Coot Bay (Everglades National Park) CBC Results

The 2021/22 Coot Bay (Everglades National Park) Christmas Bird Count took place on Sunday, January 2. Twenty-three participants counted 25,504 birds of 114 species (plus two other taxa). Two other species (Long-billed Curlew and Rose-breasted Grosbeak) were seen during count week (the three days before and after count day). A Wood Thrush, seen and photographed on Snake Bight Trail, was a first for this species in the 71-year history of the count! New high counts were obtained for both Downy and Pileated Woodpecker.

 

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

Bear Lake Road and Trail – Bill Boeringer and Joe Barros

Coastal Prairie Trail – Liz Golden and Michelle Davis

Coot Bay – Fritz (Boch) Hoeflein and Sarah Schwartz

Flamingo – Bob and Alice Pace, Jeanette Rawls, Robert Warren and David Schaffter

Florida Bay: Snake Bight Channel to Lake Ingraham – Juan Valadez, Pete Frezza and Alicia Fajando

Main Park Road - Brian Rapoza and Luis Gonzalez

Rowdy Bend Trail – Kevin Christman and Louis Linder

Snake Bight Trail – Amy Roda, Rachel DePietro, Sue Alspach, Jenny Andrews and Ryan Leys

Wood Thrush photograph by Rachel DePietro

Following are the totals for each species:

American Wigeon 80

Blue-winged Teal 70

Northern Shoveler 5

Green-winged Teal 29

Ring-necked Duck 19

Common Loon 4

Pied-billed Grebe 9

Wood Stork 56

Magnificent Frigatebird 5

Double-crested Cormorant 1440

Anhinga 35

American White Pelican 3550

Brown Pelican 1860

Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 175, (White form) 215, (Wurdemann's) 3

Great Egret 380

Snowy Egret 1100

Little Blue Heron 215

Tricolored Heron 26

Reddish Egret 18

Cattle Egret 25

Green Heron 14

Black-crowned Night-Heron 8

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 20

White Ibis 1750

Roseate Spoonbill 155

Black Vulture 100

Turkey Vulture 180

Osprey 115

Northern Harrier 3

Bald Eagle 7

Red-shouldered Hawk 46

Short-tailed Hawk 1

Clapper Rail 1

Common Gallinule 2

American Coot 6

Black-necked Stilt 12

American Avocet 70

Black-bellied Plover 620

Wilson's Plover 13

Semipalmated Plover 86

Killdeer 37

Spotted Sandpiper 16

Greater Yellowlegs 22

Willet 950

Lesser Yellowlegs 26

Whimbrel 11

Long-billed Curlew (count week)

Marbled Godwit 25

Ruddy Turnstone 9

Sanderling 18

Dunlin 980

Least Sandpiper 3800

Semipalmated Sandpiper 8

Western Sandpiper 3150

Short-billed Dowitcher 1300

Laughing Gull 300

Ring-billed Gull 8

Herring Gull 2

Lesser Black-backed Gull 9

Caspian Tern 18

Royal Tern 220

Black Skimmer 200

White-crowned Pigeon 12

Eurasian Collared-Dove 3

Common Ground-Dove 1

Barn Owl 2

Eastern Screech-Owl 1

Barred Owl 4

Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1

Belted Kingfisher 22

Red-bellied Woodpecker 100

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 4

Downy Woodpecker 10 32

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 5

Pileated Woodpecker 24

American Kestrel 9

Peregrine Falcon 3

Eastern Phoebe 31

Great Crested Flycatcher 19

 Loggerhead Shrike 1

White-eyed Vireo 47

Blue-headed Vireo 1

Blue Jay 1

American Crow 155

Tree Swallow 4

ouse Wren 21

Carolina Wren 3

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 85

Wood Thrush 1

Gray Catbird 185

Brown Thrasher 3

Northern Mockingbird 36

European Starling 125

Ovenbird 8

Northern Waterthrush 47

Black-and-white Warbler 21

Orange-crowned Warbler 1

Common Yellowthroat 160

American Redstart 14

Cape May Warbler 1

Northern Parula 22

Magnolia Warbler 2

Yellow Warbler 9

Black-throated Blue Warbler 2

Palm Warbler 115

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 15

Yellow-throated Warbler 14

Prairie Warbler 30

Saltmarsh Sparrow 3

Savannah Sparrow 3

Northern Cardinal 66

Rose-breasted Grosbeak (count week)

Painted Bunting 8

Red-winged Blackbird 240

Common Grackle 165

Boat-tailed Grackle 2