty-two participants counted 16,143 birds of 122 species on count day. Unusual species recorded on the count included Limpkin, Eastern Whip-poor-will (photo courtesy of Steve Woodmansee) and Louisiana Waterthrush. New high counts were obtained for Wood Stork, Black-and-white Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, Prairie Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler and Summer Tanager.

Thanks to the following for their assistance during the count (party leaders in bold):

Backyards: Lyndy Lambert and Bonnie O’Meara

Biscayne Bay – Kirsten Hines, Jim and Phillip Kushlan and Ana Lima

Downtown Miami – Bob and Alice Pace, Jeanette Rawls and Lorena Siqueira

El Portal – Stephen Paez

Fisher Island – Joe Barros, Marian Hyman, Sandy Millidge and Helen Torres

Greynold's Park - John Boyd, Nancy Freedman and Debbie and Greg Jones

Little Havana/MIA - Dennis Olle, Miriam Avello, James Jones, Leigh Emerson Smith, Bertha Vazquez and Facel Vega

Miami Beach – Brian Rapoza, Federico Acevedo and Luis Gonzalez

Miami Shores/North Miami - Luis Gles and Mariah Hryniewich

Miami Springs/Hialeah – Andrea Diamond, Betty Hernandez, Jeanne Kaufmann and Michelle Louden

Oleta River State Park - Liz Golden and Natalie Mahomar

Opa-Locka – Joe Montes de Oca, Gregory Hamlin, Fritz (Boch) Hoeflein and Steve Woodmansee

Virginia Key – Bill Boeringer and Hans Gonzembach

Following are the totals for each species (non-countable species in bold):

Graylag Goose 6

Canada Goose 1

Egyptian Goose 200

Muscovy Duck 270

Mallard 1

Mottled Duck 20

Blue-winged Teal 32

Ring-necked Duck 4

Red-breasted Merganser 9

Helmeted Guineafowl 28

Indian Peafowl 9  

Pied-billed Grebe 34

American Flamingo 174

Wood Stork 80

Magnificent Frigatebird 35

Double-crested Cormorant 450

Anhinga 23

Brown Pelican 240

Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 22, (White form) 2

Great Egret 45

Snowy Egret 12

Little Blue Heron 18

Tricolored Heron 12

Cattle Egret 50

Green Heron 15

Black-crowned Night-Heron 9

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 10

White Ibis 1680

Black Vulture 265

Turkey Vulture 1400

Osprey 47

Sharp-shinned Hawk 1

Cooper's Hawk 10

Bald Eagle 1

Red-shouldered Hawk 12

Broad-winged Hawk 1

Short-tailed Hawk 10

Red-tailed Hawk 3

Common Gallinule 97

American Coot 30

Limpkin 1

Black-bellied Plover 285

Semipalmated Plover 25

Piping Plover 2

Killdeer 4

Spotted Sandpiper 4

Willet 2

Ruddy Turnstone 11

Sanderling 100

Dunlin 1

Least Sandpiper 1

Short-billed Dowitcher 11

Laughing Gull 2100

Ring-billed Gull 125

Herring Gull 11

Lesser Black-backed Gull 8

Great Black-backed Gull 3

Forster's Tern 4

Royal Tern 230

Sandwich Tern 3

Black Skimmer 150

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 500

White-crowned Pigeon 1

Eurasian Collared-Dove 470

Common Ground-Dove 2

White-winged Dove 14

Mourning Dove 150

Eastern Screech-Owl 5

Eastern Whip-poor-will 1

Ruby-throated Hummingbird 18

Belted Kingfisher 14

Red-bellied Woodpecker 100

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 12

Downy Woodpecker 8

American Kestrel 55

Peregrine Falcon 2

Monk Parakeet 42

Yellow-chevroned Parakeet 60

Orange-winged Parrot 8

Chestnut-fronted Macaw 32

Mitred Parakeet 34

Red-masked Parakeet 9

White-eyed Parakeet 68

Eastern Phoebe 24

Great Crested Flycatcher 2

Loggerhead Shrike 17

White-eyed Vireo 7

Yellow-throated Vireo 5

Blue-headed Vireo 14

Blue Jay 140

Fish Crow 1800

House Wren 3

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 270

Gray Catbird 21

Northern Mockingbird 210

European Starling 2100

Common Myna 11

Ovenbird 7

Louisiana Waterthrush 1

Northern Waterthrush 2

Black-and-white Warbler 49

Orange-crowned Warbler 5

Common Yellowthroat 12

American Redstart 18

Cape May Warbler 6

Northern Parula 51

Magnolia Warbler 4

Black-throated Blue Warbler 16

Palm Warbler 350

Pine Warbler 34

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 85

Yellow-throated Warbler 36

Prairie Warbler 50

Black-throated Green Warbler 13

Summer Tanager 7

Northern Cardinal 49

Painted Bunting 19

Eastern Meadowlark 2

Common Grackle 300

Boat-tailed Grackle 235

Spot-breasted Oriole 4

House Sparrow 110