Cocoa CBC Results

The Cocoa Christmas Count, held on December 20, 2014, had 151,032 total individual birds, and 148 total species. Thanks to all of the volunteers who pulled it together!

Species/Number  Seen

Species/Number Seen

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 200 Greylag Goose 1 Muscovy Duck 20 Mallard     50 Mottled Duck 110 Blue-winged Teal 90 Northern Shoveler 5 American Green-winged Teal 4 Redhead 6 Ring-necked Duck 25 Greater Scaup 3 Lesser Scaup 70,000 Black Scoter 175 Bufflehead 12 Hooded Merganser 15 Red-breasted Merganser 25 Ruddy Duck 1 Mallard X Mottled Duck (hybrid) 10 Common Peafowl 75 Common Loon 45 Pied-billed Grebe 65 Horned Grebe 90 Northern Gannet 15 American White Pelican 200 Brown Pelican 750 Double-crested Cormorant 1,600 Anhinga 185 Magnificent Frigatebird 2 Least Bittern 3 Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 165 Great Egret 700 Snowy Egret 950 Little Blue Heron 140 Tricolored Heron 630 Reddish Egret 1 Cattle Egret 375 Green Heron 10 Black-crowned Night-Heron 15 Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1 White Ibis 1,700 Glossy Ibis 825 Roseate Spoonbill 85 Wood Stork 500 Black Vulture 750 Turkey Vulture 2,200 Osprey 170 Northern Harrier 4 Cooper's Hawk 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 60 Broad-winged Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 6 Crested Caracara 4 American Kestrel 35 Merlin 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 Clapper Rail 2 King Rail 30 Virginia Rail 8 Sora 35 Common Gallinule 90 American Coot 1,300 Limpkin 4 Sandhill Crane 45 Black-bellied Plover 28 Killdeer 120 Spotted Sandpiper 5 Greater Yellowlegs 6 Willet 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Ruddy Turnstone 45 Red Knot 1 Sanderling 60 Least Sandpiper 7 Wilson's Snipe 5

Laughing Gull 33,000 Bonaparte's Gull 2 Ring-billed Gull 17,500 Herring Gull 2,200 Lesser Black-backed Gull 360 Great Black-backed Gull 35 Caspian Tern 2 Forster's Tern 35 Royal Tern 500 Sandwich Tern 230Black Skimmer 165 Pomarine Jaeger 1 Parasitic Jaeger 2 Rock Pigeon 500 Eurasian Collared-Dove 225 White-winged Dove 1 Mourning Dove 300 Common Ground-Dove 20 Eastern Screech-Owl 8 Great Horned Owl 9 Barred Owl 3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Belted Kingfisher 55 Red-bellied Woodpecker 120 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 10 Downy Woodpecker 12 Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker 3 Pileated Woodpecker 17 Eastern Phoebe 70 Western Kingbird 5 Loggerhead Shrike 57 White-eyed Vireo 15 Blue-headed Vireo 5 Blue Jay 155 Florida Scrub-Jay 27 Fish Crow 3,500 Tree Swallow 250 Tufted Titmouse 9 Carolina Wren 30 House Wren 40 Sedge Wren 4 Marsh Wren 14 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 10 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 20 Hermit Thrush 1 American Robin 230 Gray Catbird 140 Northern Mockingbird 175 Brown Thrasher 5 European Starling 300 Orange-crowned Warbler 11 Northern Parula 1 Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler 1,300 Yellow-throated Warbler 11 Pine Warbler 35 Prairie Warbler 6 Palm Warbler 480 Black-and-white Warbler 7 Ovenbird 1 Northern Waterthrush 4 Common Yellowthroat 80 Eastern Towhee 6 Chipping Sparrow 70 Savannah Sparrow 55 Swamp Sparrow 30 Northern Cardinal 120 Painted Bunting 11 Red-winged Blackbird 185 Eastern Meadowlark 2 Common Grackle 1,400 Boat-tailed Grackle 1,700 Brown-headed Cowbird 150 House Finch 1 American Goldfinch 10 House Sparrow 70