South Brevard Christmas Count Results

The following are the results for the 2014 South Brevard Christmas Bird Count.  Highlights included a Great Cormorant, an American Woodcock, and a Hairy Woodpecker. Many thanks to all of the volunteers who helped make it a success!

Species/Number of birds seen

Species/Number of birds seen

Muscovey     39 American Wigeon    50 Mallard    4 Mallard X Mottled Hybred    26 Mottled Duck    87 Blue-Winged Teal    10 Northern Shoveler    7 Green-Winged Teal (American)    2 Greater Scaup    1 Lesser Scaup    176 Bufflehead    1 Hooded Merganser    25 Red-Breasted Merganser    15 Peafowl    1 Wild Turkey    63 Common Loon    3 Pied-Billed Grebe    40 Northern Gannet    18 American White Pelican    495 Brown Pelican    450 Great Cormorant    1 Double Crested Cormorant    691 Anhinga    78 Magnificent Frigatebird    101 American Bittern    2 Least Bittern    5 Great Blue Heron (Blue)    74 Great Egret    139 Snowy Egret    85 Little Blue Heron    67 Tricolored Heron    41 Cattle Egret    418 Green Heron    19 Black-Crowned Night Heron    19 Yellow-Crowned Night Heron    2 White Ibis    577 Glossy Ibis    2 Roseate Spoonbill    3 Wood Stork    48 Black Vulture    426 Turkey Vulture    255 Osprey    110 Bald Eagle (ad)    10 Bald Eagle (im)    9 Bald Eagle (uk)    1 Northern Harrier    6 Sharp-Shinned Hawk    1 Cooper's Hawk    6 Red-Shouldered Hawk    42 Red-Tailed Hawk    11 Crested Caracara    2 American Kestrel    85 Merlin    2 Sora    1 Common Moorhen    24 American Coot    7 Limpkin    9 Sandhill Crane    309 Black-Bellied Plover    3 Killdeer    230 American Oystercatcher    4 Spotted Sandpiper    3 Greater Yellowlegs    5 Willet    27 Lesser Yellowlegs    7 Ruddy Turnstone    53 Sanderling    270 Long-Billed Dowitcher    2 Wilson's Snipe    62 American Woodcock    1 Laughing Gull    135 Bonaparte's Gull    2 Ring-Billed Gull    486 Herring Gull    69 Lesser Black-Backed Gull    10

Great Black-Backed Gull    25 Caspian Tern    16 Sandwich Tern    4 Forster's Tern    63 Royal Tern    458 Black Skimmer    300 Rock Pigeon    70 Eurasian Collared Dove    29 White-Winged Dove    4 Mourning Dove    402 Common Ground Dove    37 Eastern Screech Owl    15 Great Horned Owl    2 Barred Owl    5 Ruby-Throated Hummingbird    1 Belted Kingfisher    31 Red-Bellied Woodpecker    89 Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker    6 Downy Woodpecker    16 Hairy Woodpecker    1 Red-Cockaded Woodpecker    9 Northern (Yel-sh.) Flicker    2 Pileated Woodpecker    21 Eastern Phoebe    78 Great Crested Flycatcher    1 Loggerhead Shrike    26 White-Eyed Vireo    22 Blue-Headed Vireo    6 Blue Jay    48 Florida Scrub-Jay    37 American Crow    1 Fish Crow    136 Tree Swallow    3,473 Brown-Headed Nuthatch    15 Carolina Wren    37 House Wren    34 Marsh Wren    3 Ruby-Crowned Kinglet    7 Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher    37 Eastern Bluebird    5 Hermit Thrush    1 American Robin    4,219 Gray Catbird    120 Northern Mockingbird    70 Brown Thrasher    1 European Starling    251 Cedar Waxwing    23 Orange-Crowned Warbler    3 Yellow-Rumped (Myrtle) Warbler    284 Yellow-Throated Warbler    5 Pine Warbler    260 Prairie Warbler    2 Palm Warbler    204 Black-and-White Warbler    3 Ovenbird    1 Common Yellowthroat    29 Eastern Towhee    26 Bachman's Sparrow    8 Chipping Sparrow    36 Vesper Sparrow    1 Savannah Sparrow    147 Grasshopper Sparrow    3 Song Sparrow    1 Swamp Sparrow    10 White-Throated Sparrow    0 Northern Cardinal    105 Painted Bunting    13 Red-Winged Blackbird    17 Eastern Meadowlark    18 Common Grackle    227 Boat-Tailed Grackle    114 Brown-Headed Cowbird    21 American Goldfinch    2 House Sparrow    12 Egyptian Goose*    6

* Non-countable species