2007 Christmas Bird Count results compiled by Vince Lucas for the Fort Myers Area.
The numbers may be a little off due to some late data trickling in, but here are the results I have for yesterday's Ft. Myers' CBC. The weather was extremely cold (<50 degrees F) and the winds somewhat blustery, especially along the Caloosahatchee. The high temperatures for the day barely reached 65 degrees F. Brrr! Perhaps this is a partial explanation for the lack of or low numbers of certain species, especially passerines? Other circles have reported similar results. . . .
Before I forget, I want to personally thank everyone who helped out on the Ft. Myers CBC! Without your dedication, we would have no CBC! You make my job as compiler for this count much easier. Thanks!
Some of the highlights of the count were a whopping 164 Burrowing Owls counted, thanks in part to the efforts of the Cape Coral Friends Of Wildlife (http://www.ccfriendsofwildlife.org/) who helped out our "usual" Caloosa Bird Club members to canvass these areas as well as some other intrepid participants to find these birds. Other highlights: 2 Painted Buntings; 1 Baltimore Oriole (for the second consecutive year on our CBC); 2 Common Loons; 28 Black-hooded Parakeets & 5 Monk Parakeets as well as 7 Rose-ringed Parakeets during count week; one Long-billed Curlew & one Horned Grebe, both photographed, also during Count Week. This list is not in taxonomic order.
Anhinga -- 148
Redwing Blackbird -- 44
Painted Bunting -- 2
Northern Cardinal -- 11
Gray Catbird -- 8
Double-crested Cormorant -- 408
American Coot -- 25
Brown-headed Cowbird -- 38
Fish Crow -- 1567
Long-billed Curlew -- CW (photo taken 12/15/2007 at Bunche Beach (http://www.tropicalaudubon.org/tasboard/messages/19233.html)
Common Ground-Dove -- 7
Eurasian Collared-Dove -- 249
Mourning Dove -- 653
Rock Pigeon -- 407
Short-billed Dowitcher -- 18
Blue-winged Teal -- 39
Green-winged Teal -- 8
Lesser Scaup -- 56
Mallard -- 140 (virtually all hybrids with Mottled Duck)
Mottled Duck -- 229 (what percentage of Mottled x Mallard I don't know)
Muscovy Duck -- 96
Red-breasted Merganser 67
Dunlin -- 88
Bald Eagle -- 39 adults plus 12 immatures for total of 51
Cattle Egret -- 358
Great Egret -- 129
Reddish Egret -- 3
Snowy Egret -- 142
Northern Flicker -- 6
Magnificent Frigatebird -- CW
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher -- 54
Marbled Godwit -- CW (Where were they yesterday? There's normally two dozen at Bunche Beach!)
Boat-tailed Grackle -- 501
Common Grackle -- 883
Horned Grebe -- CW (photo taken 12/15/2007 at Bunche Beach (http://www.tropicalaudubon.org/tasboard/messages/19215.html)
Pied-billed Grebe -- 43
Herring Gull -- 5
Laughing Gull -- 1284
Ring-billed Gull -- 202
Northern Harrier -- 2
Cooper's hawk -- 7
Red-shouldered Hawk -- 43
Red-tailed Hawk -- 4
Sharp-shinned Hawk -- 4
Black-crowned Night-Heron -- CW
Great Blue Heron -- 61
Green Heron -- 3
Little Blue Heron -- 70
Tricolored Heron -- 112
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron -- 3
Glossy Ibis -- 45
White Ibis -- 1152
Blue Jay -- 13
American Kestrel -- 43
Killdeer -- 122
Belted Kingfisher -- 23
Common Loon -- 2
Merlin -- CW
Northern Mockingbird -- 117
Common Moorhen -- 36
Baltimore Oriole -- 1
Osprey -- 125
Burrowing Owl -- 164
Great Horned Owl -- 1 (seen during daytime)
American Oystercatcher -- 4
Monk Parakeet -- 5
Black-hooded Parakeet -- 28
Rose-ringed Parakeet -- CW
American White Pelican -- 98
Brown Pelican -- 449
Eastern Phoebe -- 22
Black-bellied Plover -- 5
Piping Plover -- 1
Semipalmated Plover -- 11
Wilson's Plover -- 2
Sanderling -- 57
Spotted sandpiper -- 15
Western Sandpiper -- 45
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker -- 3
Loggerhead Shrike -- 185
Black Skimmer -- 83
Wilson's Snipe -- 5
House Sparrow -- 5
Savannah Sparrow -- 3
Roseate Spoonbill -- 16
European Starling -- 946
Wood Stork -- 133
Tree Swallow -- 1471
Caspian Tern -- 2
Forster's Tern -- 83
Royal Tern -- 11
Sandwich Tern -- 24
Eastern Towhee -- 3
Ruddy Turnstone -- 4
Blue-headed Vireo -- 1
White -eyed Vireo -- 3
Black Vulture -- 43
Turkey Vulture -- 933
Black-and-white Warbler -- 1
Common Yellowthroat -- 1
Palm Warbler -- 174
Pine warbler -- 1
Prairie Warbler -- 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler -- 253
Yellow-throated Warbler -- 4
Willet -- 1
Downy Woodpecker -- 1
Pileated Woodpecker -- 3
Red-bellied Woodpecker -- 30
House Wren -- 1
Greater Yellowlegs -- 15
Lesser Yellowlegs -- 83
Peacock -- 7
Pekin Duck -- 2
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Totals -- 107 species + 7 CW -- 15399 total birds counted
Happy holidays and CBCing to all!
Cheers,
Vincent Lucas
Naples, FL
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